. Key to North American birds [microform] : 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. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. 4'J(> SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS. —liAl'TOliES. 28. Family PSITTACID-^: Parrots. Sro above. Two ciirotiils, tin; left sii|)i'rticiul. All New World PaiTots belong here (but all I'sittacida are not of the New World). 30. Subfamily ARIN^: Parrots. Soe abcivr. Ambions iiiusdo, tufted oil-jL,'land and coiiiiilete furculuin. Of this siibfa
. Key to North American birds [microform] : 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. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. 4'J(> SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS. —liAl'TOliES. 28. Family PSITTACID-^: Parrots. Sro above. Two ciirotiils, tin; left sii|)i'rticiul. All New World PaiTots belong here (but all I'sittacida are not of the New World). 30. Subfamily ARIN^: Parrots. Soe abcivr. Ambions iiiusdo, tufted oil-jL,'land and coiiiiilete furculuin. Of this siibfainily the Macaws (vine) and our speck's of Comtrits are characteristic. 169 C'OXLT'Itrs. ((Jr. K&vos, kunos, a cone; oiipa, onrti, tail; cuneate-tail.) Pauroqijets. Tail Icngtliencil, la'arly equalling wings, cuneate, with tajjeriiig feathers. Face entirely feathered excepting a slight space about the eye. Nostrils in the feathered cere. Hill very stout, with bulging lateral outline, broadly rounded cuhnen, and toothed or l(d)ed commissure. Tarsi very short, much less than the inner anterior toe ; outer anterior longer than outer pos- terior toe. Feet granular-reticulate, becoming scutellate on the toes. Wings pointed ; in our specii's the 2d and Hd jirimaries longest, the 1st and 4th subequal and shorter. A large genus of tropical America, with one U. .S. .species. 460. ()-i;; extent ; wing ; tail Southern States ; up the Mississippi Valley to the Missouri region ; W. to Arkansas and the Indian Territory; recently Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, etc. ; formerly strayed to Pennsylvania and New York, but of late has receded even from the Carolinas; ."still abundant in Fltirida. But it would seem that if the cru(d and wanton slaughter to which the gentle creatures are subjected by idlers goes on, they must before long be exterminated. Gre- garious, frugivorous, and granivorous ; not regularly migratory, but roving. Said to breed in cuuipaui
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