Download or read book Birds and Nature in Natural Colors, Vol. 4 of 5 written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-26 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Birds and Nature in Natural Colors, Vol. 4 of 5: A Guide in the Study of Birds and Their Habits; Complete in Five Volumes With 240 Page Plates in Colors, Being a Scientific and Popular Treatise on Four Hundred Birds of the United States and Canada Length: 7 inches. Range: Colorado to the: Pacific coast and north to the Hudson Bay country. This handsome bird of the thrush family is more delicately colored than our eastern bluebird. In some localities it is known as the Rocky Mountain, or Arctic, Bluebird. The habits are similar to those of the bluebird. The birds feed upon insects, worms, wild fruit, and seeds. They are able to adapt themselves to climatic conditions and weather some of the severest storms. In certain portions of our western states the birds show a preference for the habitation of man and build their nests in nooks and crevices about barns and sheds. Frequently the deserted excavations constructed by various woodpeckers are used as nesting sites. Dry grass is the chief and often only article used in constructing the nest. Four or five pale blue eggs are laid. Like our eastern bluebird, the young when able to fly are escorted by. The male, while the female prepares the nest for another setting. The exquisite coloring of the Arctic Bluebird makes it seem the gentlest, most beautiful of all the lovely bluebirds. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.