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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: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Coues, Elliott, 1842-1899
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: Boston, Estes and Lauriat
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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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 Gruida in essential points of structure, and forming a connectinglink with B(dlidcc. The osteological and pterylographic characters are completely crane-like; 668 SYSTE3IA TIC SYNOPSIS. — ALECTORIDES — GB UIFOBMES. the digestive system is as in the Eails ; the ^ia are two, situate close together. Carotids two:syriugeal muscles one pair; femoro-caudal absent.269. ARAMUS. (Etym. ignot.) CouRLANS. 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, linear, pervious. Head completely featheredto the bill; tibiae half bare; tarsus scuteUate anteriorly, as long as the bill, longer than middle
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toe; toes cleft, the hinder short, elevated, tlie outer longer than inner; wings short, roundedwith falcate 1st primary, the inner quills folding over the primaries when closed; tail short,of 12 broad feathers.671. A. pictus. (Lat. pictus, painted, spotted.) Scolopaceous Courlan. Crying-bird.Carau. Limpkin. Chocolate-brown with 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; \^nng 12.00-14.00; tail 6.00-7.00; bill and tarsus, eadi, about 5.00-Florida, and West Indies. PABBIDJE: JAgANAS. 669 16. Suborder RALLIFORMES : Ralliform Birds. Represented in North America by the three leading groups of Ballidoe — ihe Rails, Galli-nules, and Coots. (For position of ParridfB, see below.) 49. Family PARRID^: Ja9anas. A small family of small wadiug-birds, of 3 genera and fewer than 12 species, combiningcharacters of Plovers and Rails, outwardly distinguished from either by the excessive

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