. Bird neighbors : an introductory acquaintance with one hundred and fifty birds commonly found in the gardens, meadows, and woods about our homes . ing cats. While the robin is a famous splasher, his neatness stopsthere. A robins nest is notoriously dirty within, and so care-lessly constructed of weed-stalks, grass, and mud, that a heavysummer shower brings more robins nests to the ground than welike to contemplate. The color of the eggs, as every one knows,has given their name to the tint. Four is the number of eggslaid, and two broods are often reared in the same nest. Too much stress is la
. Bird neighbors : an introductory acquaintance with one hundred and fifty birds commonly found in the gardens, meadows, and woods about our homes . ing cats. While the robin is a famous splasher, his neatness stopsthere. A robins nest is notoriously dirty within, and so care-lessly constructed of weed-stalks, grass, and mud, that a heavysummer shower brings more robins nests to the ground than welike to contemplate. The color of the eggs, as every one knows,has given their name to the tint. Four is the number of eggslaid, and two broods are often reared in the same nest. Too much stress is laid on the mischief done by the robinsin the cherry trees and strawberry patches, and too little uponthe quantity of worms and insects they devour. Professor Tread-well, who experimented upon some young robins kept in cap-tivity, learned that they ate sixty-eight earthworms daily—thatis, each bird ate forty-one per cent, more than its own weight intwelve hours! The length of these worms, if laid end to end,would be about fourteen feet. Man, at this rate, would eatabout seventy pounds of flesh a day, and drink five or six gallonsof water. 226. ORCHARD Liff-si/e. Conspicuously Red of any Shade Orchard Oriole (Icterus spurius) Blackbird and Oriole family Called also: ORCHARD STARLING ; ORCHARD HANG-NEST Length—] to inches. About one-fourth smaller than therobin. Male—Head, throat, upper back, tail, and part of wings , rump, shoulders, under wing and tail coverts, andunder parts bright reddish brown. Whitish-yellow mark-ings on a few tail and wing feathers. Female—Head and upper parts olive, shading into brown; brighteron head and near tail. Back and wings dusky brown, withpale-buff shoulder-bars and edges of coverts. Throat parts olive, shading into yellow. Range—Canada to Central America. Common in temperate lati-tudes of the United States. Migrations—^axly May. Middle of September. Common sum-mer resident. With a more southerly ran
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