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The Birds of America, Vol. 6

art by John James Audubon, 1785-1851 (New York, NY: J.J. Audubon (Publisher), 1843), 457 page(s)

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Birds of America

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P7-N3035D_text":"Birds of America ...

This bird is the largest of the genus found in North America. The ...

on the Atlantic coast of North America. The birds there are more ...

plate, and few, even of the younger birds, were without some of the markings ...

to say; but their range over North America is known to be very extensive, as ...

This bird exhibits at times a manner of feeding which appeared to me ...

bills perpendicularly. The latter bird also seizes many sorts of insects, ...

The flight of this bird is rapid, strong, and remarkably well-sustained. ...

boys, on meeting a mother bird in vain attempting to preserve her dear ...

form. The former is a much gentler bird than the latter, and although both ...

Pigeon, various Grakles, and other birds. This the Snipe, I believe, has ...

bird may be found in every district of the Union that affords ...

way to their breeding places, these birds, although they migrate singly, ...

from the cry of that bird, and somewhat resembling the word ...

reaches your ear. This over, the bird jerks its half-spread tail, then ...

I observed the bird that had uttered the call immediately caress the one ...

I remained I did not see the old bird, and what became of them I know not. ...

" or dock. I see its large dark eye meeting my glance; the bird shrinks ...

started a bird, which with easy flaps flies before you in such a way that if ...

parts at the base of the mandibles, I concluded that the bird has the power ...

was placed beneath the level of the bird, by the whole height of the tub, ...

that the elevated position of this bird's eye was probably intended to ...

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Genus VI. Scolopax. Snipe

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plate, and few, even of the younger birds, were without some of the markings ...

to say; but their range over North America is known to be very extensive, as ...

This bird exhibits at times a manner of feeding which appeared ...

The flight of this bird is rapid, strong, and remarkably well-sustained. ...

, which often happens, for these birds seldom suffer any of their species to ...

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Genus IX. — Himantopus, Briss. Stilt

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of bayous in company with other birds. They were much more shy than they ...

have described the habits of this bird, allege that it walks with a " ...

America of any other species than that above described ...

Genus X. — Numenius, Briss. Curlew

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respecting the Curlews of North America, hardly one of these birds ...

This bird is the largest of the genus found in North America. The ...

about noon. After shooting various birds, examining the island, and ...

here formed the horizon; and we saw the birds making their first appearance ...

seemed to be the birds which we had observed near the salt-marshes, as we ...

their place of rest, called the "Bird Banks," and were seen to alight ...

. But when we followed them to the Bird Banks, which are sandy islands of ...

Rambling birds of this species are sometimes seen as far as the ...

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Genus I. — Ardea, Linn. Heron

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time, look at my plate of this bird. I think, however, that our endeavours ...

drawing, he came in with two young birds alive, and another lying dead in a ...

had previously seen. The two living birds were of a beautiful white, ...

trampled to death by the parent birds ten or twelve days before, the body ...

for and came up; on which the birds rose partially on their legs, ruffled ...

possessed of so much courage. These birds were left under the charge of Mrs ...

between Indian Key and Key West, I saw many birds of this species, some ...

hopeless, for, although other birds occurred, we had determined to shoot ...

fired at once. The bird came down dead. It proved to be a female, which had ...

, rather exhausted, and having a solitary bird. Mr. Egan and I had been most ...

month before, when, as he said, the birds were "sitting hard." He asked if I ...

tide, for the birds had gone to their feeding grounds ...

large bird, and distinctly heard the shot strike it. The Heron merely ...

boats joined us. Mr. Egan had one bird, the Captain another, and both ...

occasions I procured fifteen more birds, and judging that number sufficient ...

told me that incubation continues about thirty days, that both birds sit ...

. It is truly surprising that a bird of so powerful a flight never visits ...

, I took with me two young birds that had been consigned to the care of my ...

the two species, for the white birds would not be reconciled to the blue, ...

kept for about a year one of these birds, which he raised from the nest, ...

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Genus I. — Ardea, Linn. Heron

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the birds of this family. Their contours and movements are always graceful, ...

is the scene! The tread of the tall bird himself no one hears, so carefully ...

bird, so motionless is it. But now, he moves; he has taken a silent step, and ...

very bases of the Rocky Mountains. It is a hardy bird ...

