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Title: Bird-lore
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals
Subjects: Birds -- Periodicals Birds -- Conservation Periodicals
Publisher: New York, National Association of Audubon Societies
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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xceptional. Virginia isusually the extreme northern limit of its winter sojourn. As a rule it is not quite so trustful of mankind as are some of our better-known lawn and garden species, as, for example, the Robin and House Wren;nor is it one of those shy denizens of forests and open fields. °g. ^ that rarely venture into a city. In fact it occupies a somewhatmiddle ground, and to a more or less extent flits between thesetwo groups, and seems fairly well at home in either situation, as might beexpected of so well-bred a bird-of-the-world. Its occurrence in town, however, would appear to be more common in theautumn than the spring. It seems to prefer to investigate the abodes of manduring the period when it has no pressing domestic duties and responsibilities.When nesting-time arrives, therefore, it is best to seek for it along hedge-rows or beside old fences half concealed by shrubbery, from the depths ofwhich often it will announce its presence by its sharp, clear cry chewink. (iS4)
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TOWHEE(Upper figure, female; lower figure, maleiOrder—Paeseres Family—Fringillid-* Genus—Pi PI LO Species—Erythrophthalmus National Association of Audubon Societies The Towhee tSS Abandoned fields, wherein briers and bushes have sprung up, are also favoriteabiding places for the Towhee. One summer day, as a member of a Harvard botany class, I journeyed somemiles out of Cambridge, and afoot began a rather laborious climb up the some-what steeply sloping side of Blue Hill. As we advanced, the trees decreasedsteadily in size until, perhaps three-fourths of the way to thetop, they became so scragg>^ that in many places they had Its Song much the aspect of bushes. This change in the condition ofthe vegetation must have been due largely to the poor quality of the soil, as thealtitude was not great. We studied many plants that day, many of which Ihave forgotten, but I do remember with great distinctness the songs of Towhees,which with marvelous clearness rang from the topmost boug

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