. 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. H^MATOPOniD^—EMMATOPOBINJE: OYSTEB-CATCHEBS. 607 wMte tips of tlie greater coverts a conspicuous broad oblique white bar. Primaries dusky, blackening toward end, touch
. 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. H^MATOPOniD^—EMMATOPOBINJE: OYSTEB-CATCHEBS. 607 wMte tips of tlie greater coverts a conspicuous broad oblique white bar. Primaries dusky, blackening toward end, touched with white at bases of the inuer webs of longer ones, with white on outer webs of the short inner ones, but no isolated white subterminal spaces. (Thus much less white on wings and tail than in ostrilegus, besides the difference in color of the back; though some allowance in either case must be made for normal variation from the minuteness of my description.) Entire under parts pure white, including lining of wiags, where, however, a few dusky feathers commonly show along the edge. Length ; extent ; wing or more; tail or more; tarsus or more; middle toe and claw under Bill 3 or 4 inches long, varying in shape with almost every specimen, with wear and tear under S» ''^^^'i<.:TOj. Fig. 421. — European Oyster-oatcher, J nat. size. (From Brehm.) the rough usage to which it is subjected; ordinarily both mandibles truncated; often the lower, sometimes both, acute. Bills worn thinnest and most knife-blade-like towards end are often bent sideways, as if from habitual use of them in a particular direction. N. Am., C. and S. Am., almost entirely coast-wise, and chiefly along the Atlantic, but also on the Pacific side. Migra- tory all along, wintering from the middle districts southward, breeding in abundance but irregularly at difi^erent points. There are extensive breeding resorts along the Virginia coast. H. ni'ger. (Lat. niger
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