. 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 . Fio. 542. — Head and foot of Avocet, about at. size. recurvirostridjE: avocets. stilts. 91. Flo. 543. — Avocet. is as Hexible as the bones of a womans corsets ; it acquires its ful
. 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 . Fio. 542. — Head and foot of Avocet, about at. size. recurvirostridjE: avocets. stilts. 91. Flo. 543. — Avocet. is as Hexible as the bones of a womans corsets ; it acquires its full curvature only in oldbirds, who have poked in the mud with it for years. Adult ^ <^, winter: Head and neckashy or pearl-gray, like tail; this has been called R. occidentalis ; afterward considered theyoung. Young : Head and neck strongly washedwith cinnamon-brown; rusty or tawny edgings ofblack feathers ; bill straight or nearly so. I haveshot scarcely fledged birds in this state, in whichthe shank is also peculiarly swollen about thesuffrago, suggesting the so-called Thick-knee((Edicnemus). U. S. and British Provinces;N. in the interior to tlie Saskatchewan and Mac-kenzie River regions; S. in winter from Louisiana,Texas, and southern California to Cuba, Jamaica,and Guatemala; rare now in eastern U. S. andonly casual in New England. Abounding inthe West, especially in alkaline regions, asthose of the Yellowstone and Milk River, Utah,etc. Its appearance is striking, as might besupposed; it
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