. The naturalist's library : containing scientific and popular descriptions of man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects . hat more than twoinches in length. On the top of the head and neck is a beautiful crestof feathers, those on the neck appearing like a collar or ruff, and seeming agood deal bigger than they really are; those on the top of the head are black,those on the sides of the neck are of a reddish or cinereous color ; the back ^ Podkepscristatus, hATH. The sjenus Podiceps has the bill middle size, straight,hard, com])ressed, in the form of an eloniraied and pointed cone
. The naturalist's library : containing scientific and popular descriptions of man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects . hat more than twoinches in length. On the top of the head and neck is a beautiful crestof feathers, those on the neck appearing like a collar or ruff, and seeming agood deal bigger than they really are; those on the top of the head are black,those on the sides of the neck are of a reddish or cinereous color ; the back ^ Podkepscristatus, hATH. The sjenus Podiceps has the bill middle size, straight,hard, com])ressed, in the form of an eloniraied and pointed cone ; tip of the upiier mandi-ble slightly inclined; nostrils lateral, concave, olilong, closed behind by a membrane, ojpenin front and pervious; legs long, placed far hackwards; tarsi much compressed; foretoes much depressed, connected at their lyase, and furnished with a simple lohc ; liiud toecompressed and scalloped; claws broad, much depressed ; no tail; wings short. A VES-CUT WATER. 653 and wings are of a darkish brown, pretty much inclining to black, exceptsome of the exterior edges of the wing feathers, which are white. The. oreast and belly are of a light ash color; it has no tail; the legs and toes arebroad and flat. It has an unpleasant cry, and will occasionally, whenangered or pleased, raise or fail the feathers of its crest. ORDER XV.—PALMIPEDE S. Birds of this order have the bill of various forms ; legs short, placed moreor less backwards; the anterior toes partially or wholly connected by webs,and in some families all the four toes united by one membrane ; the hindertoe interiorly articulated to the tarsus, or, in some genera, wanting. THE SKIMMER, OR CUTWATER,i Is twenty inches in length, and in breadth three feet seven inches. Thebill is of a very singular structure, the upper chap, or mandible, being abovean mch shorter than the under, and the upper sliuts into it, as a razor intoits handle. The base of the bill is red, the rest black ; and on the sides areseve
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