. The wild fowl of the United States and British possessions, or, The Swan, geese, ducks, and mergansers of North America [microform] : with accounts of their habits, nesting, migrations, and dispersions, together with descriptions of the adults and young, and keys for the ready identification of the species : a book for the sportsman, and for those desirous of knowing how to distinguish these web-footed birds and to learn their ways in their native wilds. Waterfowl; Game and game-birds; Gibier d'eau; Gibier. \U I I I â¢IfS ii 1 I: P iti f\ A, -I i lih mM' 1 296 /f'.-/ /V'.A' /â OWL. Bill abou
. The wild fowl of the United States and British possessions, or, The Swan, geese, ducks, and mergansers of North America [microform] : with accounts of their habits, nesting, migrations, and dispersions, together with descriptions of the adults and young, and keys for the ready identification of the species : a book for the sportsman, and for those desirous of knowing how to distinguish these web-footed birds and to learn their ways in their native wilds. Waterfowl; Game and game-birds; Gibier d'eau; Gibier. \U I I I â¢IfS ii 1 I: P iti f\ A, -I i lih mM' 1 296 /f'.-/ /V'.A' /â OWL. Bill aboul as long as head, broad, widetiing- toward the tip and turned slijjfhtly upward; nail small, narrow, curved, and turned backwa. ). Nostril about middle of bill, placed near eulineii. Head moderately large; neck very large, permitting the skin to pass over the head of the dead bird. Tail ol eighteen feathers, stiff, narrow, and pointed, with large shafts. Tarsus half as long as middle toe and claw. Feet very large, outer toe longer than middle. Wings short. Only one species of this genus, out of the twelve or fourteen recognized by ornithologists, is found in North America, the well- known Ruddy Duck, with many aliases in difTerent localities. It is generally distributed throughout our Continent, going at times as far south as northern South America. It is a sprightly little bird with some rather comical habits. GENTS X()J/OA']'.V ((jreek v6iios, >i»i«.\\ law -f ''"'J?- , nail). Nomonyx, Ridgw. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. iii., 1880, p. 15. Type Afias (foni/nica, Linn. Characters similar to Erismatura, but the nail nearly all seen from above, and, althougli hooked, does not bend backward. Tail composed of narrow graduated pointed feathers with stif- fened shafts, and more than half as long as wing. Bill narrower for its length than is that of the allied genus. Outer toe sh rter than the middle toe. There is only one species included in this genus, a nativ
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