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Title: Handbook of birds of eastern North America, with keys to the species and descriptions of their plumages, nests, and eggs ..
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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rained choir breaks into a wild,tinkling glee. It is quite possible that in the summer this rude chorusmight fail to awaken enthusiasm, but in the spring it is as welcomeand inspiring a promise of the new year as the peeping of frogs orblooming of the first wild flower. Plain, streaked Mrs. Redwing, who has been spending the winter inflocks composed only of others of her sex, soon appears, but mating isdelayed until late April or early May. Then we find the old homes inthe wet meadows and marshes occupied by ap()arently the same birdswhich have dwelt there for years. Mounting the topmost branch of a tree not far from the nest, the malebecomes an ever-vigilant sentinel. His rich ■ kong-quer-ree which byassociation is so strongly suggestive of reedy marshes, is a signal that alls well. He challenges all suspicious characters by an inquiringchut, chuck, and with a long, shrill alarm-note, chee-e-e-e-e, circles out onfluttering wings, his gorgeous crimson epaulets showing conspicuously.
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OS oa BLACKBIRDS, ORIOLES, ETC. 265 The nesting season is a short one, and in July young and oldbeginto gather in flocks in the marshes, where later they will be found, incountless numbers, feeding on the wild rice. 498b. A. p. bryanti Ridgiv. Florida Eedwing.—Similar to thepreceding, but smaller, the bill much more slender; 9 with the under partsless broadly streaked with black. W., 3-70; T., 3-50; B., -90; depth of billat nostril, •Zb. Range.—Florida and the Bahamas. 501. Sturnella raSL^nsi (Linn.). Meadowlark ; Field Lark. Ad. in summer.—Prevailing color of the upper parts black, the crown with a butfyline through the center, the back bordered and tipped with rufous and buffy;outer tail-feathers mostly white, middle ones with imperfect, connected bars,not reaching the outer edge of the feather; line from the bill over the eyeyellow; sides of the throat and ear-coverts whitish; throat, between thelower branch of the under mandible, breast, and middle of the upper bellybright

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