. The land-birds and game-birds of New England : with descriptions of the birds, their nests and eggs, their habits and notes . Birds. 100 LAND-BIEDS AND GAME-BIRDS (&). The nest is globular, with an entrance on the side, and is composed principally of hanging mosses. It is usually placed in the woods, twenty or more feet from the ground, at the end of a bough of some hard-wood tree or evergreen. It usually contains four or five freshly laid eggs in early June, which average about -62 X '48 of an inch, and are white (or cream-tinted) with spots and confluent blotches of reddish- browu and
. The land-birds and game-birds of New England : with descriptions of the birds, their nests and eggs, their habits and notes . Birds. 100 LAND-BIEDS AND GAME-BIRDS (&). The nest is globular, with an entrance on the side, and is composed principally of hanging mosses. It is usually placed in the woods, twenty or more feet from the ground, at the end of a bough of some hard-wood tree or evergreen. It usually contains four or five freshly laid eggs in early June, which average about -62 X '48 of an inch, and are white (or cream-tinted) with spots and confluent blotches of reddish- browu and lilac, chiefly about the crown. (c). The'' Blue Yellow-backs" are summer-residents through-. Fig. 4. Blue Tellow-fcacked WarWer (i). out the eastern United States, more commonly in Northern Maine and New Hampshire than in Massachusetts, where only a few breed, chiefly, probably, in the valleys of the Connecticut and Nashua Rivers. Near Boston they are ex- tremely rare in summer, but are generally common in the sec- ond and third weeks of May and September, during their migrations, being, however, sometimes rare, and sometimes extremely abundant. I can in no way, I believe, better de- scribe their habits than by detailing the observations which I made upon them this spring (1875), when they were very nu- merous in my immediate neighborhood. They came on the elev- enth of May, and did not wholly disappear until the twenty- second of that month, after which I saw none, except a few in. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Minot, Henry Davis, 1859-1890. Salem, Mass. : Naturalist's Agency
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