. The water birds of North America [microform]. Birds; Water-birds; Oiseaux; Oiseaux aquatiques. 176 GRALLATOUES — LIMICOLiE. Char. Remiges normal; rectrices much abbreviated, very soft, entirely concealed by the tail- coverts; forehead witli large leal-like lube, 'ree laterally and posteriorly, atllieriny centrally and anteriorly ; rictus (irnamented by a smaller lobe (rudimentary in P. (jijiiuiosIoiiki). The above characters are chielly those which distinj,niish the American genus Farm from its Old World allies IIijdivphuKUiiiits,^ AMitapwIiiiH,'^ i\\u\ lliidndivlnr.^ I am unable
. The water birds of North America [microform]. Birds; Water-birds; Oiseaux; Oiseaux aquatiques. 176 GRALLATOUES — LIMICOLiE. Char. Remiges normal; rectrices much abbreviated, very soft, entirely concealed by the tail- coverts; forehead witli large leal-like lube, 'ree laterally and posteriorly, atllieriny centrally and anteriorly ; rictus (irnamented by a smaller lobe (rudimentary in P. (jijiiuiosIoiiki). The above characters are chielly those which distinj,niish the American genus Farm from its Old World allies IIijdivphuKUiiiits,^ AMitapwIiiiH,'^ i\\u\ lliidndivlnr.^ I am unable to state in just what essential particulars the two latter dill'er I'rom I'arra, never having seen specimens of any species of either form. The ftret, however, diftei-s very widely in the great deveiojanent of lliu rectrices, of which the intermedia' are excessively elongated ; in the curious attenuation of the jni- maries, which are, moreover, of very unequal length, and in the entire aljsence of lobes about tlie base of the bill. These characters I have drawn from figures of the single species, //. chirnnjitg, Scoi'UM, not having seen the bird itself. In addition to the generic characters given above, the following also may be mentioned : — Bill somewhat Flover-like in form, the liasal half with the upper and lower outlines nearly parallel and decidedly approximated, the terminal half of the culiuen strongly convex, the gonys nearly straight, antl decidedly ascending terminally ; nostrils small, horizontal, elliptical, situated about half-way lietween the anterior angle of the eye and the tip of the bill. Primaries ten, reaching to the tijis of the tertials, the three outer tpiills longest and nearly e<jual, their inner webs slightly narrowed near the end. Tarsus and bare portion of the tibia covered by a continuous frontal and posterior series (if transverse scutelhe, these sometimes fused into continuous sheaths ; middle toe (exclusive of its claw) about c(pud to the
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