. 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. Illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts. Birds. FRINGILLID^, FINCHES, ETC. GEN. 63. 133 Var. MEXiCANA, with the upper parts continuously black, and the black of the crown extending below the eyes, enclosing the olive under eye-lid. Mexican border and southward. Bd., 423; Coop., 1G9. This bird looks quite unlike typical psaltria, but the gradation through var. arizonoi is perfect; and mexwana
. 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. Illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts. Birds. FRINGILLID^, FINCHES, ETC. GEN. 63. 133 Var. MEXiCANA, with the upper parts continuously black, and the black of the crown extending below the eyes, enclosing the olive under eye-lid. Mexican border and southward. Bd., 423; Coop., 1G9. This bird looks quite unlike typical psaltria, but the gradation through var. arizonoi is perfect; and mexwana, more- over, leads directly into var. colambiana, a Central American form in which the tail- spots are very small or wanting. The females of these several varieties cannot be distinguished with certainty. Obs. Chrysomitrts magellanica, a South American species with the whole head black, is said by Audubon to have been taken in Kentuckjr, where probably' it will not be found again. CIrrysomitris stardeyi and C. yarrellii, of Audubou, were apparentljr cage-birds, improperly attributed to North 80. Jlexic:;!! Uoldfiach. Fio. 81. Foot iu 63. Genus PLECTROPHANES Meyer. / - ^ Bill small, truly conic, rutted at base ; hind claw dccidedlj^ curved. j\-o' Snow Bunting. Snoiofialie. In breeding plumage, pure white, the liack, wings and tail variegated with black ; hill and feet black. As generally seen in the United States, the white is clouded with clear, 'svarni brown, and the bill is brownish. Length aljout 7 ; wing 4J ; tail 2f. Arctic America, irregularly southward, iu flocks, in the winter, to about 35° ; but its move- ments depend much on the weather. Wils., iii, 86, pi. 21 ; NuTT., i, 458 ; Add., iii, 55, pi. 155 ; Bd , 432 NIVALIS. * * Bill moderate, unrutfed, but with a little tuft of feathers at the base of the rictus ; hind claw straight- ish, with its digit longer than the middle toe and claw. Sexes dissimilar ; $ with a cervical collar, and obliqu
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