Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 723
uswe know, even when he is colored like his mate,that the male is the first to come. With the earlier birds the female does not comeuntil a week or ten days after the male. Themale redwing, for example, returns to the marshin which he and his mate lived the 3ear before,and calls his kong-qncr-rcc… … BAKN-, TREE-, BANK-, AND CLIFF-SWALLOWS. ornithologist calls summer residents, whilethose that pass onward are transient visitants. By June i, the invading hosts have taken pos-session of the country. Some have settled in thenorth; but from the Gulf of Mexico to the shoresof the Arctic Ocean, no…
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