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Title: A first book upon the birds of Oregon & Washington : a pocket guide and pupil's assistant in a study of the more common land birds and a few of the shore and water birds of these states
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Lord, William Rogers, 1847-1916
Subjects: Birds -- Oregon Birds -- Washington (State)
Publisher: Portland, Or. : William Rogers Lod, Office of the J.K. Gill Co.
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ce of achild, when after dark and in the night, neverby day, its love-call is heard. The bird is rare in the Willamette Valley andaround Puget Sound, but grows more commonas we move east, till across the Cascade Moun-tains it may be heard any fine night in May andJune, and later. Its habits are not so wellknown as those of its eastern relatives. But itwould not be strange, if it too, when its nest wasdisturbed by man, should safely carry off eithereggs or young to some more secluded spot.This bird is found as much in open prairies andin barren arid land of the interior, as in woods.It nests in high altitudes, where there is frostevery night, and also in regions of tropicaltemperature. It makes no nest, but lays twoeggs upon the bare ground or upon rocks. Captain Charles Bendire, an army officer, whohas contributed more than any one hitherto, toa knowledge of the birds of Oregon, has de-scribed the love-call of the Poorwill as Puih-wee-ee, — the last syllable being almost in-audible.
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^ - =ti Birds of Oregon and Washingto7i 155 The bird has a wide range upon the westernside of our continent, being found from the RioGrande through northern Mexico, New Mexico,Arizona and all of the North Pacific States. Particular Description. — All above, soft velvetymottled, brownish-gray, with a moth-like (Ridgway),or a frost-like (Keeler), surface, marked with spottingsand zigzags of black ; tail-feathers, tipped with white,sometimes with buff; throat, strongly marked with trans-verse patch of white; breast and abdomen, barred withbuffy ; under tail-coverts, plain buff. Summer resident. THE DOVE FAMILY. There are two members of this family foundwithin the boundaries prescribed in this book, tHeMourning Dove and the Band-tailed Pigeon. THE MOURNING DOVE, OR TURTLE DOVE. General Description : Upper parts : except head, soft olive-brownish. Under parts : vinaceous or plum-color. Long tail. Length, 12.5 inches.Found everywhere in farming and more or less opencountry. 156 Birds of O

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