. A manual of the ornithology of the United States and of Canada [microform]. Birds; Oiseaux. ^ feeding on insects, mall fish, for which >rojecting stake or terously catch and nes, and indigesti- ort distances with surface of the land le, but they abound s in Europe, there. S" R. ig. 1. AvD. pi. 77. fJo. 2145) )rea8t with a bluish a large collar lound e, with the sides, and iM BELTED KINO-FISHER. 506 Tnia wild and grotesque looking feathered angler is a well known inhabitant of the borders of fresh waters from Hudson's Bay to the tropics. His delight is to dwell amidst the most sequest
. A manual of the ornithology of the United States and of Canada [microform]. Birds; Oiseaux. ^ feeding on insects, mall fish, for which >rojecting stake or terously catch and nes, and indigesti- ort distances with surface of the land le, but they abound s in Europe, there. S" R. ig. 1. AvD. pi. 77. fJo. 2145) )rea8t with a bluish a large collar lound e, with the sides, and iM BELTED KINO-FISHER. 506 Tnia wild and grotesque looking feathered angler is a well known inhabitant of the borders of fresh waters from Hudson's Bay to the tropics. His delight is to dwell amidst the most sequestered scenes of uncultivated nature, by the borders of running rivulets, the roar of the water-fall, or amidst the mountain streamlets which abound with the small fish and insects constituting his accustomed fare. Mill-dams, and the shelving and fria- able banks of water-courses, suited for the sylvan retreat of his mate and brood, have also peculiar and necessary attractions for our retiring King-Fisher. By the broken, bushy, or rocky banks of his solitary and aquatic retreat, he may often be seen perched on some dead and project- ing branch, .scrutinizing the waters for his expected prey ; if unsuccessful, he quickly courses the meanders of the streams or borders of ponds, just above their sur- face, and occasionally hovers for an instant, with rapidly moving wings, over the spot where he perceives his glid- ing quarry; in the next instant, descending with a quick spiral sweep, he seizes a fish from the timid fry, with which he rises to his post, and swallows it in an instant. When startled from the perch, on which he spends many vacant hours digesting his prey, he utters commonly a loud, harsh, and grating cry, very similar to the interrupt- ed creakings of a watchman's rattle, and almost, as it were, the vocal counterpart to the watery tumult amidst which ho usually resides. The nest, a work of much labor, is now burrowed in some dry and sandy, or more tenacious bank of eart
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