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KEY TO TllK lUKDS OF. EASTERN NORTH AMERICA. 



FAMILY ARAHID^, 

 Courlans. Limpkins. 



Bill, over 3 inches long; tarsus, under 7; wing, under 16; toes, four, 

 no comb-like edge on inner side of middle toe nail ; hind- toe, raised above 

 level of front toes. 



General plum;ig(>, durk olivt; brown, streaked and inurked with pnn? wliite; tail, pnrplisli 

 brown, siiovviug metallic gloss when held in the light; feathers of the back, breast, and 

 wing covert'*, brown, with white stripe, in middle of each feather; tip of lower mandible often 

 slightl}' twisted. Occurs iu Atlantic States only in Florida. Aranius gifianteus. Limpkin. 



See No. 164. 



