. 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. Figs. 218-21. Various stages of the bill of Horn-billed Auk. 239. Figs. 218-21 show several conditions). Length 15 J; wing 7^ ; tail 2J ; tarsus 1^ ; bill 1^, including horn ; nostril to top of horn sometimes f. Pacific Coast to Cala. ; breeds S. to the Farallones. Uria occidentalis Aud., vii, 264, pi. 471; Nutt., ii, 538; Cerorhina monoce
. 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. Figs. 218-21. Various stages of the bill of Horn-billed Auk. 239. Figs. 218-21 show several conditions). Length 15 J; wing 7^ ; tail 2J ; tarsus 1^ ; bill 1^, including horn ; nostril to top of horn sometimes f. Pacific Coast to Cala. ; breeds S. to the Farallones. Uria occidentalis Aud., vii, 264, pi. 471; Nutt., ii, 538; Cerorhina monocerata Cass, in Bd., 905; Ceratorhyncha monocerata Coues, I. c. 28. . monocerata. 321. Genus PHALERIS Temminek. C? 2-/ Parroquet Auh. Bill smooth; upper mandible oval, under falcate, rictus recurved. Blackish, below paler, gray, white, or varied; adult with a series of filamentous white feathers behind each eye; bill red, 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 Coues, Elliott, 1842-1899. Salem [Mass. ] Naturalists' Agency; New York, Dodd and Mead; [etc. , etc. ,]
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