. 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. LARIDiE, TEUNS. GEN. 293, 294. 323 Gray) ; b'. panayensis of authors : Ilaliplana discolor Coues, Ibis, 1864, 392 ; Lawrence, Ami. Lye. N. Y. viii, 105 ; Elliot, pi. 57. anosthj':ta. 293. Genus HYDROCHELIDON Boie. '>7-^ Blach, or Short-tailed Tern. Adult in breeding plumage: head, neolc and under parts, uniform jet-black; back, wings and tai
. 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. LARIDiE, TEUNS. GEN. 293, 294. 323 Gray) ; b'. panayensis of authors : Ilaliplana discolor Coues, Ibis, 1864, 392 ; Lawrence, Ami. Lye. N. Y. viii, 105 ; Elliot, pi. 57. anosthj':ta. 293. Genus HYDROCHELIDON Boie. '>7-^ Blach, or Short-tailed Tern. Adult in breeding plumage: head, neolc and under parts, uniform jet-black; back, wings and tail, plumbeous; primaries unstriped ; crissum pure white ; bill black. In winter and young birds, the black is mostly replaced by white on the forehead, sides of head and under parts, the crown, occiput and neck behind, with the sides under the wings, being dusky gray; a dark auricular patch and another before the eye ; in a very early stage, the upper parts are varied with dull brown. Small; wing 8-9, little less than the whole length of the bird; tail 3J, simply forked; bill 1-1J^; tarsus % ; middle toe and claw 1|-. N. Am., chiefly inland, breeding in marshy places. 8. jolumhea WiLS., vii, 83, pi. 60, f. 3 (young) ; //. plumbea Lawr. jn Bd., 864; S. nigra Nutt., ii, 282; Aud., vii, 116, pi. 438 ; H. Jissijpes Coues, I. c. 554. . fissipes. 294. Genus ANGUS Leach. ^ /h Noddy Tern. Frontal feathers in convex outline on the bill (the antise, shown by all the foregoing, here wanting) ; webs remarkably full; tail graduated laterally, emarginate in the middle, the feathers broad aud stiiEsh. fuliginous, blackening on quills and tail, with a plumbeous cast on the head and neck, the crown more or less purely white ; bill black; length 15-17 ; wing 10-11; tail 6-7 ; bill l^-lf ; tarsus 1; middle toe and claw 1|-1|. S. Atlantic and Gulf Coasts, breeding in vast multitudes ; the nest is placed on bushes. Nutt., ii, 285; Aud., vii, 123, pi. 440; Lawr. iu Bd., 865. A. stolidus •Ai\^
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