Extremely suspicious and shy, this bird is ever on the look-out ...

only that these birds ...

in their full beauty, and no young birds seem to be among them. The males ...

and, although I have watched these birds for half an hour at a time as they ...

these birds find it easy to procure food in great abundance. There the Blue ...

time when these birds breed, the effluvia being extremely injurious to ...

your gun at one of the numerous birds that are breeding high over head, ...

to speak to him. The frightened birds cross each other confusedly in their ...

these birds lay is three, and in no instance have I found more. Indeed, this ...

of the old birds appear at times to be insufficient to satisfy ...

devours frogs, lizards, snakes, and birds, as well as small quadrupeds, such ...

young Marsh-Hens, Rails, and other birds; but I never saw one catch a ...

among the entrails of the poor bird. How long it had suffered could only be ...

risk is so much the greater that birds of this species ...

beauty of the bird is gone for the season ...

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Genus I. — Ardea, Linn. Heron

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by regular flappings, as in other birds of the tribe. When they have ...

be distinguished from the old birds. The legs and feet are at first of a ...

these birds are frequently seen standing on floating logs, busily engaged in ...

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(New York, NY: J.J. Audubon (Publisher), 1844), 246 page(s)

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Genus I. — Cathartes, Illiger. Turkey-Vulture

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in this way, although these birds were numerous in the immediate vicinity ...

unclean birds of the country, such as the present ...

Cathartes californianus, Aud. Birds of Am., pl. 426; Orn. Biog., vol. v. p. ...

Genus I. — Cathartes, Illiger. Turkey-Vulture

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of many species of Heron and other birds. In the Floridas, I have, when ...

They also eat birds of their own species, when they find them dead. They are ...

I have found birds of this species apparently very old, with the upper parts ...

in full plumage, along with a young bird, procured in the autumn of its ...

in birds. That the nasal passages must be subservient to some other purpose ...

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Family II. Falconinæ. Falconine Birds

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Buteo Harrisii, Aud., Birds of America, pl. 392; Ornithol. Biog., ...

Falco Harlani, Aud. Birds of America, pl. 136 ...

Falco Washingtoni, Aud. Birds of America, pl. ii.; Orn. Biog., vol ...

is a rank coward: the little King Bird, not bigger than a Sparrow, attacks ...

P18-N304DB_text":"Family II. Falconinæ. Falconine Birds ...

I crawled, and went as near to the bird as I possibly could; but finding ...

to observe its attitudes. The bird did not notice me; he stood on a lump of ...

legs, eyes, and even the plumage of birds, when looking on imitations which ...

when the bird was quite recent, was of a bright yellow. The bird ...

one; and being acquainted with birds only through the medium of skins and ...

its very ample wings, is one of the very slowest birds; for, although ...

the air, as birds of much shorter ... been considered as a bird ...

bird as one of the slowest and heaviest of its tribe; and would place next in ...

All these birds are more or less indolent; one might say they are destitute ...

the attention of the American ornithologist, is that composed of such birds ...

some degree allied to them, though it is by no means a bird of rapid flight ...

its prey, which consists both of birds and small quadrupeds, as well as ...

in their progress on wing. None of these birds ever pounce on their prey ...

Pigeon is rapid and protracted almost beyond belief, aided as this bird ...

other birds of prey ...

These birds are probably the most highly organized of the series. Their ...

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Genus II. — Buteo, Bechst. Buzzard

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Buteo Harrisii, Aud., Birds of America, pl. 392; Ornithol. Biog., ...

one; and being acquainted with birds only through the medium of skins and ...

its very ample wings, is one of the very slowest birds; for, although ...

universally been considered as a bird of most extraordinary powers of ...

bird as one of the slowest and heaviest of its tribe; and would place next in ...

All these birds ...

, is that composed of such birds as are provided with longer and almost ...

some degree allied to them, though it is by no means a bird of rapid flight ...

its prey, which consists both of birds and small quadrupeds, as well as ...

in their progress on wing. None of these birds ever pounce on their prey ...

Pigeon is rapid and protracted almost beyond belief, aided as this bird ...

other birds of prey ...

These birds are probably the most highly organized of the series. Their ...

they give chase to the swiftest birds, and not unfrequently overtake and ...

the Red-wings, Rice Birds, and other small migratory species, with a ...

The group of our American birds of prey of which the species differ most ...

else than a very large and clumsy Tern, for like most birds of that group ...

wading after them, will also attack birds and quadrupeds of various species ...

prosecuting my examination of our birds, merits this compliment as an ...

