. 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 . ack-edgedspots. Below, whitish, barred with brown. Tail brown or gray, numerously and narrowlyIdack-barred, with a broad subterminal black zone, and tijiped with gray. Neck-rutHe f
. 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 . ack-edgedspots. Below, whitish, barred with brown. Tail brown or gray, numerously and narrowlyIdack-barred, with a broad subterminal black zone, and tijiped with gray. Neck-rutHe f ^mostly glossy black, and very full ; of 9 smaller and more brown. Colors endhssly variedas well as blended, and the prevailing hmv of the brown birds tif the East sliades insensildyilto that of the Western subspecies. Length ); extent 23(X); winu 7.(K>-8.(H); taila1)out the same. Young of both sexes sufficiently resemble the adults to bo unmistakable,and detailed description of every feather would be tedious and ])rofitIes3. Chicks in <lown arcvery pretty, being of various buff shades deepfiiinir on some parts into chestnut, with a blackstripe on each side of the head. There is a sort of dichromatism in this species, somewhat likethat of the red and gray Megascops Owls, some individnals beinir browner, otiiers i:rayer. than 742 SYSTEM A TIC SYNOPSIS. — — Fig. del. E. C. • Head of Ruffed Grouse, nat. size. (Ad. the average ; but this is irrespective of age, sex, season, or locality, does not in the least corre-spond with the pretended geographical distribution of the subspecies togata Mhich some lateGrouse-fanciers have sought to establish, and I cannot imagine myself humoring such a vrhimin the Key. We have quite enough to do iu making out umbelloides to be subspecifi-cally different. A vv^oodland bird, like the species of Canachites, abundantly distributed over eastern North America; W. in the U. S. to the central plai
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