. The bird book, illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds, also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs . 71 THK BIRD BOOK TOTIPALMATE SWIMMERS. Order IV. STEGANOPODESTROPIC BIRDS. Family PHAETHONTIDAE Tropic Birds are Tern-like birds, liaving all the toes connected by a web,and having the two central tail leathers very much lengthened. 112. Yellow-eilleu Thopic Bird. Phirthqnamericanus. Range.—Tropical regions, breeding in the Ba-hamas. West Indies and the Bermudas, casual inFlorida and along the Soutli Atlantic coast. The Tropic Birds are tlie m
. The bird book, illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds, also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs . 71 THK BIRD BOOK TOTIPALMATE SWIMMERS. Order IV. STEGANOPODESTROPIC BIRDS. Family PHAETHONTIDAE Tropic Birds are Tern-like birds, liaving all the toes connected by a web,and having the two central tail leathers very much lengthened. 112. Yellow-eilleu Thopic Bird. Phirthqnamericanus. Range.—Tropical regions, breeding in the Ba-hamas. West Indies and the Bermudas, casual inFlorida and along the Soutli Atlantic coast. The Tropic Birds are tlie most strilcinglybeautiful of all the sea birds; they are about30inches in length, of which tlieir long slender tailtakes about 20 inches. They tly with the easeand grace of a Tern, but with quicker wing feed on small fish, which they capture by. V- Dull purplish darting down upon, and upon snails wliich theyget from the beach and ledges. They build theirnests in the crevices and along the ledges of therocky cliffs. While gregarious to a certain ex-tent they are not nearly as much so as the nest is made of a mass of seaweed and weeds;but one egg is laid, this being of a creamy or palepurplish ground color, dotted and sprinkled withchestnut, so thickly as to often obscure theground color. Size Data.—Coney Is.,Bermudas, May 1, 1901. Nest made of mosS andledge of cliff. Collector. A. H. Verrill.
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