. The birds of Washington : a complete, scientific and popular account of the 372 species of birds found in the state . ■■i|iiaiifr the air incessantly in a l>at-like Hight M>r-\\i!l>. hut put a liheral construction . m iw iliijht. l)ciiigcare f u i toa vail them-selves of allcloiuly days,and. in fact,moving aboutat will when-ever the sunslants m i il d I ehours of theday are spentu p o n t li I-ground, whoretiieir neutraltints serve al)rotcctive ])in-IK)sc and arcalmost implic-itly relied themating seasonthe males takegreat i)ara-Ix^lic headersin t h e e I
. The birds of Washington : a complete, scientific and popular account of the 372 species of birds found in the state . ■■i|iiaiifr the air incessantly in a l>at-like Hight M>r-\\i!l>. hut put a liheral construction . m iw iliijht. l)ciiigcare f u i toa vail them-selves of allcloiuly days,and. in fact,moving aboutat will when-ever the sunslants m i il d I ehours of theday are spentu p o n t li I-ground, whoretiieir neutraltints serve al)rotcctive ])in-IK)sc and arcalmost implic-itly relied themating seasonthe males takegreat i)ara-Ix^lic headersin t h e e I u r u i n iisharply a n <1producing aloud boom-ing (/(Jti-Tf—whether by therushing of ;iir thru the wings or across the opened month, will, perhaps, never be dctermined. During migrations scores of these birds are sometimes seen moving aloftin loose arrav and. customarily at this season, silent. While not at any timestrictlv gregarious, favorable conditions are likely to attract considerable. OF WKSTKRN K. IN SITf. nil. WKSTERX 409 nunihers lo a given s\)i>i. I Iia\c seen scores ai a time winginj^ noiselessly toantl fro over the tran(|iiil waters of Brook Lake, and once 1 saw a coiii])anyof not less tiian two hundred executing; a grand march with bewilderingevolutions, in a \akima pasture. The date in the last-mentioned instancewas August lOlh. and it is more likeh that the birds had discovered somenotable event in the insect world, than that they themselves were ])reparingto migrate. The eggs of the Xighlhawk are hea\il\ mottled with slaty and othertints, which render them practicalK imisible to the searching eye. even thotiicy rest ujwn the bare ground or. as ofiener. upon an exposed lava during the very warmest hours (when the suns rays might addlethem) and the coolest (when they might become chilled), the sitting birdis likely to rest beside her eggs instead of on them. The young Ijirds whenhatched place great reliance
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