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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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s, wrens, purple martins, fly-catchers, tree swallows, chickadees, nuthatches, and all the other native songbirds. - The Pine Grosbeak (Pinlcola enucUator Uucura)By W, Leon Dawson Length: 8^ inches. Range: Northeastern and central North America. Food: Mostly seeds from small growth pines and weed seeds. Another of our rarer winter birds, whose occasional visits serve only tostimulate a desire on our part for a closer acquaintance, is the Pine Grosbeak.It is almost exclusively a bird of the deep pine forests, so it is not to be wonderedat that it so seldom ventures into our state. While found more commonly inPennsylvania and regularly in New England, it breeds only from the northernportions of the latter region northward. Like many another woodland recluse,the Pine Grosbeak often appears dazed when it encounters civilization and maynot infrequently be taken with butterfly nests or even with the hand. It is onrecord that the markets of Boston were abundantly supplied one winter with 334
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.441 PINE GROSBEAK. (Pinicola enucleator.) 3 Life-size. these birds. It was, of course, in early days (1835), when the Puritan stomachwas less influenced by sentimental consideration. Or it was, perhaps, before ahigher use had been found for them, namely, to decorate ladies bonnets. Although such a timid recluse, with little of the savoir faire of the world,the Pine Grosbeak is a born poet and dispenses sweetest music to his neighborsin the Laurentian wilds. The song is described as clear, sweet and flowing,like that of the Purple Finch, but stronger, of course, as becomes the larger size. The food habits of this species are as yet imperfectly known. They areknown at least to eat small fruit of all sorts with avidity, and specimens obtainedin the far northwest were found to have fared exclusively upon poplar buds.When with us mountain ash trees are sure to be visited, and cedar berries, whenobtainable, are very welcome. It is noteworthy also that the southward moving flocks .of winter

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