Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Water Birds of North America, Vol. 2
Char. Bill shorter than the head, narrow, depressed (except at base), the edges parallel tarsus shorter than the bill or middle toe; nape with a small mane-like tuft; rectrices more or less acuminate, the middle pair longest.
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