. A history of North American birds [microform] : land birds. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. —THE FINCHES. 113 The bill of Mr. I^Iay. ard's specimen is about the size of that of more northern ones; the iris is described by hi:ii as pale yellowish-white, much lighter than usual. Pipilo maculatus,^ var. megalonyx, Bairu. LONO-CLAWED TOWHEE BUNTINO. Pipilo megalo)i)jx, Raiiid, )iiids N. Am. 1858, 515, pi. Ixxiii. — Heehm. X, S, 51 (nest). — Oool'Eii, Orii. Cul. 1, 242. Sp. Char. Similar to P. arcticus in amount of wliito on the wings and scapnlnrs. though frequently
. A history of North American birds [microform] : land birds. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. —THE FINCHES. 113 The bill of Mr. I^Iay. ard's specimen is about the size of that of more northern ones; the iris is described by hi:ii as pale yellowish-white, much lighter than usual. Pipilo maculatus,^ var. megalonyx, Bairu. LONO-CLAWED TOWHEE BUNTINO. Pipilo megalo)i)jx, Raiiid, )iiids N. Am. 1858, 515, pi. Ixxiii. — Heehm. X, S, 51 (nest). — Oool'Eii, Orii. Cul. 1, 242. Sp. Char. Similar to P. arcticus in amount of wliito on the wings and scapnlnrs. though frequently edged with bluek, but without basal white on outer web of pri- marie.'s. Outer edge of outer web of external tail-feather white, sometimes confluent with / that at tip of tail. Concealed white spots on \ feathers of side of neck. Claws enormously large, the hinder longer than its digit; the hind toe and claw reaching to the middle of the middle claw, which, wi'h its toe, is as long as or longer than the tarsus. Inner lateral claw reaching nearly to the middle of middle claw. Length, 7.^0; wing, ; hind toe and cliiw, .90. Femule with the deep black re[)laced Ijy ilusky slaty-olive. Hab. Southern coast of California and across tln-ough valleys of Gila and Rio Grande; north through the Great Basin across from Fort Crook, California, to Fort Bridger, Wyoming. This form constitutes so stronj^ly marked a variety as to be worthy of particidar description. The general appciirance is tliat of P. arcticus, which it resembles in tlie amount of spotting on the wings. This, however, does not usually involve the whole outer web at the end, but, as in orcgonus, has a narrow border of black continued around the wliite terminally and sometimes externally. There is not (piite so nnich of a terminal white blotch on the outer tail-feather, this being but little over an inch in length, and the outer web of the same feather is never entirely white, though always with an external wh
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