. Key to North American birds. 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 and Lower California, with which are incorporated General ornithology: an outline of the structure and classification of birds; and Field ornithology, a manual of collecting, preparing, and preserving birds. Birds; Birds. 730 SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS. —STEGANOPODES. but dive for and pursue under water like cormorants and loons. The eggs are three or four pale bluish, with white chalky incrus
. Key to North American birds. 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 and Lower California, with which are incorporated General ornithology: an outline of the structure and classification of birds; and Field ornithology, a manual of collecting, preparing, and preserving birds. Birds; Birds. 730 SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS. —STEGANOPODES. but dive for and pursue under water like cormorants and loons. The eggs are three or four pale bluish, with white chalky incrustation. There are only three or four species: the African P. levailkmU; the P. melcmogaster of Southern Asia, with the Australian P. nova- hollandiiB, if distinct from the last; with the following: 304. PLO{Tl[JS. (G-r. TrXfflTos, phtos, swimming well.) Darters. Character as above. 760. P. anhin'ga. (Portuguese cmhma, Lat. cmgvma, snaky.) Darter. Anhing-a. Snake- bird. Water-turkey. $ : Glossy greenish-black; a broad silver gray wing-band formed by most of the coverts ; lower neck behind spotted, and scapulars and tertiariee striped with silvery-gray; tail pale-tipped; filamentous feathers of neck purplish-ash. ? : with parts of the head, neck, and back brown, the jugulum and breast fawn-color sharply margined with rich brown. BiU yellow, dusky-greenish on the Wdge and tip; sac orange; eye-space livid; eye carmine; feet dusky and yellow. Length about ; extent nearly feet; wing ; taU ; bUl along culmen; tarsus S. Atlantic and Gulf States, common; in summer to North Carolina, and up the Mississippi to Illinois and Kansas; New Mexico. Nest bulky, placed on trees and bushes over the water, of sticks leaves, roots, moss, etc.; eggs 3-4, like cormorant eggs in color and texture, but narrow and elongate, X Young with buff-colored or white woolly down. Fed in the nest by regurgitation, like cormorants. 57. Family TACHYPETID^: Frig
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