. Key to North American birds [microform] : 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. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. SCOLOPACID^: TATTLERS. 648 black. This curious tracery, best seen from below, is diacniistic; though tho precise pat- tern varies iutcriniiuibly. Tlie patch of uuilor coverts at tlie bases of ilie primaries have tho same character. Axillars wliitc; lining of wings wliite or rufescent. Iris brown. Bill brownish-black; legs greenisi
. Key to North American birds [microform] : 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. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. SCOLOPACID^: TATTLERS. 648 black. This curious tracery, best seen from below, is diacniistic; though tho precise pat- tern varies iutcriniiuibly. Tlie patch of uuilor coverts at tlie bases of ilie primaries have tho same character. Axillars wliitc; lining of wings wliite or rufescent. Iris brown. Bill brownish-black; legs greenisii or yellowish. Length ; e.\tent about ; wing ;25; tail ; bill along culnieu 0.(, along gape ; tarsus ; middle too and claw under Fall plumage: Under parts less rufescent, frequently simply tawny-whitisli; and the broad ochrey or tawny edgings of the featiiers of the upper parts replaced by narrow whitish streakings, in a set of semicircles. Wings and tail as in sjjring. N. Am. at large, and a frequent European straggler, but apparently nowhere abumlaiit; migratory in the U. S.; 8. in winter through S. Am.; breeds in high latitudes. Eggs usually 4, pointedly pyriform, to X 1-02 to ; the ground chiy, st)metimcs slightly oliva- ceous, often vinito grayish; markings extremely bold and sharp, in heavy blotches and indeter- minate spots all over the eggs, but largest and most numerous at the greater end; colors rich umber-brown, of varying shade. Nearest thcso blotched samples are the splashed ones, with markings massed at greater end, elsewhere sjdattered in small pattern. Others are spotted with narrow markings radiating from the large end, almost wreathing about the greatest diameter. All with the usual neutral-tint shell-markings; most with scratchy blackish marks over all. 250. HETERO'SCELUS. (Gr. «r»pof,/teteros, different, otherwise ; a-KfXos, skelos, leg.) SiiouT- LKOGED Tattler. Hill totanine, longer than he
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