Birds and nature in natural colors - being a scientific and popular treatise on four hundred birds of the United States and Canada (1913) (14752267195)

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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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hing for the hiddentreasures. The eggs average two and five-hundredths inches long by one and fifty-hun-dredths inches wide and range from seven to twelve in number. Their color iscreamy buff, elliptical in shape and with a moderately polished surface. Gad-walls eggs have a richer, warmer hue than those of the baldpate with which theyare often confused, but those of the latter are a paler buff, approaching white. In certain localities where the Gadwall is known to breed, they show adecided preference for islands in small lakes, or a slight elevation in a bayou orlagoon. In such situations several nests of the Gadwall may be found within aradius of a few rods and frequently the baldpates take up their abodes in closeproximity to their near relatives. Among the many wet depressions, pot-holes and ponds of North Dakota, few,if any, appear complete without the characteristic muskrat houses. I have passedsuch places on the hottest days of June and have seen the rat house literally cov- 858

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crcd with dinks, mostly drakes, and aniun;, llicin were a goodly number ofGadwalls, all dozinp in the sunshine and expressing no fear whatever at myintrusion. The nest and nine e^j^s slunvn in the illustration were taken on the fifteenthof June, 1900, near Grahams Island, Devils Lake, North Dakota. The eggs restedin a slight hollow in the earth, which was snugly lined with down and shelteredhy the weeds and grass which covered the island upon which the ne.st was located. American Merganser (Mergus amerkanus) Range: Breeds from southern Alaska, southern Yukon, Great Slave I^ke.central Keewatin, southern Ungava, and Newfoundland south to central Oregon,southern South Dakota, southern Minnesota, central Michigan, northern NewYork and northern New England; winters from Aleutian Islands, British Colum-bia, Idaho, northern Colorado, southern Wisconsin, southern Ontario, northernNew England, and New Brunswick south to Lower California, northern Mexico,Texas, Louisiana, and Florida. The narro

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