. 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. 458 SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS.âPICARIJE â CYPSELIFOBMES. 1 ,1 â 406. C. vaux'l. (To Wm. S. Vaux, of I'hilnilolithia.) Vaux's Swift. Similar; jmlor, tlin rmiip and ui)i)pr tail-covcrtK liglitor than the rest of thu ui)i)('r i>artH; tho throat whitish. Sniall(;r; lengtii ; wing the same; tail I'aeitie Coast, U. S., autl south
. 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. 458 SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS.âPICARIJE â CYPSELIFOBMES. 1 ,1 â 406. C. vaux'l. (To Wm. S. Vaux, of I'hilnilolithia.) Vaux's Swift. Similar; jmlor, tlin rmiip and ui)i)pr tail-covcrtK liglitor than the rest of thu ui)i)('r i>artH; tho throat whitish. Sniall(;r; lengtii ; wing the same; tail I'aeitie Coast, U. S., autl southward. SecniN to be ditfercnt from 2ielas(/ica, but jjcrhaps the same as a S. Am. species. Ncstiug and eggs as in tlio conimon spccits. 23. Family TROCHILID^: Humming-birds. >c >4 X. Via. 298. â Huniniing-birils. (From .Michelet.) Tenuirostral Picaria. These beau- tiful little creatures will be known on sight; and as the limits of this work preclude any ade([uate presentation of the subject, 1 prefer merely to touch upon it. >^ ^ ^Pv V i'-^'"^ J.''â¢" '^ '"^^ Trocliilitl "'â '" nearest related to ^mH^*'^ ^^^^M^JBr^lffWlr^'^^^' " *'"' Cypselula: These two groups have ^^^^^^â¢^-'^wi^KT^^fit. my^t^^^K^-^ in fact been united by some in a super- family Macrochires, in allusion to the lenfj;th of the linnd and its feathers, and tersely described as schizofftutthous In- sessorcs. Tiio Hying-ajiparatus is as in the swifts: a very deep-keeled sternmii, for attachment of powerful pectoral mus- cles, a very short upperarin, but the distal segments of tlie fore limb length- ened, bearing a thiu-bladed or even falcate wing; j)rimaries 10, the Ist usually longest; secondaries reduced to fi, and very short. Tail of 10 rcctrices, but otherwise too variable to be characterized, presenting almost every ]>eculiarity in size and shape as a whole, in size and shape of individual , and often differing in form as well as color in the
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