BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA 



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mostly roundish or hexagonal scales; middle toe about three-fourths as 

 long as tarsus, the lateral toes reaching to or very slightly beyond its 

 penultimate articulation; hallux shorter than combined length of first 

 three phalanges of outer toe ; claws rather long, rather strongly curved, 

 compressed. 



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Figure 6. — Oreophasis derbianus. 



