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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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bout twelve, which, on making a chirp something liketheir own call, came around me very familiarly, and kept up a most incessantand querulous chirping. The following season (April 1S3G) I saw numbersof these birds in the mountain thickets around Santa Barbara, in UpperCalifornia, where they again seemed untiringly employed in gleaning foodin the low bushes, picking up or catching their prey in all postures, some-times like the common Chickadee, head downwards, and letting no crannyor corner escape their unwearied search. As we did not see them in thewinter, they migrate in all probability throughout Mexico and the Californianpeninsula at this season. According to Mr. Townsend, the Chinooks name it a-ha-ke-lok. It isa constant resident about the Columbia river; hops about in the bushes, andfrequently hangs from the twigs in the manner of other Titmice, twitteringall the while with a rapid enunciation resembling the words thshish, tshist,tsee, twee. The irides are bright yellow. PI 130.
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0/f^^^U^^^U^^^^/^^/7U^^ /--M,U*. 2.ftl?,t.„A- ,///,/ ...fv;»/. CHESTNUT-CROWNED TITMOUSE. 161 Parus minimus, Chestnut-crowned Titmouse, Towns. Jour. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philadel-phia, vol. vii. p. 190.Chestnut-crowned Titmouse, Parus minimus, Aud. Orn. Biog., vol. iv. p. 382. ■ Adult Male. Bill short, strong, compressed; upper mandible with its outline arched,the sides sloping and convex; the edges sharp, the tip descending, acute,and considerably exceeding that of the lower; which has the angle short, thedorsal line ascending and very slightly convex, the edges sharp, the tipacute. Nostrils round, basal. Head rather large, broadly ovate, convex infront; neck short; body slender. Feet of moderate length, tarsus propor-tionally longer than in any other American species, stout, compressed, withseven anterior scutella, and two lateral plates, forming a very sharp edgebehind. Toes moderately stout, the first with its claw equal to the third,the anterior united as far as the first web. Cla

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