Oregon Towhee

Title: Oregon Towhee
LC Subject: Birds
Description: This is one of the friendly birds you will meet in your walks out in the country. It lives by the roadside, in the brush, in the leaves, in the thick undergrowth of our hillsides. He likes to come out into a little rosebush thicket where the sun is shining, and into the leaves, and there you will hear him scratching around and making a terrific noise. He scratches with both feet, backwards, and throwing the leaves at a great rate. At the same time he chirps out three little guttural, shrill notes. He can easily be recognized by his black head, chestnut-brown sides, and white breast. He is not quite as large as a robin, but a little larger than a sparrow.
Work Type: lantern slides
Location: Oregon >> United States
Date: 1900/1910
Identifier: P217:02:59
Rights: No Copyright - United States
Local Collection Name: Visual Instruction Department Lantern Slides, 1900-1940 (P 217)
Type: Image
Format: image/tiff
Set: OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center
Primary Set: OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center
Is Part Of: Set 3 - Oregon Birds
Institution: Oregon State University
Note: Hand-tinted