The Oologist. 



VOL. XX. NO. 1. ALBION. N. Y., NOVEMBER, 1903. Whole No. 196 



The Oologist. 



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Anthony's Towhee. 



Pipilo fu&cus senicula. 

 I admit that it is a far cry from 



Death Valley to the snn blessed slopes 

 of the Orange county hills, and possibly 

 not less from the not.le hawks and owls 

 of which I have been lately writing, to 

 the lowly towhees, but I am one of 

 those, who believe that in the all-em- 

 bracing plan of an oniniscient Creator, 

 there ia no bird, no animal, no plant, 

 too infinitesinial to have a place, aye, 

 more, to be necessary to the welfare of 

 the universe. To me, the least is as 

 interesting as thn greatest, just as the 

 poorest of my fellow men is of as much 

 interest as the weakest. For this 

 reason I am bothering ye editor with 

 what little I know of the home life of 

 so common a fellow as Pipilo. 



First all, the towhee is a worker; 

 from morning till night, year in, year 

 out, with a nestfui of young, or with no 

 one to feed but himself, he is on the 

 scratch. Dull of coat and rather incon- 

 spicuous save during the breeding 

 season. Anthony's Towhee does not 

 appear so plentiful as it really is. In 

 fact, I doubt if even the pestifei^ous 

 linnets are any more abundant in the 

 hills near my home than the towhees. 

 In the winter— if we may call the inter- 

 val from November to April winter — 

 many of these birds migrate from the 

 brush covered hills to the orchards and 

 sheltered farms of the mesas and low- 

 lands. Htre they come fearlessly 

 about the houses, not begging, as do 

 many of the birds, but industriously 

 helping themselves to whatever of edi- 

 bles lies nearest their beaks. This fall 

 movement begins some time in the 

 latter part of September and is quite 

 general, though it does not by any 

 meana embrace all the brown towhees 



