. 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. Fig. 543. âWhiskered Auk, young, nat. size. (From Elliott.) â webs from the shaft, as in the genus Lophortyx. A slender series of white filamentous feathers over and b
. 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. Fig. 543. âWhiskered Auk, young, nat. size. (From Elliott.) â webs from the shaft, as in the genus Lophortyx. A slender series of white filamentous feathers over and behind each eye, drooping downward and backward. The whole plumage otherwise sootyâmore brownish-black above, more brownish-gray below. Feet bluish, vidth dark webs. Aside from the transformation of the bill, the young only differ in lacking the crest and white filaments ; but both are early acquired; there is a white spot below eye. The surnmer and winter plumages are alike. Iris said to be in winter white, in summer with a blackish outer and bluish inner ring; in the young, brown. Length ; wing ; taii ; tarsus ; middle toe and claw : chord of culmen N. Pacific, both coasts and islands, on the Asiatic side to Japan, but not known to come S. to U. S. Nesting in every respect like S. psittaculus ; single egg, similar, smaller, X 860. S. pygmse'us. (Lat. pyginmus, dwarf. Figs. 543, 544.) Whiskered Auk. Red-nosed Auk. Bill small and simply conic-compressed, little longer than high, resembling the young or winter bill of the preceding ; having but one pair of accessory pieces, the small shields which fill the nasal fossae, and are doubtless shed in winter. Adult: A very long curly crest of slender filamentous feath- ers curving dver forward in arc of a circle to droop upon the bill: the crest dark-colored and of same general character as that of 8. cristatellus, but of fewer and more thready feathers. A maxillary series of sle
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