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Title: Useful birds and their protection. Containing brief descriptions of the more common and useful species of Massachusetts, with accounts of their food habits, and a chapter on the means of attracting and protecting birds
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Forbush, Edward Howe, 1858-1929 Massachusetts. State Board of Agriculture
Subjects: Birds Birds Zoology, Economic
Publisher: (Boston, Printed by Wright & Potter)
Contributing Library: Claire T. Carney Library, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Digitizing Sponsor: Claire T. Carney Library, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

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). Nest. — On ground in moist land. Eggs. — Large, buff-colored, with chocolate and stone-gray spots and markings. Season. — March to November; rare in winter. This favorite g-ame bird was once a common summer resi-dent of this State, but is now becoming rare in the breeding
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BIRDS OF FIELD AND GARDEN. 337 season. It feeds in low, swampy woodland, boring in themud for worms, and also in low pastures, where it destroysmany insects. In late summer it often goes to the uplands,where it feeds in cornfields, asparagus fields, fruit gardens,and pastures. At such times the bird may be seen amongtlie currant bushes or vegetables, where in early morning itfeeds with the Robins. When suddenly flushed it sometimesrises with a tremulous whistling sound, similar to that madeby the wings of the Mourning Dove. Although in summerit frequents fields, gardens, and pastures, it sometimes for-sakes them in very dry weather for the wooded shores ofponds or rivers. The Woodcock evidently feeds much atnight or during the dusk of morning and evening, whenit is almost always active. When startled in the daytimeit is normalh^ sluggish, and rises just over the tops of thebushes or undergrowth, flutters a short distance, and alights ;but late in the fall a strong bird that has been h

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