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Title: Birds and nature in natural colors.
Year: 1913 (1910s)
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Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Chicago : A.W. Mumford, Publisher
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
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habit, is said also to nest at times in the hollows of rocky ledges.Two or three white eggs are laid which are hatched in about twenty-one days. The food of these Cockatoos, and also of related species, consists of fruits,seeds, larvae and adult insects. As they are gregarious, it is said that some-times flocks will do great damage while feeding in freshly planted grain fields,and for this reason are greatly disliked by agriculturists of the regions theyfrequent and are destroyed in large numbers. This may be done easily, forthey are neither shy nor watchful birds. The elegant and brightly colored plumage and the graceful movements ofthe Rose-breasted Cockatoos would make them very desirable pets were it notfor their loud and discordant notes or, perhaps more properly, screams. Theyare also much more noisy than some of the other species. While they areeasily tamed when young, a cage never seems to become a pleasing habitationand their piercing voice is frequently heard in protest. 682
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The Canada Jay (Pensoreus canadensis)By John Macoiin Length: 11^ inches. Range: Eastern North America, from northern United States northward. Common all the way from Missinabi, on the Canadian Pacific railway, downthe Moose river, and through Ungava to Ungava bay in 1896, and in 1904 northto Cape Henrietta Maria on the west coast of Hudson bay. (Spreadborough.)An abundant resident in Nova Scotia. (Dozmts.) A common winter resident inCumberland county, N. S.; very fearless, coming about the buildings for scraps;I saw birds with grass in their bills late in March; they evidently nest in April.(C. H. Morrell.) A few observed at Baddeck, Cape Breton island. (F. H.Allen.) A common resident at Sydney, Cape Breton island, but could find no onewho had ever seen a nest. (C. R. Harte.) Not uncommon in back districts inNova Scotia. (H. F. Tufts.) With mingled sound of horns and bells, A far-heard clang, the wild geese fly.Storm-sent, from Arctic moors and fells, Like a great arrow through the sk

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