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Title: Bird studies for home and school; sixty common birds, their habits and haunts
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: De Groat, Herman C
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Buffalo, N. Y., Herman C. De Groat
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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by theparent birds is twelve to fifteen inches deep. The chips madein pecking out the hole form the nest. Eggs, white, four toseven, .85 x .60 inches. The Sapsucker is a common summer visitor in the North.After wintering in the Southern States from Virginia south-ward, it appears here in March and remains until October.None need fail to see it, for it is abundant in the country andit comes fearlessly into large cities whei^ even the noise of athousand children at play in a school yard will not frighten itaway. Like other Woodpeckers, it delights in grubs found intrees. Faithfully it will explore a tree, pecking away vigor-ously as it winds a spiral course from bottom to top. Then itwill fly away to other trees where it repeats the search over andover. It also feeds upon the sap of maple and birch trees. Itwill drill a hole through the bark of one of these trees whenthe sap is flowing and greedily drink it as it comes from thewound. Not content with tapping the tree once, it makes a 96
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fl.S YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER,>; Life-Size. patch or circle of holes about the tree to which it comes againand again to feast. It is this habit which has given the birdits name, Sapsucker. This is the only one of the Woodpeckersthat does any injury to the trees. The bird has no song, but frequently utters a harsh, snarl-ing cry to its companions as it flies from tree to tree. Whenalone it is usually silent. Most of these birds go into thelower Canadian Provinces to nest, hence they are moreabundant with us in spring and fall than in summer. BIRD NOTES 97 BARN SWALLOW The upper parts are steel blue; the forehead, throat andbreast chestnut; under parts paler; tail much forked and a rowof white spots on end of inner tail feathers. Length, seveninches. Nest, made of mud and grass and lined with grass orfeathers. Eggs, three to six, white, sornetimes having brownor lilac markings, .75 x .50 inches. Barn Swallows come out of the tropical countries in earlyspring and reach the North in Ap

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