. 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 . llowish-green; iris carmine; claws black. Young similar, paler and duller. Length ;extent ; wing ; tail ; bill from the gape ; tansus a
. 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 . llowish-green; iris carmine; claws black. Young similar, paler and duller. Length ;extent ; wing ; tail ; bill from the gape ; tansus ; middle toe and claw about The frontal plate is much smaller in this than in son:eother species, in which it covers all the forehead. Entire temperate N. Am., even to Alaskaand sometimes Greenland; Mexico, Cent. Am. and W. I. ; abundant, and breeds throughoutits range; migratory northerly ; resident in the South. Inhabits during the breeding season,and mostly, reedy sloughs, pools, and sluggish streams, seeking safety in concealment ratherthan by flight. Nesting most like that of grebes; a hollowed heap of bits of dead reeds,just out of the water, sometimes floating in the sense that the mass of broken-down reedsupon which it rests lies on the water. Eggs about a dozen, to long by to , shaped like an average hens egg, clear clay-color, unifonnly and minutely dotted with. LAMELLIBOSTEES: ANSEBINE BIEDS. 677 dark brown, the spots usually mere pin-heads, sometimes large blotches. The nest is some-times on dry ground a little away from water. The young hatch covered witli black down,fantastically striped with bright orange-red, with vermilion bill tipped with black,(addenda.) F. atra. (Lat. atra, black.) European Coot. Like the last. Bill, includ-ing frontal plate, entirely white; edge of wing, and of first primary, white, but no white onthe crissum. Europe; only N. Am. as occuning in Greenland. X. Order LAMELLIROSTRES: Anserine Birds. Bill la
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