. Useful birds and their protection. Containing brief descriptions of the more common and useful species of Massachusetts, with accounts of their food habits, and a chapter on the means of attracting and protecting birds . Themales arrive in flocks, usually inMarch, and sometimes may beheard singing gaily while the groundis still deeply covered with song is as characteristic a signof spring as is that of the early woodfrog, and their notes have somethingof the same quality. They carry „ , rnu Fig. a suggestion of boggy ooze. Ihe ^Ird, male, natural com
. Useful birds and their protection. Containing brief descriptions of the more common and useful species of Massachusetts, with accounts of their food habits, and a chapter on the means of attracting and protecting birds . Themales arrive in flocks, usually inMarch, and sometimes may beheard singing gaily while the groundis still deeply covered with song is as characteristic a signof spring as is that of the early woodfrog, and their notes have somethingof the same quality. They carry „ , rnu Fig. a suggestion of boggy ooze. Ihe ^Ird, male, natural common note is a single chuck, and ^^^^■ the ordinary song resembles the syllables quong-ha-reee, the first two uttered quickly. Some individuals have a more musical song, ending with a jingle akin to that of the Bobolink. Although the Red-wings almost invariably breed in theswamp or marsh, they have a partiality for open fields andplowed lands; and most of the Blackbirds that nest in thesmaller swamps adjacent to farm lands get a large share oftheir food from the farmers fields. They forage about thefields and meadows when they first come north in , they follow the plow, picking up grubs, worms, and. 320 USEFUL BIRDS.
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