Identifier: britishbirdsnest00kear (find matches)
Title: British birds' nests; how, where, and when to find and identify them
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Kearton, Richard, 1862-1928
Subjects: Birds -- Great Britain Birds -- Nests
Publisher: London, New York (etc.) Cassell and company, limited
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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th white. Rump andupper tail-coverts dusky, banded with white ; tail-quills dusky or browaiish-grey, darkest in the centre.Chin white; fiont and sides of neck rusty red;upper breast grey, barred with white; uuder-partswhite. Some specimens are white from chin tovent. Legs, toes, and membrane down either sideof toes, green ; claws black. The female is rather larger, and more richlycoloured. Hit nation and Locality.—On the ground, intufts of grass, in a hollow on the top of a smallhillock ; on moors and mountains not far from theedge of a loch or pool, in the Orkneys, Shetlands,and Hebrides only, according to Mr. Dixon, butaccording to Mr. Saunders (writing, I ought tomention, ten years earlier), in some parts of themainland. The latter author was, at the time ofwriting, doubtful whether the bird had been extir-pated in the Orkneys. However, I have evidenceof its nesting there as late as 1892. As some evidence of how the bird is graduallybeing banished from our shores, Mr. Arthur Orde
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SITUATION OF STORM PETRELS NEST + Entrance-hole. 196 BRITISH BIliDS XESTS. told me, whilst in Xortli Uist, that its eggs fetchas much as ten shillings each in that island. Materials.—Dry grass. The nest is said to hedeep, and ahout the size of that of a Titlark. Eggs.—Four, ground colour varying from olive-green to light huffish-hrown, spotted and blotchedwith umber and blackish-brown, most thickly at thelarger end. Size about l! by 83 in. Easity dis-tinguished by small size. Time.—June. Bemarlxs.—Migrator)^, arriving in May and de-parting in August. Notes, tirrr. Local and othernames: Red Phalarope, Half Web, Red-neckedCoot Foot, Red-necked Lobe Foot. Gregarious,and very tame on its breeding-grounds. PHEASANT. Description of Parent Birds.—Length about threefeet, nearly two of which are accounted for bythe abnormally long tail. Beak short, curveddownwards, and light yellowish horn colour, dullerat the base. Irides hazel. Round the eye theskin is bare, crimson, and minutely s

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