<br><p><b>Identifier</b>: cu31924090299979 (<a class="external text" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&amp;profile=default&amp;fulltext=Search&amp;search=insource%3A%2Fcu31924090299979%2F">find matches</a>)<br><b>Title</b>: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookidcu31924090299979">Bird homes : The nests, eggs and breeding habits of the land birds breeding in the eastern United States with hints on the rearing and photographing of young birds</a><br><b>Year</b>: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookyear1903">1903</a> (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookdecade1900">1900s</a>)<br><b>Authors</b>:  <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookauthorDugmore__A__Radclyffe__Arthur_Radclyffe___1870_">Dugmore, A. Radclyffe (Arthur Radclyffe), 1870-</a><br><b>Subjects</b>:  <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/booksubjectBirds">Birds</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/booksubjectBirds">Birds</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/booksubjectBirds">Birds</a><br><b>Publisher</b>:  <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookpublisherNew_York___Doubleday__Page___Co_">New York : Doubleday, Page &amp; Co.</a><br><b>Contributing Library</b>:  <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookcontributorCornell_University_Library">Cornell University Library</a><br><b>Digitizing Sponsor</b>:  <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/booksponsorMSN">MSN</a><br><br><b>View Book Page</b>: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/stream/cu31924090299979/cu31924090299979#page/n226/mode/1up">Book Viewer</a><br><b>About This Book</b>: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/cu31924090299979">Catalog Entry</a><br><b>View All Images</b>: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookidcu31924090299979">All Images From Book</a><br>
Click here to <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/stream/cu31924090299979/cu31924090299979#page/n226/mode/1up"><b>view book online</b></a> to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.<br><br><b>Text Appearing Before Image:</b><br><i>slate colour; entire head muchdarker, with concealed crest of bright orange; tail tippedwith white; under parts white. Length—8.51. Breeding Range—Throughout the Eastern States. The nest is usually placed in a fruit tree near the end of abranch, at from six to twenty-five feet of the ground. It is afairly well-made structure of weeds, grass, moss, fine roots, stripsof grape-vine bark, leaves, string, and catkins, lined with thin stripsof bark and horse hair. The number of eggs varies from 3 to 5,5 being a common number ; they are creamy white, sparselyspotted and blotched with blackish or chestnut brown and lightlilac gray; there are great variations both in size, colour, andmarkings. Average size—.98 x .72. See Fig. 4, Plate D. These somewhat pugnacious birds may be found in the moreopen country and orchards; their peculiar flight and white-tippedtail render them easy of identification. In most places they arevery common, several nests being often found in a single orchard. 136</i><br><b>Text Appearing After Image:</b><br><i>NEST AND EGGS OF YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO. Nests in Trees, Bushes, or Vines Near New York they nest about the beginning of June or endof May. 445. Gray Kingbird : Tyrannus dominicensis (Gmel.) Very similar to the preceding, but somewhat larger and with-out the white at the tip of the tail. Breeding Range—South Carolina, southward. The nest is not as large or compact as that of the commonkingbird; the materials used in its construction are much the same;it is placed indiscriminately in bushes or trees, usually not veryfar from water. 3 to 4 eggs are laid; they are pinkish buff, withspots and blotches of dark brown and lilac. Size—i.oox .75. The breeding season begins in May. 466a. Alder Flycatcher: Empidonax traillii alnorum Brewst. Adult—U^^ex parts greenish brown; under parts whitish; grayishon the breast ; tinged with yellow on the belly, and the sideslight greenish or grayish brown. Length—6.09. Breeding Range—Northern New England and Michigan. The nest is built in the crotch</i><br><br><b>Note About Images</b><br></p>
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