. The bird book : illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs . THE BIRD BOOK This bird, with its broad, flat bill, bare head, and rosy plumage with carmineepaulets and tail coverts, seem more like the fanciful creation of some artistthan a real bird of flesh and blood. Its plumage and colors are strikingly clear and beautiful. Full plumaged-- _ adult birds have very brilliant carmine shoulders and tail cov-erts, a saffron colored tail, and alengthened tuft of bright rosyfeathers on the foreneck. Thisspec
. The bird book : illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs . THE BIRD BOOK This bird, with its broad, flat bill, bare head, and rosy plumage with carmineepaulets and tail coverts, seem more like the fanciful creation of some artistthan a real bird of flesh and blood. Its plumage and colors are strikingly clear and beautiful. Full plumaged-- _ adult birds have very brilliant carmine shoulders and tail cov-erts, a saffron colored tail, and alengthened tuft of bright rosyfeathers on the foreneck. Thisspecies breed in small colonies•, in marshy places, often in com-*4 pany with herons and * Their nests are rather frail plat- forms of sticks, located in bush-■■* / es or trees, from four to fifteenfeet from the ground. The eggsare laid during the latter partof May and June. They arethree or four in number andhave a ground color of dullwhite, or pale greenish blue and. Pale greenish blue are quite heavily blotched with several shades of brown. Size x
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