. A popular handbook of the ornithology of the United States and Canada [microform] : based on Nuttall's Manual. Water-birds; Water-birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux aquatiques; Oiseaux aquatiques; Ornithologie. i HM' i I i. ,,^^i//'^;:i'"'^"'^'^i I MURRE. FOOLISH GUILLEMOT. COMMON GUILLEMOT. I'ENCiUIN. Tria :. Char. Upper parts licli velvet Ijrown. variable in tint; under parts white ; win<^s with a small white ))atch ; bill ^ and slender and of l)lack color; legs blackish, wubs ulivc. Lenj;th about iS inches (female rather smaller). In winter the chin, tlircjat. and sides
. A popular handbook of the ornithology of the United States and Canada [microform] : based on Nuttall's Manual. Water-birds; Water-birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux aquatiques; Oiseaux aquatiques; Ornithologie. i HM' i I i. ,,^^i//'^;:i'"'^"'^'^i I MURRE. FOOLISH GUILLEMOT. COMMON GUILLEMOT. I'ENCiUIN. Tria :. Char. Upper parts licli velvet Ijrown. variable in tint; under parts white ; win<^s with a small white ))atch ; bill ^ and slender and of l)lack color; legs blackish, wubs ulivc. Lenj;th about iS inches (female rather smaller). In winter the chin, tlircjat. and sides of nccU beiome white, n\orc or less mottled with bhuk. A'i'i/. On a letigc of an ocean cliff: no attemjit is made to construct a reccjitacle for the egt;, — it is laid upon the rock. /•-\,V- i; variable in color, the prevailing tints bcini,' ivorv white, vel- lowish Ljreen, dark green, pale blue, and rc-ddish l)rown, with numerous intermediate tints ; niarkini;s irret:;ular. and of browns and giays in vari- ous shades ; si/e variable, average abmit X i <)0. The Foolisli Citiilk'niot, so cnllcd for its fatuity in the breeding-season, in allowiny: itself soinrtinies to i)e seized by the hand or killed on the s])ot without flying from its I. 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 Chamberlain, Montague, 1844-1924; Nuttall, Thomas. A manual of the ornithology of the United States and of Canada. Boston : Little, Brown
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