. A popular handbook of the ornithology of the United States and Canada [microform] : based on Nuttal's Manual. Birds; Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. ncsi in ^^^^ ^reat ciuiliou rccdini; season ,^ OnUxi'io >ccs. An'"^^;' written by >'>⢠for July, «87'> vev eyes and under- cllow tad briKully K-shaped suuctuvc, .,.aHs,andUucdxv:d^ â a with rufous: ,s, but it IS found ja Mr. tj«^^^ '" ,; account oi -^^ â¢n much the same . ,U>Nvers; but m- eper a\i;4l^ts on Uh' ,s whicli are at oavariety ;'<! better Iculiart. â ^- \';,. I5LACK \Ni
. A popular handbook of the ornithology of the United States and Canada [microform] : based on Nuttal's Manual. Birds; Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. ncsi in ^^^^ ^reat ciuiliou rccdini; season ,^ OnUxi'io >ccs. An'"^^;' written by >'>⢠for July, «87'> vev eyes and under- cllow tad briKully K-shaped suuctuvc, .,.aHs,andUucdxv:d^ â a with rufous: ,s, but it IS found ja Mr. tj«^^^ '" ,; account oi -^^ â¢n much the same . ,U>Nvers; but m- eper a\i;4l^ts on Uh' ,s whicli are at oavariety ;'<! better Iculiart. â ^- \';,. I5LACK \Ni) wmri: \v.\ri;:r. BLACK AM) WIlITi: CKEICl' \\ki\. Chak. AIjovc, black striped with white, Iicad, ^s, and tail mostly ; beneath, white, more or less striped with iilack. I'cmale and yoimn without stripes on the throat. IxnLsth .('2 to 5'2 inches. A'>A In open woodland or pastuic; placed at the fool of a tree or stmnp, or at the base of a moss-covered rock, sometimes in a hole; made of grass, moss, and shreds of bark, and lined with L,'rass, hair, roots, and down. A';V'.*'. -I-5; creamy white, thickly spotted with jiale reddish brown; X This remarkable bird, allied to the Cree])ers, is another rather common summer resident in most parts of the United States, and probably migrates pretty far to the north. It arrives in Louisiana by the middle of February, visits Pennsyl- vania about the second week in Ai)ril, and a week later appears in the woods of New lOngland, protracting its stay in those s till the beginning of October, and lingering on the M hmits of the Union a month later, so that it does not -ipl to be much affected by the commencement of frost, and |irobably at this season occasionally feeds on berries. As numbers are observed round \'era Urn/ toward the com- iiK'iicement of winter, and are described as inhabiting the \Vesr India islai ^, it is probable they pass the extremity of the winter bev 1 the southe
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