. 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 . 610 SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS.—LIMICOL^. and full-webbed; the biU is decidedly recurved, flattened, and tapers to a needle-like point;the body is depressed; the plumage underneath is thi
. 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 . 610 SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS.—LIMICOL^. and full-webbed; the biU is decidedly recurved, flattened, and tapers to a needle-like point;the body is depressed; the plumage underneath is thickened as in water-birds. The speciesswim well. Eimcmtopus is 3-toed, semipalmate, the bill nearly straight, and not flattened; inrelative length of leg it is probably not surpassed by any bird whatsoever. These two genera,each of three or four species of various parts of the world, with the Austialia, compose the RECUBVIROSTRA. (Lat. recMnws, bent upward; rostrwrn, bill. Fig. 425.) Fig. 425. -European Avncet, Recurvirostra avocetta, J nat. size, (From Brehm.) BlU excessively slender, mort or less recurved, then the upper mandible-hooked at the extremetip; much longer than head, more of less jiearly equalling tail and tarsus; flattened on top,witliout culminal ridge. Wings short (for a wader). Tail very short, square, less than halfthe wing. Legs exceedingly and slender; tibiee long-denuded ; tarsus nearly twice as■ long as middle toe and daw; covering of legs skinny. Feet 4-toed; the front toes full-webbed,hind toe short, free. Body remarkably depressed and feathered underneath with thick duck-like plumage; altogether, as in swimming rather than as in wading birds. It is a modificatioB BECUBVIBOSTBIBM: AV0CET8 AND STILTS. 611 like that seen in the lobe-footed phalaropes. Sexes and young alike; winter and summer plu-mage different (iii the North American species at any rate). 600. E. americana. (Lat. amerkana, American.
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