. 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. 614 SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS —LIMICOL^. some lateral ones white. Wingg blackish, the ends of the greater coverts broadly white, form- ing a conspicuous cross-bar, continued
. 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. 614 SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS —LIMICOL^. some lateral ones white. Wingg blackish, the ends of the greater coverts broadly white, form- ing a conspicuous cross-bar, continued on some of the inner secondaries. Bill and feet black. Length ; extent ; wing ; tail ; bill, tarsus, middle toe and claw, each, I under Varies much in plumage with age and season, but easily recognized by the small sizfe and generic characters. Chicks in down rich buff above, silvery-gray below; crovm mixed black and yellow; a long black stripe down back, another over each hip, one across the rump, and a shoulder-spot. N. hemisphere at large, breeding in Arctic regions, migrating into the tropics sometimes ; generally distributed, but especially maritime. Eggs 3-4, June, average X (from X to X ), very variable in size, shape, and color; greenish- olive, brownish-olive to various drab and buffy shades of ground color, usually very boldly spotted and splashed sometimes in finer pattern, with bistrous, chocolate, and lighter brown. 228. PHAIiA'ROPUS. (Gr. (jiaXapcmovs, phalaropous, coot-foot.) Coot-poot, Phalaeopbs. BiU scarcely longer than head or tarsus ; very stout for this family; much depressed, so broad as to be almost spatulate, the tip only moderately acute, lancet-shaped. Upper mandible with the ridge broad and flattened, its apex arched and decurved, its lateral grooves wide and shallow. Interramal space broad and very long, extending nearly to the end of the bill. NostrUs sub- basal, at some distance from the
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