A Guide to the Birds of New England and Eastern New York; Containing a Key for Each Season and Short Descriptions of Over 250 Species, with Particular Reference to Their Appearance in the Field
A Guide to the Birds of New England and Eastern New York; Containing a Key for Each Season and Short Descriptions of Over 250 Species, with Particular Reference to Their Appearance in the Field
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ...brown; breast and sides rather narrowly streaked, the streaks often forming a spot in the centre; sides of the throat narrowly streaked: cheek washed with buff; bend of wing bay; outer pair of tail-feathers mostly white, the next partly white. Nest, in a depression in grass or under a clump of plants. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ...brown; breast and sides rather narrowly streaked, the streaks often forming a spot in the centre; sides of the throat narrowly streaked: cheek washed with buff; bend of wing bay; outer pair of tail-feathers mostly white, the next partly white. Nest, in a depression in grass or under a clump of plants. Eggs, dull white, buffy, or pinkish buffy, stained and speckled with reddish-brown. The Vesper Sparrow is a common summer resident of New York and New England, though absent, of course, in the heavily forested regions of northern New England. Even here it appears in the upper valleys as soon as clearings are made and grass-land becomes extensive. The Vesper Sparrow arrives in early April, and stays till the middle or end Fig. 51. Vesper Sparrow rf October. B frequents short-cropped pasture land, and the edges of cultivated fields. Here from a rock, a fence, or the limb of a tree, it sings its song, so often repeated toward evening that it has won for the bird its name. VESPER SPARROW. 173 Beginners have much difficulty in distinguishing the song of this sparrow from that of the Song Sparrow. The opening notes of the latter are very various, but are almost always three, rather brisk and high. Those of the Vesper Sparrow are two, low, long, and sweet; then after two higher notes the song runs off into a succession of trills, not musical in themselves, but aiding in giving the whole performance more dignity and sweetness than the Song Sparrow's livelier effort. The time is distinctly slower, and the whole number of notes greater than in the Song Sparrow's song. In certain regions the first of the opening notes is omitted, as in Berkshire County, Mass., and northern New England, or they are modified, as on Nantucket, where they resemble those of...
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