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Genus II. — Buteo, Bechst. Buzzard

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Falco Harlani, Aud. Birds of America, pl. 136 ...

few days afterwards I saw the male bird perched on the same tree, but was ...

I was told that the young birds appeared to be of a leaden-gray colour at a ...

Genus II. — Buteo, Bechst. Buzzard

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thousands of birds to pass without pursuing them. The greatest feat I have ...

friend Mr. Swainson considered our bird in its immature plumage, in which ...

: — "A specimen of this bird, in most perfect plumage, was killed in ...

. It is by no means an uncommon bird in the districts through which the ...

legs, and habits, this bird bears some resemblance to the Owls. It flies ...

Sancti-Johannis, Bonap. Synops. of Birds of the United States, p. 32 ...

case in the young and middle aged birds, and is not a circumstance peculiar ...

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Genus IV. — Haliaetus, Savigny. Sea-Eagle

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Falco Washingtoni, Aud. Birds of America, pl. ii.; Orn. Biog., vol ...

trade. He was a man of much intelligence, and, perceiving that these birds ...

me. My patroon assured me that such birds were indeed rare; that they ...

Convinced that the bird was unknown to naturalists, I felt particularly ...

that neither the old nor the young birds of that species ever build in such ...

before, and had seen one of the old birds dive and catch a fish. This he ...

soon satisfy myself, as the old birds would come and feed their young with ...

largest), we knew this to be the mother bird. She ...

view of obtaining both the old and young birds; but rainy and tempestuous ...

for this new species of Eagle, "The Bird of Washington," may, by some, be ...

of the feathered tribe. If America has reason to be proud of her Washington ...

The flight of this bird is very different from that of the White-headed ...

same. When rising with a fish, the Bird of Washington flies to a ...

of seeing this bird was on the 15th of November, 1821, a few miles above the ...

of viewing one of those magnificent birds which you call the Sea-Eagle, as ...

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Genus III. — Ectopistes, Swains. Long-Tailed Dove

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, or, as it is usually named in America, the Wild Pigeon, moves with extreme ...

Parrot and a few other species of birds, breaks the force of its flight by ...

and powerful for the size of the bird. When an individual is seen gliding ...

to see it again, the eye searches in vain; the bird is gone ...

, the angles, curves, and undulations that have been described by the birds ...

of azure, when the backs of the birds come simultaneously into view, and ...

the midst of large piles of these birds. The dung lay several inches deep, ...

proved to me that the number of birds resorting to this part of the forest ...

of a close-reefed vessel. As the birds arrived and passed over me, I felt a ...

ground, destroyed hundreds of the birds beneath, forcing down the dense ...

, I saw congregated flocks of these birds as numerous as ever I had seen ...

and affection displayed by these birds towards their mates, are in the ...

this peaceful scene. As the young birds grow up, their enemies, armed with ...

above; in other words, the old bird introduces its bill into the mouth of ...

As soon as the young birds are able to shift for themselves, they leave ...

In March 1830, I bought about 350 of these birds in the market of New ...

This celebrated bird is mentioned by Dr. Richardson as "annually reaching ...

parts of the United States, these birds now no longer breed in communities ...

and white. There is frequently but one young bird in the nest, probably from ...

be attributed to a habit which the bird may be supposed to have of throwing ...

has raised a great number of these birds, and has distributed them freely. ...

search of food throughout all parts of North America. Wonderfully abundant ...

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Family XXXI. — Perdicinæ. Partridges

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The common name given to this bird in the Eastern and Middle Districts of ...

The flight of these birds is generally performed at a short distance from ...

is peculiar to the male bird. A fancied similarity to the words ...

These birds are easily caught in snares, common dead-falls, traps and pens, ...

, riding along the fences or briar-thickets, which the birds are known ...

the birds. In this manner, fifteen or twenty Partridges are caught ...

This bird has been introduced into various parts of Europe, but is not much ...

of some attempts to domesticate this bird made by my friend Dr. Bachman ...

my experiment, took a fancy to my birds, and carried off several, so that ...

similar to those of the wild birds, affording a proof that they were ...

of their own species, as these birds had no opportunity of hearing any ...

. He placed in his aviary several birds of this species that had been caught ...

them from the persecution of other birds confined in the aviary ...

Very Young Birds ...

in speaking to me of this bird, informed me that it is very gentle or ...

