. 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 . CUCULID^^ — SAUEOTHERINjE: GROUND CUCKOOS. 473 37. Subfamily SAUROTHERIN>C: Ground Cuckoos. Tail of ten feathers, graduated, thau the shurt, , eoncave wings. Bil
. 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 . CUCULID^^ — SAUEOTHERINjE: GROUND CUCKOOS. 473 37. Subfamily SAUROTHERIN>C: Ground Cuckoos. Tail of ten feathers, graduated, thau the shurt, , eoncave wings. Bill aboutas long as the head, compressed, straight at base, tapering, with deflected tip, gently curvedculmen and ample rictus. Feet large and strong, in adaptation to terrestrial life ; tarsus longerthan the toes, scutellate before and behind. One West Indian genus, Saurothera, with threeor four species, and the following, with two: —GEOCOCCYX. (Gr. yi), ge, the ground; kokkv^, kokkux, a euckou.) Ground Fig. 325. — Ground Cuckoo, \ nat. size. (From Brebm.)Head crested; most feathers of head and neck bristle-tipped; eyelids lashed ; whule plmnagecoarse. A bare colored space around eye. Bill about as long as head, nearly straight, but withculmen and commissure much decurved toward end, gonys if anything a little concave. ^\ mgsvery short and concavo-convex, with long inner secondaries folding entirely over the pnmanes;4th, .5th, and succeeding primaries longer thau .Sd, 2d, and 1st, which rapidly shorten Tail otlong tapering feathers, much gra len^nh of the as above. Plumage lustrous and variegated above. Sexes substantially alike. Eminentlyterrestrial; nest in bushes ; eggs numerous. 474 SYSTEMATIC. SYNOPSIS. — IlCAEI^— CUCULIFORMES. 427. G. californianus. (Of California. Figs. 324, ;^35.) Ground CucKOO. Chaparral KuNNER. Skake Killer. PAisANO.^^ost of the feathcrs of the head and neckbristle-tipped; a naked are
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