. 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; 1887. 810 SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS.—PYGOPOBES. turgid, \Yith inflected tomial margins; of under upright, grooved lengthwise; gape straight; gonys straight or nearly so, ver
. 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; 1887. 810 SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS.—PYGOPOBES. turgid, \Yith inflected tomial margins; of under upright, grooved lengthwise; gape straight; gonys straight or nearly so, very long. Nasal fosste large, shallow, covered with soft skin in the (jnly state known; which flares over tlie rather long, narrowly oval sub-basal nostrils at the bottom of the fossa. Outline of I'routal feathers nearly transverse across culmen, thence retreating obliquely to the commissure. Tarsi reticulate, much shorter than middle toe •ii-itlK)ut chnv. Tills genus apparently connects the Phaleridinm with the AlcincB, having much the aspect of 3Iergulus or Brachyrhamplms, with sui generis shape of bill; its position will only be settled by learning what, if any, are the transformations of the bill. 862, P. aleii'ticus. (Of the Aleutian Islands.) Aleutian Auk. Bill black, the skinny part pale in tlie only state observed; feet blackish behind and below, bluish in front of tarsus and on tops of toes. A touch of white about eye. Upper parts blackish-plumbeous, the head, M'ings, and tail nearly black. This dark color, diluted to grayish-pluinljeous, extends around tlie head, neck, and fore-breast, along the sides, and on lining of wings, fading to white on belly and crissuui. No special states of plumage are known. Length ; extent 1(;.0!); wiug ; tail ; tarsus about ; middle too and claw ; outer do. ; inner do. ; culmen ; gape ; gonys ; depth of bill at base , width Paciflc coast of N. A., Aleutians to
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