. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 620 :. 5. NEOCOEYS. ^^^^ Neocorys, ScMer, P. Z. S. 1857, p. 5 N. Foot of Neocorys spraguii. Range. Upper Missouri River and Saskatchewan in North America. Brazil in South America. 1. Neocorys spraguii. Alanda spragueii, Audub. B. Amer. viii. p. 217, pi. 486 (1844). Otocorys sprangeri, Bp. Consp. i. p. 246 (1850). Agrodroma spraguei, Baird in Stamb. Rep. p. 329 (1852). Neocorys spraguei, Scl. P. Z. S. 1857, p. 5; Baird, B. N. Amer. p. 234 (1858); Blak. Ibis, 1862, p. 4; id. 1863, p. 61; Coues, Key N. Amer. B. p. 91 (1872) ;
. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 620 :. 5. NEOCOEYS. ^^^^ Neocorys, ScMer, P. Z. S. 1857, p. 5 N. Foot of Neocorys spraguii. Range. Upper Missouri River and Saskatchewan in North America. Brazil in South America. 1. Neocorys spraguii. Alanda spragueii, Audub. B. Amer. viii. p. 217, pi. 486 (1844). Otocorys sprangeri, Bp. Consp. i. p. 246 (1850). Agrodroma spraguei, Baird in Stamb. Rep. p. 329 (1852). Neocorys spraguei, Scl. P. Z. S. 1857, p. 5; Baird, B. N. Amer. p. 234 (1858); Blak. Ibis, 1862, p. 4; id. 1863, p. 61; Coues, Key N. Amer. B. p. 91 (1872) ; Baird, Brewer, Sf Ridgw. Hist. N. Amer. B. i. p. 175, pi. 10. fig. 5 (1874) ; Coues, B. , p. 42 (1874) ; id. B. Color. Vail. p. 193, note (1878) ; Ridgw. Bull. Nat. Mus. no. 21, p. 16 (1881) ; Coues, Kexj N. Amer. B. 2nd ed. p. 286 (1884). Anthus spraguei, Baird, Rev. Amer. B. p. 155 (1864) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 250, no. 3634 (1869). Hind claw rather long and only gently curved, not quite so long as the hind toe itself. Tarsus equal to hind toe and claw com- bined. Primaries subequal and longest, 2, 3, 4 ; fftli primary much shorter than the fourth, and about equal to longest secon- daries. Primaries emarginate, 2, 3, 4. Feet in skin reaching to three fourths of the tail. Adult. General colour above ashy brown, mottled with dark- brown centres to the feathers ; the mantle and upper back blackish brown, with narrow margins of ashy white; wing-coverts dusky brown, with ashy-whitish edges, tinged with sandy rufous at the tips of the median and greater coverts ; bastard-wing and primary- coverts dusky brown, fringed with dull ashy; quills dusky brown, edged with ashy brown, whitish along the outer web of the first primary and also at the ends of the inner secondaries; tail-feathers. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfe
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