Identifier: birdlifeguid00chap (find matches)
Title: Bird-life; a guide to the study of our common birds
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945 Seton, Ernest Thompson, 1860-1946
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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the casemay be. The Chewinks nest is placed on the ground, often indried grass, beneath a tangle of running wild blackberry.The eggs, four or five in number, are white, finely andevenly speckled with reddish brown. There are three birds who sing not only through the heat of midsummer but are undaunted by the warmth of a midday sun. They are the Wood n igo un mg, pewee the Red-eyed Yireo, and the In- Passerina cijanea. «/ digo-bird or Bunting. The Pewee andYireo, singing dreamily from the shady depths of a tree,carry the air to the hummed accompaniment of insects;but the Bunting, mounting to an upper branch, givesvoice to a tinkling warble, more in keeping with thefreshness of early morning than the languor of noon.July, July, summer-summers here; morning, noontide,evening, list to me, he sings so rapidly that human tonguecan scarce enumerate the words fast enough to keep pacewith him. The Indigo-bird is in song when he comes tous from the South early in May, but it is not until other
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Plate LIX. Pages 164, 165. BED-EYED VIEEO. Length, 6-25 inches. Crown gray, bordered by black and white; back,wings, and tail olive-green; under parts white. YELLOW-THEOATED VIEEO.Length, 5-95 inches. Crown and back greenish yellow; rump gray;breast bright yellow; belly white; wing-bars white. CAEDINAL. 153 singers have dropped from the chorus that his voice be-comes conspicuous. Not far away his mate is doubtless sitting on her blu-ish white eggs in a nest low down in the crotch of a bush.He in his deep indigo costume may be easily identified,but she is a dull brownish bird, about the size of a Ca-nary, sparrowlike in appearance, though with unstreakedplumage, and a difficult bird to name, even when youhave a specimen in your hand, while in the bush, if silent,she is a puzzle. But she is far too good a mother not toprotest if you venture too near her home, and her sharppit or peet usually calls her mate, whom you will recog-nize at once. The Cardinal is about the size of a Towhee, wi

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