. 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 . ; extent ; wing ; tail ;bill scarcely , over deep at base ; tibite bare ; tarsus ; middle toe and Young: Above, grayish-brovru, wit
. 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 . ; extent ; wing ; tail ;bill scarcely , over deep at base ; tibite bare ; tarsus ; middle toe and Young: Above, grayish-brovru, with an olive shade, streaked and spotted with brown-ish-yellow ; below, streaked vvith brown and whitish j sides of head and neck yellowish-brown,streaked with darker; top of head and neck above behind blackish, variegated with blackish, with much of the lower mandible, and the lores, greenish-yellow; legs the same,obscured on front of tarsus; iris yellow. S. Atlantic and Gulf States, and southward, occa-sionally N. to the Middle States ; not abundant, and chiefly confined to the coast. Resident inFlorida. Nest as usual in trees and bushes, in communities; eggs 3, pale greenish-blue ; 61. Subfamily BOTAURIN/E : Bitterns. Tail-feathers 10, broad and very soft. Powder-down tracts 2 pairs than the inner. Claws long and little curved. Outer toe shorterThe Bitterns form a well-marked section of. Fig. 461. — Bill of Bittern, nat. size. (Ad nat. del. E. C.) the family, if not one of subfamily value. They are retiring and solitary birds of the marsh,not gregarious, not nesting in communities on trees, but by separate pairs, and on the ground 3and the eggs have not the characteristic color of those of true Herons. 664 SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS. — HEBODIONES— HEBODII. 266. 666. BOTAURUS. (Late Lat. botaurus, a bn^n; said to be not equal to bos-taurus; fromthe hollow guttural cry f) Bitterns. Of medium size; length about 2i feet. Bill mod-erately hinger tlian liead, sho
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