Birds Illustrated by Color Photography [January, 1898]

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Various. Birds Illustrated by Color Photography [January, 1898]

INTRODUCTION

THE PIGEONS

THE CROWNED PIGEON

THE RED-EYED VIREO

THE RED EYED VIREO

THE EARLY OWL

THE FOX-COLORED SPARROW

BOB WHITE!

BOB WHITE

BIRDS IN THE SCHOOLS

THE PASSENGER PIGEON

THE PASSENGER PIGEON

THE SHORT-EARED OWL

THE SHORT-EARED OWL

THE ROSE COCKATOO

THE ROSE COCKATOO

PLEAS FOR THE SPEECHLESS

THE MOUNTAIN PARTRIDGE

BOB WHITE

THE NEW TENANTS

SUMMARY

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WE regret that a full monograph of this remarkable bird cannot be given in this number. It is the giant among Pigeons and has some characteristics, on account of its great size, not common to the family. Very little has been written about it, and it would be a real service to ornithology if some one familiar with the subject would communicate his knowledge to the public. These birds pair for life, and the loss or death of a mate is in many cases mourned and grieved over, the survivor frequently refusing to be consoled.

The Pigeon family is an exceedingly interesting one, of great variety of form and color, undergoing constant change by inter-breeding. There are about three hundred known species of Pigeons and Doves, about one third of which number are found in the New World. In North America but twelve species occur, a family small enough to find room in Birds to sit for their pictures. Some of these birds, says Chapman, are arboreal, others are strictly terrestrial. Some seek the forests and others prefer the fields and clearings. Some nest in colonies, others in isolated pairs, but most species are found in flocks of greater or less size after the nesting season. When drinking, they do not raise the head as others do to swallow, but keep the bill immersed until the draught is finished. The young are born naked and are fed by regurgitation.

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“Has he any other names, mamma?”

“Yes, he is called the Red-eyed Greenlet or Red-eyed Fly-catcher. One gentleman calls him ‘The Preacher.’ To him the bird seems to say, ‘You see it; you know it; do you hear me? do you believe it?’”

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