. The water birds of North America [microform]. Birds; Water-birds; Oiseaux; Oiseaux aquatiques. illitl^:<:^. i : â â .i gray, tinged with yellowish green on scutelhe of basal Youmj: .Similar, but lower parts more gray, and much sufl'used with whitish, especially on the throat and belly ; bill dull tlesh-color, tinged with olive-greenish, the frontal shield rudimentary; iris brown. Dmmy youmj: Prevailing color blackish plumbeous ; head, neck, and upper jiarts relieved by numerous cris|., elongated, somewhat filamentous bristles, these sparse, light orange-bulf and white, on the
. The water birds of North America [microform]. Birds; Water-birds; Oiseaux; Oiseaux aquatiques. illitl^:<:^. i : â â .i gray, tinged with yellowish green on scutelhe of basal Youmj: .Similar, but lower parts more gray, and much sufl'used with whitish, especially on the throat and belly ; bill dull tlesh-color, tinged with olive-greenish, the frontal shield rudimentary; iris brown. Dmmy youmj: Prevailing color blackish plumbeous ; head, neck, and upper jiarts relieved by numerous cris|., elongated, somewhat filamentous bristles, these sparse, light orange-bulf and white, on the upinr parts, but dense and deep salmon-orange (m the head and neck, where the dark jdumbeous dduii is almost or quite concealed ; these colored filaments entirely absent from the whole pileum. wliitii is mostly balil toward the oi'(dput, elsewhere covered with closely appressed black bristles ; Ions densely covered with short, , orange-red papillce. Bill orange-red, the tip of the max- illa black ; feet dusky (in skin). Total length, about 14 inches ; wing, ; culmen (to commencement of frontal shicH), ; tarsus, 2.(K) ; middle toe, â (i5. The Coiunion Coot of the North American has a very widely extended distribution. It is found present and breeding in a large jiart of Northern South America, in Jamaica, ('uba, and other West India Islands, in many of the Southern States, in the Northwestern States, in the interior between the Missouri and tlie Western Mountains, on the Pacific coast, and on the Saskatchewan and the Mackenzie as far to the north as the 55th ])arallel. and even farther. It is not so common on the Atlantic coast, and is met with chiefly, or wholly, in its migrations â usually in September. It is very abundant in Mexico in the winter. Two instances are cited by Reinhardt of its having been taken in Greenland: one was in 1854, by Mr. Olric, the governor of North Greenlaml, in the harbor of Christianshaab; the ot
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