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Title: Children's own library
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Burdick, J. Ellis (Jennie Ellis) Welsh, Charles, 1850-1914
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Publisher: New York, National Library Co
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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tre being violet of two shades, surrounded with emerald, and the other tints being arranged concentrically around it. In the feathers that edge the train there is no eye, the feathers coming to a point at the extremity, and having rather wide but loose emerald-green barbules on the outer web, and a few scattered coppery barbules in the place of the inner web. The tail feathers are only seven or eight inches in length, are of a grayish-brown color, and can be seen when the train is erected, that being their appointed task. On the head is a tuft or aigrette of twenty-four up-right feathers, blackish upon their almost naked shafts, and rich golden-green shot with blue on their expanded tips. The top of the head, the throat, and neck are the most refulgent blue, changing in different lights to gold and green. On the back the feathers are golden-green, edged with velvety black, giving a peculiar richness of effect. The wings are darker than the rest of the plumage, the quill feathers being marked a J^-ML
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woods natural history 161 with black, and having some red about them. The abdomen is blackish with a green gloss, and the feathers of the thighs are fawn. The female is much smaller than her mate, and not nearly so beautiful, the train being almost wanting, and the color ashy brown with the exception of the throat and neck which are green. A white or albino variety of this bird is not at all uncommon, and in this case the characteristic eyes are faintly indicated in neutral tint. The Common Pheasant is a hardy bird, and bears the cold months very well. Although it can be tamed, and will come to be fed with the poultry, yet an innate timidity prevents it from being thoroughly domesticated. This bird loves to perch at night on trees, especially on the spreading branches of the larch. Poachers are so well aware of this habit that they always visit the larches first while on their marauding excursions. A few spruce firs surrounded b)^ dense and tall holly hedges form an excellent place of refuge for t

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