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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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How many littleboys, as well as people of larger growth, have worked theirhands into the hole of a supposed Woodpecker, only to feelthe drying skin of a snake twisted up inside, and have fairlytumbled to the ground, lest the former inhabitant of theskin should be in the vicinity. These birds do not nest asfreely in the neighbourhood as the Kingbird, and, thoughsufficiently pugnacious with their bird kin, keep ratheraloof from human society, so that their habits are lessfamiliar. In early May when they arrive, they feed uponground-beetles, etc., but later in the season frequent thewooded edges of lanes and old pastures, and very littleinsect life that passes by escapes their snapping gape. Burroughs, in speaking of the Flycatchers in general,says that The wild Irishman of them all is the Great-crested Flycatcher, a large leather-coloured or sandy com-plexioned bird, that prowls through the woods, utteringits harsh, uncanny note, and waging fierce warfare uponits fellows. 184 PLATE 42.
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1. PHGEBE. Length, 6.75-7.25 inches. 2. WOOD PEWEE. SONGLESS BIRDS. Flycatchera Phoebe: Sayornis phcehcm Water Fewee.Plate 42. Fig. 1. Length: 6.75-7.25 inches. Male and Female: Above deep olive-brown; straight black bill.Outer edges of some tail feathers -whitish; an erectile crest.Beneath dingy yellowish white ; feet black. Note : Phcebee, phoebee, pewit, phceb6e ! Season: April to October. Common summer resident. Breeds: From the Carolinas northward. Nest: In its native woods the nest is of moss, mud, and grass brack-eted on a rock, near or over running water; but in the vicinityof settlements and villages, it is placed on a horizontal bridgebeam, timber supporting porch or shed. Eggs: Pure white, somewhat spotted. Mange: Eastern North America, from the British Provinces south toeastern Mexico and Cuba, wintering from the South Atlanticand Gulf States southward. The cheerful Phoebe, the first to come and the last toleave of its tribe, can be distinguished by its sociability aswell

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