. Birds of California : an introduction to more than three hundred common birds of the state and adjacent islands, with a supplementary list of rare migrants, accidental visitants, and hypothetical subspecies . Birds. 274 LAND BIRDS his favorite haunts, and from the top of this stunted, grayish green vegetation, â he peals out the earliest greeting to the day. So loud and so enthusi- astic is his song that it can be heard nearly t half a mile away. As the sun rises and the air grows hotter his nmsic ceases, and he skulks â among the sagebrush until evening, when he sings again, sometimes far i
. Birds of California : an introduction to more than three hundred common birds of the state and adjacent islands, with a supplementary list of rare migrants, accidental visitants, and hypothetical subspecies . Birds. 274 LAND BIRDS his favorite haunts, and from the top of this stunted, grayish green vegetation, â he peals out the earliest greeting to the day. So loud and so enthusi- astic is his song that it can be heard nearly t half a mile away. As the sun rises and the air grows hotter his nmsic ceases, and he skulks â among the sagebrush until evening, when he sings again, sometimes far into the night. If you have camped in this dreary waste with the marvel- lously bright stars overhead and the silence of the desert around you like a tomb, the song of the Leconte Thrasher, breaking the mysterious still- ness, has seemed the sweet- est music ever heard by mortal 711. Leconte Thbashek. "He loves the barrenness of the ; 712. CRISSAL THRASHER. â Toxostoma crissale. Family : The Wrens, Thrashers, etc. Length: AduUs: Bill long, sharply curved; upper parts plain grayish hrown, the tail darker and faintly tipped with rufous ; under parts dark fawn or grayish; the chin and throat nearly white; under tail-coverts. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Wheelock, Irene Grosvenor; Horsfall, R. Bruce (Robert Bruce), 1869-1948. Chicago : A. C. McClurg
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