. 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. 352 SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS. âPASSEBESâ 206. Li. arcto'a. (Gr. d^icraoy, arJctoios, northern.) Pallas's Eosy Finch. Dusky-purplish; neck above pale yellowish; fo
. 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. 352 SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS. âPASSEBESâ 206. Li. arcto'a. (Gr. d^icraoy, arJctoios, northern.) Pallas's Eosy Finch. Dusky-purplish; neck above pale yellowish; forehead and nasal feathers blackish; outer webs of quiUs and wing-coverts, taU-coverts, rump and crissum silvery-gray, rosy-margined. Kurile and Aleu- tian Islands; Siberia. Subgenerically different from any of the foregoing. 68. .3EGI'OTHUS. (Gr. Alyiodos, nom. propr. Fig. 216.) Red-poll Linnets. Bill small, short, straight, very acute, more or less compressed, the lateral outlines usually a little concave, those of culmen and gonys straight; commissure straight to the slight angulation. Base of bill thickly beset with a ruff of antrorse plumules, concealing the small nasal fossae and round nostrUs. Wings longer than tail, pointed by first 3 primaries. Tail rather long for this group, forked. Feet small and weak, but tarsi longer than middle toe without claw; lateral toes of equal lengths, their claw-tips falling beyond base of middle claw. Hind claw much longer, stouter and more curved than the mid- dle, exceeding its digit in length. Size small; plumage streaky with dusky, white, and flaxen colors, crown crimson, face ard throat blackish ; sexes otherwise dissimilar; ^ with rosy or carmine on breast, wanting in 9 ⢠Scarcely different from lAnota {flavvrostris, etc.) the pattern of coloration being the most avail- able distinction. Arboreal, gregarious, highly boreal finches of oircumpolar distribution, breeding in high latitudes and alpine regions, roving south in winter
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