. The bird book : illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs . the marsh grass and is lined with grass. Thetwo eggs which they lay have an olive greenishground, spotted with dark brown. Size x Pomapine Jaeger 36. Pomarine Jaeger. Stercorarius pomarinus. Range/—Northern Hemisphere, breeding within the Arctic Circle, morecommonly in the Old World. In the breeding plumage, thisJaeger has the crown and faceblackish; back and sides of head,throat and under parts pure white,except the pointed stiffe
. The bird book : illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs . the marsh grass and is lined with grass. Thetwo eggs which they lay have an olive greenishground, spotted with dark brown. Size x Pomapine Jaeger 36. Pomarine Jaeger. Stercorarius pomarinus. Range/—Northern Hemisphere, breeding within the Arctic Circle, morecommonly in the Old World. In the breeding plumage, thisJaeger has the crown and faceblackish; back and sides of head,throat and under parts pure white,except the pointed stiffened feath-ers of the neck which are , wings and tail blackish, thelatter with the two middle feath-ers lengthened about four inchesbeyond the rest of the tail, andbroad to the tips, which are twist-ed so that the feathers are verti-cal. They breed throughout theArctic regions, but not as common-ly in America as the followingspecies. The nest is on the groundin the marsh grass and is made ofgrass and moss. They lay two and rarely three eggs of an olive brown orgreenish color. These are spotted with brown and black. Size x 36. Deep olive brown LONG-WI N C1EI) S \V IM M E RS 37. Parasitic Jaeger. Stercorarius parasiticus Range.—Northern Hemisphere, wintering southto South America. The Parasitic Jaeger is very similar to thePomarine except that the central tail feathersare pointed and are straight instead of is an abundant bird in Alaska, breeding fromthe Aleutian Chain northward. They locate their nests in the highest partsof marshy places, the nest itself being only a de-pression in the ground lined with grass and two eggs have an olive greenish or brownishground and are marked with various shades ofbrown and black. Size x
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