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being very faintly banie 1 or entirely unmarke'l. Wing, 8.00 ; tail, 3.;>0 ; tarsus, 2.(>0 : bill, 2.2."i to 2.70. 

 Occurs west of the Mississippi River, wintering in I'lnrida anrl other Gulf States. 



TOTANIUS GLOTTUS. 



Graan Shanks. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Sp. Cii. F )rm an I c ilor almost e.vaetly similar to the Winter Yellow Le;4s, hut smaller, with the bill 

 an I legs greenish. Tiie rump and lower back as well as the tail and its coverts are white, with variable 

 markings, usually broken bars on the tail featliers. 



LIMOSA LIMOSA. 



Black-tailed Godwit. 



Sp. (^ii- Size, form, and i^eneral col'jration of the Iludsoniann Godwit, but has the under wing coverts 

 and a.xillaries white, not black, as in L. liudsonica. A well known European bird, which also occurs in 

 Oreeenland. 



NUMENIUS PHAEOPUS. 



Whimbrel. 



Sp. Cii. Size, form and general coloration of the Iludsonian Curlew, but has the rump white and tlie 

 under wing coverts and axilleries banded with dusky. An Old World species, but occurs in Greenland. 



OEDER XII. GALLINAE. GROUSE. ETC. 



Posterior margin of sternum, much rounded. Inner marginal indentations, deeper thai 

 outer and very wide. Furcula, with prominent terminal expansion. Naked space above nos- 

 trils, hard. 



This order embraces many families and the species nre distriljutcd throughout tlie 

 ■world. These birds are not uidike the Doves and Pigeons hut dillVr tr.mi tlicm greatly in 

 many very importnnt characters. The sternum is quite long, exiieeding twice its width in 

 length. The marginal inde.itations are four but the two inner are not inclosed, being wide 

 and deep and occupying m re than one half of the length of the sternum. The keel is high 

 but does not extend the entire length of the sternum. Tlicre is fjuitc a prominent miinv.- 

 brium. The furcula, although long, is quite weak but has a prominent tcnnin:;! ex;)an.sion. 

 Scapula, truncated but not pointed. The oesojihagus is dilated into a single crop wliicli is 

 not provided with any special ghinds, and the; young arc not fed by regurgitation for they 

 run at birth. The tympaniform membrane is present but there is no semilunar membrane, 

 although there is an os transversale. The proventriculus is remarkably wtdl devdopcd. 

 The stomach is very muscular and is lined with a hard, rugose membrane. The fold of 

 the duodenum is not long and incloses a Lirge double pancreas. The intestines are quite 

 small and long and the coecaare remarkably long. The tail is not only rounded and p'lin^cd 

 but is sometimes forked. The eggs are usually more than two in number and 'ho young, 

 wlien ii;s' hatched, are covered with down. 



