This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 edition. Excerpt: ...In treeless, unsettled localities, they are often found nesting in the sides of steep banks, excavating their burrows like the Kingfisher. A set of four eggs, collected May 6th, 1879, near Fort Garland, Colorado, from a nest in a pine tree, about twelve feet from the ground, are, in dimensions: 1.12x ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 edition. Excerpt: ...In treeless, unsettled localities, they are often found nesting in the sides of steep banks, excavating their burrows like the Kingfisher. A set of four eggs, collected May 6th, 1879, near Fort Garland, Colorado, from a nest in a pine tree, about twelve feet from the ground, are, in dimensions: 1.12x.89, 1.13x.88, 1.13x.68, 1.14x. S9; not distinguishable from the eggs of C. auratw, except by their larger size. Order MACROCHlRES. GOATSUCKERS, SWlFTS, ETC. Bill without soft swollen cere. Wings very long, with ten quills, tail of ten feathers, and gape very wide and deeply cleft; or else bill long and slender, tongue extensile, and secondaries only six in number. (Ridgway.) Suborder CAPRIMULGI. Goatsuckers, Etc. "Secondaries more than six; bill short, very broad at base, the gape deeply cleft; plumage not metallic." Middle toe much longer than lateral toes, its claws with inner edge pectinated; gape more or less distinctly bristled; plumage much spotted, the feathers soft, with downy or moth-like surface. (Ridgway.) Family CAPRIMULGIDiE. Goatsuckers, Eto. "Bill very short, the gape enormously long and wide, opening to beneath or behind the eyes. Culmen variable. Toes connected by a movable skin; secondaries lengthened; plumage soft, sometimes very full and loose, as in the Owls." Gexus ANTROSTOMUS Gould. "Bill very small, with tubular nostrils, and the gape with long, stiff, sometimes pectinated bristles projecting beyond the end of the bill; tarsi moderate, partly feathered above; tail broad, rounded; wings broad and rouuded; first quill shorter than third: plumage soft and lax." Antrostomus vociferus (wils.). Whip-poob-will. Plate Xxiii. Summer resident; rare; quite common during migration in the eastern...
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