. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . ture of ear rather large, roundish. Legs rather long;tibia bare about a third of its length; tarsus rather long,slender, compressed, anteriorly covered with numerous nar-row scutella ; toes slender, first very small and elevated;anterior toes rather long, inner a little shorter than outer,third not much longer, all with numerous scutella above,
. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . ture of ear rather large, roundish. Legs rather long;tibia bare about a third of its length; tarsus rather long,slender, compressed, anteriorly covered with numerous nar-row scutella ; toes slender, first very small and elevated;anterior toes rather long, inner a little shorter than outer,third not much longer, all with numerous scutella above,laterally marginate ; third and fourth connected by a basal 170 MACHETES. RUFF. web. Claws small, arched, much compressed, tapering,acute. Plumage moderately full, soft, and rather blended, on theback and wings distinct. Wings long, pointed; quillstwenty-five; primaries tapering, the first longest; seconda-ries short, incurved, but the inner elongated, one of themnearly as long as the first primary when the wing is short, doubly emarginate, of twelve feathers. The males, which are polygamous, have the face coveredwith tubercles, and the neck furnished with a large ruff,during the breeding season. 171 MACHETES PUGNAX. THE COMMON Tringa pugnax. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 247. Summer. Tringa littorea. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 251. Young.—Lath. Ind. Orn. II. 731. Tringa pugnax. Lath. Ind. Ornith. II. 725. Summer. Buff. Mont. Ornith. Diet, and Supplt. Becasseau comhattant. Tringa pugnax. Temm. Man. dOrn. II. 731. Tringa pugnax. Buff. Flem. Brit. Anim. 110. Machetes pugnax. Buff. Selb. Illustr. Brit. Ornith. II. 130. Tringa pugnax. Buff. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 207. Machetes pugnax. Bonap. Comp. List. 50. Male in winter with the bill brown, the feet greenish-yellow, the throat and abdomen white, the fore neck and partof the breast pale reddish-brown, spotted with dark brown ;the upper parts variegated with brownish-black and similar, but with the upper parts li
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