Orton's Guan (Penelope ortoni)

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Orton's Guan (Penelope ortoni)

Identifier: worldsbirdssimpl00finn (find matches)
Title: The world's birds a simple and popular classification of the birds of the world
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Finn, Frank
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: London, Hutchinson & co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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THE WORIiDS BIRDS. 33 America the Black-billed and Yellow-billed Cuckoos(Coccyzus erythrophthalmus and C. americanus) arefamiliar birds; they build open twig-nests andlay blue eggs, but, like our species, which they donot equal in size, eat hairy caterpillars. Incolour they are light drab above and white below.In New Zealand there are two migratory species,the small bronze-green Chalcococcyx lucidtts andthe long-tailed Urodynamis taitensis, colouredsomething like a hen kestrel, which is beginningto parasitize the acclimatized English birds as wellas native species. CuRASSOWS (Cracidce). Diagnosis.—Large fowl-like birds, with long flat tails,well developed hind-toe, and all front toes connectedat base by web. Size.—From that of a hen turkey to that of a bantam; Yomn.— Bill short, sometimes stout, often enlarged atbase of forehead. Feet with medium shanks andfour toes, the hinder well developed and set low,-the front ones connected by webs at base, the clawscurved. Wings short and

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