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Identifier: birdsofvillagefi00bail (find matches)
Title: Birds of village and field: a bird book for beginners
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Bailey, Florence Merriam, b. 1863
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Boston, New York, Houghton, Mifflin and company
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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happen by. The Spar-rows and Wrens make short, labored flights fromone clump of weeds or bushes to another, usingtheir wings merely to transport them to neighbor-ing feeding-grounds, never loitering in the air.But the Swift, the Swallow, and the Nighthawkhave business in the air, and their flight is aseries of curves, zigzags, or other evolutions, asthey hunt back and forth, snapping up the insectsthat are in the skies. The Kingbird and Spar-row Hawk also have business in the air, but theyuse it, not as a dining-table, but as a perch, hov-ering on wing while they scrutinize the groundbeneath for their food. Marsh Hawk : Circus Imdsonius. (Plate XVII.) Geographic Distribution. — North America in general, southto Panama. The female and young Marsh Hawks canalways be known as large, dark birds with whiteat the base of the tail, for the round white spotcan be seen rods away as the Hawk slowly beatsover the face of the meadow in its search formice. The adult male is still more strikingly
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Plate XVil.—MARSH HAWK Adult male, upper parts gray ; under parts pearl gray or wliite ;base of tail white. Adult female, upper parts dark brown ;under parts reddish brown, streaked; base of tail white.Young, similar to female. Length, male, ID inches; female,22 inches. MABSH HAWK 279 marked, and unless you have been warned, youwill find it hard to believe him a Hawk, for he isa most distinguished-looking beauty, as pearlygray as a Sea Gull. In his Hawk and Owl Bulletin, DoctorFisher deplores the fact that for its occasionalpoultry dinner the Marsh Hawk is shot, as hesays, at sight, quite regardless or ignorant ofthe fact that it preserves an immense quantity ofgrain, thousands of fruit-trees, and innumerablenests of game birds by destroying the verminwhich eat the grain, girdle the trees, and devourthe eggs and young of the birds. It is unquestionably one of the most benefi-cial, as it is one of our most abundant Hawks,the doctor states, and its presence and increaseshould be encou

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  • bookcentury:1800
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  • booksubject:Birds
  • bookpublisher:Boston__New_York__Houghton__Mifflin_and_company
  • bookcontributor:American_Museum_of_Natural_History_Library
  • booksponsor:Biodiversity_Heritage_Library
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