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Identifier: cu31924022527000 (find matches)
Title: Bird-life: a guide to the study of our common birds
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945 Seton, Ernest Thompson, 1860-1946
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN
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Wai-bling, 165. White-eyed, 165. Yellow-throated, 165.Vireos, 6, 55,163.Vireonidas, 163.Vulture, Black, 103. Turkey, 103.Vultures, 8. Warbler, Black and White, 167. Black-throated Green, 168. Myrtle, 168. Yellow, 168.Warblers, 6, 42, 55, 166.Waxwing, Cedar, 161.Whip-poor-will, 6,119.Widgeon, 89. Wing, the, as a musical instrument,23. as a weapon, 24. effects of use and disuse of, 18, 20 expression of emotion with, 24. molt of feathers of, 21. sexual characters in, 23. Wing, uses of, 17.Winter residents, defined, 53.Woodcock, 23, 32, 43, 95.Woodhewers, 15, 25, 32.Woodpeolicr, Downy, 16,115. Hairy, 115. Pileated, 14. Ked-headed, 116.Woodpeckers, 5, 6, 8,14,15,16, 25, 30, 64, 67, 69, 114.Wren, Carolina, 177. House, 175. Long-billed Marsh, 177. Winter, 176.Wrens, 55,173.Wrybill, 33. Yellowbird, 148.Yellow-haramer, 116. Yellow-throat, Maryland, 171.Young birds, 70.Yucker, 116. Zamelodia ludoviciana, 150.Zenaidura macroura, 102.Zonotricliia albicollis, 143.Zonotrichia leucophrys, 144. 14 .
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Plate XOI. TYPES OF BIRDS EGGS. 1.—Oven-Bird (ovate; spotted and wi-eathed). 2.—House Wren (ovate;minutely speckled). 3.—Wood Pewee (ovate ; blotched and weathed).4.—Hummingbird (elliptical ; white, unmarked). 5.—Crested Fly-catcher (elliptical-ovate ; streaked). 6.—Sparrow Hawk (spherical;washed, spotted and blotched). 7..—Cowbird (ovate; evenly speckled and spotted). 8.—Cedar Waxwing (elongate-ovate ; spotted). 9 Nighthawk (elliptical ; mottled and marbled). 10.—Bobolink (ovate ;spotted and blotched). 11.—Semipalmatcd Sandpiper (pyriform ;spotted). 12.—Purple Grackle (ovate ; scrawled). APPENDIX. FOR THE USE OF TEACHEES. PREFACE TO TEACHERS APPENDIX. While the time available for zoological studies inour schools is too limited to permit of more than thetreatment in outline of most of the classes of ani-mals, the fact is now recognized that birds possessunusual claims to our attention. They are practi-cally the only ones of the higher animals with whichwe may com
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