. A first book upon the birds of Oregon & Washington; a pocket guide and pupil's assistant in a study of the more common land birds and a few of the shore and water birds of these states . ers drive them to the open country of west-ern Oregon and Washington, here to thrive uponabundant food which they find in maple treeseeds, etc. The huge size of the bill indicatesthe use which these birds make of them in crack-ing pine cones. Though nesting so far from the habitation ofman, they are wondrously tame, as they appearin flocks in our City Parks, and upon our friendly already, it is easy
. A first book upon the birds of Oregon & Washington; a pocket guide and pupil's assistant in a study of the more common land birds and a few of the shore and water birds of these states . ers drive them to the open country of west-ern Oregon and Washington, here to thrive uponabundant food which they find in maple treeseeds, etc. The huge size of the bill indicatesthe use which these birds make of them in crack-ing pine cones. Though nesting so far from the habitation ofman, they are wondrously tame, as they appearin flocks in our City Parks, and upon our friendly already, it is easy to win further theirconfidence, and induce them to eat out of thehand. A lady of Oregon City, in the winter of1898-99, succeeded in bringing numbers of thesebeautiful birds to sit upon her arms, hands andlap. The writer has two pictures of this win-some woman with the Grosbeaks thus confidinglyresting upon her person. One of these picturesis given in these pages. In the winter of1900-01 some of the same birds returnedafter two years* absence, — the identificationbeing established by certain unmistakable marks,like the blindness of one in one eye, and themisshapen leg of 2 f^ Birds of Oregon and Washmgton 49 The explanation of the fearlessness of thesebirds is found in the fact that they are not fa-miliar enough with the bird-stoning and killingpropensities of human beings to keep at a safedistance. Every wild and fearful bird is a sadcomment upon the savage treatment bird-life hasreceived at the hands of man. And every suchfamiliar intercourse as that between this bird-lover in Oregon City and the birds, indicateswhat, if we will, may be the future relation be-tween us and these angels of song and beauty. The Evening Grosbeak has no song properwhile with us, but has such a musical conversa-tional note that we long some day to come uponthe quiet family in their summer homes ; whereif their love-song is one-half as sweet as of other Grosbeaks, we know it mu
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