. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. 250 BIRDS OP"^ AMERICA each of the females builds her own nest and rears her own little brood, while her lord and master struts in the sunshine and displays his brilliant plumage. There is comparatively little variation as be- tween individuals in this bird's characteristic combination of song and call-note, yet it is very differently transliterated by different persons, 0-ka-lce seems as accurate as any of these attempts, and truer to the note than conk-a- rce or cong-gar-ce, since the opening tone seems to be very plainly the vowel O, rather
. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. 250 BIRDS OP"^ AMERICA each of the females builds her own nest and rears her own little brood, while her lord and master struts in the sunshine and displays his brilliant plumage. There is comparatively little variation as be- tween individuals in this bird's characteristic combination of song and call-note, yet it is very differently transliterated by different persons, 0-ka-lce seems as accurate as any of these attempts, and truer to the note than conk-a- rce or cong-gar-ce, since the opening tone seems to be very plainly the vowel O, rather than the consonant sound K. Mr. Mathews finds sev- eral phrases in the Red-wing's song and makes out of them the following jingle: 0-ka-Iee, cong-quer-ree. You chootea, Oloiig tea! Gl-oogl-ee, Conk-a-tree, Quange-se-fea, Shoo-chong tea! And then he proceeds to adapt these deliver- ances to musical notation intended to represent variations of the phrase, with a result which might be entitled, " The Ballad of the ; Other notes of the Red-wing are a dull chuck, or a prolonged whistle, sounded fre- quently in early summer, or a group of sharply accented scolding notes, or a single nasal call, not unlike that of the Nighthawk. There is marked contrast between the color of the male and that of the female and the latter might easily be mistaken for a bird of a totally different species. The Bi-colored Red-wing and the Tri-colored Red-wing might well be called California Red- wing and Western Red-wing, for they differ from the Red-wing only in their occurrence and but slightly in their plumage. " Many complaints have been made against the Red-wing, and several States have placed at times a bounty upon its head. It is said to cause great damage to grain in the West, especially in the upper Mississippi valley; and the rice grow- ers of the South say that it eats rice. No com- plaints come from the northeastern part of the country, where the bird is much less abvmdant t
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