Of this beautiful bird little, I believe, is known. The following notice by ...

as to meet with this pretty bird, the three specimens which I have received ...

voyage, on the north-west coast of America. My drawing was taken from a ...

In size the present bird is smaller than the Californian Quail. Its ...

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Genus I. — Orthyx, Steph. American Partridge

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In size the present bird is smaller than the Californian Quail. Its ...

Family XXXII. — Tetraoninæ. Grouse

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eastern cities to be occasionally satiated with the latter birds, as I have ...

Although these birds are particularly attached to the craggy sides of ...

have I ever heard of one of these birds having been seen in the State of ...

that the whirring sound produced by birds of that genus, is a necessary ...

notice of any bystander. Should the bird discover that it is observed, its ...

the birds, they generally rise higher over the bushes, flying in a straight ...

as that in which the bird beats. At the sound produced by the bladder and ...

sounds of that bird ... spring, these birds are frequently ...

. On rising from the ground, the bird utters a cackling note repeated six or ...

sufficiently soft to allow this bird to conceal itself under it, it dives ...

hours of the day; and where these birds are abundant, this curious sound is ...

trunk is resorted to by the same birds during the season, unless they are ...

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Genus I. — Tetrao, Linn. Grouse

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and rustle on the ground, as the bird passes rapidly along. Their bodies ...

, and almost all of them were young birds. In the course of the winter they ...

. So brave were some of the male birds, that they never flinched in the ...

birds had alighted, and now ordered my men to proceed towards it. As the net ...

to toot any more. With another bird I performed the same operation on one ...

and during autumn and winter are much reduced in size. These birds, indeed ...

As I have never shot these birds in the Eastern States, and therefore cannot ...

was a common thing to see as many birds in a day as we now see in a week; ...

take the field, is ten brace of birds. Packs of twenty to fifty are now no ...

fairest mark of all game birds. It frequently happens that not one is killed ...

It is seldom that we start a bird a second time in the exact spot where he ...

of these valuable but defenceless birds. In these ways they are thinned off ...

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Family XXXIII. — Rallinæ. Rails

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the European Quail, a bird as fond at times of damp meadows bordering rivers ...

Having studied the habits of this bird under every advantage in Louisiana, ...

can be obtained. The young birds usually abandon these plains first, and ...

of the year. I have found young birds in their jetty down clothing in ...

Key West, and in other places. The parent birds are sometimes so very intent ...

The birds gather many of them, and fasten them at the height of two or three ...

jerking motions of the tail of this bird, whenever it is disturbed, or ...

In a male bird the tongue ...

bridge leading to the inner circle, and within sight of these birds. While I ...

of their amatory propensity were quite remarkable. The male birds ...

or five inches high. If not greatly disturbed, these birds raise reveral ...

from five to seven. As the bird lays more than once, its progeny is thus ...

I have seen a flock of these young birds playing on the surface of the water ...

Although not a migratory bird, this species flies very well, whenever it has ...

much duller than those of the old birds, particularly the stripes on the ...

There are great differences as to size between birds of both sexes ...

time seen sailing about with the old birds. We had only one pair on the Loch ...

, might induce one to suppose these birds incapable of moving on land with ...

six or seven hundred of these birds feeding on the grass of a savannah ...

the quickness of any of the diving birds, and rarely escapes the shot of a ...

These birds are frequently caught in the nets placed across the bayous of ...

Both old and young birds differ considerably in size and weight. The male, ...

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Genus III. — Ortygometra, Leach. Crake-Gallinule

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the European Quail, a bird as fond at times of damp meadows bordering rivers ...

Brunswick and Nova Scotia, the only bird of this family known is the Sora ...

, who purchased one of these birds in the New York market in February, 1826 ...

In the Floridas, this bird is more abundant than even in Louisiana; and I ...

, I observed a good number of these birds along the margins of the lakes and ...

lie concealed near an opening in the grass, and call the bird out of cover ...

The flight of this pretty little bird is rather swift, and more protracted ...

I once shot a female bird of this species near New Orleans upon which I had ...

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Genus V. — Sula, Briss. Gannet

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species does not exist in North America; and I am inclined to doubt the ...

to our pilot, the birds from which it derives its name breed. For several ...

unwelcome intruders, the affrighted birds rise on wing with a noise like ...

was filled with multitudes of others. The dead birds are now roughly skinned ...

great is the destruction of these birds for the purpose mentioned, that the ...

