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Title: Handbook of birds of the western United States, including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande Valley
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Bailey, Florence Merriam, b. 1863
Subjects: Birds -- West (U.S.)
Publisher: Boston New York, Houghton, Mifflin and company
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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al cavity, 3 to 15 feet from theground, usually lined with rabbit fur. Eggs: 5 to 9, plain white orspotted with reddish brown, chiefly around the larger end. The whistles of the mountain chickadee are perhaps the com-monest notes heard in the forests of the Sierra Nevada, In theusual forms of the whistle either the one long note is followed bytwo or three short notes—phce-de-de or phce-de-de-de, or else thelong note stands between the short notes, as de-de-phce,-de-de. Gambeli is a typical chickadee in all its motions, making shorttilting flights from one treetop to another, and clinging upside downto the tips of the branches. It is an unsuspicious little friend, mostpleasant to meet in the dark coniferous forests, always ready with acheery word. It makes a snug nest in some old woodpecker hole. The femaleusually sits very close, Dr. Merrill says, and wrhen disturbed keepsup a constant hissing so much like that of some snakes, that noprudent squirrel would venture to enter the hole.
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MOUNTAIN CHICKADEE NUTHATCHES AND TITS 4o9 740b. Parus hudsonicus columbianus Uhontla. COLUMBIANCHICKADEE. Top of head hair brown ; back lighter brown ; side* of head irltitc ; throatblackish; flanks dark reddish brown ; median under parts whitish. )Vint/:2.70, tail 2.C.4. Distribution. — Rocky Mountains from Liard River south to Montana. 741. Parus rufescens Towns. CHESTNUT-BACKED CHICKADEE.Adults. — Throat blackish brown ; top of head and back of neck hair brown; superciliary black; back, sides, and flanks dark reddish brown;rest of under parts and sides of head white. Young : top of head, back ofneck, and throat dark sooty brown; back dull chestnut, tinged with olive;sides ashy, partly washed with brown. Length : 4.50-5.00, wing1 2.35-2.60,tail 2.00-2.30. Distribution. — From Alaska south to California, east to Idaho. Nest. — In stub, 12 to 40 feet from the ground, lined with cow hair, rab-bit fur, feathers, or moss. Eggs : white, unmarked or minutely spottedwith reddish. A

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