Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley.
| www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
Exanthe-mops rossi.
Dec. 26, 1908.
This evening I received a fine adult specimen
of this species.
Dec. 29, 1908.
The individual mentioned above is very bold and
shows little fear when one comes about it. It seems
to realize that a person close to it but outside the
wire netting cannot hurt, while a person in-
side can. Two or three times, while examining
a hole in the chicken house over which a wire
piece of wire was nailed, the bird would take a
strand of wire in its bill and pull, apparently
testing its strength.
February 7, 1909.
One out of three of this species received
yesterday showed signs of immaturity. The
feet were gray with a pinkish cast, the bill
was not of as intense a color as that
of a full adult, and there was a trace
of gray on the front of the neck and
quite a bit of gray in front of each eye.
Another, a full adult had a very warty bill
like the first one obtained. The third one,