. Color key to North American birds . owing pages both author and artist havehad full access to the collections of the American Museum of NaturalHistory, and they are also glad to acknowledge their indebtednesss toWilliam Brewster of Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Robert Ridgway,Curator of Birds in the United States National Museum, and to Merriam, Chief of the Biologic Survey, for the loan of specimenstor description and illustration. SYNOPSIS OF ORDERS AND FAMILIES AMERICAN BIRDS. OF NORTH The figures are all life-size, except as BIRDS. Order I. Grebes, Loons, and Auks. PYG
. Color key to North American birds . owing pages both author and artist havehad full access to the collections of the American Museum of NaturalHistory, and they are also glad to acknowledge their indebtednesss toWilliam Brewster of Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Robert Ridgway,Curator of Birds in the United States National Museum, and to Merriam, Chief of the Biologic Survey, for the loan of specimenstor description and illustration. SYNOPSIS OF ORDERS AND FAMILIES AMERICAN BIRDS. OF NORTH The figures are all life-size, except as BIRDS. Order I. Grebes, Loons, and Auks. PYGOPODES.(3 families, 32 species, 3 subspecies.) Duck-like birds with the bill usually pointed, never wider than high,and without flutings, gutters, or serrations on its side; wings short,never with a bright colored patch or speculum; tail rudimentary, notnoticeable; toes webbed or lobed. Color usually blackish above, whitebelow; the throat often dark. The Grebes and Loons, when pursued,dive rather than fly; the Auks usually take PIED-BILLED GREBE. Family i. GREBES. PODICIPID.^. Toes four, with lobate webs; tipped with a broad nail; tail wanting
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