. The birds of Ontario [microform] : being a list of birds observed in the Province of Ontario, with an account of their habits, distribution, nests, eggs, & Birds; Oiseaux. m m^ BIRDS OF biisli to warble a few exquisitely sweet notes, the overtures of the joyous music which, later in the year, enlivens the northern soliaides whitlier the birds resort to ; The nest has not been found within the limits of the United States or Ontario, so far as I am aware, but in the list of Birds of Western Manitoba Mr. Seton mentions itas breeding? abundantly on Duck II: GkNUS PIP
. The birds of Ontario [microform] : being a list of birds observed in the Province of Ontario, with an account of their habits, distribution, nests, eggs, & Birds; Oiseaux. m m^ BIRDS OF biisli to warble a few exquisitely sweet notes, the overtures of the joyous music which, later in the year, enlivens the northern soliaides whitlier the birds resort to ; The nest has not been found within the limits of the United States or Ontario, so far as I am aware, but in the list of Birds of Western Manitoba Mr. Seton mentions itas breeding? abundantly on Duck II: GkNUS PIPILO ViElLLOT. 22fi. FIPILO ERYTHROPHTHALMUS (Linn.). 587. Towhee. Adult male, black, belly white, sides chestnut, crissum fulvous-brown , primaries and inner secondaries with white touches on the outer webs ; outer tail feathers with the outer web and nearly the terminal half of the inner web white, the next two or three with white spots, decreasing in size ; bill black- ish ; feet pale brown ; iris red in the adult, white or creamy in \h<i ymiug, and generally in winter specimens. Female, rich warm brown where the male is black; otherwise similar Very yuuiiir birds are stn^ake 1 brown and dusky above, below whitish, tinged with brown and streaked with dusky Length, male, 8J ; wing, 3J ; tail, 4 ; female rather less Hab. l''astern United States and Southern Canada, west to the Plains Nest, on the ground, more rarely in a bush or sapling ; a rude structure, composed of grape-vine bark, weed stalks, leaves and grass; lined with fine vegetable fibre. Eggs, 4 to 6; white, thickly freckled with reddish-brown. This species lias a more northern ranj^e than we have been in the habit of attributing^ to it, for it is mentioned both by Prof. Macoun and Mr. Seton as being common in the Northwest Territory. In Southern Ontario it arrives from the south about the ist of May, the males coming on a few days ahead of the females. Much of their time is spent on the ground, scratching and rust
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