. 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. Birds; Birds. 472 SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS. —PICABIM — CUCULIFOBMES. 125. sort of colony of Communists uniting to build a large nest to be used in common. The eggs are greenish, overlaid
. 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. Birds; Birds. 472 SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS. —PICABIM — CUCULIFOBMES. 125. sort of colony of Communists uniting to build a large nest to be used in common. The eggs are greenish, overlaid with a white chalky substance, easily rubbed off when fresh. C. a'ni. (The Brazilian name. Fig. 333.) Am. Black Witch. Savanna Blackbird. Bill smooth or with a few transverse wrinkles; oulmen regularly curved. Color black, with violet and steel-blue reflections, duller below, the lanceolate feathers of the head and neck vrith bronze borders. Iris brown. Length ; wing ; tail ; tarsus Tropical America; West Indies ; Florida; accidental near Fig. 323. — Ani, J nat. size. (From Brehm.) 4S6 C. sulciros'tris. (Lat. sulcus, a groove; rosi/ris, pertaining to the beak.) Groove-billed Ani. Bill with three distinct grooves on upper mandible, parallel with the regularly curved culmen. Black, with steel-blue and violet reflections, more olive- brown on belly; scaly feathers of head and neck bronzy, of breast, back and wings metallic greenish. Wings with 4th and 5th quills longest, 3d little shorter, 2d nearly an inch, 1st nearly 2 inches from point of wing. Bill more than twice as high as broad at the base; high, broad, long. Bill and feet black, scaling grayish in some places. Iris brown. Length ; extent ; wing ; tail , graduated 2 inches; tarsus, or middle toe and claw, Tropical America ; N. to Texas in the lower Eio Grande Valley. Eggs said to be "^^^^^y ^^e, and
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