Birds Of The World: The Night Herons American Black Heron The
American Bittern (b. Lentiginosus) The Hammer—head, Or Umbrette
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Published Early 1900's ) The Storks, although very widely
distributed and popularly quite well known, are a small group
comprising less than twenty forms. They have what may be called
plump bodies, rather long legs and short necks, and large,
compressed, conical, sharp-pointed bills which may be either
nearly straight, somewhat curved or open in the middle. The
front toes are connected at the base by a web, but the middle
claw is without the pectination found in the Herons, while the
tarsus is covered with reticulated scales, and the leg bare well
up to the thighs. The wings are large, for they are powerful
flying birds, and when on the wing the neck is held straight
forward, another feature in which they differ from Herons. The
short rounded tail is composed of ten feathers. They are, of
course, without the powder-downs. Among