. The bird book : illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs . 587- Towhee. Pipilo eri/tlirophthalmus cryihrophthalmus. Range.—North America east of the Plains,breeding from the Gulf to Manitoba. The well known Towhee, Ground Robin orChewink is a bird commonly met with in east-ern United States; it frequents thickets,swamps and open woods where they nest gen-erally upon the ground and sometimes inbushes near the ground. The nests are wellmade of grasses, lined withfine grasses and rootlets,and the eggs,
. The bird book : illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs . 587- Towhee. Pipilo eri/tlirophthalmus cryihrophthalmus. Range.—North America east of the Plains,breeding from the Gulf to Manitoba. The well known Towhee, Ground Robin orChewink is a bird commonly met with in east-ern United States; it frequents thickets,swamps and open woods where they nest gen-erally upon the ground and sometimes inbushes near the ground. The nests are wellmade of grasses, lined withfine grasses and rootlets,and the eggs, which are laidin May or June, are pinkishwhite, generally finelysprinkled but sometimeswith bold markings of lightreddish brown, with greatvariations. Size .90 x . are noisy birds and at frequent inter-vals, while they are scratching among thefor their food they will stop and utter their familiar tow-hee or che-and then again will mount to the summit of a tree or bush and sing their. Purplish white Towhee or Chewin k leaveswinksweet refrain for a long time 587a. White-eyed Towhee. Pipilo erythrophthalmus alien/. Range.—Florida and the Atlantic coast to South Carolina. This variety is like the preceding except that the eyes are white instead ofred. There is no difference between their nesting habits and eggs, except thatthey much more frequently, and in some localities, almost always, nest in trees. 588. Arctic Towhee. Pipilo maculatus arcticus. Range.—Great Plains, breeding from northern United States to the Saskat-chewan. This species is similar to the eastern Towhee but has the scapulars andcoverts tipped with white. They nest abundantly in suit-able localities in Montana and North Dakota and more com- /-monly north of our borders. Like the eastern Towhee, theynest on the ground under the protection of overhangingbushes, the nests being made of strips of bark and grassesand lined with fine rootlets. Their three or four eggs, whichare laid during May, June or
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