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Title: Bird neighbors. An introductory acquaintance with one hundred and fifty birds commonly found in the gardens, meadows, and woods about our homes
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Blanchan, Neltje, 1865-1918
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: New York, Doubleday, Page & Co.
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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sons Thrush or Veery Wood Thrush Hermit Thrush Alices Thrush Olive-backed Thrush Louisiana Water Thrush Northern Water Thrush Flicker Meadowlark and Western MeadowlarkHorned Lark and Prairie Horned LarkPipit or TitlarkWhippoorwillNighthawkBlack-billed Cuckoo Yellow-billed CuckooBank Swallow and Rough-winged SwallowCedar BirdBrown CreeperPine Siskin Smiths Painted LongspurLapland LongspurChipping SparrowEnglish SparrowField SparrowFox SparrowGrasshopper SparrowSavanna SparrowSeaside SparrowSharp-tailed SparrowSong SparrowSwamp Song SparrowTree SparrowVesper SparrowWhite-crowned SparrowWhite-throated Sparrow See also winter plumage of the Bobolink, Goldfinch, and Myrtle Warbler. Seefemales of Red-winged Blackbird, Rusty Blackbird, the Crackles, Bobolink, Cow-bird, the Redpolls, Purple Finch, Chewink, Bluebird, Indigo Bunting, BaltimoreOriole, Cardinal, and of the Evening, the Blue, and the Rose-breasted Grosbeaks.See also Purple Finch, the Redpolls, Mourning Dove, Mocking-bird, Robin. \
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HOUSE WREN.Life-size. BROWN, OLIVE OR GRAYISH BROWN, ANDBROWN AND GRAY SPARROWY BIRDS House Wren (Troglodytes aedon) Wren family Length—4.5 to 5 inches. Actually about one-fourth smaller thanthe English sparrow; apparently only half as large becauseof its erect tail. Male and Female—Upper parts cinnamon-brown. Deepest shadeon head and neck; lightest above tail, which is more rufous.Back has obscure, dusky bars ; wings and tail are finelybarred. Underneath whitish, with grayish-brown wash andfaint bands most prominent on sides. Range—North America, from Manitoba to the Gulf. Most com-mon in the United States, from the Mississippi eastward.Winters south of the Carolinas. Migrations—April. October. Common summer resident. Early some morning in April there will go off under yourwindow that most delightful of all alarm-clocks—the tiny, friendlyhouse wren, just returned from a long visit south. Like somelittle mountain spring that, having been imprisoned by winterice, now bubbles

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