. Useful birds and their protection. Containing brief descriptions of the more common and useful species of Massachusetts, with accounts of their food habits, and a chapter on the means of attracting and protecting birds. Birds; Birds. 216 USEFUL BIRDS. Rose-breasted Grosbeak. Zamelodia ludoviciana. Length. â Seven and three-lourths to eight and one-half inches. Adult Male. âAbove, mainly hlack; the black of head extending around under throat; wings and tail white-marked; rump white; upper tail coverts black and white; below, mainly white; middle breast and under wing coverts rose-red; the lar
. Useful birds and their protection. Containing brief descriptions of the more common and useful species of Massachusetts, with accounts of their food habits, and a chapter on the means of attracting and protecting birds. Birds; Birds. 216 USEFUL BIRDS. Rose-breasted Grosbeak. Zamelodia ludoviciana. Length. â Seven and three-lourths to eight and one-half inches. Adult Male. âAbove, mainly hlack; the black of head extending around under throat; wings and tail white-marked; rump white; upper tail coverts black and white; below, mainly white; middle breast and under wing coverts rose-red; the large bill appears white from below. Adult Female. â The black of the male largely replaced by brown, except on throat, which is white; line over eye and space in front of eye white or whitish; a streak on crown also whitish, mixed with brown; no white on rump or tail; no rose on breast, and that undei wings replaced by yellow. Nest. â Built of twigs, fibers, and grasses; loosely made in bush or sapling, from five to twenty feet or more from ground. Eggs.âVarying in color from pale greenlSh-blue to dull green; thickly marked with coarse spots of various shades of brown and purplish. Season. â Early May to September. The Rose-breasted Grosbeak should be accorded the most cordial welcome wherever it appears; for not ijiany birds have such beauty of plumage and song, and at the same time such useful habits. This is one of the few birds that has increased in numbers within the past forty years to such an extent that it is now found commonly in woods and thickets where many years ago it was considered rare. It is common, too, about the fields and gardens. Its sweet warbling may be heard from the tall shade trees of the Fig. 78. â Rose-breasted village Street. The introduction and Grosbeak, male, about gpj-ead of the Colorado potato beetle, one-half natural size. 'â * which reached Massachusetts about thirty years ago, may have had something to do with this increase in the numbe
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