Front:
PIPETERDON
ROSE BREASTED GROSBEAK
Female
Male
Back:
Subject 12
/ 100
RESTORE
PROTECT CONSEGNE
WORK LIKE A BEAVER FOR RESTORATION
TRADE KARK REGISTRATOR
AMERICA'S
RESOURCES
WILDLIFE
ROSE-BREASTED
carolling of a Robin but is
GROSBEAK
smoother, more melodious
one of the pleasantest bird songs to
(Hedymeles ludovicanus)
be heard in the June Woodlands.
The nest is built from 6' to 20' from the
The black and white male, with his large ground, in a shrub or small tree. The
triangular breast-patch of rose-red, is one three to five greenish eggs are spotted
of the most beautiful of eastern birds. and blotched with brown.
His mate is quite different, more like a The Rose-breast is found in the sum-
large overgrown Sparrow, buf with a mer east of the Rocky Mountains, from
much larger bill than any Sparrow has. the central states north to central Mani-
The male's reputation as a singer lives toba and southern Quebec. It migrates
up to his beauty. His song resembles the to southern Mexico and South America.
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Copyright 1939, National Wildlife Publishing Corp., New York
