. Key to North American birds [microform] : containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary, inclusive of Greenland. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. Feet zygodaetyle by reversion of the second toe (seo p. 127). Tho liiisi'of tlio short, broad, (lentatc bill liiilileu by aijprosscd iintrorso f('atlu'; tli»} wings are short and rouuded, with falcate (luills; the tail is long, of twelve broad feathers; tho feet are very small and weak. The general plnniage is sfift and lax
. Key to North American birds [microform] : containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary, inclusive of Greenland. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. Feet zygodaetyle by reversion of the second toe (seo p. 127). Tho liiisi'of tlio short, broad, (lentatc bill liiilileu by aijprosscd iintrorso f('atlu'; tli»} wings are short and rouuded, with falcate (luills; the tail is long, of twelve broad feathers; tho feet are very small and weak. The general plnniage is sfift and lax, tho skin tender, the eyelids lashed. A well-marked family of about 50 species and perhaps a dozen genera, chiefly inhabiting tropical America. They Fio. 318. — llend of Cop- '""" '^''" !i<^'",«<'"us ctdors, and among them are found the most magni- pcr-taiicil Trogon, iiat. size, ficent birds of this continent (fig. .'JIT). 144. TROGON. (Gr. rpcaycai/, <»'0(/oH, a gnawer : alluding to tho dentate bill.) The leading genus, to which the above characters fully ajiply. 428. T. ambl'guus. (Lat. ambigitus, ambiguous, as doubtfully distinct from T. mexicantts. Fig. 318.) Coi'PEU-TAiLKi) TuoGON. Metallic golden-green; face and sides of head black; below from the breast carmine; a white collar on the throat; middle tail-feathers coppery-green, tht! outer white, finely variegated with black ; quills edged with white. Length about ; wing 5.'25 ; tail Valley of the Lower Rio Grande, and southward. [Family MOMOTID JE : Sawbills. Feet syndactyle by cohesion of third and fourth toes (p. 12!)); tomiu serrate. Avery .small family of tropical American birds, com;)rising abcmt species, none having really rightful place here; but the Momotus cceruleiceps (tig. 319) comes near our border, and is included to illus- trate the suborder. In this species, the central tail-feathers are long-exserted, and spatulate by absence of webs ahuig a part
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