Mrs. Towhee is on it right now, and I suspect she's worrying and anxious to know what happened over here when you warned me about Reddy Fox.
The ranchman's son told me that up in the canyons at dusk he had sometimes heard towhee concerts, the birds answering each other from different parts of the canyon.
When the little housekeeper was working over her nest, a brown towhee flew into the tree.
Presently a brown long-tailed wren-tit came with food in its bill and peered down through the leaves at it; and then a California towhee came and sat around till satisfied as to whose child was crying.
This dense growth also fringes the county road which extends from end to end of the grove, and it was from this roadside that towhee first heralded his arrival from the south, during the bright days of late March or early April.
Twice I have found nests on which the mother towhee was serenely sitting with four eggs of the cowbird beneath her and none of her own.
But towhee is not limited to this variety of vocalization.
Two eggs of the cowbird and two or three of the towhee in a nest are common.
The towhee is a fairly common inhabitant of the whole region east of the Rocky Mountains and north to the northern border of the United States, breeding everywhere north of northern Alabama.
The Green-tailed Towhee is a common migrant and winter visitant in Coahuila; the species has been found at several localities.
This subspecies of the Brown Towhee occurs in northwestern Coahuila south through the Sierra del Carmen.
This subspecies of the Rufous-sided Towhee occurs in southeastern Coahuila.
The Rufous-sided Towhee is locally common in Coahuila; P.
June 25) on which it was obtained suggests breeding by the Rufous-sided Towhee in southeastern Coahuila.
This species is similar to the eastern Towhee but has the scapulars and coverts tipped with white.
The habits and nesting habits of these birds are in every way identical with those of the California Towhee and the eggs cannot be distinguished from those of that variety.
This variety is similar to the Canon Towhee but is browner, both above and below.
The green-tailed towhee he is called in the books, though the red of his head is much more conspicuous than the green of his tail.
It was a special pleasure to find a green-tailed towhee in the copse of the draw, for I had supposed that he always hugged close to the steep mountain sides.
One of the first birds met with on these unpromising acclivities was the spurred towhee of the Rockies.
There is not the remotest suggestion of the towhee minstrelsy in his prolonged and well-articulated melody.
At one place a spurred towhee flitted about in a bushy clump and called much like a catbird--an almost certain proof of a nest on the steep, rocky wall far up from the roaring torrent in the gorge below.
The fox sparrow loves to scratch among the dead leaves for insects trying to hide there, quite as well as if he were a chicken or a towhee or an oven-bird who kick up the {123} leaves and earth rubbish after his vigorous manner.
Because he was hatched in a ground nest and loves to scratch about on the ground for insects, making the dead leaves and earth rubbish fly like any barnyard fowl, the towhee it often called the ground robin.
There was a flutter of wings, there were cries, and on the tree, in plain sight, the towhee bunting and his brown-clad spouse.
He is the towhee bunting or chewink, sometimes called ground robin, and in that corner of Colorado he takes the place the robin fills with us, the most common bird about the house.
The nest is doubtless close by, but it will be lost time to hunt for it in a wilderness of bushes like this, for it is a mere cup in the ground, hidden under the thickest shrubs that the brown-clad spouse of the towhee can find.
Still, it was plain that the towhee baby was practicing for his entrance into the ranks of our most bewitching singers.
There was Mrs. Crested Flycatcher, and Mrs. Phœbe Bird, and little Towhee the Chewink.
Altho of Mexican stock, our western Towhee does not differ greatly in appearance from the familiar bird (P.
The Green-tailed Towhee appears to be essentially a mountain-loving species, and if it occurs within our borders, will be nearly confined to the Blue Mountains of the southeastern corner.
It was rather heartening tho to hear the full song of Towhee on the 29th of December at Blaine.
For a nest the Spurred Towhee scratches a hollow at the base of a bush or clump in some dry situation, and lines this carefully, first with leaves, bark-strips and plant stems, then with fine grasses or rootlets.
Here they had it back and forth, with honors surprisingly even, until both were tired, whereupon (and not till then) an Oregon Towhee ventured to bring forth his prosy rattle.
The Towhee motif is not uncommon in his songs, and the supposed notes of a Willow Goldfinch, a little off color, were traced to his door, at Blaine.
Only at mating time does Towhee throw caution to the winds.
According to my observation, the towhee is not much given to singing after July; but he keeps up his call, which is little less musical than his song, till his departure in late September.
So let us call the towhee a finch, and say no more about it.
Still another musician who delights to take liberties with his score is the towhee bunting, or chewink.
In neighborly association with the brown thrush is the towhee bunting, or chewink.
Finally, just as a distant whippoorwill began to call, a towhee sang once from the woods; and a moment later the stillness was broken by the sudden outburst of a thrasher.
Whence did thetowhee derive his equanimity, and the brown thrush his saturnine temper?
Other birds that frequently use the crab-apple tree as a nest site include the field sparrow, towhee and indigo bunting.
White-eyed Towhee (alleni) has white eyes instead of red and less white on the tail; found on the South Atlantic coast.
This bird is in this country what the Towhee Bunting is in the Middle States.
These works, in whatever shape we may be able to possess them, are the necessary foundations of even the smallest collections.
You may even happen on a young brown towhee high in the Chisos as late as November.
Sounding like a child’s squeeze toy, the brown towhee takes to his human habitat as freely as a house sparrow, and the crestless Mexican jay scolds ferociously, as jays will.
Harris and Bell had their guns, and brought two Arctic Towhee Buntings and a Black-billed Cuckoo.
Song, resembling that of the Spurred Towhee group.
You remember the White-eyed Vireo, and in Florida there is a Towhee who has white eyes; but this is so unusual that it makes the bird look to you as if it were blind, until you understand that it is the natural color.
To see the Towhee as he hops away from the briers that hide his nest, you would never dream that he is a cousin to the meek brown Sparrows.
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