. 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 . sy greenish-black ; a broad silver gray wing-band formedby most of the coverts ; lower neck behind spotted, and scapulars and tertiaries stripedwith silvery - gray; tail pale-tippe
. 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 . sy greenish-black ; a broad silver gray wing-band formedby most of the coverts ; lower neck behind spotted, and scapulars and tertiaries stripedwith silvery - gray; tail pale-tipped; filamentous feathers of neck purplish-ash. 9- withparts of the head, neck, and back brown, the jugulum and breast fawn-color sharplymargined with rich brown. Bill yellow, dusky-greenish on the ridge and tip; sac orange;eye-space livid; eye carmine; feet dusky and yellow. Length about ; extent feet; wing ; tail ; bill along culmeu; tarsus S. Atlanticand Gulf States, common ; in summer to North Carolina, and up the Mississippi to Illinois andKansas ; New Mexico. Nest bulky, placed on trees and bushes over the water, of sticks,leaves, roots, moss, etc.; eggs 3-4, like cormorant eggs in color and texture, but narrow andelongate, X Young with butf-colored or white woolly down. Fed in the nestby regurgitation, like cormorants. 57. Family TACHYPETID^:. Fig. 507. —Frigate, with Tropic Bird in the distance. (From Michelet.) Frigates. Bill longer than the head,epignathous, stout, straight,wider than high at the base,thence gradually compressedto the strongly hooked extrem-ity, where the under as well asujjper mandible is very small, linear,almost entirely closed, in along narrow groove. Gularsac smaU, but capable of con-siderable distension. Wingsexceedingly long and pointed,of about 34 reniiges, of whichthe 10 primaries are very pow-erful, with stout quadrangularshafts; upper and middle por-tion of the
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