. 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. FBINGILLIDJE: FINCHES, BUNTINGS, SPARROWS, ETC. 371 214. and under parts, fading to whitish on throat and belly; the sides, flanks, and crissum marked with brown, and obsoletcly streaked with darker brown. Hack and rump brown, rather darker than sides of body, boldly variegated with black central streaks of the feathers and their
. 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. FBINGILLIDJE: FINCHES, BUNTINGS, SPARROWS, ETC. 371 214. and under parts, fading to whitish on throat and belly; the sides, flanks, and crissum marked with brown, and obsoletcly streaked with darker brown. Hack and rump brown, rather darker than sides of body, boldly variegated with black central streaks of the feathers and their pale brown or grayish edges. Wings so strongly edge<l with bright bay as to appear almost uni- formly brownish-red when closed; but inner secondaries and greater coverts showing some black and whitish besides the bay. Tail likewise strongly edged with bay, and usually showing sharp black shaft lines. Thus well marked by the emphasis of black, bay, and ash. Length , usually ; extent ; wing and tail, each, Varies little except as above noted, and in extent and intensity of the ash on fore and under parts. In birds of the first autumn, the crown may be 'o- famim vuhjus; a good musician, like all the genus. Nesting and eggs like those of the song sparrow. M. fascia'ta. (, bundled together; fascis, a bundle of rods; fas- ciii, a band; whence fasciata, banded, stri)ied ; the allusion not to the body- streaks, but to the t)bsolete bands on the tail-feathers. Fig. 234.) Soxc. Spakuow. SiLVEn-TOXGiK. Below,. Fio. 233. — Swanij) So!ig Sparrow, Nichols 8C.) reduced. (Slieppard del. white, slightly shaded with brownish on the flanks and crissum; with numerous black-centred, brown-edged streaks across breast and along sides, usually forming a pectoral blotch and coalescing into maxillary stripes bounding the wliite throat; crown dull bay, with fine black streaks, divided in the middle and bounded on either side by ashy-whitish lines; vag
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