. Key to North American birds [microform] : containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary, inclusive of Greenland. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. 304 SYSTEM A TIC SYNOPSIS. â PA SSERES â OSCINES. 123« D. casta'nea. (Lat. castanea, a cliestuut, in allusiou to the color.) BAy-BUEASTEn War- liLEK. (J. ill sprinir: JJaek tliii-kly streaked with bhiek and grayish-olive; forehead nnd sides of head black; enclosing a large deep chexintit patch ; a duller cliestuut (exactly like a
. Key to North American birds [microform] : containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary, inclusive of Greenland. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. 304 SYSTEM A TIC SYNOPSIS. â PA SSERES â OSCINES. 123« D. casta'nea. (Lat. castanea, a cliestuut, in allusiou to the color.) BAy-BUEASTEn War- liLEK. (J. ill sprinir: JJaek tliii-kly streaked with bhiek and grayish-olive; forehead nnd sides of head black; enclosing a large deep chexintit patch ; a duller cliestuut (exactly like a blue-bird's breast) occupies the whole chin and throat and thence extends, more or less iuterrujited, along the entire sides of the body: rest of under (larts oclirey or butfy whitish ; a similar huffy area behind the ears: wing-bars and tail-spots ordinary: bill and feet blackish. 9ihisj)ring: More olivaceous than tiie male, with the markings less pronounced; but always shows evident chestnut coloration : and probably traces of it persist in all adult birds in the fall. The yoiuisr, however, so resemble young striata, that it is somotinics impossible to distinguish them with certainty. The upper )iarts. in fact, are of precisely the same greenish-olive, with black streaks; but there is r/cdcra////a difference belowâcastanca being there tinged with huffy or ochrey, instead of the (dearer pale yellowish nf striata ; this shade is particularly observable on belly, Hanks, and under tail-coverts, just where striata is whitest ; and moreover, castanea is usually not streaked on the sides at all. Mature spring birds vary interminably in the extent and intensity of the chestnut. Size of striata. Eastern X. Am., north to Hudson's Bay, W. to the edge of the I'laiiis. Winters extraliniital. Migratory in most of the IJ. S. : from northern New Kngland northward. Nests moderately high in conifers, building a large uest of twigs, tree-moss, rooth'ts, fur, etc.; eggs ;}-
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