. 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. 810 SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS. —PYGOPODES. 346. I; 874 LOM'VIA. (N. European name of birds of tliis kind.) Murues. Guillemots. Egq- uiRDS. Hill shorti'r than head, longer than tarsus, straight or slightly decurved, much com- pressed ; culmeu regularly t"ur\-ed throughout; rictus curved in most of its length ; gonys straight, or lit
. 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. 810 SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS. —PYGOPODES. 346. I; 874 LOM'VIA. (N. European name of birds of tliis kind.) Murues. Guillemots. Egq- uiRDS. Hill shorti'r than head, longer than tarsus, straight or slightly decurved, much com- pressed ; culmeu regularly t"ur\-ed throughout; rictus curved in most of its length ; gonys straight, or little curved, nearly as long as culnien ; upper mandible grooved on the side near tip, its commissural edge greatly inflected. Nasal fossae fully feathered. Feather's on lower. Fig. 555. — Giitlioriiig Murre's eggs in »ka. (I)esigneil by H. W. Elliott.) mandible retreating in straight oblique line from interramal space to rictus. Tail short, much rounded, contained over 'A times in length of wing. Tarsus compressed, much shorter than middle toe and claw ; outer claw not grooved on outer face. A furrow iu plumage behind eye. Colors dark above, white below. Egg single, pictured, pyriform. Analysis t\f Species. Deplli of bill opposite nostrils not more than J the length of (.'iilmen. Bill comparatively slemlttr, not dilated along edgeof iijiper mandible at base, theculmen, commissure and gonys curveil. Atlantic troile Bill stouter, somewhat dilated along edges of upper mandible at base, the culmon, rictus, and gonys nearly straight. Pacific calif'oniica Depth of bin opposite nostrils more than } the length of cnlmen. Bill very stout, thick, deep, much dilated along edges of upper mandible at base; culmen, commissure and gonys curved arra 874 876 870 L. troile. (Norn, propr., of uncertain reference. Figs. 556, 557, 560.) Common Guillemot, or MUUKE. Adult in summer : Head and neck all around rich dark maroon brown, changing on upper parts into dark slaty-brown, nearly uniform
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