Bird-life; a guide to the study of our common birds (1898) (14769600673)

Identifier: birdlifeguide00chap (find matches)
Title: Bird-life; a guide to the study of our common birds
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945 Seton, Ernest Thompson, 1860-1946
Subjects: Birds -- United States
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library



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Fig. 6.—Long, pointed wing and small foot of Tree Swallow, an aerial bird.(3/6 natural size.) such as Eail, Quail, Grouse, certain Sparrows, etc., andlons-wino-ed birds, like the Swallows and Albatrosses.There is here a close and, for the ground-inhabitmg
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Plate VI. LITTLE GREEN HERON(Length, ij-oo inches.) PageBLACK-CROWNED NIGHT HERON.(Young and Adult.)(Length, 24-00 inches.)GREAT BLUE HERON.(Length, 4j-oo inches.) FORM AND HABIT: THE WING. 19 birds, important relation between form and habit.Many terrestrial species rely on their dull, protectivecovering to escape observation, taking wing only whendanger is so near that it is necessary for them to getunder way at once. Consequently, Quail, Partridges,and Grouse, much to the amateur sportsmans discom-fiture, spring from the ground as though thrown froma catapult, and reach their highest speed within a fewyards of the starting point, while the Albatross is obligedto face the wind and run some distance over the groundor water before slowly lifting itself into the air. There,however, it can remain for hours or even days withoutonce alighting. The Frigate Bird, or Man-o-War Bird, has a bodyscarcely larger than that of a chicken, but its tail is onefoot and a half in length, and its wings m