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Title: The Oölogist for the student of birds, their nests and eggs
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Lattin, Frank H
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: Albion, N.Y. : Frank H. Lattin
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ck of the S. S. Italic boundfor Vevey. I could hear the voices ofthe birds back in the valley, growing NEW SUBSCRIBERS:—A numberof our readers answered our requestin the Maj issue and sent in one ormore new subscribers each. This isthe kind of support that will keepTHE OOLOGIST up to its presenthigh standard. Why cannot each onego and do likewise? You can if youWILL. THE OOLOGIST 81 Notes On Four European Members ofThe Genus Baeolophus.Parus Major, Great Titmouse.Head and throat black; cheeks and apatch on the uaple white; back, rumpand tail coverts olive green; scapu-lars dark olive green; primaries andsecondaries bluish black, outlinedwith bluish white; shoulder bright side my window and here they find anabtindance of food. The song is sub-ject to great variation, indeed, I donot ever remember watching a flockof this species without hearing somenew variation of their usual SeetiralSeetiral Seetira! or their inhospi-table Git-a-long! Git-a-long! Git!In summer the Great Tit is to be
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No. 42 Nest of Black headed Gull in Valley of the Rhone, Apr. 4, 1910.Photo by Paul G. Howes. blue; one white wing bar; tail feathersdusky, the outer ones partly white; un-der parts bright yellow, divided in thecenter by a black line from chin tovent. Length six inches. Resident. The Great Tit is the largest of thetribe as well as the commonest hereat Vevey. Hordes of them make dailyvisits to the cypress trees just out- sought in the heavily wooded sectionsof the country where it builds itsnest of moss, fibers and feathers, plac-ing it in cavities in trees or holes inold walls. The six to eight eggs arewhite, specked and blotched with red-dish-brown. , Parus britannlcus, Coal Titmouse.Head, throat and center of neck 82 THE OOLOGIST black; ear coverts, sides of neck andnape white; back greyish; wings grey-ish with two white cross bars; tailsmoky grey; underparts yellowishwhite. Length four and one-halfinches. Resident. Although the Coal Tit is said to bewidely distributed throughout Sw

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