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Title: The birds of America : from drawings made in the United States and their territories
Year: 1840 (1840s)
Authors: Audubon, John James, 1785-1851 Bowen, John T., ca. 1801-1856?, lithographer
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: New York : Published by J.J. Audubon Philadelphia : J.B. Chevalier
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
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e rather short, the dorsal line straight or decurved, the ridge thin, thesides erect or convex, the tip slightly decurved, acute. Nostrils basal,oblong, generally marginate. Head of moderate size; neck of ordinarylength; body rather slender. Feet of moderate length; tarsus with broadscutella; toes long, slender, flat beneath, outer directed outwards or back-wards. Claws long or of moderate length, arched, compressed, acute.Plumage blended; wings generally long, with the first quill short, the thirdand fourth longest. Tail long, of ten feathers; upper mandible very narrowbeneath, with three longitudinal ridges; tongue slender, emarginate, andpapillate at the base, the tip horny, thin, lacerated, and slit; oesophagusrather wide, without dilatation; stomach large, round, with the muscularcoat very thin, the epithelium soft, rugous; intestine of moderate lengthand width; coeca long, oblong, narrowed at the base. Trachea simple, witha single very slender pair of inferior laryngeal muscles.
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A, *s f 293 Genus I.—COCCYZUS, Vieill. AMERICAN CUCKOO. Bill of moderate length, rather slender, somewhat arched, much com-pressed, acute; upper mandible with the dorsal line arched, the ridgerounded, the sides erect toward the end, the edges thin, direct, the tipnarrow, decurved; lower mandible with the angle of moderate length, ratherwider, the dorsal line decurved toward the end, the sides nearly erect, theedges decurved, the tip narrow; the nostrils small, oblong, operculate.Eyelids bare, except at the margin. Head rather small; neck of moderatelength; body slender. Feet rather short; tarsus compressed, rather stout,with seven very broad scutella; toes slender, compressed, anterior united atthe base, first small. Claws moderate, arched, compressed, laterally grooved,acute. Plumage soft and blended, somewhat compact on the back. Wingsof moderate length, with the first quill very short, the third and fourthlongest. Tail very long, cuneate or graduated. THE YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO, -^

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