Birds and nature in natural colors - being a scientific and popular treatise on four hundred birds of the United States and Canada (1913) (14565614649)
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Identifier: birdsnatureinnat05chic (find matches)
Title: Birds and nature in natural colors : being a scientific and popular treatise on four hundred birds of the United States and Canada
Year: 1913 (1910s)
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Subjects: Birds -- North America
Publisher: Chicago : A.W. Mumford, Publisher
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library
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y. Adult male in breeding season: Similar towinter male, but colors duller, crown dusky, rump and breast tinged with rusty,and under parts more spotted with dusky (Ridgway). Adult female: Headand throat as in the male; back fuscous margined with buffy; breast and sidesochraceous buffy, thickly spotted with blackish; belly and under tail-coverts white,more or less thickly spotted with blackish; little or no chestnut on wing-coverts;speculum ashy gray and white; axillars and under wing-coverts pure xvhite(Chapman). (No specimen in O. S. U. collection.) Length 19.00-22.00 (482.6-558.8) ; wing 10.60 (269.2) ; tail 4.50 (114.3) ; bill 1.67 (42.4) ; tarsus 1.60 (40.6).Female smaller. Recognition Marks.—Something under Mallard size; ivhite speculiDn dis-tinctive. Xest, on the ground near water, of grasses lined with feathers. Eggs, 8-12,pale buffy or clay-colored. Av. size, 2.09x1.57 (53.1x39.9). Range.—Nearly cosmopolitan. Tn North ;\merica breeds chiefly within thtUnited States. 838 rr
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