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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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gtofi kno\Mi places in the mountams, and are seenonly in winter and in earlv spring. THE SNOWFLAKE, OR SNOW-BFNTING. Lengtli, 6.1 inches plus. The Snow-flake, or Snow-Buntmg, which nestswithm the Arctic Circle, may be seen not infre-quently during the winter months in easternOregon and Washington. His commg is not fora warmer temperature, it would seem, but forthe light, and for the abundant food that may begathered from the tall weeds and grasses stand-ing above the snow. He may be seen on thenorthern prairies of our country, clear across thecontinent, and the little creature seems fairly torejoice m the blizzards and the low temperatures,in the severity of which men and beasts perish. Description. — Winter plumage : Head, back andinner wing-feathers, more or less reddish-brown andblack: tail centre-featliers black, outer-feathers white:breast and sides, slightly brownish: abdomen, white. Only a winter resident. His whiter habitat is over the whole northernhaK of the United States.
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Birds of Oreo;o7i and WasJtington 225 THE CHICKADEES. The Chickadee is assured of the friendshipof every one who knows him. This little ani-mated bunch of feathers, with his cheery man-ner and happy song, may be seen in the wintertime, scouring- the limbs of our fruit-trees forthe eggs which will later, unless destroyed,become canker-worms and other pests of theorchard. His dress befits his manner, and taking himaltogether, one might be justified for once inusing the phrase, * a love of a bird. In the colder regions of the Eastern States,nothing gives more cheer to a frigid wintermorning, with the mercury at 20 degrees belowzero, than this happy little creature, singing outinto the cold air his oft-repeated Chick-a-dee —dee-dee, while he moves from limb to limb. May he often find, in winter time, that, ingratitude for his merry song and his helpfulnessin the orchard, some human friend has tied asmall piece of beef-suet or cheese-rind upon atree to add a little variety to his menu. W

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