pipilo

Updated: May 28, 2025

If self-possession be four fifths of good manners, our red-eyed Pipilo may certainly pass for a gentleman. We have now named four birds, the chickadee, the goldfinch, the brown thrush, and the towhee, birds so diverse in plumage that no eye could fail to discriminate them at a glance.

Bradford Torrey - Birds in the Bush

And for my part, being neither self conceited nor an ornithologist, I am willing to confess that I have once or twice been so badly deceived that now the mere sight of this Pipilo is, so to speak, a means of grace to me. His usual song consists of a simple line of notes, beginning leisurely, but growing shorter and more rapid to the close.

Bradford Torrey - Birds in the Bush