. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. THRUSHES TOWNSEND'S SOLITAIRE Myadestes townsendi (.â hidiiboii) General Description.â Length, 8 inches. Phimage. brownish-gray, paler below. Bill, .short and broad: wings, moderately long, rounded : tail, about the same length as wing, double rounded: legs, short and slender. Color.â Above, plain brownish-gray, the under parts similar but sli,ghtly paler, especially on chin, throat, and abdomen ; the under tail-coverts broadly but rather indistinctly tipped with dull white; an eye-ring of dull white; lores, dusky: wings, dark grayish-brown, witli l
. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. THRUSHES TOWNSEND'S SOLITAIRE Myadestes townsendi (.â hidiiboii) General Description.â Length, 8 inches. Phimage. brownish-gray, paler below. Bill, .short and broad: wings, moderately long, rounded : tail, about the same length as wing, double rounded: legs, short and slender. Color.â Above, plain brownish-gray, the under parts similar but sli,ghtly paler, especially on chin, throat, and abdomen ; the under tail-coverts broadly but rather indistinctly tipped with dull white; an eye-ring of dull white; lores, dusky: wings, dark grayish-brown, witli lighter brownish-gray edgings, the secondaries and inner primaries buff basally (mostly hidden by greater and primary coverts), and with a broad dusky space intervening between this buffy portion and the grayish- edged terminal portion; inner quills margined terminally with dull white (except in worn plumage); middle pair of tail-feathers concolor with back, or the outer- most with terminal half of outer web dull white, the inner web broadly tipped with wliite, this white extend- ing along shaft for a considerable distance, the second feather with a similar but much smaller white tip; under wing-coverts mixed pale brownish-gray and dull white: under surface of wing feathers, showing an oblique basal and subbasal band of buff; bill, black: iris, brown. Nest and Eggs.â : On the ground, or on a log or stump, or in rubbish: often in a bank-niche by a stream or sometimes in a rocky crevice; rather large and loosely made of sticks, grasses, or pine-needles and weed stalks; on this large foundation is placed the real nest, made of finer bits of similar material, but the whole carelessly and loosely constructed ; the mass of materia! hanging below frequently betrays the nest, especially when it is placed among rocks. Eggs ; 3 til (1, bluish-white, freckled with reddish-brown. Distribution.â Mountain districts of western North .America; breeding (in pine forests) from ."Ma
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