. The history of birds : their varieties and oddities, comprising graphic descriptions of nearly all known species of birds, with fishes and insects, the world over, and illustrating their varied habits, modes of life, and distinguishing peculiarities by means of delightful anecdotes and spirited engravings . ctly, the mandates of an ,overruling instinct, prompts them to seek out their natal regions; while in autumn,tlieir progress, by day only, is alone instigated by the natural quest offbo 1. Alxnit the 1st of ^lay the meadows of Massachusetts begin tore-echo their lively ditty. At th
. The history of birds : their varieties and oddities, comprising graphic descriptions of nearly all known species of birds, with fishes and insects, the world over, and illustrating their varied habits, modes of life, and distinguishing peculiarities by means of delightful anecdotes and spirited engravings . ctly, the mandates of an ,overruling instinct, prompts them to seek out their natal regions; while in autumn,tlieir progress, by day only, is alone instigated by the natural quest offbo 1. Alxnit the 1st of ^lay the meadows of Massachusetts begin tore-echo their lively ditty. At this season, in wet places, and by newlyploughed fields they destroy many insects and their larvae. According totiieir success in obtaining food, parties often delay their final northernmovement as late as the middle of May, so that they appear to be in nohaste to arrive at their destination at any exact period. The principalbusiness of their lives, however, the rearing of their young, does nottake place until they have left the jinrallel of the fortieth degree. Thenests of these birds are built of grass, and placed sometimes on the sum-mit of a tree, sometimes among the cree[>ing plants that cover its trunk ;those in the trees are larger and shaped more regular than the others. In THE RICE BIRD. 155. SHOOTING EICE BIRDS. the savannahs of Ohio aiid Mi(lii2;an, and the cool grassy meadows of NewYork, Canada, and New England, they fix their abode, and obtain a suf-ficiency of food throughout the summer, without molesting the harvest ofthe farmer, until the ripening of the latest crops of oats and barley, when 1-3G THE COMMON CROW-BLACKBIRD. in their a^^^mnal and changed dress, hardly now known as thesame epecocs, thej sometimes show their taste for plunder, and flocktogether like the greedy and predatory Blackbirds. THE COMMON CROW-BLACKBIRD. This very common bird is an occasional or constant resident inevery part of America, from Hudsons Bay and the northern interiorfeo the gre
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