Identifier: keytonorthameric00coue (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, Estes and Lauriat
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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to 3.65 X 2.10; average nearer 3.90 X2.60 ; series probably including eggs of No. 669. (G. canadensis Auct., an Linn. ?) 48. Family ARAMID^: Courlans. Consisting of a single genus, with probably only one species, of the warmer portions ofAmerica; closely allied to Gruidce in essential points of structure, and forming a connectinglink witli Ballidcc. The osteological and pterylographic characters are completely crane-like; 668 SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS — ALECTORIDES — GBUIFOEMES the digestive system is as in the Rails; the coeca are two, situate close together. Carotids two;syringial muscles one pair; femoro-caudal absent.269. ARA3IUS. (Etym. igu(jt.) CouKLANS. Bill twice as long as the head, slender but strong,compressed, grooved for about half its length, contracted opposite the nostrils, the terminalportion enlarged and decurved. Nostrils long, hnear, pervious. Head completely featheredto the bill; tibi* half bare; tarsus scutellate anteriorly, as long as the bill, longer than middle
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671. Fig. 463. — Parrajacana, J nat. size. (From Brebm.l toe; toes cleft, the hinder short, elevated, the outer longer than inner; mngs short, rounded,with falcate 1st primary, the inner quUls folding over the primaries when closed; tail short,of 12 broad feathers. A. pictus. (Lat. pictus, painted, spotted.) Scolopaceous Couelan. Crying-bird.Carau. Limpkix. Chocolate-brown mth a slight olivaceous or other gloss, paler on theface, chin, and throat, most of the plumage sharply streaked with white. Length 24.00-28.00;extent 40.00-44.00; mng 12.00-14.00; tail 6.00-7.00; bill and tarsus, each, about 5.00.Florida, and West Indies. PARRIDJE: JAQANAS. 669 16. Suborder RALLIFORMES: Ralliform Birds.Represented in North America by the three leading groups of Eallidoe — the Rails, Galli-nules, and Coots. (For position of ParridcB, see below.) 49. Family PARRID^: Ja9an^s. A small family of small wading-birds, of 3 genera and fewer than 12 species, combiningcharacters of Plovers and Rails, outw

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