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Title: Birds and nature in natural colors : being a scientific and popular treatise on four hundred birds of the United States and Canada
Year: 1913 (1910s)
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Subjects: Birds -- North America
Publisher: Chicago : A.W. Mumford, Publisher
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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Sparrowsdropped out of the sky, exhausted and frozen, the cheerful voice of the BewickWren was loudly ringing from some favorite perch. How I had to envy him!While man and beast were seeking shelter from this cold, and the earth wasgroaning under its burden of snow, he, undaunted, gay and light-hearted, wassinging in anticipation of the joyous springtime. And again when trees andflowers bloom, or when midsummers sun is blazing down in unabated fury, hissong greets us at our home. Not a voluble merry chatter, like the House Wrens,but clear, strong and cheery, easily heard for a quarter of a mile,—such isthe song of Bewicks Wren. Easily distinguished from the former he hasthe same teasing ways about him,—now peeping into some corner, now examiningthe woodpile, now crawling into a knot-hole of the smoke-house, creeping forthlike a mouse at the next moment, whisking his erectly-carried tail, watching youcarefully though fearlessly, he all of a sudden mounts some fence-posts, pours 806
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561 BEWICKS WREN. (Thryothorus bewickii). Life-size •0#rRi«MT 1101, IT A. *. wuvrcao, CMICiM. forth his proud nictaUic notes, drops down iiiKj tlie diickcn yard, disappears inthe pij( pen, mockingly scolds at you, sings again, and is wilHng to keep this gameup all day. We do not know which to admire more, his beautiful song or hisconfidence in man. The height of these actions is reached at the mating season, for he is thebird that makes life sweet about the old log cabins, deserted woodpiles and half-destroyed orchards. Almost any place in the neighi)orhood of man is chosenfor a nesting site. The arm-pit of an old coat, old tin and coffee cups, log cabinnooks and corners, often contain his nest. This is rather bulky, composed ofsticks, grass, wool, horse and cow hairs, quail and chicken feathers, snake skinsand other rubbish. From four to eleven eggs are found in it in April andagain in June. They are white with various spots of lilac-gray and brown, andmy observations lead me to t

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