. Bird-life; a guide to the study of our common birds . ture ofmud and grasses. It is usually placed in trees, twenty tothirty feet from the ground, but the bird may sometimesnest in bushes or even in a Woodpeckers deserted three to six eggs are generally pale bluish green,strikingly spotted, blotched, or scrawled with brown andblack. But one brood is raised, and when the youngleave the nest they roam about the country in smallbands, which later join together, forming the enormousflocks of these birds we see in the fall. The Bobolinks extended journeys and quite differ-ent costumes ha
. Bird-life; a guide to the study of our common birds . ture ofmud and grasses. It is usually placed in trees, twenty tothirty feet from the ground, but the bird may sometimesnest in bushes or even in a Woodpeckers deserted three to six eggs are generally pale bluish green,strikingly spotted, blotched, or scrawled with brown andblack. But one brood is raised, and when the youngleave the nest they roam about the country in smallbands, which later join together, forming the enormousflocks of these birds we see in the fall. The Bobolinks extended journeys and quite differ-ent costumes have given him many aliases. Throughouthis breeding range, from New Jersey to Nova Scotia, „,.,., and westward to Utah, he is known Bobolink, . - ~ , ,. , T Bolichonyx while nesting as the Bobolink. In oryzivorus. July and August he loses his black,Plate xxx vni. bu^ and white wedding dress, and gains a new suit of feathers resembling in color thoseworn by his mate, though somewhat yellower. This isthe Keedbird dress, and in it he journeys nearly four. Plate L. Pages 146, 147. KEDPOLL. Length, 5-30 inches. Adult male, crown bright red; back brownish blackand grayish ; throat black; under parts white, streaked with black ;breast pink. Adult female and young, similar, but no pink on breast. SNOWFLAKE. Length, 6 -90 inches. Upper parts brown and black; wings and tail blackand white ; under parts white ; breast and sides brownish. BOBOLINK. 135 thousand miles to his winter quarters south of the Ama-zon. The start is made in July, when he joins nocks ofhis kind in the northern wild-rice (Zizania aquatica)marshes. Late in August he visits the cultivated ricefields of South Carolina and Georgia, and it is at this sea-son we so often hear the metallic tinh of passing rice is now in the milk, and the Ricebirds, or Orto-lans, as they are called in the South, are so destructive tothe crop that it is estimated they directly or indirectlycause an annual loss of §3,000,000. Som
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