. Key to North American birds [microform] : 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. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. 568 SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS. —HAPTORES— CATHARTIDES. AnalyHt of Getifm. Head and neck entirely naked; tail square Pseudogryphm 189 Uca<l and up])cr part of neuk naked; tail rounded Cathartes 190 Head naked, but feathers running up to it behind; tail 8<|uarc CathaHula 191 189. Pseudogpy'phus. (Gr. ^tuSor, pseudos, fiilse: Lat. (/
. Key to North American birds [microform] : 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. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. 568 SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS. —HAPTORES— CATHARTIDES. AnalyHt of Getifm. Head and neck entirely naked; tail square Pseudogryphm 189 Uca<l and up])cr part of neuk naked; tail rounded Cathartes 190 Head naked, but feathers running up to it behind; tail 8<|uarc CathaHula 191 189. Pseudogpy'phus. (Gr. ^tuSor, pseudos, fiilse: Lat. (/ri/2'hus, ii griffin.) ("amfoknian CoNiH)R. Size iinineiisi-, abuut equalliug that of the Comlor. Head and neck entirely bare, smooth, witliout caruncuhir appendages. No cervical rutf of snowy, downy feathers; jjluniagc! beginning over the shoulders with loose lance-linear featherp, and that of the under parts generally of similar character. Frontal region depressed below the level of the inflated cere, but the general ])rofile straight- ,^^^^^^HH^^^^^^^^B&l^f ish from the hook of the bill to the hind head. Bill wid<' and deep, comparatively little hooked. Nasal passage much more contracted than the nasal fossa. Wings of great ampli- tude, folding to or beyond the end of the square tail, the ends of the primaries uncovered by the secondaries; 4th or 5th (juills longest. Tarsus about as long as middle toe. One species. 536. P. callfornia'nus. (Of CJali- fornia. Fig. 38G.) Califou- NiAN Condor. Adult <J 9: lilackish, the feathers with browner tips or edges, quite gray or even whitish on the wing-coverts and inner ([uills; primaries and tail - feathers black; axillars and linine of , „ ,„ ,. , . ' ,. , .,, ,, . , Fig. 386. — Oalifornian Condor. (From Tunney, alter Audubon.) wnigs white; bill yellowisli, reddening on cere, and skin of the head orange or reddish; iris said by some to be brown, by otiiers carmine. Length 4-4i feet; extent about 9i feet; wing
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