# Ornithological biography, Vol. 2 (of 5)

Author: Audubon, John James, 1785-1851; MacGillivray, William, 1796-1852 [Contributor]

Genre: Category: Biographies

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/57191

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Ornithological+biography%2C+Vol.+2+%28of+5%29+Audubon&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Bill elongated, rather stout, straight at the base, slightly compressed; the upper mandible covered to the middle by the cere, broad, curved, and acute at the end, the edge doubly undulated. Nostrils medial, approximate, linear, pervious. Head elongated, neck longish, body robust. Feet strong; tarsus roundish, covered with small rhomboidal scales; toes scutellate above, the middle one much longer, the lateral nearly equal, second and third united at the base by a web. Claws arched, strong, rather obtuse.

## Chapters

- [part ii. p. 6.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ornithological-biography-vol-2-of-5-57191/chapters/1/index.md)
- [did. As we rounded the island, a beautiful bird of the species called](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ornithological-biography-vol-2-of-5-57191/chapters/9/index.md)
- [part i. 495.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ornithological-biography-vol-2-of-5-57191/chapters/12/index.md)
- [part ii. p. 274.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ornithological-biography-vol-2-of-5-57191/chapters/10/index.md)
- [part i. p. 413.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ornithological-biography-vol-2-of-5-57191/chapters/11/index.md)
- [part i. p. 215.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ornithological-biography-vol-2-of-5-57191/chapters/7/index.md)
- [part i. p. 499.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ornithological-biography-vol-2-of-5-57191/chapters/5/index.md)
- [part ii. p. 218.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ornithological-biography-vol-2-of-5-57191/chapters/3/index.md)
- [part i. p. 43.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ornithological-biography-vol-2-of-5-57191/chapters/8/index.md)
- [part ii. p. 176.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ornithological-biography-vol-2-of-5-57191/chapters/2/index.md)
- [part ii. p. 355.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ornithological-biography-vol-2-of-5-57191/chapters/6/index.md)
- [part i. p. 299.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ornithological-biography-vol-2-of-5-57191/chapters/4/index.md)