. Color key to North American birds . AMERICAN COOT. Family 2^. RAILS, COOTS, AND GALLINULES. variable; toes always long, webbed flobedj in only one species; wings short andTounded; tail short. Order IX. Snipes, Sandpipers, Curlews, Plovers, Etc. LIMICOLyE. (7 families, 55 species, 4 subspecies.) Generally longf-legged, slender-billed birds of shores and mud flats,and sometimes fields. Most of them are under a foot in length; noneare so large as the Ibises; wings long and pointed; tail short; toes longand slender, usually without webs; color generally brown or blackishabove, mott
. Color key to North American birds . AMERICAN COOT. Family 2^. RAILS, COOTS, AND GALLINULES. variable; toes always long, webbed flobedj in only one species; wings short andTounded; tail short. Order IX. Snipes, Sandpipers, Curlews, Plovers, Etc. LIMICOLyE. (7 families, 55 species, 4 subspecies.) Generally longf-legged, slender-billed birds of shores and mud flats,and sometimes fields. Most of them are under a foot in length; noneare so large as the Ibises; wings long and pointed; tail short; toes longand slender, usually without webs; color generally brown or blackishabove, mottled and streaked with whitish and buff. Many speciesutter characteristic piping whistles as they fly or when they take northern phalarope. Pamily24. PHALAROPES. PHALAROPODID/E. Front toes with lobes or webs; tarsus flattened; plumage thick; swimming Snipe. 21 Synopsis of Orders and Families.
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