American Ornithology: Or The Natural History of the Birds of the United States, Band 2

appearance April arrives in Pennsylvania barn swallow belly and vent bill branches breast breed brown thrush brownish bush cage cat bird chin coverts crown deep dull edged eggs favourite feeding five inches flesh colour flycatcher frequently genus golden-winged warbler grass green greenish hind head inches long inhabits inner vanes insects larvæ legs and feet light blue LINNÆUS little bird male mandible marked marsh wren middle mocking bird nearly neck nest nostril notes numbers numerous nuthatch observed pale Pennsylvania PLATE plumage pure white purple martin reddish resembling rich yellow round rump scarcely scarlet tanager season seen sides sometimes song spot of white spring streaked summer swamps SYLVIA tail-coverts thickets throat tinged tips tipt with white titmouse tree TURDUS upper mandible warbler whip-poor-will whitish whole lower William Bartram wing-coverts wings and tail winter winter wren wood thrush wren yellow olive young birds