Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America

The book that made American bird-watching possible in the field: keys, plumages, songs and habits for every species of the East, by the man who ran ornithology at the American Museum.

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W. B. Barrows has shown, the tip of the Courlan's bill is sometimes turned slightly to one side, an evident result of forcing it into the spiral opening of the shell to extract the animal. 207. Aramus giganteus (Bonap.). LIMPKIN; CRYING-BIRD; COUR- LAN. (See Fig. 24.) Ad.-Glossy olive-brown, the feathers of the head and neck narrowly, those of the body broadly, striped with white; wings and tail more bronzy. Im. - Similar, but paler and duller. L., 28.00; W., 13.00; Tar., 4.50; B., 4:25.

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