. The bird book : illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs . Brownish Stercorarius in winter to. 38. Long-tailed Range.—-Arctic America; southSouth America. Ih. .,.,..,.,. The long-tailed Jaeger is, according to length, Long-tailed Jaeger the largest of the .lasers, beitii; il in. long; this is. however, due to the longsharp pointed central pair of tail leathers, which extend about eight inchesbeyond the others, and from the most noticeable distinguishing point fromthe former specie
. The bird book : illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs . Brownish Stercorarius in winter to. 38. Long-tailed Range.—-Arctic America; southSouth America. Ih. .,.,..,.,. The long-tailed Jaeger is, according to length, Long-tailed Jaeger the largest of the .lasers, beitii; il in. long; this is. however, due to the longsharp pointed central pair of tail leathers, which extend about eight inchesbeyond the others, and from the most noticeable distinguishing point fromthe former species. The plumages that have been described are the lightphases; all the Jaegers have a darkphase in which the plumage is a near-ly uniform sooty brown, lightest be-low. The Long-tailed Jaegers are thenumerous in Alaska and areeven more graceful in flighl than arethe Culls and Terns, floating, skim-ming, sailing, plunging, and dartingabout with Incredible swiftness andease, lake the others of this family,they pilfer their food from the Culls. mid are also very destructive in youngbirds and eggs. Their 1 I either laid on the hare ground or in a 3ligh1 depression, scantily lined with g
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