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Title: Birds of New York
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Eaton, Elon Howard, 1866-1934
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Albany : University of the State of New York
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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rd at rest except upon its nest, butit frequently alights on deadtwigs and telegraph wires andwill often sit for many minutessunning and preening itself onthe lofty twigs of dead trees inthe forest. The nest of thisspecies is one of the most beauti-ful constructed by any of ournative birds. It is composed ofthe fluffy fibers from seed gossa-mers, the downy covering ofyoung fern leaves, and othersoft cottony substances, whichare bound together with spiderswebs and the whole carefullycovered with green and graylichens so skilfully that it resem-bles a small, mossy knot. Itis usually saddled upon a branch about the size of a walking stick or onthe horizontal crotch of a limb from 6 to 40 feet from the ground. Theeggs are always 2 in number, pure white in color, nearly elliptical in shape,and average .50 by .36 inches in size. The young at first have com-paratively short, stubby beaks and are nearly naked, but the feathersrapidly develop and the beaks become longer and slimmer. In 10 days
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Photo by Clarence F. Stone Young of Ruby-throated hummingbird BIRDS OF NEW YORK 179 after hatching the young are about ready to leave the nest. They arefed from the beginning by regurgitation. The old bird, perching on therim of the nest and directing her beak vertically downward into the youngbirds gullet, proceeds to pump the contents of her crop into the greedyyoungster. In the case of nearly every nest which I have watched, Ibecame apprehensive lest some harm had overtaken the young birdsbecause they disappeared so suddenly after 9 or lo days; but I have becomeconvinced that they remain in the nest only 10 days, and then follow theold birds to some secure spot where they are fed for several days longerbefore they forage for themselves. Order PASSERES Perching Birds Oil gland nude; skull aegithoghathous; atlas perforated by theodontoid process; i carotid, left; coeca present, small; muscle formulaA X Y; no biceps slip or expansor secondariorum (Beddard). Firsttoe is directed backwa

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