THE BIRD BOOK 



This bird, with its broad, flat bill, bare head, and rosy plumage with carmine 

 epaulets and tail coverts, seem more like the fanciful creation of some artist 

 than a real bird of flesh and blood. Its plumage and colors are strikingly clear 



and beautiful. Full plumaged 

 .adult birds have very brilliant 

 carmine shoulders and tail cov- 

 erts, a saffron colored tail, and a 

 lengthened tuft of bright rosy 

 feathers on the foreneck. This 

 ■species breed in small colonies 

 in marshy places, often in com- 

 pany with herons and ibises. 

 Their nests are rather frail plat- 

 forms of sticks, located in bush- 

 es or trees, from four to fifteen 

 feet from the ground. The eggs 

 are laid during the latter part 

 of May and .Tune. They are 

 three or four in number and 

 have a ground color of dull 

 white, or pale greenish blue and 

 are quite heavily blotched with several shades of: brown. Size 2.50 x 1.70. 



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Pale greenish lolue 



Chalky bluish white 

 Kgg: of American Flarning'o 



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