. The earth is scratched by the birds for a few inches deep, and the edges ...

of carcasses of old and young birds, broken and rotten eggs ...

. The greater number of the birds of this species seen in these warm ...

heard Mr. Giles, an acquaintance of his, who knows much about birds, say ...

I have generally observed single birds at some considerable distance from ...

checked by the action of the bird, which, intent on filling its empty ...

you may see the snow-white bird sit buoyantly for awhile on the bosom of ...

; and I have thought that the bird then moved with more velocity than at any ...

without even being touched, these birds often disgorge their food in the ...

The newly-finished nest of this bird is fully two feet high, and quite as ...

The birds usually reach the rock when already ...

as incubation commences. A lazy bird perhaps, finding it easier to rob the ...

are trampled down; the young birds stand everywhere or anywhere; lazy- ...

present as the future. Now the old birds are freed of part of their cares, ...

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Family XLII. — Larinæ. Gulls

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for the migration of water-birds than the United States of America ...

, follow the north-west shores of America, as is indeed the case with many ...

This bird ...

in Massachusetts and Maine this bird is known only to such navigators as ...

of these birds in a single flock. Should you now attempt to approach them, ...

follow in their wake. I have seen a few of these birds glide in this manner ...

more elegant than that of any water bird with which I am acquainted. The ...

instance has been recorded of any bird of this species having been forced ...

the air. I once saw one of these birds fly round a whole flock that had ...

Although parties of these birds remove from the south to betake themselves ...

he has inserted in my journal. "These birds are very abundant, and breed ...

enormous number of their eggs. The birds screamed all the while, and ...

to the eggs of Plovers and other birds of that tribe. The young are clumsy ...

contents of the gullets of the old birds, and ultimately pick up the ...

on such occasions. This bird walks in the manner of the Terns, with short ...

over the wounded bird ...

The digestive organs of this bird are precisely similar to those of the ...

high-water mark, and none of the birds paid much attention to them during ...

flight, none of the Terns dared to encounter that bird, any more than ...

I never saw the young of this bird while small, and cannot speak of the ...

more individuals, and remain separated from the old birds until spring, when ...

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Genus II. — Sterna, Linn. Tern

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six specimens of the Marsh Tern of America to the British Museum, and ...

with me of the identity of the bird loosely described by Wilson with that ...

American Ornithology to be the same bird, although Mr. Ord (in his eighth ...

in concert. The usual cry of these birds is rough, sharp, distinguishable ...

purpose; but I believe that these birds never immerse themselves in the ...

I am inclined to believe that these birds migrate in the same manner as many ...

bird, I am not at all surprised at its being found ...

carefully taken from fresh birds of only four pairs, all shot in spring, ...

The weight of the four male birds was 6½ oz., 5⅞, 6¾, 7 ...

Cosmopolite. In America, breeds from the mouth of the Mississippi ...

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Genus II. — Sterna, Linn. Tern

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on board were in requisition. The birds fell around us; but as those that ...

shouted "A prize! a prize! a new bird to the American Fauna!" And so it was ...

The vigour and activity of this bird while on wing afforded me great ...

How many days these birds had been laying, when I discovered the key on ...

disproportionate to the size of the bird, their average length being two ...

. Never observed in any other part of the coast of America. Migratory ...

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Genus II. — Sterna, Linn. Tern

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of Musignano has thought that the bird named the Common Tern in America ...

along the Atlantic coast of North America, from Galveston Island in Texas ...

. In the beginning of winter, young birds also sometimes ascend the ...

frac12; twelfths; but similar differences are observed in the British birds ...

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Genus III. — Larus, Linn. Gull

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for the migration of water-birds than the United States of America ...

During these inland movements, the birds seem to be peculiarly attracted by ...

, while the older and more hardy birds keep along the shores of the ocean. ...

the plumage of the young and the old birds has led to similar errors ...

sustained, and the circumstance of birds of this genus being able to find ...

of Eastport in Maine, I found these birds breeding in great numbers in the ...

the case with the eggs of most water-birds. In general, however, they were ...

was annually resorted to by these birds. To our surprise the birds ...

were larger than the females. Not a bird of any other species was found ...

markings of the younger and older birds. I am equally sure that no ...

