. Handbook of birds of the western United States, including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande valley . Jabiku. Size of a large crane ; legs long, bill enormous and inclined upwards attip. Adults : head and neck naked except for a hair-like crest on occiput;bUl, head, and legs black ; skin of lower neck red in life ; plumagewhite. Young : Plumage mainly brownish grav. Length : about 4i feet;wing , bill , tarsus Distribution. — Tropical America ; north casually to southern Texas. FAMILY ARDEIDiE: HERONS, EGRETS. BITTERNS. KEY TO
. Handbook of birds of the western United States, including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande valley . Jabiku. Size of a large crane ; legs long, bill enormous and inclined upwards attip. Adults : head and neck naked except for a hair-like crest on occiput;bUl, head, and legs black ; skin of lower neck red in life ; plumagewhite. Young : Plumage mainly brownish grav. Length : about 4i feet;wing , bill , tarsus Distribution. — Tropical America ; north casually to southern Texas. FAMILY ARDEIDiE: HERONS, EGRETS. BITTERNS. KEY TO GENERA. 1. Tail feathers 10, short and very soft. 2. Plumage mainly striped Botaurus, p. 73. 2. Plumage not mainly striped, back black or brown . Ardetta, p. Tail feathers 12, normal. HERONS, EGRETS, BITTERNS 73 2. Bill long and slender, five times as long- as depth at base. Ardea, p. Bill short and stout, less than four times as long as depth at base. Nycticorax, p. 77. GENUS Botaurus lentiginosus (3/o?j;a5r.). American alike and young very similar to adidts ; feathers lax and coarse ;.
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