. The birds of Ontario; being a concise account of every species of bird known to have been found in Ontario, with a description of their nests and eggs, and instructions for collecting birds and preparing and preserving skins, also directions how to form a collection of eggs. Birds. Genus SPHYRAPICUS Baikd. SPHYRAPICUS VARIUS (Linn.). 175. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker. (402) Crown, crimson, bordered all around with l)laok ; chin, throat an<l breast, black, enclosing a large crimson patch on the former in the male ; in the fimale, this patch white ; sides of head with a line starting from the n
. The birds of Ontario; being a concise account of every species of bird known to have been found in Ontario, with a description of their nests and eggs, and instructions for collecting birds and preparing and preserving skins, also directions how to form a collection of eggs. Birds. Genus SPHYRAPICUS Baikd. SPHYRAPICUS VARIUS (Linn.). 175. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker. (402) Crown, crimson, bordered all around with l)laok ; chin, throat an<l breast, black, enclosing a large crimson patch on the former in the male ; in the fimale, this patch white ; sides of head with a line starting from the nasal feathers and dividing the black of the throat from a trans-ocular black stripe, this separated from the black of crown by a white post-ocular stripe ; all these stripes frequently' yellowish ; under parts, dingy yellow, brownish and with sagittate dusky marks on the sides ; back, variegated with black and yellowish-brown ; wings, black with large oblique white bar on the coverts, the quills, with numerous paired white spots on the edge of both webs ; tail, black, most of the feathers white-edged, the inner webs of the middle pair and the upper coverts mostly white. Young birds lack the definite black areas of the head and breast and the crimson throat patch, these parts being mottled-gray. About, 8^; wing, 4^; tail, 3A. Hae.—North America, north and east of the CIreat Plains, south to the West Indies, Mexico and Guatemala. Kggs, four to six, white, deposited in a hole in a tree. In Ontario this beautiful species is strictly migratory, not having been observed during winter, but from the fact of its being seen late in the fall and again early in spring, we infer that it does not go far south. It is decidedly a sapsucker, the rows of holes pierced in the bark of sound, growing trees being mostly made by this species. It is not endowed with the long, extensile tongue peculiar to many of. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have b
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