Young bird, after first moult, shot on 26th November ...

the coast of Labrador, where this bird was breeding in great numbers, a ...

other respects, wanted that mark. This bird, although ...

of the bill, which even in young birds is much deeper than in the oldest ...

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Genus III. — Larus, Linn. Gull

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, follow the north-west shores of America, as is indeed the case with many ...

good opportunities of observing this bird, speaks of it as follows: &mdash ...

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Genus IV. — Turdus, Linn. Thrush

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The first land-bird seen by me, when I stepped upon the rugged shores of ...

This bird breeds from North Carolina, on the eastern side of the Alleghany ...

The nest of this bird is frequently placed on the horizontal branch of an ...

Many of these birds shew a marked partiality to the places they have chosen ...

The extent of migration of this bird, and its breeding from the Texas to the ...

migrating birds find many favourable places at which to stop during the ...

Now, is it not probable that young birds of a second or third brood, which ...

have, in a great number of instances, observed that such birds as produced ...

exhibited in most of the species of birds, whether of the land or of the ...

observations on the habits of our birds: the nests of all those which ...

birds for rearing their young, the old and strong individuals arriving at an ...

Mr. Cabot found the nest of this bird on the ground (a bare rock) near ...

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Genus IV. — Turdus, Linn. Thrush

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; and, as it has not appeared in the list of the Birds of the United States ...

it is as follows: — "Of this bird, whose manners so entirely ...

birds of passage, arriving about October, and continuing more or less ...

is the type in America ...

Thrush-like Mocking-bird ...

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Family XV. Fringillinæ. Finches

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bird which I heard. In America again, the song ...

's Bay. It is indeed the hardiest bird of its tribe yet discovered in North ...

in the northern latitudes of America where it breeds, is that given by Dr. ...

notice. "It is by no means a common bird; keeps in pairs, and appears to ...

snow-clouds, millions of these birds, driven before the pitiless storm, ...

it seems, acts on birds as on other beings, rendering them selfish and ...

The flight of this bird has a considerable resemblance to that of the Shore- ...

Only a single nest of this bird has been found within the limits of the ...

Whilst with us, these birds are found in all ...

The flight of this bird, when it has settled in a place, is usually of short ...

In its habits, this bird closely resembles the Common or Corn Bunting of ...

pains at concealment, renders stratagem peculiarly necessary to this bird ...

nest empty and deserted. Was this bird guided by instinct or by reason? The ...

sea-shores of New Jersey, where the bird which it represents was shot while ...

as the colour of the eggs of this bird, found by myself or the members of ...

This homely looking little bird was discovered by Dr. Richardson, who states ...

wings, resembling that of a young bird. It alights on the tops of low ...

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Genus I. — Plectrophanes, Meyer. Lark-Bunting

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numerous as ever, none but wounded birds were to be seen in the morning. ...

in the northern latitudes of America where it breeds, is that given by Dr ...

Genus III. — Niphæa, flud. Snow-Bird

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who does not know the little Snow-bird, which, in America, is ...

P110-N30E7A_text":"Genus III. — Niphæa, flud. Snow-Bird ...

COMMON SNOW-BIRD ...

Although the Snow-birds live in little families, consisting of twenty, ...

to be derived by them from larger birds scratching the earth, and in some ...

It is a true hopping bird, and performs its little leaps without the least ...

The migration of these birds is performed by night, as they are seen in a ...

Snow-bird ...

Common Snow-bird ...

Snow-bird ...

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Genus VIII. — Carduelis, Cuv. Goldfinch

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bird which I heard. In America again, the song ...

emphasis: the bird prolongs its usual note, without much alteration, and as ...

similar to that of the European bird, being externally composed of various ...

It is an extremely hardy bird, and often remains the whole winter in the ...

inflicted in Europe than America, and known in France by the name of ...

is a trait of sagacity in this bird which is quite remarkable, and worthy ...

hangs in this position until the bird-lime has run out in the form of a ...

to alight on any twig, whether smeared with bird-lime or not, flutter over ...

informs me, that "although this bird is not uncommon in the maritime ...

Yellow-bird or American Goldfinch, Nutt. Man., vol. i. p. 507 ...

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Genus IX. — Fringilla, Linn. Finch

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In the northern parts of America, where it breeds, it replaces the Towhe ...

dawn on their retreat, the male birds directly ascend to the middle ...

Follow these birds wherever you will, you invariably find them not in deep ...

