. 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. 606 SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS. —LIMICOL^. 39. Family H^MATOPODID-^: Oyster-catchers. Turnstones. A small family of two genera and six or eight species, with the bill hcurd,
. 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. 606 SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS. —LIMICOL^. 39. Family H^MATOPODID-^: Oyster-catchers. Turnstones. A small family of two genera and six or eight species, with the bill hcurd, and either acute or truncate, the nasal fossae short, broad, and shallow; the legs short, stout, brightly-colored. The two following genera differ much — in fact, more than Aph/riza does from Strepsilas ; it is unnecessary to give a formal analysis. Each should be type of a subfamily at least. 56. Subfamily H>EMATOPODIN^: Oyster-catchers. 222. K.^MA'TOPTJS. (Gr. aijuiToiTovs, haimatopous, red-footed; ai/xa, haima, blood, jroCs, pous, foot.) OySTER-CATCHERS. No hind toe. Front toes with basal webbing, conspicuous between middle and outer, and broadly fringed with membrane continuous with the webs to the ends. Tarsus longer than middle toe and claw, reticulate, the plates in front enlarged; shorter than bill. Tibiae briefly bare below. Legs as a whole very stout, coarse and rough, and light- colored. Wings long and pointed; 1st and 2d quills sub- equal and longest. Tail short. Fig. 420. — Bill of Oyster-oatoher, nat. size. (Ad nat. del. B. O.) square, scarcely or not half as long as the wing. Bill peculiar—longer than tarsus, twice as long as head, constricted near the base, much compressed, almost like a knife-blade toward end, and truncate, something like a woodpecker's (it is an efficient instrument for prying open the shells of bivalve mol- Insks), hard, straight or deflected sideways, highly colored (fig. 420.) Nasal groove very short, broad, and shallow; grooving
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