. Livre illustré de jeunes gens d'oiseaux : avec de nombreuses anecdotes originales, instructives et amusantes . au point, beaucoup de likeque de la tribu des pics à bois, mais remarquablement narrowednear la base où les narstrils sont placés, probablement thatit peut travailler avec plus de liberté dans le sable. Cet instrument, pour les deux tiers de sa longueur vers le point, était manifestement beaucoup usé en creusant; sa couleur, un riche écarlate d'orange, un peu jaunâtre près de la pointe; oeil, grand; orbites, de la même écarlate de lumière que le billet; irides, brillant; pupille, petit, noir bleuâtre; sous l'œil est un petit point de wh

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. Young folk's illustrated book of birds : with numerous original, instructive and amusing anecdotes . at the point, very much likethat of the woodpecker tribe, but remarkably narrowednear the base where the nostrils are placed, probably thatit may work with more freedom in the sand. This instru-ment, for two-thirds of its length towards the point, wasevidently much worn by digging; its colour, a rich orange-scarlet, somewhat yellowish near the tip; eye, large; orbits, of the same bright scarlet as the bill; irides, brilliantyellow; pupil, small, bluish black; under the eye is asmall spot of white, and a large bed of the same on thewing-coverts; head, neck, scapulars, rump, wing-quills, andtail, black; several of the primaries are marked on the outerTan(s with a slanting band of white; secondaries, white, pan of them tipped with black; the whole lower parts ofthe body, sides of the rump, tail-coverts, and that portionof the tail which they cover, are pure white; the wings, when shut, cover the whole white plumage of the back andromp; legs and naked part of the thighsy pale red 5 f&e^. Herons Nesting. THE GREAT HERON. Ill «hree-toed, the outer joined to the middle by a broad anastrong membrane, and each bordered with a rough, wartyedge; the soles of the feet are defended from the hard sandand shells by a remarkably thick and callous warty skin. On opening these birds, the smallest of the three wasfound to be a male; the gullet widened into a kind ofcrop; the stomach, or gizzard, contained fragments of shell*fish, pieces of crabs, and of the great king-crab, with somedark brown marine insects. The flesh was remarkably firmand muscular; the skull, thick and strong, intended, nodoubt, as in the woodpecker tribe, for the security of thebrain from the violent concussions it might receive whilethe bird was engaged in digging. The female and youngbirds have the back and scapulars of a sooty brownish olive. THE GREAT HERON. (Ardea Herodiat.) The Great Heron (says Mr. Wilson) i

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