The flight of this bird is low, rapid, and undulating. While passing over ...

it agrees precisely with eggs which I have found in many nests of that bird ...

Many of these birds are frequently offered for sale in the markets of ...

and peck at the poor bird with such force as to convince us that its death ...

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Genus I. — Dolichonyx, Swains. Rice-Bird

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P7-N303ED_text":"Genus I. — Dolichonyx, Swains. Rice-Bird ...

that the appearance of the Rice-bird in spring forebodes a bad harvest. The ...

Meadow-birds ... Reed-birds ...

of the bird-catchers. Great numbers are captured and exposed for sale in the ...

time they reach there, the birds have changed their colours and seem all ...

of the bird. The female lays from four to six eggs, of a white colour, ...

Reed-birds ...

in requisition. Millions of these birds are destroyed, and yet millions ...

The food of these birds varies according to the seasons, and consists of ...

Indians it bears the name of "Skunk-bird," from the similarity of its ...

Rice-bird, or Bob-o-link, Nutt. Man ... Rice-bird ...

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Genus III. — Agelaius, Swains. Marsh-Blackbird

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known as an inhabitant of North America by the naturalists of Major Long's ...

frequent, in the manner of the Cow-bird, whistle out with great effort, a ...

, we met with the nest of this bird containing several spotted and blotched ...

a male, a female, and the head of a young bird approaching towards maturity ...

Saffron-headed Maize-bird ...

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Genus IV. — Icterus, Briss. Hang-Nest

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The plumage of many species of our birds undergoes at times very ...

of yellow and black. The Rice-bird loses its lively brightness until the ...

as well as with several of our land birds, among which, kind reader, the ...

The plumage of the young birds of this species, when they leave the nest, ...

, the females never altering. In birds kept in cages, this portion of black ...

the yellowish-green hue which the bird had when it left the nest. The third ...

of these birds under all these singular changes of plumage are ascertained ...

of raising their young, than these birds exhibit all the liveliness and ...

parents for several weeks, and many birds congregate towards autumn, but the ...

, and in this respect that bird differs widely from the Baltimore, which ...

on which you see these birds belongs to a tree which ...

Bachman informs me, that he has kept this bird in aviaries for several years ...

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Family XVIII. — Corvinæ. Crows

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and other remarkable species of birds, and arranging the materials which I ...

life chiefly spent in studying the birds of my native land, where I have ...

is in some measure a migratory bird, individuals retiring to the extreme ...

. It is in such places that these birds must be watched and examined, before ...

lamb; he may eat the eggs of other birds, or occasionally steal from the ...

may, with tale of pity or of truth, the bird is a Raven, and, as Lafontaine ...

The breeding season of this bird varies ...

they are able to fly. The old birds return to the same nest for years in ...

of a precipice; but the moment the bird perceived me, it would fly off ...

observed how singularly well those birds could travel to and from their ...

I found a nest of this bird at a narrow part of the Lehigh in Pennsylvania, ...

excellent observer of the habits of birds, has told me that he saw a Raven's ...

The flesh of this bird is tough and unfit for food, but this indicates its ...

The Crow is an extremely shy bird, having found familiarity with man no way ...

earth, broken-winged, falls the luckless bird in an instant. "It is nothing ...

multitudes of young birds killed in their nests. Must I add to this ...

grain along the fields to tempt these poor birds? Yes, I ...

toward our poor, humble, harmless, and even most serviceable bird, the Crow ...

you that the Magpie of Europe is assuredly the very same bird as that met ...

It is as fond of the eggs of other birds as is the Cuckoo, and, like the ...

there I met with several species of birds common to both countries, which ...

by those of any other bird. Although the nests of this species often ...

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Genus I. — Corvus, Linn. Crow

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Peregrine or Jerfalcon. The old birds themselves seem to improve in care, ...

with tale of pity or of truth, the bird is a Raven, and, as Lafontaine has ...

The breeding season of this bird varies, according to the latitude, from the ...

, I believe, on trees, at least in America. It is composed of sticks, coarse ...

they are able to fly. The old birds return to the same nest for years in ...

of a precipice; but the moment the bird perceived me, it would fly off ...

observed how singularly well those birds could travel to and from their ...

I found a nest of this bird at a narrow part of the Lehigh in Pennsylvania, ...

excellent observer of the habits of birds, has told me that he saw a Raven's ...

The flesh of this bird is tough and unfit for food, but this indicates its ...

