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Identifier: wisconsinbirdstu1906mitc (find matches)
Title: Wisconsin bird-study bulletin
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Mitchell, I. N Mitchell, I. N., Mrs Barnett, Maud
Subjects: Birds Bird watching
Publisher: Madison : C.P. Cary, State Superintendent
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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front seats at the dis-tribution but that their serious minds were opposed to music as beingfrivolous, in fact, that when they assumed the Quaker garb, they ac-cepted also, as the Quakers did, the injunction, Let your communica-tion be Yea, yea; Nay, nay. At all events, these brief expressionsuttered in a thin, high-pitched, nasal whistle are their whole stock inconversational trade. Sitting in a treetop one after another whistles his faint little nay,naj^ that may be heard hardly more than two hundred feet. Sud-denly the flock takes wing and they send forth, almost in chorus, arapid succession of yea, yea, yeas. The Bohemian waxwing is found sparingly in Wisconsin in winter.It is most frequent in the northern part and along the region border-ing Lake Michigan. The colors and markings are very similar to those of the cedarwaxwing but the bird is noticeably larger. * The Wild Strawberry in Fishermans Luck by Henry Van Dyke.■\ Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America, F. M. Chapman.
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95 YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER. 402. Sphirapicus varius. (Linn.) g Life-size. COPYRfGHT 1900, BV A. W. MUMFORO, CHICAGO WISCONSIN BIRD-STUDY BULLETIN. 19 YELLOAV-BELLIED SAPSUCKER, YELLOW-BELLIEDWOODPECKER. iSummer resident throughout the state except the very soutiternpart; length eight and one-half inches; sexes much alike; nest a deepcavity in a tree trunk^ the bottom softened with fine chips; eggs fiveto i,even. A.S shown in the cut, the striking features of the male sapsuckerare the bright scarlet on crown and throat, the double band, black andwhite, bordering the throat patch and the long white bar on the sideof the wing. The females throat is white and the crown is some-times black. How well this woodpecker shows the marks of his family! His posi-tion on the tree says—woodpecker; his strong sharp, pick-axe-like billsays-—woodpecker; his toes—two in front and two behind—say wo> vd-))pcker, and even his tail with its stiff feathers braced against the barkfor a support tel

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