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SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS. — ALECTOBIDES— GBUIFOBMES. 



the digestive system is as in the Rails ; the cosca are two, situate close together. Carotids two; 

 syringeal muscles one pair; femoro-caudal absent. 

 869. A'BAMUS. (Etym. ignot.) Courlans. BUI twice as long as the head, slender but strong, 

 compressed, grooved for about half its length, contracted opposite the nostrils, the terminal 

 portion enlarged and decurved. Nostrils long, linear, pervious. Head completely feathered 

 to the bill; tibise half bare; tarsus scutellate anteriorly, as long as the bill, longer than middle 



671. 



Fig. 463. — Parrajctcana, } nat. size. (From Brehm.l 



toe; toes cleft, the hinder short, elevated, the outer longer than inner; wings short, rounded, 

 with falcate 1st primary, the inner quills folding over the primaries when closed ; tail short., 

 of 12 broad feathers. 



A. plc'tus. (Lat. pictus, painted, spotted.) Scolopaceous Couklan. Ceting-bird. 

 Carau. Limpkin. Chocolate-brown with a slight olivaceous or other gloss, paler on the 

 face, chin, and throat, most of the plumage sharply streaked with white. Length ai.OO-aS.nO; 

 extent 40.00-44.00; wing 12.00-14.00; tail 0.00-7.00; bill and tarsus, each, about 5.00. 

 Florida, and West Indies. 



