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Title: How to study birds; a practical guide for amateur bird-lovers and camera-hunters
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Job, Herbert Keightley, 1864-1933
Subjects: Birds Photography of birds
Publisher: New York, Outing publishing company
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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e nest in the crotchof a bush over the water or even out from the shoreof a pond. The swamp sparrow is partial to suchplaces, where there are grassy tussocks among thebushes. It is in these tussocks that the rather rareshort-billed marsh wren makes its nest. Where theswamp becomes the bog, with tall reeds or rushes,the long-billed marsh wren dwells and suspends itsodd globular nest among the stems. Here are foundcertain water-birds, which will be described later. The other main division of the landscape is thewoodland, and a very charming one it is. Many ofthe smaller species thought of as woodland birds aremore apt to be found near the edge of the woods, ad-jacent to open land or even human habitation.Among our most typically woodland birds are thethrushes, with the exception of the robin; yet eventhis familiar fellow I have found nesting in thewoods. Most conspicuous of them is the woodthrush, of good size, with bright brown back andheavily spotted breast and sides. The only bird it
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WHERE TO FIND BIRDS 57 could be at first mistaken for is the brown thrasher,but that Is larger, more vivacious, and has a muchlonger tall. The Wilsons thrush, or veery, is fairly common.It is rather a timid bird, not always easy to approach,but if we can get a look at Its faintly spotted breastand unspotted sides, we can distinguish it at once.The hermit thrush occurs only as a migrant, savefrom the Northern States and on. Its give-away point is that the tail is of a brighter reddish brownthan the back. The ohve-backed thrush is anotherrather common migrant, and has a dark olive-brownback, very different from the others. In the same rank with the wood thrush as thecommonest w^oodland birds belong the red-eyed vireoand the oven-bird. Both of these are very volublesingers. The former has been called * preacher because he talks so much, and the latter teacher because of a supposed propensity to repeat that word,louder and louder. The scarlet tanager is a wood-bird, though not averse to b

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