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Recently I had a telephone :all from Sfusan Achenbach who was calling from just up the street at that fine restaurant, Four and Twenty Blackbirds. She was calling at the suggestion of her friend and renowned chef, Heidi Morf. They had no questions about blackbirds but wanted to know the name of the bird that says, “Drink your tea?” so distirlct is the song of this 3ird that I could give an immediate answer: the Rufous-sided Towhee.
There is more to this bird than advice on liquid refreshment. Is there any bird more handsomely marked than the towhee? This bird is jet black on his head, back and wings, rich russet on his flanks and white on his chest and belly. Add a ruby red eye and near splendor results. His mate is (colored the same except a jwarm, earthy brown replaces the black. The outer tail feathers of both are white and these flash when the bird flies jaway. There is a survival Value in this.
The towhee is about eight jnches long from the tip of the bill to the end of his tail. In Some parts of the country the towhee is called “ground robin” In reference to his rust colored flanks, which some think £nakes him look like a robin.
I admit that the towhee is not as strikingly beautiful as those exotic neo-tropical migrants the Baltimore Oriole, Rose-breasted Grosbeak, and Scarlet Tanager. Invariably a gasp is my reaction to seeing
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