. Coloured illustrations of British birds, and their eggs . , twigs, andthe leaves of rushes, and lined with some softer materials ofthe same kind. The eggs are in number two, three, andsometimes four. After the young are hatched they remain inthe nest until they are able to fly, when the parent birds leadthem to boggy ground, and soon after let them shift forthemselves. 186 The Spoonbill measures about two feet seven or eightinches from the tip of the beak to the extremity of the entire feathering is white, the breast only tinged withyellow. The beak is black, barred with l
. Coloured illustrations of British birds, and their eggs . , twigs, andthe leaves of rushes, and lined with some softer materials ofthe same kind. The eggs are in number two, three, andsometimes four. After the young are hatched they remain inthe nest until they are able to fly, when the parent birds leadthem to boggy ground, and soon after let them shift forthemselves. 186 The Spoonbill measures about two feet seven or eightinches from the tip of the beak to the extremity of the entire feathering is white, the breast only tinged withyellow. The beak is black, barred with lead-colour ; thetip yellowish flesh-colour. The legs are black. The iris variesaccording to age, from pearl white to deep red : the younghave the white iris, the middle-aged brown, and the adultbird the carmine red. The ornamental feathers of the headbecome tinged with orange yellow in old specimens. Theonly difference between the male and the female is, that themale is the larger and stronger bird of the two. The egg figured 174 is that of the 76 PI IV* m
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