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Page 81 - ... pursuance of your request, I submit the following report of the results of my investigations in the office of the Secretary of the Senate and in the room of the Senate Judiciary Committee, relevant to the authorship of the Sherman law of July 2, 1890. That statute was drawn in the Judiciary Committee in the latter part of March and the first part of April, 1890. It was based on the bill which Senator Sherman introduced as Senate Bill 1, early in December, 1899, but Senator Sherman took no part...
Page 105 - USA, who had ample opportunity of observing these birds at Hidalgo. The eggs are deposited in hollow trees and branches, often at a considerable distance from water (two miles), and from eight to thirty feet or more from the ground. The eggs are placed on the bare wood, and are from twelve to sixteen in number. Two broods are raised, and the parent carries the young to water in her bill.
Page 105 - Mexicans patos maizal, or Corn-field Duck, from its habit of frequenting those localities. It is by no means shy, and large numbers are offered for sale in the Brownsville market. Easily domesticated, it becomes very tame, roosting at night in trees with chickens and turkeys. When the females begin to lay, the males leave them, and gather in large flocks on sand-bars in the river. My knowledge of the breeding habits is derived from Dr. SM Finley, USA, who had ample opportunity of observing these...
Page 390 - A nest found June 16, 1877, was placed among the roots of a tussock of grass : it was made of blades and stems of grasses, and was rather deep, but so frail that it fell to pieces on removal. The eggs, four in number, were quite fresh. They are unspotted white, strongly tinged with greenish-blue, and measure .82 by .63.
Page 43 - Northern Hemisphere; in North America breeding from Massachusetts to the Arctic regions and wintering southward to Virginia and California.
Page 91 - RANGE. — Northern Hemisphere. In North America, south to the Potomac and the Ohio (more rarely to Florida and Texas) and California; breeds far northward. Nest, on margins of lakes or ponds, among grass or bushes.
Page 192 - Quite abundant, particularly in summer. The small and rather compact nests are placed on the horizontal branch of a stout bush or tree, and are lined with a few straws. On one occasion, I found the eggs in a roughly made nest on the ground on the edge of a prairie.
Page 282 - Woodpecker, but if eating ants is to be considered a- virtue, as we have endeavored to show, then surely this bird must be exalted, for three-fourths of all the insects it eats, comprising nearly half of its whole food, are ants. It is accused of eating corn ; how little its stomach yields is shown on another page. Fruit constitutes about one-fourth of its whole fare, but the bird depends on nature and not on man to furnish the supply. Judged by the results of the stomach examinations of the Downy...
Page 35 - Oology of New England: a description of the eggs, nests and breeding habits of the birds known to breed in New England, with colored illustrations of their eggs.
Page 282 - Its grain-eating record is trifling; 2 stomachs taken in September and October contained corn. For fruit, it seeks the forests and swamps, where it finds wild cherries, grapes, and the berries of dogwood and Virginia creeper. It eats fewer seeds of the poison ivy and poison sumac than the Downy.