. 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. 672 SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS. â ALECTORIDESâ BALLIFOBMES. 673. R. longiros'tris cre'pitans. (Lat. longirostris, long-billed. Lat. crepitans, crepitating, clattering.
. 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. 672 SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS. â ALECTORIDESâ BALLIFOBMES. 673. R. longiros'tris cre'pitans. (Lat. longirostris, long-billed. Lat. crepitans, crepitating, clattering. Fig. 4G5.) Clapper Rail. Salt-water Marsh-hen. Mud-hen. (J 9, adult: Above, variegated with dark olive-brown and pale olive-ash, the latter edging the feathers, the variegation dull and blended. Below, pale dull ochrey-brown, whitening on the throat, frequently ashy-shaded on the breast, without decided cinnamon- brown shade. Flanks, ax- iUars, and lining of wings, fuscous-gray, with sharp narrow white bars. QuiUs and tail plaiu dark-brown, without chestnut on the coverts. Eyelids and short superciliary line whitish. The general tone is that of a nray bird, without Fig. 4C5. â Clapper Kail, reJucerl. (Altered from Lewis.) ^â ,â ^ any reaaishness. Young mostly soiled whitish below; when just from the egg entirely sooty black. Length ; extent about ; wing ; tail ; biU ; tarsus ; middle toe and claw 9 smaller than the $. Salt marshes of Atlantic States, ex- tremely abundant southerly; N. regularly to the uuddle districts, sometimes to Massachusetts. Resident from the Carolinas southward. Breeds in profusion in the marshes of the Carolinas, etc., where its clattering is almost incessant during the mating season. Nest a rude platform of rccds and grasses just out of the water on the ground. Eggs 6 to 12, averaging X , whitish, creamy, or buil, variously speckled and blotched with reddish-brown, with a few
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