. 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 . d all around,and entire under parts, white, — with a dusky circumocular area and nuchal crescent, and aAvash of ashy along sides of body. Above, nearly uniform ash. Wings ashy-blac
. 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 . d all around,and entire under parts, white, — with a dusky circumocular area and nuchal crescent, and aAvash of ashy along sides of body. Above, nearly uniform ash. Wings ashy-blackish, thewhite cross-bar very conspicuous ; bill mostly dark ; feet obscured. A si)ecies of circumpolardistribution in summer, wandering far south in winter, chiefly coastwise. Nesting and eggs notdistinguishable from those of the last ; eggs averaging larger, — X 42. Family etc. Fig SCOLOPACID^: Snipe, Snipe and their alliesform a well-defined andperfectly natural assem-blage, one of the twolaigest limicoliue families,agreeing Mith Plover inmost essential respects,yet well distinguished fromthe pluvialine birds. Ingeneral, the bill is muchelongated, frequently sev-eral times longer than thehead, and in those cases in which it is as short as ^ . ^., , „ . Fig. 431. — Wilsons Siiijie. (Frorq 430. — English Snipe. (From Dixon.) in plover, it does not show Tenney, after Wilson.).
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