. 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. 326 SYSTEBIATIG SYNOPSIS. — PASSEEES — OSCINES. toe for about two-thirds its longtli, with inner toe for about hulf its length. Body stout. Head conspicuously cr
. 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. 326 SYSTEBIATIG SYNOPSIS. — PASSEEES — OSCINES. toe for about two-thirds its longtli, with inner toe for about hulf its length. Body stout. Head conspicuously crested. Plumage peculiarly soft, smooth, and silky. Tail tipped with yellow (or red, in the Japanese A. phcenicoptera). Sexes alike; young different. Eggs spotted. Nest on trees. 166. A. gar'rulus. (Lat. (/armZjts, a jay-bird : from its loquacity. Fig. 185.) Bohemian Wax- wiXG. ^J 9 I adult: General color brownish-ash, shading insensibly from the clear ash of tlie tail and its upper coverts and rump into a reddish-tinged ash anteriorly, this peculiar tint heightening on the head, especially on the forehead and sides of the head, into orange-brown. A narrow frontal line, and broader bar through the eye, with the chin and throat, sooty-black, not or not sharply bordered with white. No yellowish on belly. Under tail-coverts orange- brown, or chestnut. Tail ash, deejiening to blackisli-ash toward the end, broadly tipped with. Fig. 186. — BoLemian Waxwings, \ nat. size. (From Brobm.) rich yellow. Wings ashy-blackish; primaries tipped (chiefly on the outer webs) witli shai'p spaces of yellow, or wMte, or both; secondaries with white spaces at the ends of the outer webs, the shafts usually ending with enlarged, horny, red appendages. Primary coverts tipped with white. Bill blackish-plumbeous, often paler at base below; feet black. Length 7 or 8 inches; wing about ; tail The sexes of this beautiful bird are alike, and the principal varia- tions, aside from mere sliade o
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