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 June. They are 
three or four in number and 
„ , . , , , have a ground color of dull 
Pale greenish blue wh i te , or pale greenish blue and 
are quite heavily blotched with several shades of brown. Size 2.50 x 1.70. 
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