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Altres edicions - Mostra-ho tot
Frases i termes més freqüents
ashy bands base belly beneath bill bill black Biog Birds Amer bluish BONAP breast brownish black Cabanis Carlisle Catal CH.-Bill claw Collected color commissure Consp crown culmen dark brown dusky edged female Fort Riley Fort Steilacoom Fort Tejon G. K. Warren genus GMELIN gray greenish Hayden head and neck Heermann hind toe inches Indian Key inner legs Length Lieut Linn List of specimens Locality longer mandible Mexico middle toe nearly North America nostrils olivaceous Orig outer pale paler plumage primaries quill longest quills reddish river rounded rufous rump S. F. Baird scapulars Sept shorter sides Skin species spots streaked Stretch Wing stripe Suckley superciliary Swainson Syst tail feathers tarsi tarsus tertials Texas throat tibia tinged transverse upper tail coverts VIEILLOT W. S. Wood WAGLER Whence obtained whitish wing coverts yellow yellowish Zool
Passatges populars
Pàgina ii - And be it further enacted, that the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized, under the direction of the President of the United States, to employ such portion of the corps of Topographical Engineers and such other persons as he may deem necessary, to make such explorations and surveys as he may deem advisable, to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean...
Pàgina 743 - The largest American species of this genus. Bill very long, much curved; upper mandible longer than the under, somewhat knobbed at the tip; wing rather long; legs moderate; toes united at base. Entire upper parts pale rufous, tinged with ashy; every feather with transverse and confluent bands of brownish black, most numerous and predominating on the back and scapulars; secondary quills, under...
Pàgina 42 - ... species before it has reached maturity. The European Golden Eagle is so nearly like the American one, that there is a question whether it is not the same species. The Genus Halietus is characterized by large size, strong and very robust form, slightly lobed upper mandible, tarsi short and naked, or only feathered for a short distance below the joint of the tibia and tarsus, and the toes covered with scales. Ten or twelve species are known, all of which subsist mainly upon fishes. The Northern...
Pàgina 6 - ... intermixed with coral red; the hinder part of the neck is nearly covered with short, stiff hair; and the skin of this part of the neck is of a dun-purple colour, gradually becoming red as it approaches the yellow of the sides and fore part.
Pàgina 6 - ... when the feathers begin to cover the skin, and soon become long and of a soft texture, forming a ruff or tippet, in which the bird by contracting his neck can hide that as well as his head; the bare skin on the neck appears loose and wrinkled...
Pàgina 129 - The bill of the humming bird is awl-shaped or subulate, thin, and sharp pointed ; straight or curved ; sometimes as long as the head ; sometimes much longer. The mandibles are excavated to the tip for the lodgment of the tongue, and form a tube by the close apposition of their cutting edges. There is no indication of stiff bristly feathers at the base of the .mouth. The tongue has some resemblance to that of the woodpeckers in the elongation of the cornua backwards, so as to pass round the back of...
Pàgina 690 - Upper p irts brownish black, with numerous small circular and irregular spots of golden yellow, most numerous on the back and rump, and on the upper tail coverts, assuming the form of transverse bands, generally ; also with some spots of ashy white. Entire under parts black, with a brownish or bronzed lustre, under tail coverts mixed or barred with white. Forehead, border of the black of the neck, under tail coverts and...
Pàgina ii - Resolved, That there be printed, for the use of the Senate, ten thousand copies of the...
Pàgina ii - That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized, under the direction of the President of the United States, to cause to be sold such military sites, belonging to the United States, as may have been found, or become useless for military purposes.
Pàgina 697 - ... the brownish black frequently predominating on those parts, and the rump also frequently with transverse bars of the same. Lower part of the abdomen, tibia and under tail coverts, white. Quills brownish black, lighter on their inner webs, with a middle portion of their shafts white, and a narrow longitudinal stripe of white frequently on the shorter primaries and secondaries. Tail white, with transverse imperfect narrow bands of black. Bill and legs black.