. 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. Illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts. Birds. FRINGILLIDTE, FINCHES, ETC. GEN. 84, 85. 151 Length al)oiit 8J ; wing oj; tail 4-^. Mexico, Texas, Arizona, Capo St. Lucas. Cass., 111. 204, pi. 33; Bd., 508; Coop., 236. . sinuata. 7 84. Gen-US CAEDINAIjIS Bonaparte. i*-r Cardinal Ited-hird. Virginia Conspicuously ci'cstcd ; tail longer than the wings, both .rounded. • ^ rich vc
. 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. Illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts. Birds. FRINGILLIDTE, FINCHES, ETC. GEN. 84, 85. 151 Length al)oiit 8J ; wing oj; tail 4-^. Mexico, Texas, Arizona, Capo St. Lucas. Cass., 111. 204, pi. 33; Bd., 508; Coop., 236. . sinuata. 7 84. Gen-US CAEDINAIjIS Bonaparte. i*-r Cardinal Ited-hird. Virginia Conspicuously ci'cstcd ; tail longer than the wings, both .rounded. • ^ rich vcianilion or rosy red, ol)scured with ashy on the Ijack, face black, bill reddish, feet brown. $ ash3'-ljrown, paler below, with evident traces of the red on the crest, wings, tail and under parts. Length 8-*) ; wing al)out 3j ; tail 4; <? rather less than the $ . Eastern United States, somewhat southern, seldom north to the Connecticut Vallc}^; a bird of striking appearance and l)rilliant vocal powers, resi- dent in thickets and undergrowth, alnmdant. Its rolling notes recall those of the Carolina wren, but are stronger. AVils., ii, 38, pi. G, f. 1, 2; NuTT., i, 519; Aud., iii, 198, pi. 203; Bd., 509. vikginiaxus. p. Var. iGNEUS. Like the last, but paler, witli the black frontlet iuteiTupteil at the base of tlie eulmen, where the red comes down to the bill. Cape St. Lucas ; C<^lo- rado Vallejr. Bu., Froc. Phila. Acad. 1859, 305 ; Elliot, pi. IC ; Coor., Fig. 90. Canlinal Jlt^.l-ljinl. 85. Genus PIPILO Vieillot. * Colors of the male black, white and chestnut in deflnite areas. • J I No white on the scapulars or wing coverts. Sexes ver}^ unlike. ' TowJtee Bunting. Mavah Robin. Olieioinh. (plate ii, tigs. 17, 18, 11a, 18rt.) Adult male black, belief white, sides chestnut, crissum fulvous brown ; primaries and inner secondaries with white touches on the outer webs; outer tail feather with the outer web and nearly the terminal half of the inner web, white, tlie next
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