. 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. Birds; Birds; 1887. ICTEBID^: AMEBIC AN STABLINGS; BLACKSIBDS, ETC. 399 parts shading from color of the upper through grayish-olive and olive-gray to sordid whitish, purest on the m
. 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. Birds; Birds; 1887. ICTEBID^: AMEBIC AN STABLINGS; BLACKSIBDS, ETC. 399 parts shading from color of the upper through grayish-olive and olive-gray to sordid whitish, purest on the midcUe of the helly. Inner wehs of wing-quills fuscous ; taU the same, hut more glossed with greenish, and sometimes showing traces of crosswise watering with darlcer waves, as often seen in the song span-ow. Whole hend and Unmg of wing hriglit clear yellow. Crown hke hack, with two hroad stripes of dull rufous from nostrils to nape; a similar rufous stripe hehind eye, sometimes tracoahle past eye to the lore, then defining a superciliary line of liglit olive-gray or whitish. A whitish eye-ring. Upper mandiljlc light , drying yelh)wish ; feet pale. Length (not , as in BairdJ ; extent ; wing ; taU the same; hill ; tarsus ; middle toe and chiw 9 said to differ immaterially, and young to lacli; the head-stripes. Young, first plumage ; Ahove, mixed hrovm and oUve-tawny ; wings brown, edged with olive, the coverts edged and tii)ped M'ith tawny ; breast like back ; helly tawny. Texas, in Lower Rio Grande Valley. Inhabits shrubbery, cliaparral, and close cover of all kinds, where it is difficult to discover, owing to its quiet ways and greenish tints. Keeps near the ground, but builds a domed nest of twigs and grasses in bushes and low trees; two broods are reared in May-June, and Eggs 2-4, pure white, unmarked, averaging X , but from by 17. Family ICTERID-^ : American Starlings: Blackb
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