. 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. ANATID^ — FULIGUZINjE: SEA DUCKS. 715 ; wing ; tarsus ; middle toe and claw ; bUl along gape. N. Am. at large, casual in Europe ; chi
. 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. ANATID^ — FULIGUZINjE: SEA DUCKS. 715 ; wing ; tarsus ; middle toe and claw ; bUl along gape. N. Am. at large, casual in Europe ; chiefly coastwise, also on larger interior waters; U. S. iu winter, abundant, breeding in high latitudes. (N. B. In upper fig. 497 the first reentrance indicates extent of feathering under the biU, the next the mandibular rami.) T40. (B. p. trowbrid'gu ? (To W. P. Trowbridge. Fig. 498.) With the bill longer, exceed- ing the head, and of slightly dif- ferent shape; feathers falling short of nostrils; gape about ; white irontal patch small, its posterior border anterior to a line between eyes, instead of reaching or pass- ing beyond this. Coast of Gala. Scarcely tenable. 298. ERISMATU'BA. (Grr. epeicr/ia, ermma, a stay, prop, pier, and , , , ., ,, J Fig. 498. —Trowbridge's Surf Duck, reduced. (From Elliot.) ovpa, owa, tail, as the stiflened * . v / member might seem to be.) Kudder Ducks. Remarkably distinguished from other Fuligidmce excepting Nomonyx by the stiffened, linear-lanceolate taU-feathers, 16-20 in number, exposed to the base by reason of extreme shortness of the coverts, their shafts enlarged, channelled underneath; appearance of taU strikingly like that of a cormorant. Bill about MS long as head, scarcely higher than broad at base, widened and depressed at end, which is almost turned up. Nail as viewed from above very small, narrow, and linear, greatly expanding on a decurved part bent under the end of the bUl (unique). Head small, and neck thick; you can
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