The Bookshelf for boys and girls: Nature and Outdoor Life part 3 (1912)
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st his meal. The adult parasitic jaeger is a very handsomebird, brown above, with a black cap, delicate yel-low-tinged neck, and white breast; the two cen-tral tail-feathers are elongated far beyond the rest.The size is about that of a ring-billed gull. Theyoung bird in the first plumage has- the… … WIDGEON ROBBING REDHEADS. species, the parasitic, long-tailed and pomarinejaeger. All three breed on the tundras of thearctic regions, and migrate southward in Augustand September. The parasitic jaeger is the commonest species,and his mission in life is to constantly harass andworry the pretty…
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