Devils Lake inter-ocean and Devils Lake free press. (Devils Lake, Ramsey County, N.D.) 1905-1909, 1909-02-12

ON ants. We have seven species nestts
ing here, and three that are nig
The flicker ii the most commDh and
Known BY over one inbred differen
names IA ii herent parts nff the eouns
ip-poor-Wills are found only in
the Red River alley it 81 said but the 4
poorswill nests here. The night
hawks are most valuable to ffarners
The western night hawk nests here.s
Chimney swift are { found ID ALE sec
stions, as are also the ruby -throatsd
hlmming bird, but both are rare
The North Amer lean members of
the order Passeres are divided
two sub-orde the Glamatorie or 10
called songless perching birds which
|include all the CHEERS numbering
three hundred fifty species Whic are
found .onIy the :Ameri cas-, being
most abundant In the tropics and the
Esub-orderA Oscines Or singing perching
birds. The king, bird So Haluab
abundant here as are nearly all
the fourte species found
state, the sulp hur-b eIlied catcher
being the only mi al;
We have three species #of lark the
prairie horned lark wing wi ,ia an
Wint ter. .:5s;
The American maybe Is found
Section and stays SIT The
year. The blue lay, SO very common
there, Is rare iii Sect ion 3, while the
crowsis found II all sect s. although
nothing not liz the humble 81 We have
the east.
have never lived any where where
orioles and grackle were so common
as here Fourteen Of the eighfeen
species Of Icterid ae# are here, incliid5
ing the beantif voiced meadow, lark
the black birds and he bob Iink
One of the most interesting families
Fringi idas, Il the hnches, grosbeaks..
blunt ings and sparroWs, This lis the
largest family ins the world, numb herring
some SIX hundred pecies, Of which
|5hoWeYer only NINETY d are III VI
lAnefica, and North Dakota has fifty;
three sef these, al very large showing.
| This tamil varies largely III colo, but
All agree In possessing stout conical
Isbills, enabling them to crush seeds
readily The sparroWss ar the most
lfdff1cult entiicati ion. They ara
nearly al good singers, and from ain
feconomic stand point Of aincalcu1able
value: Prof: Beals OF the Biologica1s
Survey. stated that 5in one winter sea-
SON III the single state of iowa,
lstree sparroWs deYoured not less tilan
leight hundred Il sevent i've tons Or
Tweed seeds, most y raj Weed Intsf lnrth5
1 Oak here are twenty -six fferentS
kinds OF sparroWs,EtW twenty count
ing the imported ling fish sparrow.
tone person III q tholsa id can distiI
Iguish alI these varieties UGH less al
small hoy It'll a sling ots 81 ali
The sWa1l lows, XVII shrikes.
martins sand s bea uti il, Ill voiced
5Vireos are All here he syiireo is often
confused with the WOO dwarf ofy
which tWenty ne pecissssss have been;
EobserYed IN this stat eros are
lsioWer 5of motion than the 5warbll,es1rs
.Ibuts both search under leaves gnds iii:
fHcraeks Sof barb iice and larVae
heScat:b thrus shes and wren are:
quite commons One. catbird Ve sus.;
4 rare vocal perform at $ d clock sp.s
M nearly all nmer sat haut auaua.
and AZ her ln ii little dish
4 at the back of house with aston.
4 fishing reg,llarit
One of the mo- teresti r,g MT
n grants that arrived last az Oh sits way
Stsonti, was the lite. breasted nut
Il They sttayad ,is over
q three weeks. lille tie slate
81 1. olored juneos senls stayed Us neshalf,
81 q day Here iin the rub .crownedE
d and yslloW-cro glsts nest
II They ARE SO little ana 30
q such $bnrs tffll song, iiatt
,'sIthsysa are ii source Soff great 10
The robins and blue are a con
q sstant pleasure and nix species 81
q tfhrushes make 81 more des
III ightfuI place FIJI tos