. Color key to North American birds . AMERICAN OYSTER-CATCHER. Family 29. OYSTER-CATCHERS. H,«MATOPODID/E. Toes three, webbed at base; tarsus stout, with rounded scales; bill heavy, com-pressed, and said to be used for opening MEXICAN JACANA. Family 30. JACANAS. JACANID^. Toes four, with their nails greatly elongated to support the bird while walking onaquatic vegetation; wing, with a sharp spur; bill with fleshy lobes at base and, in somespecies, on its sides. LAND BIRDS. Order X. Grouse, Partridges, Bob-Whites, Etc. GALLINtE.(3 families, 24 species, 25 subspecies.) Ground-inhabiting
. Color key to North American birds . AMERICAN OYSTER-CATCHER. Family 29. OYSTER-CATCHERS. H,«MATOPODID/E. Toes three, webbed at base; tarsus stout, with rounded scales; bill heavy, com-pressed, and said to be used for opening MEXICAN JACANA. Family 30. JACANAS. JACANID^. Toes four, with their nails greatly elongated to support the bird while walking onaquatic vegetation; wing, with a sharp spur; bill with fleshy lobes at base and, in somespecies, on its sides. LAND BIRDS. Order X. Grouse, Partridges, Bob-Whites, Etc. GALLINtE.(3 families, 24 species, 25 subspecies.) Ground-inhabiting: birds of chicken-like form; bill stout, hen-like; wingsshort and rounded; tail variable; feet strong; hind-toe elevated. Colorusually mixed brown, black, and buff, or bluish gray. 25 Synopsis of Orders and Families.
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