. 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. FALGONIB^ — FALCONING: FALCONS. 535 forward to invade the breast (this is the rule in European birds, the exception, though not a rare one, in American birds). T
. 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. FALGONIB^ — FALCONING: FALCONS. 535 forward to invade the breast (this is the rule in European birds, the exception, though not a rare one, in American birds). Tail and its upper coverts regularly and closely barred with blackish and ashy-gray, the interspacing best marked on the inner webs, and all th(; feathers narrowly tipped with white or whitish. Primaries all showing uniform blackish on their ex- posed surfaces, but on the inner webs seen to be marked with numerous regular and close-set spots of white, whitish, or muddy bufi', for the most part isolated within the webs, but on the. Fig 377. —Peregrine Falcon, or Duck Hawk, J nat. size. (From Brelim.) inner primaries and secondaries, and toward the bases of all, becoming or tending to become bars reaching the edge of the feather. Bill blue-black; cere and much of base of bill yellow; feet yellow ; claws blackish. Size very variable ; length of a good-sized 9 i ; extent ; wing ; tail ^ averaging smaller; wing ; tail ; a usual range, sex not considered, is, wing ; tail ; tarsus ; middle toe without claw rather more. Young : Recognizably similar to the adults in general characters ; not barred below, but there more or less extensively and heavily streaked lengthwise ; upper. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Coues, Elliott, 1842-1899;
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