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Title: Birds and nature in natural colors : being a scientific and popular treatise on four hundred birds of the United States and Canada
Year: 1913 (1910s)
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Subjects: Birds -- North America
Publisher: Chicago : A.W. Mumford, Publisher
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ago by , Esq. According to Dr. Coues, the center of the birds abundance in summer in-cludes the northwestern prairie states and the region of the Saskatchewan. Itbreeds in Iowa, he says, and in Minnesota and eastern Dakota, where I observedit in June, and where the eggs have been procured. I found it on the plainsbordering the Red River, in company with Long-billed Curlews and great num-bers of Bartramian Sandpipers, nesting like these species, on the prairie near theriver, and about the adjoining pools, but not necessarily by the waters edge. Inits habits at this season it most nearly resembles the Curlew, and the two species,of much the same size and general appearance, might be readily mistaken at adistance where the difference in the bill might not be perceived. On intrusionnear the nest, the birds mount in the air with loud piercing cries, hovering slowlyaround with labored flight in evident distress, and approaching sometimes withina few feet of the observer. 940 ••Of*! w d
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The Prairie Hen (Tympanuclius amcyicanus)By Amos Butler Synonyms,—Prairie Chicken; Pinnated Grouse. Description.—Adult male: Above dusky-brown to blackish, narrowly barredand spotted with ociiraceuus-butT of several shades; crown blackish, less spottedwith biUT; an elongated tuft of feathers on each side of the neck, brownish-black,the uppermost feathers rufous-and-bufly-strijicd on the inner webs; tips offeathers rounded or truncated; beneath the neck-tufts a bare space of orange-colored skin, largely concealed at rest; wing-quills, light fuscous, spotted withwhitish or ochraceous-butT on external webs; tail, rounded, fuscous, blackeningtoward the tip, the central feathers narrowly white-tipped; chin, throat, and sidesof head, buffy or ochraceous with a blackish malar stripe and an obscure spot ofsame color on side of throat; remaining under parts evenly barred with lightgrayish-brown and white, tinged more or less with ochraceous on sides and some-times on breast; nearly unmarke

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