. 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 . ng add: Wings very long, pointed; 2d and 3d primaries longest; 1st between 3d and5th; 3 outer ones abruptly emarginate on inner webs, and 2d to 4th sinuate on outer short
. 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 . ng add: Wings very long, pointed; 2d and 3d primaries longest; 1st between 3d and5th; 3 outer ones abruptly emarginate on inner webs, and 2d to 4th sinuate on outer short, scarcely or not half as long as the wing. Sexes alike ; 9 larger. Young haliaetiis. (See Hcdiaetiis.) Fish Hawk. Osprey. Adult ,$ 9 = Above, dark van-dyke-brown, blackening on the quills, the feathers of the upper parts more or less completelyedged with white — the older the bird, the more conspicuous the white markings. Tail darkbrown with dusky bars, white tip and shafts, and inner webs of all but the middle pair offeathers regularly barred with white and dark. Head, neck, and under parts white, the crownmore or less extensively streaked with blackish, and a heavy blackish postocular stripe to the nape;the breast more or less spotted with dusky brown ; the white more or less tinged with tawny insorne places, especially under the wings and on the head. Coloration very variable in the relative. Fig. 385. —The Fish Hawk, or Osprey. (After J. Wolf.; CATHARTIDES: AMERICAN VULTURES. 557 amounts of the dark and white colors; young darker, the upper parts without the whitecrescents. Bill blackish, bluing at base and on cere; feet grayish-blue; claws black ; irisyellow or red. Length 2 feet or rather less; extent about 4i feet; wing ; ; tarsus ; middle toe without clavA^ ; chord of culmen without cere ;chord of claws nearly the same. Nearly cosmopolitan; entire temperate N. Am., over inlandwaters and especially along the sea-coasts
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