. Citizen bird. Scenes from bird-life in plain english for beginners. 416 CITIZEN BIBB that he has to stand up on end. His nest is on the ground and his flesh is not fit to eat, being too rank and fishy. You can hear his mournful cry a mile off. The Pied-billed Grebe, Dabchick, or Water Witch Length thirteen inches. Upper parts brownish-black. Breast and belly white, very smooth like satin. A black mark on the throat, and a black band on the bill, which is shaped like a Hen's. Feathers on top of the head bristly. Feet very strange: they stick out far behind, because Grebes have no tail to be s
. Citizen bird. Scenes from bird-life in plain english for beginners. 416 CITIZEN BIBB that he has to stand up on end. His nest is on the ground and his flesh is not fit to eat, being too rank and fishy. You can hear his mournful cry a mile off. The Pied-billed Grebe, Dabchick, or Water Witch Length thirteen inches. Upper parts brownish-black. Breast and belly white, very smooth like satin. A black mark on the throat, and a black band on the bill, which is shaped like a Hen's. Feathers on top of the head bristly. Feet very strange: they stick out far behind, because Grebes have no tail to be seen, and the toes are different from those of any other bird you have in your tables, being scalloped with flaps of skin instead of webbed like those of most Swimming Birds. A Citizen of North America, whose nest is a wet bed of broken- down reeds, sometimes floating on the water of the marsh. He can dive and swim under water as well as a Loon. If you could catch one alive, he would make his flapper-like feet go so fast you could not see anything of them but a hazy film, as the Humming- bird does his wings when he poises in front of a Pied-billed 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 Wright, Mabel Osgood, 1859-1934; Coues, Elliott, 1842-1899. New York, The Macmillan Company
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