. 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; 1887. 610 SYSTEM A TIC SYNOPSIS. — LIMICOLJE. 224. and full-webbed ; the bill is decidedly recurved, flattened, and tapers to a needle-like point; the body is depresse
. 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; 1887. 610 SYSTEM A TIC SYNOPSIS. — LIMICOLJE. 224. and full-webbed ; the bill is decidedly recurved, flattened, and tapers to a needle-like point; the body is depressed; the plumage underneath is thickened as in water-birds. The species swim well. Himantopus is 3-toed, semipalmate, the bill nearly straight, and not flattened ; in relative length of leg it is probably not surpassed by any bird whatsoever. These two genera, each of three or four species of various parts of the world, with the Cladorhynchus pectoralis of liustralia, compose the family. RECUBVIROS'TRA. (Lat. rectirvus, bent upward; rostrum, bill. Fig. 425.) Fig. 425. —European Avocet, Recurvirostra avocetta, \ nat. size. (From Brelim.) Bill excessively slender, more or less recurved, then the upper mandible hooked at the extreme tip; much longer than head, more or less nearly equalling tail and tarsus; flattened on top, without culminal ridge. Wings short (for a wader). Tail very short, square, less than half the wing. Legs exceedingly long and slender; tibiae long-denuded; tarsus nearly twice as long as middle toe and claw; covering of legs skinny. Feet 4-toed; the front toes full-webbed, hind too short, free. Body remarkably depressed and feathered underneath with thick ducli- like plumage ; altogether, as in s\i-imming rather than as in wading birds. It is a modification. 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 r
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