. 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; 1887. 650 SYSTEM A TIG SYNOPSIS. — BAPTORES — A CCIPITBES. A. ferrugineus is highly distinctive of the latter. Length of a ?, ; extent ; wing ; 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; 1887. 650 SYSTEM A TIG SYNOPSIS. — BAPTORES — A CCIPITBES. A. ferrugineus is highly distinctive of the latter. Length of a ?, ; extent ; wing ; tail ; iris light brown; bill mostly blackish-blue, cere i)ale greenish-yellow, feet duU yellow, claws blue-black. This is about an average size ; the ^ averages smaller ; wing about , etc. The name adopted, it must be observed, is not intended to discriminate the black from the ordinary plumage, but to separate the American bird subspecifically from the European. N. Am., at large, common, especially in fertile, well-watered regions, as those of. Fig. 382. —Kougli-Iegged ]>uzzar(l, i iial (Fii)iu Brelim.) the Atlantic seaboard ; a large, heavy, and sonunvliat sluggish hawk, haunting meadows and marshes, to some extent crepuscular in liabits, of low, easy, and almost noiseless flight; prey- ing upon insignificant quarry, particularly small rodent and insectivorous mammals, reptUcs, batrachians and insects. Nest usually in large ti-ees, but frequently on a ledge of rocks or the edge of a cut-bank ; a bulky mass of interlaced sticks, with softer matted material of miscel- laneous kinds ; eggs 3-5, laid late in May and in .Tune, measuring 25 in length, by in breadth; varying in color from diugy whitish with scarcely any marking, or but. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original C
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