. 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 . Large: length inches;extent ; wing somewhere about ; tail ; bill , generallyabout ; tarsus , more or less; middle toe and claw
. 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 . Large: length inches;extent ; wing somewhere about ; tail ; bill , generallyabout ; tarsus , more or less; middle toe and claw ; few birds vary more insize. Sexes not distinguishable; no ashy and whitish plumage known. Temperate N. Am ;the largest of the bay-birds excepting the long-billed curlew; conspicuous by its size andred color among the waders that throng the shores and muddy or sandy bars of bays andestuaries during the migration. Known to breed chiefly in the upper Mississippi and EasternMissouri regions, in Iowa, Minnesota, and Dakota, to the Saskatchewan; does not appear togo far along the Atlantic coast northward. Nests anywhere on the prairie, not necessarilynear water; eggs 8-4, about 2-28 X , light olive-drab, numerously but not very boldlyspotted with various umber-brown shades, and the usual st<me-gray shell-spots. 849. Tj. haemastica. (Gr. ai/iaorocrfs, haimasUkos, of bloody-red color.) Hudsonian 636 SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS.—LIMICOLJE. American Black-tailed Godwit. Ring-tailed Marlin. Feathers on side of lowermandible reaching to a point far in advance of those on upper. Bump blackish. Most uppertail-coverts conspicuously white; longest coverts and the tail-feathers black with white bases,those of the tail-feathers most extensive, and the latter also white-tipped. The appearanceof the parts conneetively is therefore of a black rump, then a broad white bar, then a broadblack bar, then a narrow white bar. Lining of wings sooty-blackish, mixed with some white;axiUars bl
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