Life Histories Of North American Cardinals, Grosbeaks, Buntings, Towhees, Finches, Sparrows, & Their Allies Towhees, Juncos, Sparrows Part 2

by Arthur Cleveland Bent

Excerpt from Life Histories of North American Cardinals, Grosbeaks, Buntings, Towhees, Finches, Sparrows, and Allies, Vol. 2: Order Family Fringillidae; Genera Pipilo (Part) Through SpizellaThe same authors Patterson (ms) has found numerous nests about Ashland and Pinehurst with extreme dates of May 2 and They describe the nest as In bushes and trees, usually within a few feet of the ground, made of inner bark, twigs, and weed stems and lined with plant stems, wool, and hair. 4 or 5, pale blue, spotted with purplish brown.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Genres: Birds

646 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 1968

About the author

Arthur Cleveland Bent (1866 – 1954) was an American ornithologist. He is notable for his encyclopedic 21-volume work, Life Histories of North American Birds, published 1919-1968 and completed posthumously, which received the John Burroughs Medal in 1940.