. Bird lore . YOUNG BLACK-HEADED GROSBEAKSPhotographed by H. T. Bohlman. BLACK-HEADED GROSBEAKOrder—Passebes Eamily—EedtgilliDjE Genus—Zamelodia Species—Melanocephala THE BLACK-HEADED GROSBEAK By WILLIAM L. FINLEY %l)t Rational /asportation of aububon &ociftie0 EDUCATIONAL LEAFLET NO. 45 The Black-headed Grosbeak is one of the birds of my childhood. Aslong ago as I can remember, I saw him in the mulberry and the elder treesabout my home when the fruit was ripe. I did not know his name, but I knewhim by his thick bill, his bright colors and his high-keyed call-note. One haslittle trouble in get
. Bird lore . YOUNG BLACK-HEADED GROSBEAKSPhotographed by H. T. Bohlman. BLACK-HEADED GROSBEAKOrder—Passebes Eamily—EedtgilliDjE Genus—Zamelodia Species—Melanocephala THE BLACK-HEADED GROSBEAK By WILLIAM L. FINLEY %l)t Rational /asportation of aububon &ociftie0 EDUCATIONAL LEAFLET NO. 45 The Black-headed Grosbeak is one of the birds of my childhood. Aslong ago as I can remember, I saw him in the mulberry and the elder treesabout my home when the fruit was ripe. I did not know his name, but I knewhim by his thick bill, his bright colors and his high-keyed call-note. One haslittle trouble in getting acquainted with a bird of such marked black head, the red-brown on the breast brightening to lemon-yellowbelow and under the wings, the black tail and wings with two white wing-bars,are distinctive of the male. The female is1 more demurely dressed in darkbrown and buff. But the garments are not the only distinctive features ofthe Black-headed Grosbeak. For several summers, I watched a pair of Grosbeaks thatHabits lived in a clump of
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