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Title: American bird magazine, ornithology
Year: 1903 (1900s)
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Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Worcester, Mass. : C.K. Reed

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. I have not been.a bird student for very many years, but during this periodI have had a few very interesting experiences, two of which I will relate.The first is about a guest, which we entertained—little Astragalinus tristis—■whose fate was a very sad one. It was late one afternoon, about sundown, on a cold February day. Thethermometer registered about zero, which is very cold for that time of day inour section. On glancing out of a window, I noticed a bird fly down to a AMERIOAN ORNITHOLOGY. 167 rose bush^ which grew by the side of our house. I supposed that it was anEnglish Sparrow, as a flock of them are often found, throughout the day, intwo large evergreen trees near by, but on looking closer, I found that it wasa little olive-green bird. It was settling down on the rose bush, putting its;head under a wing to go to sleep. At first I did not recognize it as a Gold-finch, it looked so small, and also the Goldfinches are not very commonly-found here during the winter months.
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By E. R. Forrest. Gila Woodpecker. I told one of my sisters of it and she went out and easily caught it. Thepoor thing was so cold and tired it did not mind being handled very much,and made but little effort to get away from her. She brought it in the houseand we put it in an old bird-cage, covering the cage with some shawls. Itwent right to sleep and slept until morning. Had she not brought it in teh house that night it surely would havebeen frozen, for the next morning the thermometer had gone down to eightdegrees below zero. At day-break, when we went to look at it, it was awake, anxiously trying 168 AMERIOAN ORNITHOLOGY. to get out of the cage and constantly repeating a little Wick-wick-er-wick!We did not dare let it go while the weather was so cold, so we left it in thecage and gave it some sunflower, catnip, mustard and other seeds to eat. Wethought that if it would eat at all, it would probably eat the sunflower seeds,as Goldfinches are so fond of them in the fall. But I did no

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