. A Book of ornithology, for youth. Embracing descriptions of the most interesting and remarkable birds in all countries, with particular notices of American birds . eltered and barren grounds. Insuch situations, they perch on high rocks and stones,watching for their prey, their snowy plumage renderingthem almost undistinguishable. Their dismal voices addhorror even to a Greenland winter. WATER FOWL. Naturalists divide Water Fowl into three orders;those with cloven feet, or the crane kind; these with pin-nated, or finned feet; and those with webbed feet, or theswan or duck kind. The web-footed
. A Book of ornithology, for youth. Embracing descriptions of the most interesting and remarkable birds in all countries, with particular notices of American birds . eltered and barren grounds. Insuch situations, they perch on high rocks and stones,watching for their prey, their snowy plumage renderingthem almost undistinguishable. Their dismal voices addhorror even to a Greenland winter. WATER FOWL. Naturalists divide Water Fowl into three orders;those with cloven feet, or the crane kind; these with pin-nated, or finned feet; and those with webbed feet, or theswan or duck kind. The web-footed fowl are generallyof a squat make, and of a waddling gait, with their legsplaced far behind, and extremely long necks. The clo-ven-footed Water Fowl on the contrary are tall, light andin general of pleasing proportions. Those with finned 226 THE ROSEATE SPOONBILL. feet partake of the nature of both. The cloven-footed laytheir eggs on the ground, and make no nest. Those withpinnated feet form large nests in the water or near it;and the web-footed fowl deposit their eggs for the mostpart on the lofty cliffs, or inaccessible promontories. THE ROSEATE This bird has a beautiful red plumage, with a mixtureof black at the lower part of the neck. It inhabits thesea-shores of America from Brazil to Georgia, and in sum-mer occasionally wanders up the Mississippi. It is com- THE COMMON HEUON. 237 monin several of the West India islands, but confines it-self chiefly to the sea-shore and the mouths of rivers. Itwades about in quest of shell-fish, marine insects, smallcrabs and fish. The young of this bird are said to be of ablackish chestnut the first year, of a roseate colour thesecond year, and oj^a deep scarlet the third. THE HERON. Of this genus there are about eighty-two species, dif-fering in their size, figure and plumage. They are allhowever possessed of the same manners, and are all cow-ardly, rapacious and indolent. They are exceedingly vo-racious, but are always foun
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