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Perianth oblong-oval or subconic, exserted half its length and cleft into 8–16 fringe-like segments.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

Bill rather short, subconic; upper mandible slightly arched.

From British Birds in their Haunts by Johns, Rev. C. A.