This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 Excerpt: ...and mid-August sees them begin their long journey southward. In the marshes of the Middle states they are known as Reed birds, and farther south, where the rice grows, they are known as Ricebirds. The Bobolink in size is about halfway between the English Sparrow and Robin. In spring plumage the tops and sides of head, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 Excerpt: ...and mid-August sees them begin their long journey southward. In the marshes of the Middle states they are known as Reed birds, and farther south, where the rice grows, they are known as Ricebirds. The Bobolink in size is about halfway between the English Sparrow and Robin. In spring plumage the tops and sides of head, wings, and tail of the male are black, Bobolinks, Male And Female. with patches of light yellow on the neck, edges of wings, and tail. The rump and shoulders are white. The under parts are black, and the tail feathers have pointed tips. The autumn plumage of the male resembles that of the female; the upper parts are olive-brown, streaked with light buff on back, wings, and tail. The head has two distinct stripes of black on the crown. The nest of coarse grass, lined with fine grass, is usually built on the ground, and the five or six eggs are grayish white with irregular spots of olive-brown. They nest from New Jersey to Nova Scotia and westward to Utah, wintering in South America. Because of their long migratory journey they are late arrivals, appearing during the early part of May. Red-winged Blackbird.--From the alders that fringe the shallow pool at the brook's mouth, comes a ringing song that always gives me pleasure, the harda-lee of the Redwinged Blackbird. His nest is in the bushes on a little island in the middle of the pool, so that one needs wading boots or a boat to get to it. There Red-winged Blackuird. his mate, dressed in a very plain suit of rusty black, is carefully attending to the light green eggs with odd black markings, as though a schoolboy had scrawled upon them with a sharpened stick dipped in bad ink. What a pleasing contrast to the glossy black coat are the bright red epaulets on his shoulders, with their margins of c...
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Add this copy of Birds Through the Year to cart. $12.50, good condition, Sold by Sapsucker Books rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Grafton, VT, UNITED STATES, published 1910.
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Very Good Minus. No Jacket. 8vo. Hard cover. Published Cincinnati: American Book Co, 1910. 8vo., 5 1/4" x 7 1/2." 260 pages, illustrated throughout with b/w photos, drawings. Decorative yellow cloth with blue geese and clouds. Soiling and foxing spots to covers, spine bit faded, name on f.l. Very good minus.
