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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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is piping effaces them all, andawakens memories that go back to the very dawn of life.He was the first bird, probably, that we learned to call byname, and every spring he returns as the marshal of thefeathered hosts and well sustains the honour. The American Robin is an entirely different species fromthe English Robin Redbreast; the latter is a smaller birdof more compact build, with a brilliant red breast, in formresembling our Bluebird. Bluebird: Siala sialis* Plate 9.Length: 6.50-7 inches.Male: Azure-blue above. Wings blue with some dark edgings. Breast brick-red, lower parts white. Bill and feet black.Female: Dull blue above. Breast paler and more rusty. Young with speckled breast and back.Song: A sweet plaintive warble, seeming to say, Dear ! dear ! think of it, think of it! Burroughs says it continually calls Purity, Purity ; in either case the accent is the same.Season: A resident species, though the majority come early in March and retire to the South in late October. PLATE 9.
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BLUEBIRD. Length, 6.50-7 inches. SONG-BIRDS. Bluebird Breeds: All through its range. iVesf: Hardly to be called a structure as it is usually merely a lining in a decayed knot hole, a bird-house, or the abandoned hole of the Woodpecker.Eggs: 4-6, pale blue, shading sometimes to white.Hange: Eastern United States to the eastern base of the Rocky Mountains, north to Manitoba, Ontario, and Nova Scotia; south in winter, from the Middle States to the Gulf States and Cuba. Bermuda, resident. The Bluebird is the colour-bearer of the spring brigade,even as the Song Sparrow is the bugler. There may besnow on the ground, and the chimney nightly tells the com-plaint of the wind. All other signs fail, but when we seethe Bluebird in his azure robe and hear his liquid notes(he is Aprils minstrel), we know that spring is close athand, for in autumn and winter the blue coat is veiledwith rusty-brown, as if the murky storms had cast theirshadows upon it. The Bluebirds note is pleasing andmellow, mingli

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