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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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tation that have proved acceptable to the wrens. There seems to be a family feud between the wrens and bluebirds.If, therefore, the bluebirds are already established on the premises,it would be wise to place the w^ren box as far away as possible; eventhen the bluebird may drive the wren to a neighboring yard. This is more likely to happen in the spring before the vines andleaves offer the wren good hiding places. The wren is probably the cause of this ill feeling. He can notresist the temptation to enter every hole he finds. He has a passionfor house cleaning or for mischief, maybe for both. He slips intothe boxes of the bluebirds and swallows and thro\A^s out their nest-ing material, not for use in his own nest, but apparently just forfun. He will bring bit after bit, feather after feather to thedoorw^ay and flirt it out. With head tilted to one side he watches,with apparent pleasure, the bit or feather fall or float away. No wonder that the bluebird does not wish him for a neighbor.
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56 BALTIMORE ORIOLE. 507. Icterus galbula. (Linn.) y^ Life-size. COPYRIGHT 1900, BY WISCONSIN BIRD^STUDY BULLETIN. BALTIMORE ORIOLE, FIRE BIRD, HANG-NEST. Abundant summer resident; length seven and one-half inches;sexes unlike; nest a deep, hanging pocket woven of strings, hair, grass,plant fibers at or near the end of a branch; favorite tree, the elm;eggs four to six. The bright, flaming orange body with the black head, neck andback of this bird make him an easy mark for the beginner. Thefemale is harder to know, because her colors are less bright. Theback is a rusty orange; the under parts a dull orange; the head andback are mottled with black. The oriole flashes into the landscape of the southern half of Wis-consin in the first week of May. It is then that we turn to LowellsUnder the Willows: Hush! t is he !My oriole, my glance of sununer flre. Is come at last, and ever on the watch.Twitches the pack-thread I had lightly woundAbout the bough to help his housekeeping^—Heave^ Jio!

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