. Our northern and eastern birds [microform] : containing descriptions of the birds of the northern and eastern states and British provinces, together with a history of their habits, times of arrival and departure, their distribution, food, song, time of breeding, and a careful and accurate description of their nests and eggs ; with illustrations of many species of the birds and accurate figures of their eggs. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. dU OUNITHOLOUY AND OOLOGY. Uksckution. 'Ilit' fealliirs atiovc (lurk-brown, iiiiirt;im'(l witli hrowiiisli-wliile, and wifli a ter iniiiul I'ld
. Our northern and eastern birds [microform] : containing descriptions of the birds of the northern and eastern states and British provinces, together with a history of their habits, times of arrival and departure, their distribution, food, song, time of breeding, and a careful and accurate description of their nests and eggs ; with illustrations of many species of the birds and accurate figures of their eggs. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. dU OUNITHOLOUY AND OOLOGY. Uksckution. 'Ilit' fealliirs atiovc (lurk-brown, iiiiirt;im'(l witli hrowiiisli-wliile, and wifli a ter iniiiul I'ldtili ol' ]iiilc ri'ildisli-lirdwii; cxpn^cil pdrtidiis of win^s and tail with trans- viT^R dark-brown bars, which on tht! ini(hllu tail It'athcrs uru coiilluunt alon^ the shalli beneath ^illiiw, with u bhuk pectural crt'sceut, thu ytllow not extending or the side ul' the maxilla; tddes, erissum, and tibi;e pulu reddish-brown, streaked with blaekish; a light mediaji and superciliury Btrii)e, the latter yellow anterior to the eye; u black line behind. Lengtii, li 11 and sixty one-hundredtlis inches; winf;, live; tail, three and seventy ono-hiindrodths inehes; bill above, one and thirty-live one-hundredtlis inches. Tliis l)eautiful and well-know ii bird is a connnon summer Inlialiitant of tho tlirc suutlieiu New-England States, but is luorj rare in. the others. If a mild winter, it remains through. the year; but generally leaves for the South late in the fall, and returns about the " second or third week in ; It commences building about the second week in May, sometimes earlier: the locality is generally in a meadow or low field. Tho nest is usually built in a tussock of grass: it "is pretty compact, made of dry, wiry grass, to which a hidden and almost winding path is made, and generally so well concealed that the nest is only to be found wheu tiie bird is ; — Nuttall. A uumber of nests that I have examined agree with thia description: all were
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