. 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. Illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts. Birds. It^-C 140 FEINGILLIDiE, FINCHES, ETC. C4EN. 70, 71. n Var. iNsiGNis Be, Traus. Chicago Acad. 1869, 319, pi. 29, f. 1. Plumbeous brown, not rafous, the dorsal streaks fine ; beneath, plumbeous white, with almost confluent ashy-brown streaks. Large ; 7 ; wing and tail 3^ ; bill slender and very Kadiak, Alaska. long, .60. 70. Genus PEUC^A Audutoon
. 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. Illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts. Birds. It^-C 140 FEINGILLIDiE, FINCHES, ETC. C4EN. 70, 71. n Var. iNsiGNis Be, Traus. Chicago Acad. 1869, 319, pi. 29, f. 1. Plumbeous brown, not rafous, the dorsal streaks fine ; beneath, plumbeous white, with almost confluent ashy-brown streaks. Large ; 7 ; wing and tail 3^ ; bill slender and very Kadiak, Alaska. long, .60. 70. Genus PEUC^A Audutoon. * Edge and bend of wing yellowish, as in C'oturmculus, which the sjoecies much resembles in the color of the upper parts ; but it has no obvious j'ellowish about the head ; the wings are not longer than the tail, and the tail feathers, though very narrow and lanceolate, are not acute at tip. Bachman's Finch. Upper parts, including crown, continuously streaked with blackish, dull chestnut and ashy-graj'; wing coverts and inner second- aries marked like the back; below, dull brownish-ash, or brownish-gray, whitening on the l)elly, deepest on sides and across breast, nowhere obviously streaked in adult plumage ; some obscure dusky maxillary streaks, some vague dusky markings on auriculars, a slight ashy suiDerciliary line and very obscure median asbj' line on crown ; bill dark above, pale below ; legs very pale ; lateral claws falling far short of base of middle claw; hind claw much shorter than its digit; tarsus not longer than middle toe and claw ; tail much rounded, with obscure graj'ish-white area on the lateral feathers. Young have the breast and sides evidently streaked. 5J-6; wing 2J ; tail 2^-. Southern States. Nutt., i, 568; Aud., iii, 113, pi. 176. Bd., 484 iESTIVALIS. Var. CASSiNii. Similar; paler and grayer ; wings and tail rather longer. Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, and southward. Bd., 485 ; Coop., 219. * * Edge and bend of wing without yellow. Rufous-crmvned Finc
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