. 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. Illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts. Birds. REOUEVIROSTRID^, AVOCETS, STILTS.âGEN. 196, 197. 247 "^ Var. MELANOCEPHALUS. Black-headed Turnstone. Without any of the chestnut coloration of the last, the parts that are pied in interpres being blackish ; the white parts, however, as before. Apparently a permanent melanism. Pacific Coast. Cass, in Ed., 702. Family RECURVIROSTRIDJE. Avoce
. 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. Illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts. Birds. REOUEVIROSTRID^, AVOCETS, STILTS.âGEN. 196, 197. 247 "^ Var. MELANOCEPHALUS. Black-headed Turnstone. Without any of the chestnut coloration of the last, the parts that are pied in interpres being blackish ; the white parts, however, as before. Apparently a permanent melanism. Pacific Coast. Cass, in Ed., 702. Family RECURVIROSTRIDJE. Avocets. Stilts. Another small family, characterized by the extreme length of the slender legs, and the extreme slenderness of the long acute bill, which is either straight or curved upward. Becurvirostra is 4-toed, and full-webbed; the bill is decidedly recurved, flattened, and tapers to a needle-like point; the body is depressed; the plumage underneath is thickened as in water birds. The species swim well. Himantopus is 3-toed, semipalmate, the bill nearly straight, and not flattened; in relative length of leg it is probably not surpassed by any bird whatsoever. These two genera, each of three or four species of various parts of the world, with the Cladorhynchus pectoralis of Australia, compose the family. 196. Gen. RECURVIROSTRA Linnaeus. Avocei. Blue-stocldng. White; back and wings with much black ; head and neck cinnamon-brown iu the adult, ashj^ in the young (i?. o(xidentaUs Cass., 111. 232, pi. FIG. 159. Bill and foot of Avocet. 40); bill black; legs blue; eyes red; 16-18 ; wing 7-8 ; tail 3 J ; tarsus 3 J. Temperate N. Am. WiLs., vii, 126, pi. 63, f. 2; NuTT.,ii, 74; AuD., vi, 24,; Cass, in Bd., 703. Ve 197. Genus HIMANTOPUS Brisson. â â Stilt. Longshanks. Lcnvyer. Glossy black; forehead, sides of head and neck, rump and under parts, white; tail white or ashy; bill black; legs carmine. Young with back and wings brown. 13-15; wing 8-9; tail 3; tarsus 4. U
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