. The birds of California : a complete, scientific and popular account of the 580 species and subspecies of birds found in the state. Birds; Birds. The Phainopepla A Phainopepla's egg is quite unlike anything else. Speckled eggs there are in abundance, but none others in America are so uniformly speckled,—fly-specked as it were—as these. An average egg plotted and computed with considerable care, was estimated to have upwards of ten thousand spots on it. The markings, while of a nearly uniform size, vary greatly in depth; and so run from palest lavender-gray to black; or, more rarely, from lav
. The birds of California : a complete, scientific and popular account of the 580 species and subspecies of birds found in the state. Birds; Birds. The Phainopepla A Phainopepla's egg is quite unlike anything else. Speckled eggs there are in abundance, but none others in America are so uniformly speckled,—fly-specked as it were—as these. An average egg plotted and computed with considerable care, was estimated to have upwards of ten thousand spots on it. The markings, while of a nearly uniform size, vary greatly in depth; and so run from palest lavender-gray to black; or, more rarely, from lavender through a yellowish olive series to sepia. The ground-color, too, has a high individual variation, being either white, pale greenish, greenish gray, or, more commonly, purplish gray. Now and then specimens are found which are strongly suffused with purplish in irregular areas. The number of eggs is usually two, but sometimes three; and, according to Mr. Morcom, threes predominate in certain favorable seasons. The male bird shares the duties of incubation (or does considerably more than half of it), although he does not. Taken in the Ojai PALE BUT RESOLUTE Photo by Dickey 560. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Dawson, William Leon, 1873-1928; Dickey, Donald R. (Donald Ryder), 1887-1932; Pierce, Wright M; Finley, William L. (William Lovell), 1876-1953; Brooks, Allan, 1869-1946. San Diego ; Los Angeles ; San Francisco : South Moulton Company
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