Identifier: birdsofnewenglan00samu (find matches)
Title: The birds of New England and adjacent states : containing descriptions of the birds of New England, and adjoining states and provinces, arranged by a long-approved classification and nomenclature ... with illustrations of many species of the birds, accurate figures of their nests and eggs
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Samuels, Edward Augustus, 1836-1908
Subjects: Birds -- New England Birds -- Nests
Publisher: Boston : Noyes, Holmes, and company
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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e tint exists on thebreast iuid abdomen; back and wings grayish-lead color; the first six primaries areblack, beginning on the first at about two-thirds of its length from the point, andregularly becoming less on the others, until, on the sixth, it is reduced to two spotsnear the end; tips in some specimens white, and in others black to their points; billand inside of the mouth dark-carmine; iris bluish-black; legs and feet deep-red; inwinter the head becomes white, intermixed on the crown and hind neck with brown-ish-gray. Length, seventeen inches; wing, thirteen; tail, five; bill, one and three-fomths;tarsus, two inches. Eab. — Texas to Massachusetts. This handsome bird is a resident on our coasts throughthe summer, but is not at all abundant. It nests in themarshes, making only a loose structure of a few pieces ofseaweeds or grasses, which it places in a sandy, elevated*pot, where the tides do not reach. The eggs are three innumber. Their form is usually ovoidal, sometimes ovate.
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