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Updated: July 26, 2025
A very interesting account of the nesting of this bird is given by Mr. Dresser, in his 'Birds of Europe, he having made a journey to Altenkirchen, where the Fire-crest is numerous, on purpose to watch it in the breeding-season. The nest he describes as very like that of the Golden-crest; the eggs also are much like those of that bird, though a little redder in colour.
FISHES: Courtship and battles of the males Larger size of the females Males, bright colours and ornamental appendages; other strange characters Colours and appendages acquired by the males during the breeding-season alone Fishes with both sexes brilliantly coloured Protective colours The less conspicuous colours of the female cannot be accounted for on the principle of protection Male fishes building nests, and taking charge of the ova and young.
It was something like the bellowing of bulls, and proceeded from the old male alligators calling to their mates. This indicates the coming of spring, the breeding-season of these creatures. William Bartram, who travelled in East Florida a hundred years ago, gives a thrilling account of the terrible combats which he witnessed in the St.
The breeding-season falls in the month of June, and in the course of the first fortnight of the succeeding month the young offspring take wing and commence their raids in quest of pillage on their own account.
"No, we shall not, for they only come on shore in the breeding-season; but we will make a turtle pond somewhere which they cannot get out of, but which the sea flows into; and then when we catch them we will put them into it, and have them ready for use as we require them." "That will be a very good plan," replied William.
Since that visit to Salisbury, described in a former chapter, when I watched and listened to the doves in those cold days in early spring, I have been there a good many times, but never at the time when the bird colony is most interesting to observe, just before and during the early part of the breeding-season.
Roach, brightness of the male during breeding-season. Robbery, of strangers, considered honourable. Robertson, Mr., remarks on the development of the horns in the roebuck and red deer. Robin, pugnacity of the male; autumn song of the; female singing of the; attacking other birds with red in their plumage; young of the.
There is another and more peaceful kind of contest, in which the males endeavour to excite or allure the females by various charms. This is probably carried on in some cases by the powerful odours emitted by the males during the breeding-season; the odoriferous glands having been acquired through sexual selection.
The diversity of the sounds, both vocal and instrumental, made by the males of many birds during the breeding-season, and the diversity of the means for producing such sounds, are highly remarkable. We thus gain a high idea of their importance for sexual purposes, and are reminded of the conclusion arrived at as to insects.
Bureau, in a very interesting paper on this curious change, or rather moult, which takes place in the bill of the Puffin, and which has been translated into the 'Zoologist' for 1878, where a plate showing the changes is given, says that Puffins are cast ashore on the coast of Brittany during the winter, for he says they leave the coast, as I believe they do that of the Channel Islands, and the only indication of their continuing there is that dead birds are rolled on the shore after severe gales in the autumn and winter; and "these birds are clad in a plumage different to that worn by those we get in the breeding-season.
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