Excerpt from Foreign Birds for Cage and Aviary, Vol. 2: The Larger Foreign Birds This bird, in its change of plumage, vaguely resembles the Fire Weavers of Africa, but is larger and altogether feebler in colouring. When it first arrives in North America in the spring, it wanders about in small flocks, apparently consisting, of males only, the females probably being concealed in. The herbage. Even when paired these birds appear to be gregarious, many pairs building in the same meadow. The nest is built on the ground, ...
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Excerpt from Foreign Birds for Cage and Aviary, Vol. 2: The Larger Foreign Birds This bird, in its change of plumage, vaguely resembles the Fire Weavers of Africa, but is larger and altogether feebler in colouring. When it first arrives in North America in the spring, it wanders about in small flocks, apparently consisting, of males only, the females probably being concealed in. The herbage. Even when paired these birds appear to be gregarious, many pairs building in the same meadow. The nest is built on the ground, generally concealed by' grass and wild flowers in meadow-land; it is strongly formed of flexible bents, is shallow, and contains from five to six dull whitish eggs, marked with reddish-brown and lavender spots and blotches. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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