. A guide to the birds of New England and eastern New York; containing a key for each season and short descriptions of over 250 species, with particular reference to their appearance in the field . the Hairy, for when the largerbird is seen its size attracts notice at once; it is nearly aslarge as a Robin, and its bill looks long and heavy. Theouter tail-feathers are pure white, not barred with black asin the Downy ; but this difference is of little help, unless thebird is seen near at hand, and with outspread tail. CUCKOOS, KINGFISHERS, ETC.: ORDERCOCCYGES KINGFISHERS : FAMILY ALCEDINID^J Bel
. A guide to the birds of New England and eastern New York; containing a key for each season and short descriptions of over 250 species, with particular reference to their appearance in the field . the Hairy, for when the largerbird is seen its size attracts notice at once; it is nearly aslarge as a Robin, and its bill looks long and heavy. Theouter tail-feathers are pure white, not barred with black asin the Downy ; but this difference is of little help, unless thebird is seen near at hand, and with outspread tail. CUCKOOS, KINGFISHERS, ETC.: ORDERCOCCYGES KINGFISHERS : FAMILY ALCEDINID^J Belted Kingfisher. Ceryle alcyon Ad. $. — Upper parts grayish-blue ; feathers of the wingtipped with white; spot before the eye white; tail-feathers nar-rowly barred with white ; broad collar white; band across thebreast bluish-gray ; lower breast and belly white ; bill long; BELTED KINGFISHER 225 feathers of the back of the head long, often raised as a 9. —Similar to $ ; band across the belly and sides , in a deep hole in a bank of sand. Eggs, white. The Kingfisher is a summer resident of all parts of NewEngland and New York, appearing in April, as soon as the. Belted Kingfisher ice melts from the streams and ponds, and staying till Long Island Sound and in the lower Hudson Valley,where there is open water all winter, a Kingfisher is occasion-ally seen even at that season. Any point of lookout over thewater may become the Kingfishers perch, — spar-buoys andspindles in little coves and harbors, limbs of trees extendingover quiet mill-ponds or pools in mountain streams. Hereit sits and watches the water below, or when startled passesalong the shore or up the brook, with a loud cry, like awatchmans rattle. It often hovers over one spot, with bodynearly perpendicular, and wings beating rapidly, watchingsome fish below, ready to plunge and seize it in its long bill. 226 BIRDS OF NEW ENGLAND AND EASTERN NEW YORK The Kingfisher may often
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