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Title: Birds of North Carolina
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Pearson, T. Gilbert (Thomas Gilbert), 1873-1943 Brimley, Clement Samuel, 1863-1946 Brimley, Herbert Hutchinson, 1861-1946
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Raleigh, Edwards & Broughton printing co., state printers
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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Pia. 275. Bluebird. The Bluebird is one of our most familiar birds, and nests everywhere in naturalhollows in trees, often in orchards or near houses, l)ut just as frequently in situa-tions remote from the haunts of man. The bottom of the IkjUow is lined with Plate 24
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) ROBIN Planesti.^us migratorJus nuHratorius (Linn.) Male and Female, ^4 II Descriptive List 335 grass, and in this simple cradle the Bluebird lays its four or five jiale-blue eggs.Occasionally white eggs are found, and when this is the case the whole set is white.At Raleigh nests containing eggs have been found as early as April 13 (1888) andas late as June 26 (1886). The Bluebird feeds in suimncr mainly on insects and in ^nnter chiefly on vari-ous kinds of berries. In February, 1895, a blizzard covered the earth and treeswdth ice for many days. The Bluebirds, thus being luialile to procure food beneathits glittering mantle, were starved and frozen Ijj thousands. The species throughvirtually the whole of the eastern United States suffered in tlie same way, andapparently came very near being exterminated. For several years subsequentlyit was a rare sight to see a Bluebird. They have now, however, about regainedtheir former numbers. Bluebirds will build their nest in a box placed on a

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