. New England bird life; being a manual of New England ornithology: ed. from the manuscript of Winfrid A. Stearns . Birds. H. PALLIATUS : AMERICAN OYSTER-CATCHER. lyj FAM. H^MATOPODID^ : OYSTER-CATCHER. AMERICAN OYSTER-CATCHER. H^MATOPUS PALLiATUS Temm. Chars. Feet, 3-toed, very stout and rough, red. Bill, stout, straight, longer than head, much compressed, truncate at ends something like a Woodpecker's, red. Head and neck sooty blackish, changing to blackish-brown on the back and wings. Under parts of the neck, white ; a large white space on the wings. A red ring around eyes. Sexes al
. New England bird life; being a manual of New England ornithology: ed. from the manuscript of Winfrid A. Stearns . Birds. H. PALLIATUS : AMERICAN OYSTER-CATCHER. lyj FAM. H^MATOPODID^ : OYSTER-CATCHER. AMERICAN OYSTER-CATCHER. H^MATOPUS PALLiATUS Temm. Chars. Feet, 3-toed, very stout and rough, red. Bill, stout, straight, longer than head, much compressed, truncate at ends something like a Woodpecker's, red. Head and neck sooty blackish, changing to blackish-brown on the back and wings. Under parts of the neck, white ; a large white space on the wings. A red ring around eyes. Sexes alike. Length about ; extent, ; wing, ; tail, ; bill, or ; tarsus, This curious bird, though not particularly southern, and common enough along the coasts of the Middle States, where it breeds, is nevertheless a very rare spe-. FiG. 39. — Bill of Oyster-Catcher. Natural size. cies in New England now, however common it may for- merly have been. The Oyster-catcher is confined strictly to the sea-coast, and is one of the wildest and wariest of the beach birds — facts which may account in part for its scarcity along shores where men are plenti- ful. Among the old records of its appearance are those. 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 Stearns, Winfrid Alden, 1852-; Coues, Elliott, 1842-1899. Boston, Lee and Shepard; New York, C. T. Dillingham
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