. 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 . r having a hammer-headed white shaftline. Some inner wing-quills like the back ; others dusky with whitish shafts, broken-barredwith buff, chiefly on outer webs. Below, buffy-white
. 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 . r having a hammer-headed white shaftline. Some inner wing-quills like the back ; others dusky with whitish shafts, broken-barredwith buff, chiefly on outer webs. Below, buffy-white, with numberless spots of blackish pjiiredon each feather, sharp and circular on breast, further back widening to bars. A singularspecies, very showy in full plumage, inhabiting portions ot Texas, N. M., and Ariz.; in thelatter, W. to Fort Whipple at least. [Subfamily PERDICIN/E: Old World Partridges and Quail. It becomes necessary to introduce this group, in consequence of the naturalization of theimported Migratory or Messina Quail of Europe. I know of no characters to distinguish itfrom OdontophorincB, and doubt that there are any.]215. COTURNIX. (Lat. coturnix, a quail; from its note.) Bill smaller and much slenderer thanthat of any of the foregoing genera of ()dont02)horince; nasal fossse feathered, except on thetumid nasal scale. Wings of moderate length, little vaulted and not rounded, pointed by the. TETRAONID^ — PERDICI^^: OLD WORLD QUAIL. 595 lst-3(i quills, the 1st not shorter than the next. First primary emarginate ou inner web ; 2dand 3d sinuate on outer web. Tail extremely short and slight, not half as long as the wing,pointed, its feathers very soft, the central pair lanceolate. Feet small; tarsus shorter than middletoe and claw, slightly feathered above in front, with two rows of alternating large scutella infront, two rows of smaller rounded scales meeting in a ridge behind, the sides filled in withsmall plates. Size smaller than that of any of the foregoing
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