A Dictionary of Birds Volume 1-2 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt: ... beneath, but the adult males lose it, and in both sexes at maturity 1 Hence another of the names--' Hurricane-Bird'--by which this species is occasionally known. 2 Capt. Taylor, however, found their nests as well on low bushes of the same tree in the Bay of Fonseca (Ibis, 1889, pp. 150-152). the upper plumage is of a very dark chocolate brown, nearly black, with a bright metallic gloss, while the feet in the females are pink, and black in the males--the last also acquiring a bright scarlet pouch, capable of inflation, and being perceptible when on the wing. The habits of F. minor seem wholly to resemble those of F. aquila. According to Bechstcin (On. Tascherib. pp. 393, 394), an example of this last species was obtained at the mouth of the Weser in the winter of 1792, and it has hence been included by some ornithologists among European birds FROG-MOUTH, Jerdon's rendering (B. Ind. i. p. 189), since adopted by Anglo-Indian writers, of Gould's Batrachostomus, a genus which he instituted in 1838 (Icones Avium, pt. ii.) for some NightJars, apparently allied to Podargus (morepork), and found in India and some parts of the Malay Archipelago. FULFER, a corrupt form of Fieldfare. FULMAR, from the Gaelic Falmair or Fulmaire, the Fulmarus glacialb of modern ornithologists, one of the largest of the Procellariicbe (petrels) of the northern hemisphere, being about the size of the Common Gull (Larus canus) and not unlike it in general coloration, except that its primaries are grey instead of black. This bird, which ranges over the North Atlantic, is seldom seen on the European side below lat. 53 N., but on the American side comes habitually to lat. 45, or even lower. It has been commonly believed to have two breeding-places in the British Islands, namely, the group of...