. 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; 1887. 348 SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS. â PASSEBESâ OSGINES. 197. C. f. rhodocol'pus. (Gr. poSov, rhodon, the rose; ko'Xttov, kolpos, the breast.) KoSB- BREASTED TiNCH. This al
. 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; 1887. 348 SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS. â PASSEBESâ OSGINES. 197. C. f. rhodocol'pus. (Gr. poSov, rhodon, the rose; ko'Xttov, kolpos, the breast.) KoSB- BREASTED TiNCH. This alleged Yariety resembles the last; crimson tints more diffuse. Pacific coast rcgi<jn of California and southward. 66. LOX'IA. (Gr. Xo^or, loxos, crooked.) Cross-bills. Bill metagnathous; both mandibles falcate, deflected to opposite sides, their points crossed (unique among birds). Upper mandible stout and broad at base, rapidly nan-owing to the elongate, decurved, laterally deflected and overhanging tip, its sides nearly flat, culmiual ridge well marked and very convex throughout; its base beset with a ruff of antrorse plumules concealing nostrDs and nasal fossse. Lower man- dible with gonys very long, occupying nearly all the exposed part of the bill, convex through- out, the end of the mandible prolonged, curved upward and deflected to one side. Commissural line of either mandible curved in the opposite direction from its fellow. Mouth very narrow anteriorly, ample at base; tongue horny and concave at end; cesophagus with a large special crop, bulging to the right side. Wings long, pointed by tips of the first three primaries, rest rapidly graduated. Tail very short, only about |- as long as the wing, emarginate and divari- cate, covered nearly to the forking by the coverts both above and below. Feet small; tarsus shorter than middle toe without claw; covered with 3 or 4 large overlapping plates, and smaller ones above and below; the postero-lateral plates much broken up
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