. Les oiseaux utiles et leur protection. Contenant de brèves descriptions des espèces plus communs et les plus utiles du Massachusetts, avec des comptes de leurs habitudes alimentaires, et un chapitre sur les moyens d'attirer et de protéger les oiseaux. Les oiseaux ; les oiseaux. OABDEN BIBDS DE CHAMP ET. 327 où ils s'accroupir avec les yeux fermés au premier signal de danger. Le pilote de ma lourde farm wagon a vu un oiseau de mère une journée à la route devant lui. Il a arrêté l'équipe de lente à la fois, mais trop tard pour sauver trois des jeunes qui, caché dans l'ornière, avait été écrasé par les roues. Il a trouvé et ramassé un live one. Il squatté Tous les t

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. Useful birds and their protection. Containing brief descriptions of the more common and useful species of Massachusetts, with accounts of their food habits, and a chapter on the means of attracting and protecting birds. Birds; Birds. BIBDS OF FIELD AND OABDEN. 327 where they squat with closed eyes at the first danger signal. The driver of my heavy farm wagon saw a mother bird one day in the road before him. He stopped the slow team at once, but too late to save three of the young that, hidden in the rut, had been run over by the wheels. He found and picked up a live one squatted there. All through the breeding season the common call of the male, "Bob-white, " or "Bob-Bob-White, " may be heard, particularly just before a rain, and the farmers translate the cry as "More-wet, " or "Some-more-wet." At a distance this call is a clear whistle. Dr. Judd says that when uttered within ten feet of the hearer it loses its melody and becomes a mere nasal sliriek. At the approach of danger the bird can reduce the volume of sound at will, so that when it stands within twenty or twenty-five feet of the listener its whistle seems to come from a point many rods away, —an accomplishment which I have heretofore noted as possessed by other birds. The call when thus subdued is of exactly the same tone and pitch as usual, quite as clear, and deliv- ered in exactly the same way. So far as my observations go, the bird when calling sits or stands in its usual position, throwing up its head slightly in enunciating "Bob, " and then throwing it well back and pointing the bill skyward when utter- ing the "white, " as is shown in the n J., 1.1 "Bob, " "white." accompanymg ngures, alter sketches pig. 147.—Themorning from tlie wild bird. '^^^ Dr. Judd watched a Quail that called in a somewhat simi- lar manner, except that when three notes were given it de- pressed its bill almost to its breast in uttering the second. He

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