. The birds of North and Middle America : a descriptive catalogue of the higher groups, genera, species, and subspecies of birds known to occur in North America, from the Arctic lands to the Isthmus of Panama, the West Indies and other islands of the Caribbean sea, and the Galapagos Archipelago . Birds. BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA 227 Podia (emendation) Swainson, Classif. Birds, li, 1837, 192. Plotoides Beookes, Mus. Brookesianum, 1830, 109. (Type, Plotus surinamevsU Gmelm=Colyml)tis fulica Boddaert.) Small Heliornithidae (length about 300 mm.) with feet relatively small and weak (the ta
. The birds of North and Middle America : a descriptive catalogue of the higher groups, genera, species, and subspecies of birds known to occur in North America, from the Arctic lands to the Isthmus of Panama, the West Indies and other islands of the Caribbean sea, and the Galapagos Archipelago . Birds. BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA 227 Podia (emendation) Swainson, Classif. Birds, li, 1837, 192. Plotoides Beookes, Mus. Brookesianum, 1830, 109. (Type, Plotus surinamevsU Gmelm=Colyml)tis fulica Boddaert.) Small Heliornithidae (length about 300 mm.) with feet relatively small and weak (the tarsus less than one-fifth as long as wing, de- cidedly shorter than the relatively small slender bill, the latter not longer than head); anterior toes extensively webbed, the web between middle and outer toes extending for entire length of first Iavo phal- anges of the former; rectrices broad, soft terminally, and toes banded with black and yellow. Bill about as long as head, decidely longer than tarsus, its depth at posterior end of nostril equal to a little less than one-fourth the. Figure 15.—Heliornis fulica. length of exposed cuhnen and nearly twice its width at samei point; culmen nearly straight for basal half or more, thence gently de- curved to tip; maxillary tomium gently convex for basal half, faintly concave for distal half, very faintly notched subterminally; gonys straight, slightly ascending, about half as long as mandibular rami, the mandible acute at tip; nostril longitudinally elliptical, pervious, its anterior end about midway between rictus and tip of maxiUa, its poterior end separated from loral feathering by a space nearly equal in length to depth of bill at posterior end of nostril; latevo- frontal feathering formmg a distinct angle on each side of culmen, thence extending in a straight or faintly convex line downward and backward to rictus; malar antia very slightly posterior to latero-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page imag
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