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Bird Studies. 



stone quarry. The eggs are about an inch and a third long by a Httle more 

 than an inch in their other diameter. 



BELTED KINGFISHER. ADULT MALE. 



The birds are rather more than thirteen inches long, and have very 

 strong beaks (two inches long) and small legs and feet. Both sexes are 

 bluish gray above v^^ith some white spotting on the wings. The tail feathers 

 are marked with many spots of white, and indefinitely bordered with the 

 same color. The blue of the upper parts is further broken by a white spot 

 in front of the eye. The feathers of the top of the head are elongated and 

 form a crest when raised. The lower parts are white. There is a band of 

 blue across the breast and the sides are heavily marked with the same color. 

 In the female the breast band is more broken and its color as well as that of 

 the sides is reddish brown. Immature birds are like the adults except for a 

 strong admixture of rusty in the breast band and sides. 



The Fish Hawk or Osprey is a bird of almost world wide distribution, 

 having an immense range and inhabiting Europe, Africa, the greater part of 

 Asia, Japan, Formosa, the Australian region, and New 

 American Osprey. Guinea, as well as America. The form which occurs in 

 America has been described as a geographical race of the 

 Old World bird, and is found in Eastern North America, 

 breeding from Florida to Labrador. It winters from South Carolina south- 

 ward. 



At points on the seacoast, as in New Jersey, where they have been 

 carefully protected by piiblic soitimait, as well as by legislation, these birds 



Pandion haliactus carolinen 

 sis (_Gmel. ). 



