. 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 . headand neck frequently with an ashy shade. Size of the foregoing. Pacificcoast. Cass, in Bd., 700. H. lomisendii Aud., v, 243, pi. 325. niger. Obs. H. bachmani Aud., v, 245, pi. 326 ; H. ater Cass, in Bd., 700 (if reallydistinct from the last, which is doubtful), is a South American species improperlyattributed to our fauna. 195. Genus STREPSILAS Linnseua. Turnstone. Brant Bird. Calico-hack. Adult in summer
. 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 . headand neck frequently with an ashy shade. Size of the foregoing. Pacificcoast. Cass, in Bd., 700. H. lomisendii Aud., v, 243, pi. 325. niger. Obs. H. bachmani Aud., v, 245, pi. 326 ; H. ater Cass, in Bd., 700 (if reallydistinct from the last, which is doubtful), is a South American species improperlyattributed to our fauna. 195. Genus STREPSILAS Linnseua. Turnstone. Brant Bird. Calico-hack. Adult in summer pied abovewith black, white, brown and chestnut-red, the hitter color wanting inwinter, and in young birds; below, from thebreast (which is more or less completely black),throat, most of the secondaries, bases andshafts of primaries, and bases and tips of tailfeathers, white; bill black; feet orange; 8-9;wing5J-6; tail 2J ; bill ^, almost recurved, withascending gonys ; tarsus 1; tibire bare but a little ri«- i^s- ^iii of Both coasts, abimdant during the migrations. Wils., vii, 32, pi. 57, f1; Nutt., ii, 30; Aud., v, 231, pi. 323 ; Cass, in 701. interpres, II.
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