. Useful birds and their protection. Containing brief descriptions of the more common and useful species of Massachusetts, with accounts of their food habits, and a chapter on the means of attracting and protecting birds . a quarter inches. Adult. — Head long-crested; cliin, forehead, space around eye, and line behind itblack; general color rich grayish or pinkish brown, with tints of reddish-olive and purplish-cinnamon, changing on the after parts into asliy aboveand yellow and white below; wuigs and tail gray; tail tipped with yellow. Nest. — Bulky; from six to fifteen feet up in an orchard
. Useful birds and their protection. Containing brief descriptions of the more common and useful species of Massachusetts, with accounts of their food habits, and a chapter on the means of attracting and protecting birds . a quarter inches. Adult. — Head long-crested; cliin, forehead, space around eye, and line behind itblack; general color rich grayish or pinkish brown, with tints of reddish-olive and purplish-cinnamon, changing on the after parts into asliy aboveand yellow and white below; wuigs and tail gray; tail tipped with yellow. Nest. — Bulky; from six to fifteen feet up in an orchard or shade tree; composedof weeds, grass, roots, bark, leaves and twigs. Eggs. — Light bluish, marked with black and indistinct bluish spots. Season.—Resident. This common bird, so richly endowed with beauty andgrace, is no songster. Its charm consists in its elegant shapeand its softness of plumage, with itsinsensible changes from one lovelytint to another. It moves about insilence, save as it utters a lisping, beady note or a hushed Nehrling says that both maleand female sing. I cannot doubtthat he has heard this song, butfrom my own experience I amled to believe that it is rare The Cedar Bird gets its namefrom its habit of feeding on cedar Fig- 74. — Cedar Bird, one-halfnatural size. berries in fall and winter. It often may be found on someparts of Cape Cod during the colder months. It is some-times seen in other parts of the State in winter, and is at- 210 USEFUL BIRDS. tracted by the berries of the mountain ash. The northwardmigration is usuallj under way in March, but comparativelyfew birds are ordinarily seen in central Massachusetts untillate in Maj% In spring and early summer they seem to feedalmost entirely on insects. They are always plentiful at thisseason in a cankerworm year, and they deserve at suchtimes the local name of cankerworm birds, for they fre-quent infested orchards in large flocks, and fill themselveswith the worms
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