. Key to North American birds. 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 and lower California, with which are incorporated General ornithology: an outline of the structure and classification of birds; and Field ornithology, a manual of collecting, preparing, and preserving birds . 42. Family SCOLOPACID^: Snipe, etc Snipe and their alliesform a well-defined andperfectly natural assem-blage, one of the twolargest limicoline families,agreeing Avith Plover inmos
. Key to North American birds. 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 and lower California, with which are incorporated General ornithology: an outline of the structure and classification of birds; and Field ornithology, a manual of collecting, preparing, and preserving birds . 42. Family SCOLOPACID^: Snipe, etc Snipe and their alliesform a well-defined andperfectly natural assem-blage, one of the twolargest limicoline families,agreeing Avith Plover inmost essential respects,yet well distinguished fromthe pluvialiue birds. Ingeneral, the bill is muchelongated, frequently sev-eral times longer than thehead, and in those casesin which it is as short as. Fio. 430. — English Snipe, (Frc Fig. 431. — Wilsons Snipe. (Fron-Dixon.) in plover, it does not show Tenney, after Wilson.) SCOLOPACID^: THE SNIPE FAMILY. 615 the particular, somewhat pigcou-Iike, shape described under CharadriineB, being slender andsoft-skiuued throughout. It is generally straiglit, but frequently curved up or down. Thenasal grooves, always long and narrow channels, range from one-half to almost the wholelength of the bill; similar grooves usually occupy the sides of the under mandible; the inter-ramal space is correspondingly long and narrow, and nearly naked. This length, slenderuess,grooving, and peculiar sensitiveness, are the prime characteristics of the scolopaciue bill. Thegape, never ample, is generally very short and narrow, reaching little, if any, beyond the baseof the bill. The nostrils are short narrow slits, exposed. The head is completely featheredto the bill (except in one species), at the base of which the ptilosis stops abruptly withoutforming p
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