A book of the United StatesExhibiting its geography, divisions, constitution, and government ..and presenting a view of the Republic generally, and of the individual states; together with a condensed history of the land, from its first discovery to the present timeThe biography of about two hundred of the leading men: a description of the principal cities and towns; with statistical tables .. . ttering feebly along, and looking back to see if he is notes are few and shrill, hardly deserving llie name of a song. Thereis a very great variety belonting to the family of warblers, of w
A book of the United StatesExhibiting its geography, divisions, constitution, and government ..and presenting a view of the Republic generally, and of the individual states; together with a condensed history of the land, from its first discovery to the present timeThe biography of about two hundred of the leading men: a description of the principal cities and towns; with statistical tables .. . ttering feebly along, and looking back to see if he is notes are few and shrill, hardly deserving llie name of a song. Thereis a very great variety belonting to the family of warblers, of which wecan only allude to the Prairie, Uemloek, Pine-mvamp, , Mourning, and Bluc-wingcd Warbler. PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. 203 FerrvginoiLS Thrush.—This is tlie Brown Thrush or Thrasher o: tliemiddle aiul eastern slates, and the French Mocking-Bad of Maryland, Vir-ginia, and tile Carolinas. It is the largest of all our thrushes, and is awell-known and distinguished songster, and from the tops of hedge rows,apple or cherry trees, he salutes the opening inornmg with his charmingsong, which is loud, emphatical and full of rariety. These notes are notimitative, but solely his own. He is an active and vigorous bird, flyinggenerally low from one thicket to another, with his long broad tail spreadout like a fan ; he has a single note or chuck when you approach his Ferniginoua Thrush. There is a very numerous variety of thrushes in the states, of which thebest known are the Cat Bird, Robin, Wood, Little or Hermit, Wilsons,and the Goldcn-croioned Thrush. Wre7i.—The Hoiise Wre7i, throughout the slates, is a well-known andfamiliar bird, who builds his nest sometimes under the eaves, or in a hol-low cherry tree ; but most commonly in small boxes fixed on a pole, for hisaccommodation. He will even put up with an old hat, and if this also isdenied him, he will find some hole or crevice, about the house or barn,rather than abandon the dwellings of man. A mower
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