. Our native birds of song and beauty, being a complete history of all the songbirds, flycatchers, hummingbirds, swifts, goatsuckers, woodpeckers, kingfishers, trogons, cuckoos, and parrots, of North America . ris-de-fer (Buff.). SCIENTIFIC NAMES: Motac/7/a cam//ca Linn. (1766). Sr/i/a cacro/ta Lath. (17901. caeniicaDOrb. (1839). Sylvania cacnilca Nntt. (1840). POLIOPTTLA CAERULEA Sclat. (1855), etc. DESCRIPTION: Above clear ashy-blue, brightest on crown, hoary on rump; below whitish; tail long, black,outer feather almost wholly white, next about half white, third tipped with white;
. Our native birds of song and beauty, being a complete history of all the songbirds, flycatchers, hummingbirds, swifts, goatsuckers, woodpeckers, kingfishers, trogons, cuckoos, and parrots, of North America . ris-de-fer (Buff.). SCIENTIFIC NAMES: Motac/7/a cam//ca Linn. (1766). Sr/i/a cacro/ta Lath. (17901. caeniicaDOrb. (1839). Sylvania cacnilca Nntt. (1840). POLIOPTTLA CAERULEA Sclat. (1855), etc. DESCRIPTION: Above clear ashy-blue, brightest on crown, hoary on rump; below whitish; tail long, black,outer feather almost wholly white, next about half white, third tipped with white; wings ;forehead and line over the eye black. Female similar, but more grayish-blue, lacking the black on thehead. Bill and feet black. —Length to 5 inches; wing 2 to , tail a little over 2 inclies. PLUMBEOUS GNATCATCHER. Potioptila plumhca Baird. This species of Gnatcatcher is found from western Texas to Arizona and the easterncoast of Lower California. I am not able to report anything particular on its habits,but believe that it comes very near our well known eastern species. According to Brewster, it seems a rather common bird in many localities in Arizona, especially POLIOPTILA CAERULEA Sclat. MUCKENFANGER. Blue-gnay Gnatcatcher. nLACK-fAlLED 6NATCATCHER. 91 at Tucson, Camp Lowell, and near Yuma. Two nests were found by Mr. Stephens,one June 27, the other July 15. This last nest taken at Yuma, although a delicatestructure, will not compare with that of P. caerulea. It entirely lacks the exteriorcoating of lichens so effectively employed by the commoner bird, and in its generalappearance closely resembles the Redstarts well-known domicile, being similarly feltedof soft bark-strips and henip-like vegetable fibres. It is lined with down from plants,a few feathers, and the hair of some small quadruped. Externally it measures in,in width by in. in depth; internally by 1. The egg is pale greenish-blue,coarsely and very evenly spotte
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