Friends Worth Knowing Glimpses of American Natural History
Friends Worth Knowing Glimpses of American Natural History
Ernest Ingersole
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The brown and white streaks of the creeper (Certhia americcwa), however, seem to me to furnish a decided case of protective colors in plumage, since they harmonize so exactly with the rough, cracked bark along which the creeper glides, that the wee bird is hardly to be followed by the eye at a moderate distance. Again, no coat would better help the wren to scout unobserved about the tangled thickets and through the piles of wind -drifted leaves in and out of this and that shadowy crevice than t...he plain brown one he wears; while the lighter tints of the gold- finch's livery are precisely those which agree with the rus- set weeds and grass whose harvest he diligently gathers. The group of exclusively boreal birds seems especially pro- tected from harm by the correspondence of their coat and their surroundings. Their home is among the evergreens, where an occasional dead branch or withered stem relieves the verdancy with yellowish patches, and the thick-hanging cones dot the tree with spots of ^reddish-brown ; their plu- mage is mottled with green, tints of yellow and brown, an 136 FRIENDS WORTH KNOWING.
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