. 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 . as suggested in theKey, p. 604. ^ 886 APPENDIX. the base of the culmeii. Wing-feathers dusky; shaft of first primary white; several innerprimaries with white aiea along their outer
. 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 . as suggested in theKey, p. 604. ^ 886 APPENDIX. the base of the culmeii. Wing-feathers dusky; shaft of first primary white; several innerprimaries with white aiea along their outerwebs; the secondaries and greater covertstipped with white. Tail-feathers like theback, tipped with white, and successivelypaler laterally, till the outermost are nearlywhite; upper tail-coverts also tipped withwhitish. Bill and feet black. The younglack the distinctive chestnut and black mark-ings, though the breast may be somewhatsuffused with pale cinnamon, and at an earlyage all the feathers of the upper parts havepale edgings. Wing ; tail ; ; tarsus ; middle toe A well-known species of wide distribution in theOld World, recorded from Choris Peninsula. Alaska. (See Ibis, 1870, p. 38-4; P. Z. 8. ___ _„„ ^- 1871, pp. Ill, 114.) It is entirely different Fig. u62. —Mongolian Plover, from any other plover described in this work, and should long ago have been taken intothe COUES KEY, 1884. 592. Podasocys montanus. 593. Vanellus cristatus. 594. Aphriza viigata. 595. Hfematopus ostrilegus. 596. palliatus. 597. niger. 598. Strepsilas interpres. 599. melanocephalus. 600. Recurvirostra americana. 601. Himantopus mexicanus. 602. Steganopus wilsoni. 603. Lobipes hyperboreus. 604. Phalaropus fulicarius. 605. Philohela minor. 606. Scolopax rusticula. 607. Gallinago media. 608. wilsoni. 509. Macrorhamphus griseus. 610. scolopaceus. 611. Micropalama himantopus. 612. Ereunetes pusillus. 613. pusillus occidentalis. 614. Actodromas minutilla. UNION LIST, 1
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