Report upon natural history collections made in Alaska between the years 1877 and 1881

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Identifier: cu31924001533037 (find matches)
Title: Report upon natural history collections made in Alaska between the years 1877 and 1881
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Nelson, Edward William, 1855-1934 Henshaw, Henry W. (Henry Wetherbee), 1850-1930 True, Frederick William, 1858-1914 Bean, Tarleton H. (Tarleton Hoffman), 1846-1916 Edwards, William H. (William Henry), 1822-1909
Subjects: Zoology Birds
Publisher: Washington, Govt. Print. Off.
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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e they began to mate, and he saw two males following asingle female. At this season they soar in the air like the common snipe, and when descendingfrom a height Ihey beat their wings behind their backs with a rapid motion, which produced a loudwhirring noise. After repeated search for the nest they were compelled to abandon the hope ofsecuring any eggs, but later in the season the parents with young were obtained. The followingdescription of the newly-hatched birds is presented by the naturalist just quoted: Iris black; tipof mandible dark brown; bill dark olive; toes black; soles of feet greenish yellow; • back of legsthe same; under part of throat satin white; back beautifully-mottled tortoise-shell. A young bird of the year secured by me at Saint Michaels, on the date already mentioned,has the crown and back to the rump, including the wings, grayish ashy, darker on the primaries,where it is ashy brown. A pale grayish superciliary stripe extends back from the base of the Plate vi.
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BIRDS. 103 upper mandible on each. side. Featliers of the crown have dark centers, producing a streakedappearance. Edges of feathers of back and wing coverts, including the tertials and secondaries,have light borders. These edgings are gray on the back and narrow, but are broader and becomewhite on the tips of secondaries; rump grayish white, each feather edged with a subterminal darkband. Tail pure ashy, tipped with a slightly darker border followed by a fine white edging. Sidesof the head, neck, and the under side of the throat and neck dull grayish ashy, thickly streakedwith a-narrow dark shaft-line on each feather. The grayish becomes darkest on the breast, wherethe streaking changes to white in the center with a grayish border, the division between the twocolors being marked by a fine dark line inclosing the white. Abdomen grayish white; sides offlanks pale fulvous ashy, transversely barred with vermiculated lines formed by the broken andirregular markings of the feathers. Tringa

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