. American ornithology, or, The natural history of the birds of the United States [microform]. Birds; Oiseaux. the latter most predominant near the rump; wings and tail, dusky ; the latter is forked, and consists of twelve feathers edged with white ; the primaries are very slightly tipt and edged with white, the secondaries more so; the greater and lesser coverts are also tipt with white, forming the bars across the wings ; thighs, cinereous ; legs and feet, black; hind claw, considerably hooked, and longer than the rest. The female is less bright in her plumage above ; and her under parts inc
. American ornithology, or, The natural history of the birds of the United States [microform]. Birds; Oiseaux. the latter most predominant near the rump; wings and tail, dusky ; the latter is forked, and consists of twelve feathers edged with white ; the primaries are very slightly tipt and edged with white, the secondaries more so; the greater and lesser coverts are also tipt with white, forming the bars across the wings ; thighs, cinereous ; legs and feet, black; hind claw, considerably hooked, and longer than the rest. The female is less bright in her plumage above ; and her under parts incline more to an ash colour; the spot on her crown is of a golden crim- son, or reddish saffron colour. One male specimen was consi- derably larger than the rest; it measured five inches and three quarters in length, and nine inches and a quarter in extent; the breast and rump were tawny ; its claws were uncommonly long, the hind one measured nearly three-eighths of an inch ; and the spot on the crown was of a darker hue than that of the rest. " The call of this bird exactly resembles that of the Fringilla irisiis, or common yellow bird of Pennsylvania. The redpolls linger in the neighbourhood of Philadelphia until about the middle of April; but whither they retire for the business of incubation, we cannot determine. In common with almost all our finches, the redpolls become very fat, and are then accounted delicious eating. During the last winter, many hundreds of them were exposed to sale in the Philadelphia market, and were readily purchased by those epicures, whose love of variety permits no delicacy to escape ;] AMEKICAN CKOSSBILL. (Curvirostra Americana.) PLATE XX^:i.—Fig. 1. male; Fig. 2. female. Peale's Museum, No. 5640. LOXIA CUBVIEOSTSAf-Bot(AVAmE.* Loxia curvirostra, Bonap. Synop. p. 117. On first glancing at the bill of this extraordinary bird, one is apt to pronounce it deformed and monstrous; but on atten- • Brisson first limited the crossbilla t
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