. The bird book : illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs . Egg of Canada Goose—Bufty drab112 LAMELLIROSTRAL SWIMMERS 177- Black-bellied Tree-duck. Dendro-cygna autumnalis. Range.—Tropical America, north in the RioGrande Valley to southern Texas. These peculiar long-legged Ducks are veryabundant in southern Texas during the summermonths. They build their nests in hollow trees,often quite a distance from the water. They laytheir eggs upon the bottom of the cavity withonly a scant lining, if any, of fea
. The bird book : illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs . Egg of Canada Goose—Bufty drab112 LAMELLIROSTRAL SWIMMERS 177- Black-bellied Tree-duck. Dendro-cygna autumnalis. Range.—Tropical America, north in the RioGrande Valley to southern Texas. These peculiar long-legged Ducks are veryabundant in southern Texas during the summermonths. They build their nests in hollow trees,often quite a distance from the water. They laytheir eggs upon the bottom of the cavity withonly a scant lining, if any, of feathers and are very prolilic breeders, raising two broodsin a season, each set of eggs containing from tento twenty. These eggs are creamy or pure x The first set is laid during thelatter part of April or early in May, and fresheggs may be found as late as July. They areespecially abundant about Brownsville and CorpusChristi, Texas. Data.—Hidalgo, Mexico, May 29,1900. Ten eggs in a hole in an old elm tree onside of lake in big woods near town. Eight feetfrom the ground. Collector, F. B. Armstrong. Whiti. j t iiellied Tree IuckFulvous Trei 178. I i i.\m s Tree-dui k. Dendrocygna bicolor. Range. This species is tropical like the last, but the summer rantended to cover, casually the whole southwestern border of the United states. This bird is long-legged like I bu1 the plumage is entirely different, being of a general rusty color, including the entire under parts. The nestinghabits and eggs are the those o1 tl bellied Du :k, the white laid at the bottom of i They number from eight to (in one Instance) thirty-two eggs in one nest. This species is nearly as abundanlas the preceding in southern !•
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