. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA 227 Podia (emendation) Swainson, Classif. Birds, ii, 1837, 192. Plotoides Beooices, Mus. Brookesianum, 1830, 109. (Type, Plotus surinamen^is Gmelin=Colyml) fiilica Boddaert.) Small Heliornithidae (length about 300 mm.) with feet relatively small and weak (the tarsus less than one-fifth as long as wing, de- cidedly shorter than the relatively small slender bill, the latter not longer than head); anterior toes extensively webbed, the web between middle and outer toes extending for entire length of first tw
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA 227 Podia (emendation) Swainson, Classif. Birds, ii, 1837, 192. Plotoides Beooices, Mus. Brookesianum, 1830, 109. (Type, Plotus surinamen^is Gmelin=Colyml) fiilica Boddaert.) Small Heliornithidae (length about 300 mm.) with feet relatively small and weak (the tarsus less than one-fifth as long as wing, de- cidedly shorter than the relatively small slender bill, the latter not longer than head); anterior toes extensively webbed, the web between middle and outer toes extending for entire length of first two phal- anges of the former; rectrices broad, soft terminally, and toes banded with black and yellow. Bill about as long as head, decidely longer than tarsus, its depth at posterior end of nostril equal to a little less than one-fourth the. Figure 15.—Heliornis fulica. length of exposed culmen and nearly twice its width at samei point; cuhnen nearly straight for basal half or more, thence gently de- curved to tip; maxillary tomium gently convex for basal half, faintly concave for distal half, very faintly notched subtemiinally; gonys straight, slightly ascending, about half as long as mandibular rami, the mandible acute at tip; nostril longitudinally elliptical, pervious, its anterior end about midway between rictus and tip of maxilla, its poterior end separated from loral feathering by a space nearly equal in length to depth of bill at posterior end of nostril; latero- frontal feathering forming a distinct angle on each side of culmen, thence extending in a straight or faintly convex line downward and backward to rictus: malar antia very slightly posterior to latero-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States National Museum; Smithsonian Institution; United States. Dept. of the Interio
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