ALCID.E. 



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SUB-FA MILT 11. 



Phaleridin.e. 



The Staraki 



Gen. Chaeac— Bill short, broad at the base, with the sides gradually com- 

 pressed, and the culmen curved to the tip, which is emarginated, the lower 

 mandible grooved on the sides, and the gonys ascending ; the nostrils 

 lateral, and pierced in the bony covering of the broad nasal groove, with 

 the opening linear ; the wings moderate and pointed ; the tail short and 

 rounded ; the tarsi short, compressed, and covered with small scales ; the 

 toes three, and all united together by an entire membrane ; the claws mode- 

 rate, compressed, and acute. 



Fig. 204— the knotty-beaked staraki. 

 (Phaleris uodirostris.) 



The Starakis are found in the Arctic regions, and 

 especially in tlie islands that lie between China and 



* (pa\}jp6c, phaleros, Tmring a i':Mte iiaicli. 



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