Nature neighbors, embracing birds, plants, animals, minerals, in natural colors by color photography, containing articles by Gerald Alan Abbott, Dr. Albert Schneider, William Kerr Higley...and other (14750926525)

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Year: 1914 (1910s)

Authors: Banta, Nathaniel Moore, 1867- Schneider, Albert, 1863- Higley, William Kerr, 1860-1908 Abbott, Gerard Alan

Subjects: Natural history

Publisher: Chicago, American Audobon association

Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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DO ■J ID =-1 = 3 o WOODPECKERS, CUCKOOS, ETC. 217 ture and horticulture. These birds destroy immense num-bers of caterpillars, moths, and beetles, hence are amongour most useful birds. Birds of retiring habits, living chieflyin thickly foliaged bushes or trees, they are seldom seenperching on the outside branches. Like our woodpeckers,two toes extend forward and two backward. The flight isswift, horizontal, and rapid. The tails are long and lightlycolored at the tips, the outside tail feathers being decidedlythe shortest. Like our flycatchers, they appear from the South whenthe verdure has matured, and depart from their summerhabitats before we have experienced our first cold weather.In September and October it is silent and suddenly dis-appears. The notes are a series of low tones uttered while thebird is at rest or flying from one tree to another. Theymight be described as chow-chow-chow-chow, with greateremphasis on the last two syllables. The nest are of grass and twigs with a l

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1914

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