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Title: Birds that hunt and are hunted: life histories of one hundred and seventy birds of prey, game birds and water-fowls
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Blanchan, Neltje
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: New York, Doubleday, Page & company
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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eard at a distance of only a few yards, says Brewster, it hasa vibrating, almost unearthly quality, and seems to issue fromthe ground directly beneath ones feet. The female, whenanxious about her eggs or young, calls ki-ki-ki in low tones, andkiu much like a flicker. The young of both sexes in autumngive, when startled, a short, explosive kep or kih, closely similarto that of the Carolina rail. Still another sound is a successionof pig-like grunts, made early in the morning, late in the after-noon, or in cloudy weather. Confusing as are the notes of thedifferent rails, they must be learned if one is to know the shyskulkers, that, unlike a good child, are so much more often heardthan seen. Sora (Por\ana Carolina) Calledaho: CAROLINA RAIL, OR CRAKE; COMMON RAIL;ORTOLAN; SOREE; MUD HEN Length—8 to 9.50 inches. Male and Female^ Above., olive brown varied with black andgray; front of head, stripe on crown, and line on throat,black; side of head and breast ashy gr?v or slate; sides of 180
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Rails, Gallinules, Coots breast spotted with white; flanks barred slate and white;belly white. (Nuttall.) Bill stout and short (.75 of an inchlong). Immature birds have brown breast, no black on head,and a white throat. Range—Temperate North America; more abundant on the Atlanticthan the Pacific slope. Nests from Kansas, Illinois, and NewYork northward to Hudson Bay; winters from our southernstates to West Indies and northern South America. Season—Common summer resident at the north; winter residentsouth of Nofarther north south of North Carolina; sometimes in sheltered marshes Where flocks of bobolinks (transformed by a heavy moult intothe streaked brown reed birds of the south) congregate to feedupon the wild rice or oats in early autumn, sportsmen bag thesoras also by tens of thousands annually, both of these misnamedortolans coming into market in September and October, bywhich time the soras pitifully small, thin body has acquired theonly fat it ever boasts. As thin as a rail

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