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Title: The birds of America : from drawings made in the United States and their territories
Year: 1840 (1840s)
Authors: Audubon, John James, 1785-1851 Bowen, John T., ca. 1801-1856?, lithographer
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: New York : Published by J.J. Audubon Philadelphia : J.B. Chevalier
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ly allied tothe Wood Pewee, and the Small Green Crested Flycatcher, that the mostcareful inspection is necessary to establish the real differences existing be-tween these three species. Its notes, however, are perfectly different, as are,in some measure, its habits, as well as the districts in which it resides. The notes of Traills Flycatcher consist of the sounds luheet, wheet, whichit articulates clearly while on wing. It resides in the skirts of the woodsalong the prairie lands of the Arkansas river. When leaving the top branchesof a low tree, this bird takes long flights, skimming in zigzag lines, passingclose over the tops of the tall grasses, snapping at and seizing differentspecies of winged insects, and returning to the same trees to alight. Itsnotes, I observed, were uttered when on the point of leaving the branch.The pair chased the insects as if acting in concert, and doubtless had a nestin the immediate neighbourhood, although I was unable to discover it. It N?.13. PI 6 5.
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