. Key to North American birds. 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 and lower California, with which are incorporated General ornithology, an outline of the structure and classification of birds, and Field ornithology, a manual of collecting, preparing, and preserving birds . Nuttall.) XiTTALi-s PooR-wiLL. Aihih ^ 9: Assuming thenppiT parts of a beautiful linnizy-gray ground , tliis is elegantly frosted over with softsilver-gray, and watere
. Key to North American birds. 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 and lower California, with which are incorporated General ornithology, an outline of the structure and classification of birds, and Field ornithology, a manual of collecting, preparing, and preserving birds . Nuttall.) XiTTALi-s PooR-wiLL. Aihih ^ 9: Assuming thenppiT parts of a beautiful linnizy-gray ground , tliis is elegantly frosted over with softsilver-gray, and watered in wavy cross-pattern witli black, these black double crescents enlarg-ing trds t«>give an idea of the artistic blending of the colors in this elegant little Night-jar. The .sexesscarcely difler ; specimens before me marked 9 Iave as j)urely white throat as tlie ^, but tlie. 568 S YS TEMA TIC S YNOPSIS. — PICA RLE — CORA CIjE. tail-tips are shorter and tinged with tawny. Length ; extent ; wing ; tail or less; tarsus, or middle toe without claw, Great Plains nearly to thePacific, U. S. and British border. W. to the Sierras Nevadas of California and Cascade rangesof Oregon and Washington, E. casually to Iowa and Missouri, S. to Guatemala; abundant;migratory, but breeds throughout its U. S. range, and winters sparingly on our southern bor-der. Note of two syllables, the first of the whippoorwill omitted. Eggs 2, X ,down to X , averaging X , elliptical, white, with a faint blush, occasionallywith a few fugacious shell-markings about the larger end. They are laid from May to August,on the bare ground. P. n. nitidus. (Lat. nitidiis, shining.) Frosted Poor-will. Similar to the last, butwith dark markings of upper parts fewer and sharper on a much paler ground, and cross-barson under parts finer and
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