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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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re you may meet with it in flocksalmost anywhere, even in the open woods. So social is it in its characterthat you see it at that season in company with the Song Sparrow, the White-throated, the Savannah, the Field, and almost every other species of thegenus. The sandy roads exposed to the suns rays are daily visited by it,where, among the excrement of horses and cattle, it searches for food, oramong the tall grasses of our old fields it seeks for seeds, small berries, andinsects of various kinds. Should the weather be cold it enters the barn-yard, and even presents itself in the piazza. It reaches Louisiana, theCarolinas, and other southern districts in November, and returns about themiddle of March to the Middle and Eastern States, where it breeds. Early in May the Chipping Sparrow has already formed its nest, whichit has placed indifferently in the apple or peach tree of the orchard or garden,in any evergreen bush or cedar, high or low, as it may best suit, but never XV 33 PI 16 5.
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