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Identifier: wisconsinbirdstu1906mitc (find matches)
Title: Wisconsin bird-study bulletin
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Mitchell, I. N Mitchell, I. N., Mrs Barnett, Maud
Subjects: Birds Bird watching
Publisher: Madison : C.P. Cary, State Superintendent
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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rtunityto use the same, and to study the colored plates, which are particularlyvaluable in teaching ready recognition of the birds. Records should be kept showing the arrival and departure of thedifterent birds. Pupils should be encouraged to observe the birds andto talk about what they have seen. They should also be encouragedto keep note books showing the resnlts of observation. Before the close of the coming summer each pupil should be able torecogTiize easily such of the birds included in this pamphlet, as arecommon to his neighborhood, and should also have acquired a consider-able knowledge of their habits and economic value. This bulletin will be followed by other similar bulletins, so that inthe course of a few years the youth of Wisconsin may be familiar mththe majority of the birds in the state. The series should be carefullypreserved. The descriptions contained herein are entirely the work of Mr. andMrs. T. N. Mitchell, Milwaukee, Wis., to whom grateful thanks are due. M. B.
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86 HOUSE WREN. 721. Troglodytes aedon. (Vieill.) Life-sjze. MFOHD, CHrCAGO W^isconsin Bird-Study Bulletin. HOUSE WREN. Abundant summer resident; length five inches; sexes alike; nesi oftwigs lined with grasses or feathers, in vines about buildings or in ahole or box; eggs five to eight; broods two or three; song a strongcheery warble. The robin, bluebird and tree-swallow have settled down to theirhousekeeping by the time this little brown sprite makes his appear-ance and begins to look around for a cozy nook or hole or box. He generally comes in full song and that morning is a happy onethat hears his joyous warble for the first time. To the grown-up thisfirst spring song of the wren is much the same as the first snow-fallto the child. What a singer this busy little body is! From early in the morningtill dusk he repeats his short but whole-souled warble. The restsbetween songs are about as long—or short as the song itself, so thismusical mite is singing about half of the time. The rowisconsinbirdstu1906mitc

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