Identifier: scienceguide1630amer (find matches)
Title: Guide leaflet
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: American Museum of Natural History Natural history
Publisher: New York : The Museum
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: IMLS / LSTA / METRO

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
the right is Fairway Rock. The site of the group is the lower part of the 1000-foot cliff at thesouth end of Little Diomede. Here, protected by isolation, as well asby the nature of their haunts, myriads of Murres, Guillemots, Puffins,Auklets, Gulls and Cormorants come each summer to lay their eggs andrear their young. The Murres nest on rocky shelves, laying highlycolored pear-shaped eggs which when moved describe a circle about theirtip and thus do not roll off the narrow ledges on which often they are laid. The Guillemots, Puffins and Auklets lay in crevices and holes; theGulls and (Cormorants build crude nests. Like many other arctic birds, some of those here shown are widelydistributed in boreal waters, and hence are found, or are represented bynear relatives, on the eastern side of North America, where Murres,Guillemots, Puffins and Kittiwakes nest as far south as Bird Rock, Gulfof St. Lawrence. A group from that rock is shown at the left of theentrance to this Hall. 37 A i i- i
Text Appearing After Image:
x, Q Gp Sc M o a m 17. A FLAMINGO COLONY IN THE BAHAMAS BEFORE the studies for this group were made, very little wasknown about the nesting-habits of Flamingoes. For this reason,and because of the belief thai a reproduction of a Flamingocity (beyond question the most remarkable sighl in the world of birds)would possess exceptional interest, an expedition was dispatched to theBahamas in 1902, to find Flamingoes on their nesting grounds. It wasunsuccessful; but in 1904 the search was resumed, and on this occasionthe birds were discovered, and from an artificial blind, concealed inthe very heart of their rookery, containing 2,000 birds, a scries of uniquephotographs and observations was made. The birds begin to lay their eggs early in May. Their nests areconstructed by scooping up mud with the bill and patting it down withbill and feet. The nests are raised to a height of from eight to fourteeninches to protect their contents from a subsequent rise in the water. Both sexes incubate; one

Note About Images