. Nests and eggs of North American birds [microform]. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. i • 152 NESTS AND BOOS OF [267.] WHIMBBEL. Numeniua phaopus (Linn.) Geog. Dist.—Old World; •ccasional In Greenland. In England and Scotland this bird is known as Whlmbrel Curlew, "Half-Cur- lew," or Jack Curlew. It breeds throughout Northern Europe and Asia. Though pretty generally diffused In Great Britain, it is only found breeding in the extreme north of Scotland, on the Orkney and Shetland Islands, where the eggs are hatched by the first part of June. In these placps the nests are mad
. Nests and eggs of North American birds [microform]. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. i • 152 NESTS AND BOOS OF [267.] WHIMBBEL. Numeniua phaopus (Linn.) Geog. Dist.—Old World; •ccasional In Greenland. In England and Scotland this bird is known as Whlmbrel Curlew, "Half-Cur- lew," or Jack Curlew. It breeds throughout Northern Europe and Asia. Though pretty generally diffused In Great Britain, it is only found breeding in the extreme north of Scotland, on the Orkney and Shetland Islands, where the eggs are hatched by the first part of June. In these placps the nests are made on elevated portions of the heiih. During the breeding season the Whirabrel is found on the Faroe Islands and in Iceland. It is distributed throughout Denmark, Scandinavia and Russia; a few are known to breed in Lapland, far north as latitude 65°. It is said by best authorities that this bird is the most widely diffused of all the waders. Its extra-limital range includes Siberia, India, China, Australia and Africa. On the Faroe Islands it is recorded as breeding from the 2!>th of May to the 17th of June. The nest being simply a depression in the soil on some slight elevation in dry spots in marshes. The eggs are four in number, pear-shaped, and vary in color irom light olive-brown to dark greenish-brown, clouded with spots and blotches of dt .k umber; average size [268.] BBISTLE-TKIGHED CUBLEW. Xuniniivfi tahitirtisis (Gmel.) Geor. Dlst.—Islands of the Pacific Ocean; occasional on the coast of Alaska and Lower California. I ,i' ' t ;. 268. Bristlb-tkiohbd Ctjhlew. (From Kelson.) This Curlew, which Is a native of various islands in the Pacific Ocean is t^rtn a place in our avifauna on the ground that two examples were taken on our weetern coast, one at St. Michael's l8>land and the other on Kadlak Island, Alaska. [269.] LAPWING. TatieUus raveUus (Linn.) G€Og. LiSi.—Northern portloB Of Eastern Hemisphere; occasional in Arctic America, Gree
Size: 1886px × 1325px
Photo credit: © Library Book Collection / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, booksubjectbirds, booksubjectorn
