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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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the outlines of the individualbirds. The fulvous tree-duck generally feeds in the night, and usually at a placeseveral miles from the nesting site. They leave the feeding grounds on the firstsign of approaching day- During my stay of three months in the Brazos Riverregion, only on one or two occasions did I have an opportunity to observe thisbird by the light of day. In form it resembles a miniature swan. It stands veryhigh on its legs and presents a wonderfully curious and graceful appearance asit walks along the shore, feeding on shellfish and decaying matter. Owing to the nature of its diet, which consists chiefly of grain, roots, andwater plants, the flesh of this bird is esteemed as an article of food, and many arekilled for such. Nest: Located in the hollow of a tree, the bottom of the cavity usuallybeing lined with feathers. They lay from ten to fifteen pure white eggs, and asmany as thirty-two have been found in one nest, but these were probably laid bytwo or more females. 934
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FULVOUS TREE-DUCK. iDendrocygna fulva ) Nearly ,i Life-size- copym&MT 1900. Br » VUMFORS, CHIC-.. Valley Qliail (/^ophortyx califontica califuniica) Range.—Iacific coast rcgicjii trum ^oiitlnvc^tirii ( )regoii south to MontereyCounty, California; introduced mU) Xancouver Island, Washington, and Colo-rado. The two f(jrnis of (;uail inhabiting the coast and valley regi<jns of Oregonand California, though differing enough in i)lumage to constitute races, are verysimilar in habits- As its name imj)lies, the bird prefers valleys to movnitains,although it may range ui)\vard as high as four thousand feet, at about whichpoint it meets the habitat of its larger relative, the mountain quail. The valleyquail is widely distributed, and being very i)rolitic, it is, or was, exceedinglyabundant over most of its range. ICastern sportsmen, knowing only our Bob-white, would find it dithcult U) credit tales that might be told of the numbersof valley qiiail that formerly congregated in favorabl

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