. 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. 278 ANATID^, GEESE, DUCKS, ETC. GEN. 246. and other material, whicli the bu-ds bestride in an ungainly attitude ; but it is not high enough to permit their long legs to dangle, as represented in some popular accounts and pictorial efforts. The young are said, on good authority, to take to the water as soon as hatched. 1"^ ^ 246. Genus PHCE
. 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. 278 ANATID^, GEESE, DUCKS, ETC. GEN. 246. and other material, whicli the bu-ds bestride in an ungainly attitude ; but it is not high enough to permit their long legs to dangle, as represented in some popular accounts and pictorial efforts. The young are said, on good authority, to take to the water as soon as hatched. 1"^ ^ 246. Genus PHCENICOPTEEUS Linnseus. ^ American Flamingo. Adult iDlumage scarlet; most of the quill feathers black; legs lake-red; bill orange-yellow, black-tipped. Length about 4 feet; wing 16 inches; tail 6; bill 5; tarsus 12; middle toe and claw 3J. Florida and Gulf coast; N. casually to S. Carolina {Audubon). , viii, 45, pi. 66; Nutt., ii, 70; Aud., vi, 169, pi. 375; Bd., 687. Family ANATID^. Geese, Ducks, etc. Bill lamellate, stout, more or less elevated and compressed at base, widened or flattened at tip, invested with soft, tough, leathery membrane, except at the end, which is furnished with a hard, horny " nail," generally somewhat overhanging, sometimes small and distinct, sometimes large and fused ; that is, changing insen- sibly into the general covering. (This soft covering is regarded by some as a prolonged cere ; but this is purely theoretical.) Body full, heavy, flattened beneath ; neck of variable length; head large ; eyes small. No antiae, the frontal feathers eucroaeliing on the culmen with a convex or pointed out- line, and forming other projections on the sides of the bill, and in the interramal space, which latter is broad and long, the mandibular crura being united oulj' at the end by a broad short bridge ; no culminal ridge nor keel of gonys. Nostrils *^^^^ subbasal, median or subterminal, usually broadly oval. Fig. 181. Wild Duck. Wings of modera
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