. Bulletin. Royal Ontario Museum of Zoology; Zoology; Zoology. ROYAL ONTAKIO MUSKUM OK ZO()(iV 7 The segregation of the v^arious kinds of birds by habitat boundaries will be noted early in the beginner's experience. The winter birds of Toronto illustrate this feature very well. They may be divided into four convenient groups. Birds of the City Streets. The House or English vSparrow, which is so well known to everyone, is the only species which appears regularly and in numbers about the city streets in winter. It is a foreign bird which was introduced into North America in 1851, subsequently
. Bulletin. Royal Ontario Museum of Zoology; Zoology; Zoology. ROYAL ONTAKIO MUSKUM OK ZO()(iV 7 The segregation of the v^arious kinds of birds by habitat boundaries will be noted early in the beginner's experience. The winter birds of Toronto illustrate this feature very well. They may be divided into four convenient groups. Birds of the City Streets. The House or English vSparrow, which is so well known to everyone, is the only species which appears regularly and in numbers about the city streets in winter. It is a foreign bird which was introduced into North America in 1851, subsequently spread- ing to nearly every inhabited part of the conti- nent. The Starling, another importation which was brought to the new world in 1890, is spread- ing rapidly and may be seen about certain sec- tions of Toronto in winter and is almost certain to be a common bird of the city streets in the near BROWN CREEPER Birds of the Roadside and Scrubby Fields. Surrounding the city are many open plots and unpaved roads where weeds, bushes, and stunted trees afford protection and food to some kinds of winter birds. The Slate-coloured Junco may be seen there in flocks, feeding upon the ground and rising like wind- blown leaves to give their flash-signal— an instantaneous spreading of the tail exposing the pure white outer tail feathers. Here, too, may be found a flock of Tree Sparrows feeding among the bushes. The indistinct but ever- present dark dot on the centre of the grey breast is a convenient mark of identity. The Northern Shrike and the Horned Lark are other species which frequent such situations. The former appears as a black-and-white bird as it flies from one shrub to another. It is of especial interest since it kills and eats mice, although related structurally to the song birds. The Horned Lark, although a migrant, returns to our fields and. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability
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