Identifier: birdlore16nati (find matches)
Title: Bird-lore
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals
Subjects: Birds -- Periodicals Birds -- Conservation Periodicals
Publisher: New York, National Association of Audubon Societies
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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/; .^ C«^ i/^UA;^ TOUCANS Sketched from Nature (343) 344 Bird - Lore the extravagant wealth of size, form and color in tropical vegetation offersquite as much wonderment and occupation as do the birds themselves; andhere we have a diversion of the attention, however unconscious it may be, thatcertainly has its effect. Added to this, there are actual variations in the accus-tomed color of the foliage that repeat with greatest suggestiveness any red,yellow, blue, green, orange, or other color, that may be present on a bird.No Toucans throat is yellower than the light shining through a thin leaf, andwhen leaf-forms are further complicated like those of the Dendrophilumcreepers, by having great holes that let through patches of the dark back-ground or the blue sky, no black-patched Toucan in the foreground looks morevelvety than do these leaf-interstices. As for the bizarre bills, they only serveto make it harder; for they bear no resemblance to bill or bird, and simplymerge their brillia

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