. Nests and eggs of North American birds [microform]. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. V? 960 vaara and egos op Blue-crowned Motmot varies from bluish to greenish or, as Mr. Ridgway describes it, "verdlter-blue, varying to verdigris-green, duMer centrally"; length of bird about to 15, middle tail feathers to inches. 300. BELTED KINOFISHEB. Cirylr alnion (Linn.) Oeog. North America. South Panama and West Indies. This is the familiar bird whose loud, coarse, rattling notes are heard along our streams, it may be seen perched upon the lower branches
. Nests and eggs of North American birds [microform]. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. V? 960 vaara and egos op Blue-crowned Motmot varies from bluish to greenish or, as Mr. Ridgway describes it, "verdlter-blue, varying to verdigris-green, duMer centrally"; length of bird about to 15, middle tail feathers to inches. 300. BELTED KINOFISHEB. Cirylr alnion (Linn.) Oeog. North America. South Panama and West Indies. This is the familiar bird whose loud, coarse, rattling notes are heard along our streams, it may be seen perched upon the lower branches of a tree overhanging the water, or on the top of a dead stump; these places furnish a favorite outlook, from which it plunges beneath the water to se- cure Its prey, which is chiefly fish. It is a curious fact that Mr. W. E. D. Scott fre- quently met with this bird in the desert region of Southern Arizona, far from water, feeding on the large insects and lizards. The nest of the Kingflshor is an excavation in the face of a perpendicular bank of a stream, or in the banks of gravel pits. The entrance is generally about two or three feet below the surface; the tun- nel is usually straight, but sometimes an angle from three to six or eight feet, and is dug by the bird. The Kingfisher ejects from its mouth the bones, scales and other indigestible portions of its food, like a bird of prty. Thus are we able lo account for the bones and other refuse of food found in the nesting cavities, in the midst of which the eggs are deposited. The egge are of a clear shining white, nearly spherical In shape, usually six h) number; when the full complement is laid it generally num- bers seven or eight. Six eggs measure , , , , 390. 1. RINGED KINOFISHEB. CeryU torquaia (Linn.) Oeog. DistâMexi- co and southward to Southern South America; casual on the Lower Rio Grande. Texas. This in the largest and handsomest Kingfleher found on the Amer
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