. 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 . k. Ground Robin. Pipilo — From about eight to eight and three-fouiths Male. — Head, all round, neck and chest, wings and tail black; the two latter white-marked ; sides and flanks chestnut; breast and belly Female. — Brown replacing the black of the — On ground ; usiially sunken and often roofed ^- — Whit
. 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 . k. Ground Robin. Pipilo — From about eight to eight and three-fouiths Male. — Head, all round, neck and chest, wings and tail black; the two latter white-marked ; sides and flanks chestnut; breast and belly Female. — Brown replacing the black of the — On ground ; usiially sunken and often roofed ^- — White, ratlier finely and evenly spotted with light ashy and —The latter jjart of Ajiril to October, rarely remaining all winter in southeastern Massachusetts. This common and well-known bird always may be foundin its season in sprout lands and thickets, where it scratches SOXa BIRDS OF ORCHARD AND WOODLAND. 219 among the dry leaves on the ground. Like many otherSparrows, it scratches with both feet at once, jumping intothe air and digging away the leaves with a quick motion ofthe feet, then brings its feet deftly under its body and landson them. When disturbed it darts into a bush, with a whir. Fig. 80. — Towhee, male, about one-half natural size. of wings, a flash of black, white, and chestnut, a quick flirtof its long tail, and, with crest slightly erected, sends back itscall toivhee, or the more nasal cheewinlt, or kniuk. Its sono-as commonly sung may be rendered dick you, Jiddle-iddle,uldle, iddle, iddle. The first two notes are sometimes com-bined in a deah, but whether dick or the deacon is addressed,he is adjured to fiddle. The last notes run into a trill. The Chewink rarely goes into the tree tops, though itoften perches on the top of some small sapling while food is obtained mainly from the ground, the shrubbery,and as high up the tree trunks as it can reach or scratching and digging among the leaves in earlyspring it unea
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