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Title: The birds of New England and adjacent states : containing descriptions of the birds of New England, and adjoining states and provinces, arranged by a long-approved classification and nomenclature ... with illustrations of many species of the birds, accurate figures of their nests and eggs
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Samuels, Edward Augustus, 1836-1908
Subjects: Birds -- New England Birds -- Nests
Publisher: Boston : Noyes, Holmes, and company
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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HaIKV WUOUI-KCKF.K, Pici,< cil/oSUS. Lir,.KlU. THE DOWNY WOODPECKER. 89 Btrikes its object with both feet, and makes no discrimina-tion between a horizontal branch or limb and a perpendicularone. It commences its biiilding operations quite early, oftenby the 20tli of April. The nest is made by excavating inold trees in the woods, rarely in orchards: the hole made isoften as much as eighteen inches in depth, in some caseshardly five inches. A post in a fence is sometimes takenfor a breeding-place, the hole in which the rail is insertedfurnishing a starting-place for the excavation of the nest. The eggs are usually five in number; seldom more, oftenless: they are of a beautiful clear-white color, and the shellis very smooth and rather thin; and, before the contents ofthe egg are removed, they impart a rosy tint to it. Speci-mens vary in size from .77 to .84 inch in length, by from62 to .68 inch in breadth. The nest is never lined with leaves or other soft materials,so far as my obser

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  • bookyear:1875
  • bookdecade:1870
  • bookcentury:1800
  • bookauthor:Samuels__Edward_Augustus__1836_1908
  • booksubject:Birds____New_England
  • booksubject:Birds____Nests
  • bookpublisher:Boston___Noyes__Holmes__and_company
  • bookcontributor:American_Museum_of_Natural_History_Library
  • booksponsor:Biodiversity_Heritage_Library
  • bookleafnumber:116
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