. 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 . Evening Grosbeak, reduced. Wack, white, and yellow. Sexes dissimilar. Little(Sheppard del. Nichols sc.) different from Old World CoccotJiraustes, excepting coloration and siui])lie
. 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 . Evening Grosbeak, reduced. Wack, white, and yellow. Sexes dissimilar. Little(Sheppard del. Nichols sc.) different from Old World CoccotJiraustes, excepting coloration and siui])lieity of wing-quills. H. vespertina. (Lat. vespertina, of Hesperus. Fig. 206.) Evening Grosbeak. Adult^ : General color sordid yellow, overlaid with a sooty-olive shade, deepest on fore parts, quiteblack on crown, clearest below behind. Forehead and line over eye, scapulars, and rump,yellow. Wings and tail black ; several inner secondaries and inner half of the greater covertswhite ; lining of wings black and yellow. A narrow black line around base of upper man-dible ; tibiae black. Bill greenish-yellow; feet apparently dusky flesh-color. ; wing ; tail ; biU long, deep, broad. 9 :Brownish-ash, paler below, whitening on belly, irregularly patched or mixed with yellowish ;white of wings imperfect, or tinged vrith yellow; primaries, which are quite black in ^, with. : FIXCHES, BrXTIXGS, SPABROWS, ETC. 343 ^e white spaces on inner webs, mul s<imetiinif its obscuration. >{ rlir dipping sun, and the tuneful romancewhich the wild bird throws around the fadini:- lii;lit ( day; clothed in striking color-contrastsof black, white, and gold, he seems to represiuT tlic .tUegory of ditu-nal transmutation ; for hissable pinions close aromid the brightness of ^ as night encompasses the golden huesof sunset, while the clear white space enfjlded in t1ii-s( tints foretells the dawn of the U. S. and somewhat n
Size: 1616px × 1546px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, booksubjectbirds, bookyear1896