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Genus II. — Pica, Briss. Magpie

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of procuring food rendering those birds so bold as to alight on our men's ...

to the identity of the Magpie of America and that of Europe. Thomas Nuttall ...

of their identity, names it, in a list of European and North American Birds ...

Nob." the European bird being at the same time ticketed ...

The following notice regarding our bird was given me by my friend Thomas ...

in the varied tune of the Cat-bird, as he sat on a bough by the water, ...

Magpies boldly persecuting other birds, and chasing even Pigeon Hawks ...

, slugs, larvæ, worms, young birds, eggs, small quadrupeds, carrion, ...

is barely sufficient to admit the bird. The eggs are from three to six, and ...

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Genus III. — Garrulus, Briss. Jay

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We first observed this bird in our western route in the Blue Mountains of ...

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Genus I. — Myiodioctes, Aud. Flycatching-Warbler

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the plate, together with two of the birds, which, in pairs, side by side, ...

comes from the southern parts of America, or from the West Indies, but the ...

The nest of this bird which I found, was filled to the brim with four young ...

as it passes low amid bushes, the bird cannot be followed by the eye to any ...

that month, and as I returned through Nova Scotia, these birds, like my own ...

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Genus I. — Myiodioctes, Aud. Flycatching-Warbler

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is an extremely active and lively bird. It is found in all the low grounds ...

distinctly repeated. This little bird is seen at intervals of a few minutes ...

I never saw this bird fly farther than a few yards at a time. Its flight is ...

The branch on which two of these birds are represented, is that of the tree ...

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Genus IV. — Helinaia, Aud. Swamp-Warblers

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never discovered a bird in all his wanderings. Time passed on, and the ...

our broadest lakes; — and, reader, they have found more new birds ...

The bird represented in the plate before you ...

once to differ from all other known birds of our country, and was pleased at ...

The birds which I opened had their gizzards filled with the fragments of ...

The bird, however, is very closely allied to the Wrens, which it greatly ...

traversed large portions of America, who has added so considerably to the ...

known species of birds, and who has enriched the science of ornithology by ...

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Genus IV. — Helinaia, Aud. Swamp-Warblers

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low fir tree. Only one brood is raised in the season, and the birds commence ...

form a portion of the food of many birds, as well as of various quadrupeds ...

Family IX. Certhianæ. Creepers

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by Buffon. The description, however, of this bird, obtained by Commerson ...

This bird alights on trees of all kinds, in the Carolinas on pines, in Maine ...

bird was really asleep, or wished to elude us, is more than I can affirm, ...

name of "Gleaner," applied to this bird, is, in my opinion, very ...

but I must differ from him, for the bird at each move actually hops, ...

This bird breeds in the hole of a tree, giving a marked ...

, with eight dried specimens from America, one of which is from the Columbia ...

The flight of this bird is performed by short flappings of the wings ...

uttered as if the bird were in an angry mood, and repeated at short ...

the motions of this active little bird is fully equal to that of the mouse ...

of drifted timber. So fond is this bird of the immediate neighbourhood of ...

wide enough to admit one of the birds at a time. The number of eggs is from ...

, I discovered that one of these birds was in the habit of roosting in a ...

Many of these birds are destroyed by weasels and minxes. It is, ...

, are much resorted to by Humming-birds, on their first arrival, as they ...

The bird represented under the name of Bewick's Wren I shot on the 19th ...

bird I ascertained it to be the Bewick's Wren. There were ...

now partially overgrown. It did not appear to be a shy bird, but, from its ...

, and for his beautiful work on the Birds of Great Britain, to need any ...

. Some weeks afterwards three adult birds of the same kind were shot near ...

my large collection of skins of our birds. The notes of this species differ ...

An egg of this bird, procured in the State of Vermont, and presented to me ...

mate is sitting, this sweet little bird flutters still more slowly through ...

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Genus I. — Certhia, Linn. Tree-Creeper

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I have observed several of these birds in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, ...

This bird alights on trees of all ...

bird was really asleep, or wished to elude us, is more than I can affirm, ...

name of "Gleaner," applied to this bird, is, in my opinion, very ...

This bird breeds in the hole of a tree, giving a marked preference to such ...

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Genus II. — Troglodytes, Cuv. Wren

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. The description, however, of this bird, obtained by Commerson, on the ...

resembles the male, and the young birds are distinguishable only by having ...

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