. The bird book : illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs . tates, northward andwintering from the southern parts of its breed-ing range, southward. This well known bird is abundant in all lo-calities near water, where its rattling notes areamong the most familiar of sounds. Their foodis almost entirely of small fish, which theycatch by plunging upon from their perch on anold dead limb over-hanging the water, ~->-^or by hovering in \the air like an Os \prey. Their nests - \are located at theend of
. The bird book : illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs . tates, northward andwintering from the southern parts of its breed-ing range, southward. This well known bird is abundant in all lo-calities near water, where its rattling notes areamong the most familiar of sounds. Their foodis almost entirely of small fish, which theycatch by plunging upon from their perch on anold dead limb over-hanging the water, ~->-^or by hovering in \the air like an Os \prey. Their nests - \are located at theend of burrows insand banks or thebanks of creeks andrivers. These tun-nels, which are dugby the birds, gener-ally commence two or three feet from the topof the bank and extend back from six to eighlfeet, either in a straight line or curved; the end is enlarged to form a suitablenesting place, in which from five to eight eggs are laid. They are gloss; andpure white in color. Size Data.—Lake Quinsigamond, Massachusetts, June 6, 1900. 7 eggs at the end of a 6 foot tunnel in a sand bank. Birdremoved by hand from the nest. Collector, C. E. W Belted Kingfisher [] Ringed Kingfisher. Ceryle torquata. Range. Mexico, north casually to the Lower Rio Grande Vallej in TVThis handsome species is much larger than the Belted Kingfisher andunderparts are nearly all bright chestnut, except the white throat. They nest inriver banks the same as the common American species, and the eggs are white,but larger, size
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