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...and Field Ornithology. The 5th Ed. (entirely Rev.) Exhibiting the Nomenclature of the American Ornithologists' Union...By Elliott Coues...D. Estes, 1903 - Birds The first part contains information on collecting, preserving and preparing birds; classification and anatomy. The remainder of the work contains descriptions down to species, identification keys and illustrations, mainly black and white. Technical, classical work. Indexed. Published 1903. |
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IN MEMORIAM ELLIOTT COUES | xxxv |
PART I | 1 |
Various suggestions and directions for fieldwork | 9 |
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A. O. U. List Adult American ashy belly Bill and feet Bill black bird's birds blackish body bone breast breeding brown cavity characters chestnut cochlea color COUES coverts crissum crown culmen dark dentary dusky edged eggs extent feathers fenestra ovalis foramen front genera genus hind toe hyoid bone inner secondaries lateral Length less lower mandible maxillary membrane Mexico middle toe muscles nasal nearly neck nerve Nest nostrils olivaceous olive optic foramen ornithology Oscines ossification outer oviduct ovum pale paler Passerine plumage posterior primaries pygostyle quadrate bone quills Ratite remiges ribs RIDGW Rocky Mts rump shade shorter sides of head skin skull slender species specimens speckled spots sternum streaked stripe tail-coverts tail-feathers tarsus throat THRUSH tinged TITMOUSE toe and claw Turdida upper usually vertebræ vomer WARBLER whitish wing-coverts wings and tail winter WREN yellow yellowish young