. 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. 526 SYSTEM A TIC SYNOPSIS. â BAPTOBES â A GCIPITBES. a small superorbital shield of a single bone. A beautiful genus of a single species, related to the Old World Milv
. 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. 526 SYSTEM A TIC SYNOPSIS. â BAPTOBES â A GCIPITBES. a small superorbital shield of a single bone. A beautiful genus of a single species, related to the Old World Milvus (typical kites) and especially to Nauclems, with which latter it has usually been associated. 493. E. forfica'tus. (Lat. forjicatus, deeply forked. Figs. 366, 367.) Swallow-tailed Kite. Adult $ 9 'â Head, neck, band on rump, and entire under parts,.ineluding lining of wings, snow- white; back, wings, and tail, glossy black, with various lustre, chiefly green and violet. Bill bluish-black; eere, edges of mandibles, and feet pale bluish, the latter tinged with greenish; claws light-colored. Length about , but very variable; extent ; wing ; tail up to , cleft more than ^ its length; tarsus about ; middle toe without claw rather less. Young : Similar; less lustrous; wing- and tail-feathers white-tipped; feathers of head and neck pencilled with delicate shaft lines of blackish. This most elegant kite, super- lative in ease and grace of the wing, floats, soars, and dashes over the greater part of America, and even crosses the Atlantic on its buoyant pinions. It is abundant in the Southern U. S., sometimes winging its way to the Middle States, and regularly up the whole Mississippi valley, to Minnesota and Dakota, latitude 49°. Known to nest from Wisconsin and Iowa southward. The nest is placed on a tree, constructed of sticks, hay, moss, etc.; eggs 4-6, whitish, X , irregularly blotched and specked with rusty and chestnut-brown. 44. Su
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