. 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. Fig. 391. — of Etigyptilaalbifrons; head and foot nat. size; wing and tall reduced. (Ad nat. del. B. Ridgway.) naked space about the eye, thence extending in a
. 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. Fig. 391. — of Etigyptilaalbifrons; head and foot nat. size; wing and tall reduced. (Ad nat. del. B. Ridgway.) naked space about the eye, thence extending in a narrow line to the bill. Size medium or rather small. Body fuU and stout. Coloration subdued, but hind-head and neck iridescent. No metalUe spots on wings or headi Lining of wings chestnut. (Only N. Am. genus with attenuate outer primary.) 543. 'bifrons. (Lat. aZ6MS, white;/rows, forehead. Fig. 391.) White-fronted Dove. <J, adult: Upper parts brownish-oUve, with silky lustre (much as in Coccygus americanus for example). Hind-head, nape, and back and sides of neck with coppery-purplish iridescence. Top of the head of a bluish or glaucous " bloom,'' fading to creamy-white ou the forehead. Under parts dull white or whitish, more or less shaded with olive-brown on the sides, deepening on the fore-breast and jugulum to pale vinaceous; belly, crissum, and chin quite purely white. Wing- coverts and inner quills like the back, and without metallic spots; other larger remiges slaty-blaekish, with very narrow pale edging toward the end. Under wing-coverts and axiUa- ries bright chestnut. Two middle tail-feathers like the back; others slaty-black, tipped with white in decreasing amount from the outer ones inward, the largest white tips about half an inch in extent. Bill black. Feet carmine-red. Iris yellow. Bare skin around eye red and. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and
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