Identifier: birdsofamericafr02audu (find matches)
Title: The birds of America : from drawings made in the United States and their territories
Year: 1840 (1840s)
Authors: Audubon, John James, 1785-1851 Bowen, John T., ca. 1801-1856?, lithographer
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: New York : Published by J.J. Audubon Philadelphia : J.B. Chevalier
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nce of those drearysolitudes. The present species seems of that family, or subdivision, of theWarblers, that approach the Flycatchers, darting after flies wherever theysec them, and also searching with great activity among the leaves. Its songwas a feeble screep, three or four times repeated. This species is four inches and three-quarters in length; the upper partsa rich yellow-olive; front, cheeks, and chin yellow; also the sides of theneck; breast and belly pale yellow, streaked with black or dusky; vent plainpale yellow; wings black; first and second row of coverts broadly tippedwith pale yellowish-white, tertials the same; the rest of the quills edged witliwhitish; tail black, handsomely rounded, edged with pale olive; the twoexterior feathers on each side white on the inner vanes from the middle tothe tips, and edged on the outer side with white; bill dark brown, legs andfeet purple-brown; soles yellow; eye dark hazel. This was a male. The female I have never seen. N°2 0 PI. 9 9
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$Identifier: birdsnature111902chic (find matches) Title: Birds and nature Year: 1900 (1900s) Authors: Subjects: Birds Natural history Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : A.W. Mumford, Publisher Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: s the bird indulges in a continu-ous warble that is really enchanting. Ithas, too, a musical chatter and a prettytrilled whistle. In Mr. Keysers experience the songwas varied and lively, sometimes runninghigh in the scale, and had not that ab-sentyminded air which marks the rounde-lay of the warbling vireo. It is muchmore intense and expressive. Mr. Brewer describes the song as aprolonged and very peculiar ditty, re-peated at frequent intervals and alwaysidentical. It begins with a lively andpleasant warble, of a gradually ascendingscale, which at a certain pitch suddenlybreaks down into a falsetto note. Thesong then rises again in a single note andceases. The notes of the female suggest to Mr.Burroughs the bleating of a tiny lamb-kin. To Mr. Nuttall its song seems tobe intermediate between that of the red-eyed and the yellow-breasted species,having the *preai, prcai, of the latter andthe fine variety of the former in itstones. To all the music of the Solitary\irc() is (lclici(^ns. so Text Appearing After Image: FROM COL. CHI. ACAD SCIENCES 465 BLUE-HEADED VIREO (Vireo solitarius.) Vs Life-size. COPYRISHT 1902, BY A. W. MUMFORD, BOOK AND MRS, OYSTER At the death of his dear mother httleWilHs went from his western farm hometo stay for a few years with his AuntJennie in an eastern seaport town. One day she had oysters in the shellfor dinner. As his parents had wiselytried to keep his eyes and ears keen inregard to common things, he was full ofquestions. His aunt told him that the next timeshe bought live oysters she would givehim some to watch and study. Only afew weeks later she was expecting com-pany to dinner and had a chance to keepher word. Fill this with water, said she, givinghim a plain glass fruit dish, and putyour oyster in it. But, said Willis, oysters live in seawater, which is salty. Yes; they do live in sea water. Inorder to grow and thrive they must havevegetable and mineral substances foundin sea water. But they can live in freshwater. Oystermen make a practice ofmoving them fro Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.$