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Title: Birdcraft : a field book of two hundred song, game, and water birds
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Wright, Mabel Osgood, 1859-1934 Fuertes, Louis Agassiz, 1874-1927
Subjects: Birds -- United States
Publisher: New York : Macmillan Co.
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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-tree when it stands a pillar of red twilight fire in the darkNovember woods, or in the far depths of the crimson sun-set skies, where, indeed, he seems to have been nested, andwhence to have come as a messenger of beauty, bearing onhis wings the light of his diviner home. . . . What won-der if he is so shy, so rare, so secluded, this flame-colouredprisoner in dark green chambers, who has only to be seenor heard and Death adjusts an arrow! . . . He will sit fora long time in the heart of a cedar, as if absorbed in thetragic memories of his race. Then, softly, wearily, he willcall out to you and to the whole world: Peace . . . Peace. . . PeoAie . . . Peace . . . Peace . . .! — the most melo-dious sigh that ever issued from the clefts of a dungeon. Rose-breasted Grosbeak: Habia ludoviciana, Plate 33. Length: 7.75-8.50 inches. Male: Breast rose-carmine, which colour extends under the wings. Above black; belly, rump, three outer tail quills and two spots on wings white ; white bill. 162
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SONG-BIRDS. Grosbeak Female: Brownish, sulphur-yellow under wings ; no rosy tint; heavy brown bill.Song: A delightful, rolling warble, often heard toward evening.Season: Common summer resident; May 1 to middle September.Breeds: From the Middle States northward.Kest: A perfect circle, neatly made of fibres and grass, lined with finer grasses, placed in a low tree, or more frequently a thorn bush in old pastures near the edge of woods.Eggs: Dirty green, with dark brown spots and speckles.Bange: Eastern United States and southern Canada ; west to the eastern border of the Plains ; south in winter to Cuba, Central America, and northern South America. You will always remember th.e day when you first seethis Grosbeak. Its song may be familiar to you, thoughyou are wholly unconscious of it; for in the great springchorus you may mistake it for a particularly melodiousEobin, who has added a few Oriole notes to his repertoire.The Grosbeaks song, however, has a retrospective qualityall its own,

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