. 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. 718 SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS. — STEGANOPODES. throat and under parts white, shaded with ashy-gray along the sides. Upper parts plumbeous- gi'ay, the feathers with paler edges; white of wiug restricted to a patch formed by the ends of the greater coverts, and much of the outer secondaries; not divided by a black bar. No peculiar feather
. 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. 718 SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS. — STEGANOPODES. throat and under parts white, shaded with ashy-gray along the sides. Upper parts plumbeous- gi'ay, the feathers with paler edges; white of wiug restricted to a patch formed by the ends of the greater coverts, and much of the outer secondaries; not divided by a black bar. No peculiar feathers in front of wing. Length about ; extent ; wiug ; tail ; tarsus ; middle toe and claw ; bill on culmen, on gape. Young (J like 9. Nestlings in down curiously patched. N. Am. at large, more numerous tlmn the g(j08ander. U. S. abundantly in winter, and breeding in many ])laces as well as farther north. Also European, etc. Nest on ground, down-lined; eggs 8-10, elliptical, buff, X T45. M. (L.) cueuUa'tus. (Lat. cucullatus, wearing a hood). Hooded Merganskk. Bill shorter than head. Nostrils in its basal half. Frontal feathers extending fur beyond those on side of bill, these beyond those on lower mandi- ble. A niaguiiicent erect crest, compressed, semi- circular in outline, in both sexes, but in 9 smaller, less stiiot. / 'l"lt S : Bill blacii; r- ;> \tlHnv ; foot liglit brow I. \y\ 'lusivj slaws. Head, , am! ujumm' parts black, changrig to - Bill of Ked-brcasted Merganser, nat. size. (Ad iiat. del. E. C.) on lower 1 i •]• • crest elegantly centred with snowy white; lower fore-neck and under parts white, the ; ides regularly and finely waved with brownish-red and black; crissum waved with dusky. Lining of wings and uxillars white. Enlarged white doubly black-barred feathers in front of wing. A white speculum, with two black bars, the white being on outer webs of secondaries and ends of these and g
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