. Directory to the birds of Eastern North America .. . Fig. 82. G, B, a, 1. a, B, b, 1. 1-4. and nearly straight; toes, three,webbed at base only; wings,long, when folded reaching be-yond end of tail, fig. 82, colors,black and white. Sexes, dis-similar. 1. BLACK-NECKED STILT,H. MExicANUS. ; m a 1 e ,top and sides of head below eye,back of neck, middle of back,and wings, glossy, greenish-black ; tail gray; spot behindeye and parts not mentioned,white; bill, black : iris, red;feet and legs, carmine, fig. female differs in having theback slaty-brown and the other 64: * SHORE BIR
. Directory to the birds of Eastern North America .. . Fig. 82. G, B, a, 1. a, B, b, 1. 1-4. and nearly straight; toes, three,webbed at base only; wings,long, when folded reaching be-yond end of tail, fig. 82, colors,black and white. Sexes, dis-similar. 1. BLACK-NECKED STILT,H. MExicANUS. ; m a 1 e ,top and sides of head below eye,back of neck, middle of back,and wings, glossy, greenish-black ; tail gray; spot behindeye and parts not mentioned,white; bill, black : iris, red;feet and legs, carmine, fig. female differs in having theback slaty-brown and the other 64: * SHORE BIRDS. black portions duller. Youug, differ from the last in havingthe feathers of the back bordered with dull white and thetop of head finely mottled with the same. Downy young, yel-lowish gray above, paler beneath, mottled and spotted abovewith dusky with a median line on head of the same. Breed-ing note, /«/ repeated many times at regular intervals a&the bird both sits and flies; alarm note, a series of harshscreams. Flight, steady, not swift, wing-beats rather slowand sw
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