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Title: Birds of village and field: a bird book for beginners
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Bailey, Florence Merriam, b. 1863
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Boston, New York, Houghton, Mifflin and company
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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of the village, as is the Least,its double. And instead of the call of che-hech\with which the Least relieves his feelings, Traillsfinds it sufficient to say j^^p- Its song is said to re-semble that of the Acadian, being an ee-zee-e-up,^jerked out so rapidly that the performer doubleshimself uj), fairly vibrating with the explosiveeffort. Contrasting still further the members of theFlycatcher tribe which we have looked at, we findthat the Kingbird is the tormentor of Hawks andCrows, and is marked with a white band across theend of its tail. (See Plate XIII. 4.) Though thePhoebe and Wood Pewee are confusing at first,they can be discriminated by the more markedwing bars of the Wood Pewee (see Plate XIII.2), aside from the calls and habits of the twobirds, which are quite distinct; the Wood Peweehaving the pee-ah-ioe call instead of jjlio^-he^ andthe Pewee nesting on a high branch instead ofunder a shed, house, bridge, or barn. The GreatCrest and the Olive-sided are the two birds of the
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Plate XIII. — FLYCATCHERS 1. Great-crested Flycatcher.4. Kingbird. 5. 2. Wood Pewee.Least Flycatcher. Phcebe FLYCATCHERS 259 forest; the Olive the more remote of the two,for the Great Crest sometimes nests in orchards.The Pewee, too, is sometimes found in woods.The Least, the Acadian, and Traills, or theAlder, are closely related, but their call notes andtheir haunts will distinguish them. Traills is abird of the north; the Least, of the south. As a family, the Flycatchers contrast sharplywith the Sparrows ; the big heads and shouldersand the broad, flat, bristly bills of the Flycatchers(Fig. 38, p. 92, and Fig. 110, p. 192), being mostunlike the small round heads and shoulders andconical bills of the Sparrows (Fig. 119, p. 193).And while the lowly Sparrows pick up seeds fromthe ground or low weeds, the Flycatchers mountto the high places to look for insects. On deadtwigs or treetop perches they lie in wait for theirprey, shoot out upon it, capture it with a snap oftheir hooked beak

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