. Birds of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains; a manual for the identification of species in hand or in the bush . -all of it by wading. Key to the Species * Bill over 3 long, and decidedly curved upward ; the three front toes webbed 1. American Avocet. * Bill than 3 long and but slightly curved upward ; only two of the toes connected by webbing 2. Black-necked Stilt. 1. American Avo-cet (2U5. Recnrviro-stra amerkhim). —A very long-legged,slender - billed, al-most white-bodied,wading bird, withdark wings, havinglarge, white bandsformed of the covertsand secondaries. Thelong bi
. Birds of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains; a manual for the identification of species in hand or in the bush . -all of it by wading. Key to the Species * Bill over 3 long, and decidedly curved upward ; the three front toes webbed 1. American Avocet. * Bill than 3 long and but slightly curved upward ; only two of the toes connected by webbing 2. Black-necked Stilt. 1. American Avo-cet (2U5. Recnrviro-stra amerkhim). —A very long-legged,slender - billed, al-most white-bodied,wading bird, withdark wings, havinglarge, white bandsformed of the covertsand secondaries. Thelong bill is decidedlycurved upward. Insummer the head andAmerican Avocet ^i^ck are cinnamon-. FAM. XL. AVOCETS AND STILTS 251 red. Common in the interior along the shores of shallow ponds, rare eastward. (Blue Stocking.) Length, 16-20 ; wing, 8^ (i-Ol) ; tail, 3^ ; tarsus, ^ ; culmen, ?,\.North America; breeding from Illinois (rarely from Texas) north to theGreat Slave Lake and wintering along the Gulf coast to Central America. 2. Black-necked Stilt (226. Himdntopns mexicclmis). — An ex-ceedingly long-legged, long-billed, black and white wading birdof the shallow ponds. The black begins back of the foreheadand extends along the neck and back to the tail; the wingsare also white in-cludes the fore-head, all lowerparts, and mostof the tail. Theblack is glossyand somewhatgreenish. Thisgraceful bird isespecially fondof wading inshallow, salt-marsh p o n d the breed-ing season it isvery noisy, witha sharp f//cA;-like note, which is often given out while on thewing. Its long wings enable this bird to fly well, and it hasthe habit common in the Avhole order (Limi
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