. The birds of New England and adjacent states [microform] : containing descriptions of the birds of New England, and adjoining states and provinces, arranged by a long-approved classification and nomenclature; together with a history of their habits .... Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. ead; frontal feather* 1 the eytj (sometimes iological rather than weak and imperfect, il able to take care of lUa, on the contrary, re capable of securing lut exception) is to be â than the head, and > ligh as the skull; the rs of a different kind era is lengtliened and >metimcs, however, it 5N
. The birds of New England and adjacent states [microform] : containing descriptions of the birds of New England, and adjoining states and provinces, arranged by a long-approved classification and nomenclature; together with a history of their habits .... Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. ead; frontal feather* 1 the eytj (sometimes iological rather than weak and imperfect, il able to take care of lUa, on the contrary, re capable of securing lut exception) is to be â than the head, and > ligh as the skull; the rs of a different kind era is lengtliened and >metimcs, however, it 5N8. usually nicked at the strils; tarsi scutellate reb; claws acute; the idge. Ardea garztUa, L., ifhen they are about roadly scutellate ante- id with a full occipital ;hers of lower part of I the tail, recurving at ' part of neck behind, te. Wils. Am. Om., TH. , m. (1886) 817 i V. â â¢â BPWHIP"^"" THE SNOWY HERON. 899 Description. Occiput much crested; dorsal plutnos reaching to the end of the tail; colors pure- white; bill blacl.; the base yellow; legs black; iris, hazel in young, yellow in adult. Length, twenty-four inches; wing, ten and twenty one-hundrodths inches; tar- sus, three and eighty one-hundredths inches; bill, above, three and fifteen one-hun- dredtbs inches. rilHIS beautiful bird is a very rare summer visitor in X the southern New-England States. I have never had an opportunity for observing its habits, and will give the description by Wilson: â " The Snowy Heron seems particularly fond of the salt marshes during summer, seldom penetrating far inland. Its white plumage renders it a very conspicuous object, either while on wing, or while wading the meadows or marshes. ,_râ.;^-- Its food consists of those small crabs usually called fiddlers, mud- worms, snails, frogs, and lizards. It also feeds on the seeds of some species of nymphae, and of several other aquatic plants. On the i9th of May, I visited an extensive breeding-place of the Sno
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