. 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. Illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts. Birds. GRALLATOEES, WADING BIRDS. GEN. 188. 239 2f 188. Genus CYRTONYX Gould. Massena Partridge. $ with the head shigiilarly striped witla Ijlack and white; the upper parts variegated with hlacli, white and tawny, and with paired black spots on the wings; below velvety black, pnrplish-chestnut along the middle line, and with numerous sharp circular wh
. 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. Illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts. Birds. GRALLATOEES, WADING BIRDS. GEN. 188. 239 2f 188. Genus CYRTONYX Gould. Massena Partridge. $ with the head shigiilarly striped witla Ijlack and white; the upper parts variegated with hlacli, white and tawny, and with paired black spots on the wings; below velvety black, pnrplish-chestnut along the middle line, and with numerous sharp circular white spots; 9-10 long ; wing 6 ; tail 2J ; tarsus I4-. 9 smaller, and entirely different in color, but easily recognized by the peculiar generic characters ; tail very short, soft, almost hidden by its coverts; wing coverts and inner quills highly developed ; toes short; claws very large ; head with a short, full, soft, occipital crest. Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and southward. pi. 4: Bd.,647; Coop., 558 massena. Obs. The Welcome Partridge, Eup-vjcliortyx cristatus (Oiii/x neoxenus Add., v, 71, pi. 292) and several other species, have been admitted to our fauna upon unsatisfactory evidence, or erroueous reports. Some of them, however, may yet be found over our Mexican N. Yw. iryd. Massena rartnd.'^c. at least to 35°. Cass., III. 21, Order GEALLATOEES. Y/ading Birds. A character of nearly unexceptional applicability is nakedness of the leg above the heel, or tibio-tarsal joint (suffrago). The bare space is generally of consider- able length, but in several genera the ends of the feathers reach to the joint, while in others the tibisB are completely featliered. The legs are usually long ; as a rule the neck is lengthened 2')''-'-'''i l^issu; and the length of the bill is also in some measure correspoutleut. In its current acceptation, the order does not appear suscep- tible of further, or of anj' very exact, definition. Besides its several leading and characteristic grou
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