. The birds of Illinois and Wisconsin . Forehead, with bare shield; bill, rather short; general color,slaty gray; toes, with lobate webs. Family RALLID^. Subfamily FULICINiE. Coots. See page 23 24 Field Museum of Natural History —Zoology, Vol. IX. Hind toe, elevated above the level of the others; bill, slender;nostrils, opening through slits; sides of toes, webbed. Family PHALAROPODIDiE. Phalaropes. See pages 91, GROUP 2. Toes, four; front toes, palmate (full webbed);hind toe, not connected with front ones by web. Bill, straight and point-ed; tarsus, flattened; hindtoe, with flap or lobe;

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. The birds of Illinois and Wisconsin . Forehead, with bare shield; bill, rather short; general color,slaty gray; toes, with lobate webs. Family RALLID^. Subfamily FULICINiE. Coots. See page 23 24 Field Museum of Natural History —Zoology, Vol. IX. Hind toe, elevated above the level of the others; bill, slender;nostrils, opening through slits; sides of toes, webbed. Family PHALAROPODIDiE. Phalaropes. See pages 91, GROUP 2. Toes, four; front toes, palmate (full webbed);hind toe, not connected with front ones by web. Bill, straight and point-ed; tarsus, flattened; hindtoe, with flap or lobe; feet,■■ f^^ placed far back near the-^ *, tail; tail, very short. Family GAVIID^. -*^;,«..,,^,aj»»«--i=j. See page 37. Nostrils, separate, not tubular; bill, with cere (a horny or skin-like covering on base of upper mandible); hind toe, sometimes verysmall; end of upper mandible (unguis), swollen and somewhatrounded; back and wings, always dark, sometimes sooty, sometimesbarred with brown; tail, never white or gray, usually very dark;

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