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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: 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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ing longer than middle toe and claw. Color of adults white, at least on head, usuallyall white except black-tipped wings; bill and feet reddish. (Grammatical gender of the name•common, masculine preferred.) ANA TIDJ^ — ANSEIUX.E: GEESE. 899 Analysis of Species and Subspecies. Not white in main body-color. Nearly tlie size of tlie next ecerulescens Pure wliite, with black wing-tips; head rusty or not. Large: length 30.00 ; wing 17.00 or more. Bill smooth hyperhoreus nivalis Small : length about 25.00 ; wing 10.00 or less. Bill smooth hyperhoreus Very small: length under 24.00; wing 15.00 or less. Bill studded with papilliB. (Ejcanthemops.) . . rossi (Suhgemts Chen.) C. coerulesceiis. (Lat. ecerulescens, bluish. Fig. 628.) Blue Snow Goose. BlueGoose. Blue-wixged Goose. Blue Wavey. Blue Brant. White-headed Goose.Bald-headed Brant. White-headed Bald Brant. Adult ^ 9- l>ill i^l feet llesh-pink, fonner with the recess betweeu the inaudibles black, the nails whitish ; iris dark browu;
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liu. OJS. — Bluu (Ji)o.s.-. (From Wild Fowl of North Ameiicu, by 1). G. Elliot. claws dusky. Head and neck above white ; neck below, passing on to back and breast, dusky-gray, then fading into whitish on under parts, changing on wings into line bluish-gray, or sil-very-ash ; rump and upper tail-coverts whitish ; quills and tail-feathers dusky, edged withwhitish ; i)riiiuiries black. Young similar, but head mostly dark grayish-brown ; bill and feetdusky. Nearly the size of the larger Snow Goose, and resembling the young of that species.Length 25.00-28.00 ; wing l«>.00 ; bill 2.25; tarsus 3.00. North America, chieHy in the inte-rior from its breeding grounds about Hudsons Bay to the Gulf of Mexico, occasionally onth(( Atlantic coast; Bahamas ; Cuba ; Lake Umbagog, Maine; not very common, but wellknown enough to have acquired a gunners synonymy (see above). This is a perfectly goodspecies, which I have retained throughout my editions of the Key without question, thoui^hit was banis

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