. Birds of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains; a manual for the identification of species in hand or in the bush . Northern Phalarope. 254 KEF AND DESCRIPTION white, with a chestnut tint on the sides of the neck. Themale is much duller. The small size, lobate toes, slender bill,and swimming habits will readily distinguish this bird fromany other in the inland regions. Length, 8-10; wing, 5 (4^-5J) ; tail, 2^ ; tarsus, 1}; culmen, l^.Temperate America, mainly inland ; breeding from Illinois and Utah,north into the British Provinces, and wmtering south to Patagonia. ORDER X. RAILS, CR
. Birds of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains; a manual for the identification of species in hand or in the bush . Northern Phalarope. 254 KEF AND DESCRIPTION white, with a chestnut tint on the sides of the neck. Themale is much duller. The small size, lobate toes, slender bill,and swimming habits will readily distinguish this bird fromany other in the inland regions. Length, 8-10; wing, 5 (4^-5J) ; tail, 2^ ; tarsus, 1}; culmen, l^.Temperate America, mainly inland ; breeding from Illinois and Utah,north into the British Provinces, and wmtering south to Patagonia. ORDER X. RAILS, CRANES, ETC. (PALUDICOL^) An order of wading birds, differing widely in external pecul-iarities, but associated together because of structural charac-teristics. FAMILY XLIL RAILS, GALLINULES, AND COOTS (KALLID^) This large family (180 species) of mainly marsh-living birdsis readily divided into three groups, both by habits and ex-ternal peculiarities. (1) The Rails form the largest and mostcharacteristic of these subfamilies. They have short bills,narrow, compressed bodies, long toes, and short, upwardlyturned tails. They inhabit marshes clo
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