The leg and foot of a hawk, shwering the method of attaching the Bells and Jesses. a, the end of the…
A common European bird whose pleasant short and often repeated song is haerd fro early spring to the…
Also called the ground cuckoo, road runner, or paisano. A large errestrial bird or the family Cuculidæ.
The popular name of the American black capped titmouse. Usually almost 6 inches in length.
A North American bird having a long graduated, party colored tail, and the head much striped.
A bird 6 to 7 inches in length with its middle tail feathers about as long. The male is chiefly of a…
A bird that spends most of its time in the water. It has a thick body; very short tail of 12 rectrices…
A bird of the harriers, having an incomplete facial disk and large ear pars, as in some owls, a week…
"The Egyptian shops exhibited many curious scenes. Poulters suspended geese and other birds from a pole…
One of the growths, generally formed each of a central quill and a vane on each side of it, which make…
A large bird, found in Africa and Asia, having a large bill curved downward, on which is a process resembling…
A large bird, nearly ten feet high, having a long neck, stout long legs, with only two toes, and short…
A climbing bird of brilliant color, having a fleshy tongue, and a short, hooked bill toothed above.
A marine diving bird, allied to the auk, and having a short, thick beak like that of the parrot.
A very small bird remarkable for the metallic brilliancy of its plumage, and for its swift motion and…
A singing-bird of North America remarkable for its exact imitations of the notes of other birds.
A bird with a moderately curved beak, wide at th base and compressed beyond it, long pointed wings,…
An American bird, allied to the nighthawk and nightjar, so called from its note, or the sounds of its…
"So peculiar and strange is the structure of these animals, that the first specimen discovered was classed…
"When a new bird is seen, the observer should write an accurate description of it in his notebook, giving…
"Fore limbs of vertebrates showing similarity of structure. A, salamander; B, turtle;…