. Key to North American birds [microform] : 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. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. V I 876 SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS. âPASSESES â AnalyaiB of Speciet. Adult with throat blnclc, pities not 8treake : wing nnd tail or more ; dorsal streaks distinct nevmleiisis 2(K) 258. A. billnea'ta. (Lat. bilineata, two-lined; Ins, twice, linea, a line ; iilliuling to the stripes on the liciul. Fig. 2:55.) HLACK-


. Key to North American birds [microform] : 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. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. V I 876 SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS. âPASSESES â AnalyaiB of Speciet. Adult with throat blnclc, pities not 8treake : wing nnd tail or more ; dorsal streaks distinct nevmleiisis 2(K) 258. A. billnea'ta. (Lat. bilineata, two-lined; Ins, twice, linea, a line ; iilliuling to the stripes on the liciul. Fig. 2:55.) HLACK-TimoATEn Finch. HLACK-FAtKn Saok .Spauuow. ^ 9, adult: Face, chin, and tliroat sharply jet-black ; a strong white superciliary line, and another bounding the black of the throat; under eyelid white ; auricuhirs dark slate. No yellow any- where. Below, pure white; the sides, ilanks, and crissuiii shaded with ashy or fulvoqs- -i» -'i ^ .^^^ brownish, but no streaks. Above, nniforni gray- ^^^^^^ M^^^^^ ish-brown; clearer ash in high plumage, other- wise browner, generally more ashy anteriorly than ^^^^^t^^^^Kf^^^M behind, and shading insensibly into the black of $^^^b^r^sii^^^^^BP^^^^^H^9^ ^'"^ ^''*''''' ^^'^'"K^ dusky; coverts and inner (|uil1s .4^iM^3*Sa»k^^^^^^^ ^K^^K^ edged with the c(dor of the back. Tail black, with narrow grayish edgings; the outer feather sharply edged and tipped with white, and several i^SRtJ?3fiK-;^.^||||^-G^~'jn:'' -^ others similarly tip[ied. Hill and feet jdumbe- ous-black. Small: lengtli about ; wing «^^k '£i_: about ; tail Young: The head-mark- »â >.T,»iF-r tsB^B^iu vW '"^'' "'^"*i''"'e ; little or no black on tliroat; a few M "â <â -"" , 5*?^kS* x"^ pectoral streaks. Owing to absence of bhu-k on V'*\ the throat, the white maxillary stripe is ill-de- Fio. 235.âBlack-thronted Finch, reduced. (Shep- fined, but the other strijie is conspicuous. Hack p


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