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Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Banta, Nathaniel Moore, 1867- Schneider, Albert, 1863- Higley, William Kerr, 1860-1908 Abbott, Gerard Alan
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: Chicago, American Audobon association
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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vening that this thrasherpours forth its song from some prominent and exposedperch. Then, as it were, with all care dismissed from itsmind, all the energy of its being is thrown into a hymn ofnature. By some this song is considered richer than thatof the mocking-birds, though the thrasher has but one air. Because of its short wings, the movements of thisthrasher are rather heavy. Its flights are short, and usuallyfrom bush to bush, while constantly opening and shuttingits tail. Its life is not confined to trees and shrubs, for itmoves easily on the ground, hopping rapidly, with accom-panying jerks of its tail. It is said that it will scratch inthe layer of old leaves under trees like a domestic fowlwhen hunting for its food. It prefers insect food, and sel-dom eats fruit of any kind, except when food of its choiceis scarce. Its favorite haunts seem to be the regions of scrubbyoak and greasewood brush of the deep mountain gorges.Here it builds its home, which is a coarse, widely con- f
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443 CAROLINA WREN. (Thryothorus ludovicianus About Liife-size. THRASHERS, WRENS, ETC. 427 structed platform of sticks, coarse grass, and mosses, withbut a very slight depression. Occasionally, however, nestsof this bird are more carefully and elaborately made. It isalways well hid in the low scrub bushes. Both the sexes assist in the care of the eggs, though themale, as befits the father of a family, usually standsguard over the nest, giving a quiet note of warning on theapproach of danger. CAROLINA WREN The Carolina Wren is found about the Great Lakesregion in hmited numbers. Their true summer home issouth of the central portions of Illinois and Indiana andsouth of Iowa to the Gulf and east to the Atlantic. Insouthern Illinois and Indiana they are abundant. They areresident except in the northern limit of their range. Thislargest eastern wren nests about dwellings, sheds, brush,fence corners, and fallen logs. They remain paired through-out the year and are endowed with happy disposit

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