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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: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Bailey, Florence Merriam, b. 1863
Subjects: Birds -- West (U.S.)
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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sterious, andmay be heard in the deep still spruce forests for a great distance,being very loud and wonderfully penetrating. It is a single long-drawn note, uttered in several different keys, some of the high-pitched ones with a strong vibrant trill. Each note grows out ofnothing, swells to a full tone, and then fades away to nothing untilone is carried away with the mysterious song. When heard nearby, as is seldom possible, the pure yet resonant quality of the notemakes one thrill with a strange feeling, and is as perfectly the voiceof the cool, dark, peaceful solitude which the bird chooses for itshome as could be imagined. The hermit thrush himself is no moreserene than this wild dweller in the western spruce forests. 763a. I. n. meruloides (Swains.). Pale Varied Thrush. Adult female. — Similar to female ncevius^ but grayer and paler, whitemarkings more extended, wing- longer, more pointed. Distribution. — Breeds in interior of northern Alaska; migrates to south-ern California.
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VAkiKi) riiKi>ii THRUSHES, SOLITAIRES, BLUEBIRDS, ETC. 475 GENUS SAXICOLA. 765. Saxicola oenanthe (Linn.). Wheatear. xidult male. — Upper parts ash gray; wings and terminal third of tailhlack; basal two thirds of tail, except middle feathers, white ; forehead,superciliary, and upper tail coverts, white ; side of head with black stripe ;under parts buffy anteriorly, white posteriorly. Adult female : duller,black replaced by dusky. Winter plumage: upper parts brown; white ontail as in summer; wings with lighter edgings; under parts rusty buff;side of head without distinct streak. Young : like female, but featherswith dark bars and pale centers at tip. Male: wing 3.58-8.98. Female:wing 8.54-8.90. Distribution. — Breeds in Alaska; migrates to Asia; accidental in Col-orado. Nest. — Among rocks and stone walls, made of grasses, lined with feath-ers. Eggs: 3 to 6, pale greenish blue. A specimen of the wheatear was taken at Boulder, Colorado, byMinot, in 1880. GENUS SIALIA. General C

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