MARCH 



Red WINGED Blackbird 190 498 19 



Makes its home about swamps and lowlands ; nests low 

 among grass or reeds. 



The Blackbirds make the maples ring 

 With social cheer and jubilee; 

 The Redwing flutes his o-ka-lee. 



Emerson 



Bronzed Crackle 19s S"b 118 



The common Blackbird ; nests usually in colonies in trees. 



The Blackbirds clatfrin' in tall trees 

 An' settlin' things in windy congresses. 



Lowell 

 Caiy, Alice Story of a Blackbird 



The Blackbird 

 Craik, D. M. Blackbird and the Rooks 

 Ingelow, Jean The warbling of Blackbirds 

 Tennyson, Alfred The Blackbird 

 Tennyson, Frederick The Blackbird 



Chipping Sparrow 219 560 452 



Known as the Chippy or Chipbird ; lines its nest with horse- 

 hair. 



Brown Thrasher 297 705 23 



Called also Thrush and erroneously Mockingbird; nests 

 low in bushes, sometimes on the ground. 



Clare, John The Thrush's nest 

 Drummond, William The Thrush 

 Dobson, Austin The ballad of the Thrush 

 Gallagher, W. D. The Brown Thrush 

 Larcom, Lucy The Brown Thrush 

 *Parker, B. S. Song of the imprisoned Thrush 



Brown Creeper 305 726 163 



Nests under loose' bark of dead trees, using lichens, moss, 

 feathers and rootlets ; seldom breeds in Indiana. 



Bewick's Wren 299 719 



Called also Longtailed Wren; a great insect catcher; nests 

 in all sorts of places about buildings, fences, brush-piles, and 

 logs. 



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