. 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. Fiii. 4iw. — Clapiwr Kuil, reduced. (Altered from Lewis.) B. longiros'tris cre'pitans. (Lat. longirostrU, limtr-billcd. Lat. crepitans, cropitatim;, clattering. Fig. 4().).) 'PKU Mik-iikn. (J?, adult: Above, variegated witli diirk olive-hrown and i)ale (, tlio latter edging the feat
. 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. Fiii. 4iw. — Clapiwr Kuil, reduced. (Altered from Lewis.) B. longiros'tris cre'pitans. (Lat. longirostrU, limtr-billcd. Lat. crepitans, cropitatim;, clattering. Fig. 4().).) 'PKU Mik-iikn. (J?, adult: Above, variegated witli diirk olive-hrown and i)ale (, tlio latter edging the featliers, the variegation dull and blended. Below, ])ale dull oclirey-browii, whitening on the throat, freijueiitly ashy-shaded on the , without derided ciunaniou- brown shade. Flanks, a.\- illars, and lining of wings, fuscous-gniy, with .sliarj) narrow white bars. Quills and tail plain dark-brown, without chestnut on the ct)verts. Eyelids and .short superciliary line whitish. The general tone is that of a grai/ bird, without any reddishnesa. Young mostly soih.'d whitish below; when just from the egg ('ntirely sooty black. Length ]{)- ; extent about ; wing ; tail ; bill ; ; middle toe and claw 9 smaller than the <J. .Salt nuirshes of Atlantic States, ex- tremely abundant southerly; N. regularly to the middle districts, sometimes to Massachusetts. Kesident from the Carolinas southward. IJreeds in profusion in the mars'nes of the Caroliuas, etc., where its clattering is almost incessant during the nuiting season. Nest a rudo platform of reeds and grasses just out of the water on the ground. Eggs G to 12, averaging 1 .()7 X 1-12. whitish, creamy, or buff, variously speckled and blotched with reddish-brown, with a frw lavender marks. R. I. obsole'tus. (Lat. , obsolete; referring to the markings of the upjier parts in comparison with those of R. ekgans.) California Clapper Kail. Hack and
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