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Title: Birds and nature
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Subjects: Birds Natural history
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : A.W. Mumford, Publisher
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ndant species,inhabiting woods, orchards and parks. The Tennessee Warbler (Helmintho-phila peregrina) is at no time very com-mon. Mr. W^alter briefly describes itthus: Rump and back bright olive-green ; head and neck grayish; dull whitebelow, faint white line over the eye. Dr.Wheaton gives this description: Rareand irregular migrant in spring, abundantand regular in the fall. The TennesseeWarbler, so named by Wilson from theplace where he discovered it, as was alsothe Nashville warbler, appears in springabout the middle of May, and frequentswoodlands and orchards. At this time Ihave heard them sing a singularly sharp,rather squeaky warble, less loud andmore varied than the song of the orange-crowned warbler. They return early mSeptember and remain during that monthand part of October. At this time theyfrequent sparse woodlands on the banksof streams and high weeds in uplandwoods. Usually they are associated withthe Nashville warbler and green black-ca)) flycatcher. Norman O. Foerster.
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FROM COL. r. M. WOODHUFF. 80 CAMBKLS IAK ri^lDc.l. i(;illii)cM)la Kambilii). y, Lifi-sizc. I J THE GAMBELS PARTRIDGE. (CaUpepia gambelii.) Gambels Partridge is a rarely beauti-ful and interesting bird, but because ofits limited range it is not as well knownas it deserves to be. It is a resident ofNorthwestern Mexico and contiguousportions of the United States from west-ern Texas to Southern California, northto southern Nevada and southern Utah.In southern Arizona it is common where-ever bodies of water are found. Inthe days of travelling by stage coachover the hot plains of Arizona the sightof a Gambels Partridge was always wel-come, for it indicated that water wasnot far away. In this dusty region waterwas ever a desideratum of the traveler.Not infrequently springs and pools ofwater were several miles apart. Thusthe appearance of this handsome gamebird was indeed cheering to the wearytraveler, who soon gave it the nameArizona quail. Major Charles Bendire gives the fol-lowing interest

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