. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . he same diameter as theintestine, and gradually dilates to form the cloaca. The nostrils are elliptical, basal, in the fore and under partof the broad and short nasal membrane, anteriorly marginate,open. Eyes of moderate size ; eyelids feathered, and having anarrow bare crenate margin. External aperture of the earlarge, roundish. The general fo
. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . he same diameter as theintestine, and gradually dilates to form the cloaca. The nostrils are elliptical, basal, in the fore and under partof the broad and short nasal membrane, anteriorly marginate,open. Eyes of moderate size ; eyelids feathered, and having anarrow bare crenate margin. External aperture of the earlarge, roundish. The general form is rather full; the body ovate ; the neckrather short; the head oblong, of moderate size. The feet areof moderate length ; the tibia slender; the tarsus slender, com-pressed, with eight or nine anterior scutella, and about the samenumber behind. The toes free, slender ; the first about thelength of the second, which is slightly longer than the fourth,i, , ,, the third consider- ably longer ;—that is, without includ-ing the claws. Thefirst claw is ex-tremely long, beingabout double thelength of the firstjoint, much compressed, slender, tapering to a point, veryslightly arched; the rest rather long, slender, compressed,acute, slightly
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