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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
Digitizing Sponsor: MBLWHOI Library

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PIGMY NUTHATCH NUTHATCHES AND TITS l.>5 you look up and think, What an alert, bright bird, hut when thefluffy, bob-tailed little pygmies come trooping in and alight upsidedown against the tips of the pine branches, talking in soft littleliquid notes, you feel like exclaiming, Oh, you winsome little mites,how jolly it is to see you again I A pair feeding nearly grown young were discovered by Mr. Baileyin the Sierra Nevada toward the last of July. Their small nest holewas widened from a crack in the hard shell of a half decayed pine,where the digging was probably easy. The old birds came freelywith food, though Mr. Bailey stood at the foot of the tree, and whenthe young came up to be fed their parents passed inside, and afterfeeding sat a moment talking and fluttering their wings at the door. GENUS PARUS. General Characters. — Bill much shorter than head, curved; wings andtail about equal and rounded; plumage loose. KEY TO SPECIES. 1. Head crested. 2. Throat black wollweberi. p. 45

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