. 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. Illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts. Birds. ALCID^, AUKS. GEN. 320, 321. 341 (c^-0 pL 66. See Brandt, I. c. 244). Length 15-16; wing 7J-8; tail 2; tarsus IJ; bill 2J, nearly 2 deep. N. Pacific, abundant; S. to Gala, in winter; rare or casual on the Atlantic (Maine, Aud.). Mor- mon cirrliatus Nutt., ii, 539; Aud., vii, 234, pi. 462 ; Cass. inBD.,902. . cieehata. 320. Genus CERATORHINA Bon
. 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. Illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts. Birds. ALCID^, AUKS. GEN. 320, 321. 341 (c^-0 pL 66. See Brandt, I. c. 244). Length 15-16; wing 7J-8; tail 2; tarsus IJ; bill 2J, nearly 2 deep. N. Pacific, abundant; S. to Gala, in winter; rare or casual on the Atlantic (Maine, Aud.). Mor- mon cirrliatus Nutt., ii, 539; Aud., vii, 234, pi. 462 ; Cass. inBD.,902. . cieehata. 320. Genus CERATORHINA Bonaparte. Horn-hilled Auh. Glossy blackish, below ashy-gray, breast and belly white. Adult with two series of stiiEsh lan- ceolate white feathers on each ^'<'-^l'- undeveloped tin of very young Tufted Puan. side of the head, aud a stout upright horn at base of culmen; immature birds without these lateral crests, and with soft membrane, more or less bulging, in place of the horn; some specimens ( 9 ?) in perfect plumage have no trace of a horn (C sucJdeyi Cass, in Bd., 906; Saginaiorrldna sucMeyi Coues, I. c. 32 ; see Elliot, Tntrod. No. 102, with figs.; Brandt,. 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 perfectly resemble the original Coues, Elliott, 1842-1899. Salem [Mass. ] Naturalists' Agency; New York, Dodd and Mead; [etc. , etc. ,]
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