Identifier: keytonorthameric02coue (find matches)
Title: 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
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Coues, Elliott, 1842-1899
Subjects: Birds -- North America Birds -- Collection and preservation
Publisher: Boston, D. Estes and Company
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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lackish on sides; undertail-coverts and lesser wing-covertsblack; other upper wing-coverts ru-fous-chestnut, under ones paler chest-nut; the remiges slaty-plumbeous,without rufous tips; inner secondariesblack. Legs and feet greenish-yellow,soles yellow. Length ILOO; wing4.50 ; tail and tarsus 1.60; culmen1.75-L80. Florida to Ontario, Michi-gan, and Minnesota. About 15 speci-mens of this interesting species arenow known, showing no intergra-dation with exilis. This is a muchmore heavily colored bird, with lessvariegation, black or blackish inseveral places where exilis is not,and the general tone of other jiartschestnut instead of rufous or buff.The 9 differs little from $, and theyoung closely resemble the 9 ) blackduller, and a little scapular chestnut.Cory, Auk, Apr. 1886, p. 262, andJuly, 1886, p. 408; Coues, Key,3d ed. 1887, p. 888; 4th ed. 1890,p. 905; A. 0. U. Check List, 2d ed. 1895, p. 70, No. 191.1. For criticism, bibliography,etc., see Chapm. Auk, Jan. 1896, pp. 11-19, ph I.
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021. — Leafct Bitteru LAMELLIROSTRES: AXSERIXE BIRDS. 887 Order LAMELLIROSTRES: Anserine Birds. Bill lamellate: tliat is, both iiiiiudibles fiiruii^lied aluug toinial edges with series of laminaror teeth-like projections, alternating and fitting within each other. Covering of bill membra-nous, wholly or in greatest part. Tongue fleshy, usually with horny tip on under side, andserrate or papillate edges corresponding to denticnlations of bill. Feet palmate; hallux ele-vated, free, simple, or lobed (rarely absent). Wings never exceedingly \oug, rarely very sbort.Tail generally sliort and many-feathered. (Esophagus narrower than in lower flesh-eatingorders, usually with a more or less specially formed crop; gizzard strongly muscular; intes-tines and their coeca long; cloaca capaciinis. Legs near centre of equilibrium; position ofbody in walking horizontal or nearly so. Reproduction prsecocial. Sexual habit frequentlypolygamous. Diet various, commonly rather vegetarian than animal. Ther

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