. 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. 624 SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS. — LIMICOL^.. "'ptrirt'''-* Fig. 438. — Stilt Sandpiper, in breediug dress, reduced, Nuttall, after Sw^inson.) (From wing J tail
. 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. 624 SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS. — LIMICOL^.. "'ptrirt'''-* Fig. 438. — Stilt Sandpiper, in breediug dress, reduced, Nuttall, after Sw^inson.) (From wing J tail ; bill ; tarsus the same; middle toe and claw ; tibia bare Young, and adults in winter: Ashy-gray above, with or without traces of black and bay, the feathers usually with white edging; line over the eye and under parts white, the jugulum and sides suffused with the color of the back, and streaked with dusky; legs usually pale greenish-yeUow. The fuU breeding dress is of brief duration ; the birds are usually ashy and white from September to April, both inclusive. N. Am., generally; not observed W. of the R. Mts.; rare. Breeds in high latitudes; migrates to W. I. and C. and S. Am. 234. EBEUNE'TES. (Gr. epcvvT)- Trjs, erewnetes, a searcher, pro- ber.) Sbmipalmated Sand- pipers. Bill normally about as long as head, straight, quite stout for this family, both man- dibles deeply grooved to the ex- panded vascular and sensitive tip. Wings long, pointed; sec- ondaries obliquely incised. Tail moderate, doubly-emarginate, with pointed and projecting cen- tral feathers. Tarsus rather longer than middle toe and claw, equal to the normal bill in length. Bare portion of tibiae ^ as long as tarsus. Toes connected by broad basal webbing, and broadly margined. A true sandpiper, chiefly distinguished from Tringa proper by the semipalmate feet (fig. 48) ; from Micropalama, which is similarly webbed, by the shortness of the bill and feet. Very small; sexes alike; summer a
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