. Wilson's American ornithology [microform] : with additions including the birds described by Audubon, Bonaparte, Nuttall, & Richardson. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. 1!^ M I. 030 BELTED KINGSFISHER J fâu;«n. Xjr> r^f thp Kinpsfip'ia. are too trifling to b^ repeated here. least, the species now before us â 1 ave no control. Its nest is ncitner SSructed of slue nor fish-bones, 3ut of loose grass and a few feath- r:1;tlt uLwnon the sur^ ^Z^ll. r^StTe^ofthrefl Neither is its uead or its foath- rsbelicvereven by the most illiterate of our clown, or seamen to boac arm for lovef
. Wilson's American ornithology [microform] : with additions including the birds described by Audubon, Bonaparte, Nuttall, & Richardson. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. 1!^ M I. 030 BELTED KINGSFISHER J fâu;«n. Xjr> r^f thp Kinpsfip'ia. are too trifling to b^ repeated here. least, the species now before us â 1 ave no control. Its nest is ncitner SSructed of slue nor fish-bones, 3ut of loose grass and a few feath- r:1;tlt uLwnon the sur^ ^Z^ll. r^StTe^ofthrefl Neither is its uead or its foath- rsbelicvereven by the most illiterate of our clown, or seamen to boac arm for lovefa protection against witchcraft, or a security for fair weXr It is neither venerated, like tiiose ot tlio Society sles nor dreaded, like those of some other countries; but is coasid^rod nJro ⢠bird that feeds on fish ; is generally fat; relished hy soma as good eating; and is now and then seen exposed .or sale m our '"ThcS'h the Kii:=,sfiHher generally remains wiUi us in i^ennsylvu nia, un il the commencement of cold weather it is .eldon. seen here in winter; but rtnirns to us early in April. In North and South CaroWI observe,] numbers of these birds ,» the montlis of Feb- niarv and March. ) ..Iso noticed them on the shores of roil^n February, as high u. â â ^.e mouth of the Muskingum. I suspect this bird to be a native oi", h- Baharn. Islands as ^^ ell as of our contfnent In passing between ih. ne ilc. and th. Florida shore,' in the monul of .Tuly, - flew .e, times round our ship, and afterwards shot olV to the south,. â^ â i,.,if. pytpnt The length of this species t^N^lv-- inches and a hajf, exten^ twenty back and wliole ui-ocr ,>".vts., a light slate color; round 1 nJck is a collar of puri'white, which reaches before to the chm; head, large, crested; the feathers, long and narrow, black m the cen- tre ."d lei^rally erect; the shafts of all the feathers, excep the wlnte pluma'efaTe black; b'elly and
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