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. 1840 edition. Excerpt: ...Finch, Fringilla purpurea, is not an uncommon bird in this and more northern regions. Some of them pass the breeding season here; the greater number keep on toward the British provinces, where they spend the summer, and return to the south about the time when the leaves fall. At that season their food ...
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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. 1840 edition. Excerpt: ...Finch, Fringilla purpurea, is not an uncommon bird in this and more northern regions. Some of them pass the breeding season here; the greater number keep on toward the British provinces, where they spend the summer, and return to the south about the time when the leaves fall. At that season their food consists of insects and berries; when these cannot be had, they eat the seeds and sometimes the buds of trees. The crimson linnet, as it is sometimes called, has a rich and varied warble, clear as the softest tones of a flute. It sings not easily and unconsciously, like the sweet vireo, which it resembles, but more with the air of a performer, and as if it knew that some one Avas standing still to listen. It runs through various changes, with great rapidity and skill, and seems to challenge all the feathered tribes, to rival its admirable song. General Dearborn was the first to discover the nest of this bird in Massachusetts. It was built on the low branch of a balsam fir, with the outside covered with lichens. Mr. Cabot and Dr. Brewer have also found them; but the number of those that remain with us at that season, must be small. The Pine Grosbeak, Pyrrhula enucleator, is an inhabitant of cold regions, and comes to us at irregular intervals, either in winter or when that season is nigh. Professor Emmons tells me that they were common near Williamstown, in the autumn of 1836, which was unusually gloomy and cold. They are splendid birds, but so great strangers here, that they hardly merit a description. The Common Crossbill, Loxia cvrvirostra, belongs to northern regions, and comes to us during the winter, in search of food. It delights in the seeds of evergreens, and makes use of its singular bill to extract them, holding the cones in its...
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