. Our northern and eastern birds : containing descriptions of the birds of the northern and eastern states and British provinces; together with a history of their habits, times of arrival and departure, their distribution, food, song, time of breeding, and a careful and accurate description of their nests and eggs . ghtly rounded; above olive-gray, top and sides of the-head blackchin and throat white, streaked with black; eyelids, and a spot above the eye an-teriorly, white; under parts and inside of the wings chestnut-brown; the under tailcoverts and anal region with tibiie white, showing the
. Our northern and eastern birds : containing descriptions of the birds of the northern and eastern states and British provinces; together with a history of their habits, times of arrival and departure, their distribution, food, song, time of breeding, and a careful and accurate description of their nests and eggs . ghtly rounded; above olive-gray, top and sides of the-head blackchin and throat white, streaked with black; eyelids, and a spot above the eye an-teriorly, white; under parts and inside of the wings chestnut-brown; the under tailcoverts and anal region with tibiie white, showing the plumbeous inner portions ofthe feathers; wings dark-brown, the feathers all edged more or less with pale-ash;tail still darker, the extreme feathers tipped with white; bill yellow, dusky along theridge and at the tip. Length, nine and seventy-five one-hundredths inches; wing, five and forty-threeone-hundredths; tail, four and seventy-five one-hundredths inches; tarsus, one andtwenty-five one-hundredths. Ilab. — Continent of North America to Mexico. It is very seldom that specimens exhibit the colors exactly as described. Nearlyalways in winter, and in most cases at other times, the rufous feathers are marginedwith whitish, sometimes quite obscuring the color. The black feathers of the head, THE ROBIN. 155. too, have brownish edgings. The white spot above the eye sometimes extends for-wards towards the nostrils, but is usually quite restricted. The white patches onthe two eyelids are separated from each other, anteriorly and posteriorly. This very common and well-known bird is a summer in-habitant of all New England, and, in mild winters, remainsin the southern districts of these States through the great body of thebirds, however, arrivefrom the South aboutthe middle of commence build-ing from the middle ofApril to the first weekin May, according to lati-tude. The nest is builtmore often in the trees ofthe orchards and gardens, near houses, than in the dee
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