Title: The birds of North and Middle America : a descriptive catalogue of the higher groups, genera, species, and subspecies of birds known to occur in North America, from the Arctic lands to the Isthmus of Panama, the West Indies and other islands of the Caribbean sea, and the Galapagos Archipelago
Identifier: cu31924090256920 (find matches)
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Ridgway, Robert, 1850-1929; Friedmann, Herbert, 1900-1987
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Washington : Govt. Print. Off.
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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BIRDS OP NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA 29 to quite three-fourths as long as tarsus, the lateral toes reaching about to penultimate articulation of middle toe, the outer usually a little longer than the inner; hallux about as long as combined length of first two phalanges of outer toe; claws moderately large to rather small, moderately curved (that of hallux more strongly curved) compressed.
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Figure 3.—0rtalis vetula. Plumage and coloration.—Frontal feathers erect or suberect, more or less elongated (very much so in 0. wagleri), rigid and lanceolate or sub- lanceolate, those of crown and occiput more or less elongated (very much so in 0. wagleri; very slightly so in 0. v. leucogastra) but broader and with rounded tips; feathers of neck variable, in 0. wagleri rather long and blended on hindneck, rigid and acuminate-lanceolate on foreneck, malar region, and median line of throat, on 0. v. leucogastra short and rounded, even on foreneck; plumage in general soft, the feathers distinctly outlined, with broadly rounded tips (more blended on underparts) that of anal region soft and downy; loral and orbital regions mostly nude, the sides of chin and throat also nude, separated by a narrow strip of feathers, these small and bristlelike in 0. v. leucogastra, much broader and lanceo- late in 0. wagleri. Coloration plain brownish above, paler beneath, the abdomen, thighs, and under tail coverts sometimes whitish, sometimes deep cinnamon-rufous or chestnut; rectrices usually tipped with pale brown, whitish or chestnut, sometimes mostly chestnut, and outer pri- maries sometimes chestnut. Range.—Southern Texas (Rio Grande Valley) to Paraguay, Argentina, and Peru. (About 13 species and 30 subspecies.)

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