. 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 . saturatus 675Flanks dusky, with broad white bars. Above, variegated with olive-brown and blackish; wing-coverts quite chestnut; below, rich rufous ekgans 67G Small: length under 12
. 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 . saturatus 675Flanks dusky, with broad white bars. Above, variegated with olive-brown and blackish; wing-coverts quite chestnut; below, rich rufous ekgans 67G Small: length under ; wing under ; bill under Colors as in ekgans virginianus 677 672 SYSTEM A TIC SYNOPSIS. — ALECTOBIDES — BALLIFOEMES. 673. R. longirostris crepitans. (Lat. longirostris, long-billed. Lat. crepitans, crepitating,clatteriug. Fig. 4G5.) Clapper Rail. Salt-water Marsh-hen. Mud-hen. <? 9, adult:Above, variegated with dark olive-browu and pale olive-ash, the latter edgiug the feathers, the variegation dull andblended. Below, pale dullochrey-brown, whiteningon the throat, frequentlyashy-shaded on the breast,without decided cinnamon-brown shade. Flanks, ax-iUars, and lining of wings,fuscous-giay, with sharpnarrow white bars. QuiUsand tail plain dark-brown,without chestnut on thecoverts. Eyelids and shortsuperciliary Une general tone is thatof a grmj bird, withoutany reddislmess. Young. Fig. 465. — Clapper Kail, reduced. (Altered from Lewis.) 676. mostly soiled whitish below; when just from the egg entirely sooty black. Length ; extent about ; wing ; tail ; bill ; tarsus ;middle toe and claw 9 smaller than the $. Salt marshes of Atlantic States, ex-tremely abundant southerly; N. regularly to the middle districts, sometimes to from the Carolinas southward. Breeds in profusion in the marshes of the Carolinas,etc., where its clattering is almost incessant dming the mating
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