A First Glance at the Birds, 



of species, many of which are familiar 

 to you all. The sparrows, the warblers 

 and the wrens fall within its limits, as 

 well as the crows and jays. It is divided 

 into two suborders, the Clamatores or 

 birds that call, and the Osclnes or birds 

 that sing. I may add in parenthesis that 

 some birds which are technically song- 

 birds do not sing, as for instance, the crow. 

 The calling birds include the tyrant 

 flycatchers, of which we have two rep- 

 resentatives, the western king-bird and 

 the ash-throated flycatcher; the phoebe 

 birds, two of which are found here — Say's 

 pewee, nesting In the mountains and 

 wintering in the valleys, and the black 

 pewee, a very common and domestic 

 little fellow, nesting under porches and 

 in outhouses in all our country districts; 

 and quite an array of little flycatchers In 

 our woodland, many of which are very 

 difficult even for an expert to distinguish. 

 The olive-sided flycatcher, the western 

 wood-pewee and western flycatcher are 

 the most abundant species, their plaintive 



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