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ANNALS OF BIRD LIFE. 



SPECIES. 



POINTS OF DISTINCTION. 



Yellow-billed Cuckoo 



(continued] 



Purple Heron . 



American Bittern 



Glossy Ibis 



Macqueen's Bustard 



Cream-coloured Courser . 



Gray Phalarope 



dible, and narrowly tipped on 

 lower one with black. Young 

 resemble adults, but have no 

 chestnut on primaries. Length 

 12 inches. 



Smaller than Common Heron, but 

 toes longer. Crown and crest 

 black; dorsal plumes, under 

 wing coverts, thighs, and breast 

 chestnut. Length 31 inches. 



Resembles Common Bittern, but 

 smaller ; vermiculations finer ; 

 primaries uniform in colour, not 

 barred. Length 27 inches. 



Bill curved as in Curlew ; face bare 

 of feathers; general colour chest- 

 nut, shot with green on back. 

 Length 22 inches. 



Similar in colouration to Little 

 Bustard, but vermiculations finer, 

 and extending over wing coverts, 

 head, and throat; crown and 

 nape plumes slate gray, tipped 

 with black; upper neck plumes 

 black, lower ditto white. Female 

 similar to male in colour, but 

 smaller. Length 28 to 30 inches. 



General colour buff; under tail 

 coverts white ; head gray ; pri- 

 maries, under wing coverts, and 

 axillaries black. Length 10 

 inches. 



Summer plumage : under parts 

 chestnut; axillaries and under 

 wing coverts white. Female 

 more brilliant in colour than 



