. Alabama bird day book . lered deer;To sing with the birds that sing for me,To tread where only the red man trod,To say no word, but listen to God. 4^ A AGOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLET KINGLETS are dainty little birds between three and four incheslong, with soft lax plumage, which in color is plain olive-greenabove, the wings with two narrow white bands, and dull whitishtinged with olive or dull yellowish below. The male has crown oforange and yellow, bordered with black, and the female, of go about in parties, seeking their food of insects among thebranches of trees and shrubbery. The ne
. Alabama bird day book . lered deer;To sing with the birds that sing for me,To tread where only the red man trod,To say no word, but listen to God. 4^ A AGOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLET KINGLETS are dainty little birds between three and four incheslong, with soft lax plumage, which in color is plain olive-greenabove, the wings with two narrow white bands, and dull whitishtinged with olive or dull yellowish below. The male has crown oforange and yellow, bordered with black, and the female, of go about in parties, seeking their food of insects among thebranches of trees and shrubbery. The nest of the kinglet is anexquisite example of bird architecture, being a large, round struc-ture made of green moss, strips of bark, and fine rootlets, thicklylined with soft feathers. The eggs, numbering from five to ten, aredull whitish or grayish, finely speckled or sprinkled with brown orlilac; when the larger number of eggs is present, they are usuallyfound in two layers, the nest being otherwise too small to RED-HEADED 1100. •» .. w- MOHfOBO. OMlCAaO Alabama, ipi8. 53 RED-HEADED WOODPECKER -♦■©♦ THIS very handsome species is common and very well adults have the entire head and breast red; while the younghave gray heads and back, streaked with darker. They are the ruf-fians of the woodpecker family, very noisy and quarrelsome. Oneof their worst traits is the devouring of the eggs and young of otherbirds. To offset this, partially, they eat insects and grubs and agreat deal of fruit. Their note is a loud, whining charr, charr,besides numerous other calls and imitations. In May and Junethey lay four to six glossy white eggs in holes in trees in woods,orchards or along roadsides, and also in fence posts and telegraphpoles. ^ ^ C^THE WOODPECKER WHO dat knockin on my cabin doDis monin at break o day?Who dat callin You lazy Jim, You better git up and make yo hayAn clean yo cotton row. Who dat ringin his breakfus bellOn
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