File:The Oölogist for the student of birds, their nests and eggs (1914) (14565533217).jpg

Identifier: ologistforstud311914latt (find matches)
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
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
eep, percheep, aslong as you continue near jthe nest.The males are usually more ;wary andkeep some distance off, seldom ap-proaching closer than a hundred feetof you, and then keeping pretty wellhid in the tops of the nearby trees.While being such close sitters, I havelound it almost impossible to get apicture of the bird on the nest owingto their situations. Most nests that Ihave found would average ten to fif-teen feet above the stream, and insuch a position on the face of the cliffsthat they were scarcely less difficult toget at than their near neighbors, theWestern Flycatchers, and Black Phoe-bes; but unlike these, in that theirnests are never visible until you partthe ferns and dripping grasses abovethem. Four eggs are the rule, al-though I have found them incubatedwith three, and in one instance, withfive, which all hatch. The adults could often be seen feed-ing in the underbrush and along thehillsides, scratching among the leavesand rotten bark, much as the Towhees THE OOLOGIST
Text Appearing After Image:
Nesting site of Thurbers Junco —Photo by C. D. Hagner THE OOLOGIST 227

Note About Images