. The birds of North and Middle America : a descriptive catalogue of the higher groups, genera, species, and subspecies of birds known to occur in North America, from the Arctic lands to the Isthmus of Panama, the West Indies and other islands of the Caribbean sea, and the Galapagos Archipelago . Birds. BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA 365 Large and stoutly built very short-tailed Odontophorinae (wing about 127-158 mm.) with short tail (less than half as long as wing), large and stout feet (tarsus nearly one-third as long as wing, sometimes slightly longer), heavy bill, more or less extensive
. The birds of North and Middle America : a descriptive catalogue of the higher groups, genera, species, and subspecies of birds known to occur in North America, from the Arctic lands to the Isthmus of Panama, the West Indies and other islands of the Caribbean sea, and the Galapagos Archipelago . Birds. BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA 365 Large and stoutly built very short-tailed Odontophorinae (wing about 127-158 mm.) with short tail (less than half as long as wing), large and stout feet (tarsus nearly one-third as long as wing, sometimes slightly longer), heavy bill, more or less extensively naked orbital region, and feather of posterior portion of pileum more or less (but not con- spicuously) elongated, forming, when erected, a bushy crest of broad, round-tipped, decurved or decumbent feathers; sexes alike in coloration. Bill relatively large and heavy, the chord of exposed culmen (from extreme base) equal to two-fifths to nearly half the length of tarsus, the depth of bill at base greater than distance from anterior end of nasal fossa to tip of maxilla and equal to or greater than its width at rictus; culmen strongly convex, rounded, narrower and more ridge-like Figure 20.—Odontophorus gujanensis. Outermost primary equal to or slightly shorter (sometimes much shorter) than ninth (from outside), the third, fourth, and fifth, fourth, fifth and sixth, or fifth to eighth longest. Tail two-fifths to nearly half as long as wing, mostly concealed by coverts, the rectrices (12), however, firm, broad, with rounded tips. Tarsus nearly one-third as long as wing, sometimes more than one-third as long, nearly to quite as long as middle toe with claw, very stout, the planta tarsi, on both sides, with a continuous row of transverse scutella (larger and more continuous on outer side). Plumage and coloration.—Feathers of pileum elongated, broad, soft, and flattened (webs not conduplicate), forming, when erected, a bushy crest; orbital (sometimes also loral) regio
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