File:Common birds of town and country (1914) (14565280767).jpg

Identifier: cu31924022518595 (find matches)
Title: Common birds of town and country
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: National Geographic Society (U.S.) Henshaw, Henry W. (Henry Wetherbee), 1850-1930 Cooke, Wells Woodbridge, 1858-1916 Kennard, Frederic Hedge, 1865-
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Washington, D. C., National Geographic Society
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
is very much at home among the pinewoods of which it is the brightest ornament. Ingeneral its*habits are like those of its scarlet cousin,and it also has a sweet song very similar in generaleffect. In California this tanager has acquired anevil reputation by attacks on the cherry crop, andthere is no doubt that when it assembles in largenumbers in,the fruit districts it is the cans:1 of heavyloss to small fruit growers. Under ordinary cir-cumstances, however, the greater part of its foodconsists of, insects, many of them harmful, and it isonly fair to balance the good the bird does againstthe harm. Two very harmful families of beetles,whose larvce are wood borers and do much damageto trees and other plants, are represented in the food.The planting of berry bearing trees near the orchardwould no doubt prevent much of the loss, occasionedby this bird, which by no means occurs every year.For the rest the fruit grower must be allowed toprotect his fruit in the best and most effective way.
Text Appearing After Image:
Yellow-headed Blackbird Male, upper; female, lowerStarling COWBIRD Male, upper; female, lowerChimney Swift 524 YELLOWHEAD (Xanthocephalusxanthocephalus). Length, about 10 inches. Our only blackbird witha.ye!low head. Range: Confined to western North America.Breeds from southern British Columbia, southernMackenzie, southwestern Keewatin, and northernMinnesota to southern California and Arizona, eastto southern Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana; wintersfrom southwestern California, .southern Arizona,southeastern Texas, and southwestern Louisianasouth into Mexico. Apparently Nature started out with the intentionof making an oriole but decided to make a black-bird instead—and behold the yellowhead. He is asociable chap and nests in great companies in thetule swamps of the west. The yellowheads voiceis harsh and guttural and his vocal efforts havebeen well characterized as a maximum of earnesteffort with a minimum of harmony. Late in mid-summer when the young are on the wing, old andyoung

Note About Images