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Updated: May 31, 2025
In a few days its bright-colored feathers fall off, and are replaced by a sombre, dull-looking coat. This moulting, which is common to many birds, has more than once led ornithologists into error, who have described, as a new species, a bird which a new dress has prevented them from recognizing."
Next I sought the testimony of professional ornithologists; and here my worst suspicions seemed in a fair way to be confirmed, although the greater number of my correspondents were unhappily compelled to plead a want of knowledge. Dr.
Probably the perch-songster among our ordinary birds that is most regularly seized with the fit of ecstasy that results in this lyric burst in the air, as I described in my first book, "Wake Robin," over thirty years ago, is the oven-bird, or wood-accentor the golden-crowned thrush of the old ornithologists.
A moment later it flew to a point scarcely more than a foot from my face, when, after one terrified look, it departed. The Umbrella Blind. A device now often used by ornithologists is the umbrella blind, which is easy to construct. Take a stout umbrella, remove the handle, and insert the end in a hollow brass rod five feet long. Sharpen the rod at the other end and thrust it into the ground.
Both the great ornithologists, Wilson and Audubon, are lavish in their praises of the former, but have little or nothing to say of the song of the latter. Audubon says it is sometimes agreeable, but evidently has never heard it. Nuttall, I am glad to find, is more discriminating, and does the bird fuller justice.
The observer was Joseph F. Honecker, whose statement was printed in "American Ornithology" for June, 1902, and runs as follows: "As ornithologists and all bird students think and believe that the cowbird will build no nest, but always lays in the nests of other birds, I am glad to give the results of my experiments.
They were the first of this family that we had killed, and Lucien in vain tried to make out what he called their relationship. "They are neither passerines," said he, "nor palmipedes. Climbers, too, have differently-made feet." "Your doubts are very natural," interposed my friend; "even ornithologists are very undecided on this point.
During flight this species may be distinguished from the last by the fingered tips of its wings, by both edges of the wing being black and the body being dark instead of white. This is distinguishable from the two species already described by having no white in the wings. Some ornithologists classify it with the eagles. It is a connecting link between the two families.
Ornithologists have of late determined these facts to be true, and parish officers would do well to consider them before they waste the public money in paying rewards to idle boys and girls for the heads of dead birds, which only encourages children and other idle persons in the mischievous employment of fowling instead of minding their work or their schooling.
It was estimated that the saving to the farmers in poultry amounted to one dollar for each $1,205 paid out in bounties. The awakening came even more swiftly than the ornithologists expected.
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