. 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. Birds; Birds. 650 SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS — BAPTORES — ACCIPIIBES A. f&rrugineus is highly distinctive of the latter. Length of a ?, ; extent ; wing ; tail ; iris
. 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. Birds; Birds. 650 SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS — BAPTORES — ACCIPIIBES A. f&rrugineus is highly distinctive of the latter. Length of a ?, ; extent ; wing ; tail ; iris light brown; biE mostly blackish-blue, cere pale greenish-yello*, feet dull yellow, claws blue-black. This is about an average size; the ^ averages smaller; wing about , etc. The name adopted, it must be observed, is not intended to discriminate the black from the ordinary plumage, but to separate the' American bird subspeoifically from the European. N. Am., at large, common, especially in fertile, well-watered regions, as those of. Fig. 382. — Kough-legged Buzzard, i nat. size. (From Brelim.) the Atlantic seaboard; a large, heavy, and somewhat sluggish hawk, haunting meadows and marshes, to some extent crepuscular in habits, of low, easy, and almost noiseless flight; prey- mg upon msigmficant quarry, particularly small rodent and insectivorous mammals, reptiles, batrachians and msects. Nest usually in lar^e trees, but frequently on a ledge of rocks or the edge of a cut-bank ; a bulky mass of interlaced sticks, with softer matted material of miscel- laneous kinds; eggs 3-5, laid late in May and in June, measuring 25 in length, by in breadth; varying in color from dingy whitish with scarcely any marking, or but. 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 Coues, Elliott, 1842-
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