. 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; 1887. 470 SYSTEMATIC STXOPSIS. — PICAEI^ — CUCl'LIFOEMES. Cal-JJiUi i^i Lar^re species, dull bine above Sniill sp-ecies. i:lcssy green aK"*ve 423. C. alcyon. (Lat
. 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; 1887. 470 SYSTEMATIC STXOPSIS. — PICAEI^ — CUCl'LIFOEMES. Cal-JJiUi i^i Lar^re species, dull bine above Sniill sp-ecies. i:lcssy green aK"*ve 423. C. alcyon. (Lat. alcyon. a. kingfisher. Fig. 301.) Belted KisGnSHEK. Upper partj. hn^ad bar. and side? under the vriugs, dull blue with tint- black shaft lines. Lower eyelid. S]X>t before eye. a oerTiciil ooll;vr and under p>an5 except as said, pure white ; the $ with a ohesmut belly-baud and the sides oi the same color. Quills and t;ul-teathers black, spec- kled, blotched or baiTed on the inner webs with white : outer webs of the seconditries and tail-feathers like the back : wins-coTerts frequently sprinkled with white. Bill black. pLtle at base bcLiw. Feet dark ; tibia? naked belo\r. A lens:, thin, pointed ix-cipital crest: plumage compact and oQy to resist water, into which the birds constantly plunge after their finny prey. Length 1:;. : extent :}: wing ; tail : whole foot : culmen •2.'2o. N. Am., common everywhere, resident or only f -reed southward by freezing oi the watti-s. This tine bird, whose loud rattlins: notes are as famUiar sounds alonsf our streams as the noise of the miU-dam or the machinery, burrows to the depnh of six or eight feet in the gxound. and lays as many crystal white spheroidiil esss. X at the enlarged extremity of the tunnel. 424. C anierica'na caba nisi. (^To Dr. Jeau Cabanis. of Germauy.) Texan Greex Kixg- FlSHEK. Adult ^ : upper parts glossy-greeu. with bronze lustre, th
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