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Chapter III
COLLECTING BIRDS, THEIR NESTS, AND EGGS Collecting Birds Making Birdskins. Sexing Birds • Cataloguing and Labeling Care of a Collection •…
Cormorant
Ad. in breeding plumage.-Head, neck, rump, and under parts glossy black; upper back, scapulars, and wing-coverts light grayish brown, each…
Colonel N (S Goss writes that as a rule)
S. Goss writes that, as a rule, Widgeons are "not shy, and their note, a sort of whew, whew, whew, uttered while feeding and swimming…
Colonel N (S Goss in his admirable Birds)
S. Goss, in his admirable Birds of Kansas, writes that he has observed this species along the edges of old channels of rivers or muddy…
Curlew
Ad. - Upper parts grayish brown, the sides of the feathers with whitish spots; rump and tail barred with buffy and blackish; inner web of…
Calico-Back
Ad. in summer. - Upper parts, including wings, strikingly variegated with rufous, black, and white; tail white at the base, a black band…
Cruz
It is this race, with white-tipped upper tail-coverts, which was first introduced into Europe, where it had become established as early had…
Chicken Hawk (Ad Upper parts dark grayish)
Ad. - Upper parts dark grayish brown or fuscous-brown, more or less edged with rufous, ochraceous-buff, and whitish; four outer primaries…
Chicken Hawk (Ad Upper parts dark grayish) (II)
Ad. - Upper parts dark grayish fuscous-brown, more or less edged with rufous, ochraceous - buff, and whitish; four outer primaries…
Can Rough-Legged Hawk
Ad., light phase. - Upper parts fuscous-brown, margined with whitish and ochraceous-buff; inner vanes of the primaries white at the base…
Cuckoo
Ad.- Upper parts grayish brown with a slight green gloss; wings FIG. 74. Tail-feathers of Black-billed Cuckoo. and tail the same, the…
Crested Flycatcher
Ad. - Upper parts grayish brown, washed with olivegreen; outer vane of primaries margined with pale rufous; inner vane of all but the…
Catcher
Ad.-Upper parts rather dark olive-green; wings and tail fuscous; greater and lesser wing-coverts tipped with white or yellowish white…
Chippy
Ad.-No black on the forehead; an indistinct black spot on the center of the breast; top of the head rufous-brown, sometimes edged with…
Cherry-Bird
(See Fig. 50.) Ad.-Forehead, chin, and a line through the eye velvety black; a conspicuous crest; upper parts rich grayish brown; upper…
Cardinal
The Cardinal of Florida has been described, under the above name, by Mr. Ridgway, as "smaller and darker colored than C. cardinalis; adult…