Handbook of birds of the western United States, including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande valley (1904) (14755380405)

Identifier: handbookofbirds00bail (find matches)
Title: Handbook of birds of the western United States, including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande valley
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Bailey, Florence Merriam, b. 1863
Subjects: Birds -- West (U.S.)
Publisher: Boston, New York, Houghton, Mifflin and company
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library



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Fig. 70, crown darker, back of neck blackish, a white stripe down side of neck ;throat and under parts white ; sides and upper parts gray crossed by wavylines ; wing slaty, with purple speculum bordered above by a line of buff,and below by white ; tertials with broad stripes of velvety black andwhite ; under tail coverts black. Adult female: gray, with head and neckfinely specked, and under parts, including under surface of wing, finelymottled with dusky; back and wings more heavily mottled with black,brown, and buffy ; wing without speculum, but greater coverts tippedwith white. Male: length 26-30, wing 10.2.5-11.20, bill 1.85-2.15, tail7.25-9.50. Female: smaller, length 21.00-23.50, wing 9.60-10.10, bill1.80, tail 4.50-5.00.
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DUCKS, GEESE, AND SWANS 56 Distribution. — Northern hemisphere, breeding- from Arizona, Missouri,and Illinois northward ; mig-rating- to Cuba and Panama. Nest. — On the ground, in a well concealed depression ; lined with grassand feathers. Eggs : 7 to 10, pale greenish to olive buff. The pintail is a common and widely distributed species, breedini^from southern California, Arizona, and Iowa north to Point Barrow.In Kansas, Goss says, it haunts the wet prairies, muddy flats, andedges of reedy, grassy waters, feeding largely on bulbous roots,tender shoots, insects and their larvae, worms, snails, and, in the fall,various seeds of water plants, grain, and acorns. At Point Reyes,California, large flocks of the pintails were seen by J. A. Loringlying out in the bay w^aiting for the tide to come in. As soon as itcovered the salt grass flats they would follow it in and go to feeding. GENUS AIX. Wood Duck. xes with drnoTiinc: crests. 144. Aix sponsa (Linn.) Bill narrow, higher than wAdult