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Identifier: birdsnature1821905chic (find matches)
Title: Birds and nature
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Subjects: Birds Natural history
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : A.W. Mumford, Publisher
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like that of the robin. The favoritehaunts of this Thrush are in the openwoodlands, near the banks of streamsand among the bushes which afford aready and a safe retreat. The food of the Hermit Thrush con-sists of ants, beetles, caterpillars andgrasslioppers. In Bulletin Number 3, ofthe Illinois State Laboratory of NaturalHistory, Professor S. A. Forbes recordsthe following data: Eighty-four percent of the food is insects, four per centspiders and twelve per cent thousand-legs. The insect food was made up asfollows : Ants, fifteen per cent; butter-flies and caterpillars, nineteen per cent;beetles, thirty per cent; hemiptera orbugs, eight per cent; grasshoppers, eightper cent. From these data it will be seenthat the Hermit Thrush is a very valua-ble bird and should be rigorously protect-ed by farmers and agriculturists. The Hermit Thrush winters in theSouth and arrives in the latitude of Chi-cago about the first week in April, and in .50 *«■■ ■:^ilitf^r:^l2^rsiif ••^ , -^---^
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82 (Tiirdus aonalaschkae pallassi).i Life-size. New England about the middle of April.It pursues its migration leisurely anddoes not arrive in its nesting region untilabout the middle of May. A few nest inthe northern part of the United States,but the great majority choose their nest-ing site in the forests of Northern )vlaineand northward into Canada, in wRich lo-calities only can its song be heard. The Hermit Thrush builds its nest onor near the ground, in a secluded spot.It is large and made of leaves, grasses,mosses and pieces of bark, and is linedwath finer pieces of the same material.Unlike the wood thrush it uses no mudin the construction of its nest. Writersseem to differ somewhat in describingthe location of the nest, some stating thatU is built in very low scrubby trees orbushes, quite near the ground, while oth-ers state that it is sunken into the groundamong the plants or ferns of the forest.It is probable that the nesting site variesin difterent localities. Four eggs arel

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