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Title: Bulletin - United States National Museum
Identifier: bulletinunitedst5091019411946unit (find matches)
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: United States National Museum; Smithsonian Institution; United States. Dept. of the Interior
Subjects: Science
Publisher: Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, (etc. ); for sale by the Supt. of Docs. , U. S. Govt Print. Off.
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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.—Ortalis vetula. Plumage and coloration.—Frontal feathers erect or suberect, more or less elongated (very much so in O. wagleri), rigid and lanceolate or sub- lanceolate, those of crown and occiput more or less elongated (very much so in 0. zi'agleri; very slightly so in O. v. leucogastra) but broader and with rounded tips; feathers of neck variable, in O. wagleri rather long and blended on hindneck, rigid and acuminate-lanceolate on foreneck, malar region, and median line of throat, on O. 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. z^. leucogastra, much broader and lanceo- late in 0. Zi'agleri. 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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