. 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. 146 riilNGILLIDiE, FINCHES, ETC. GEN. 75, 76. 1 75. Genus CHONDESTES Swainson. Larlc Finch. Head enviously variegated witli chestnut, lilack and wliite ; crown cliestuut l)lackcning on forehead, divided by a median stripe, and l)onuded hy superciliary stripes, of white; a black line through e3'e, and another l)elow eye, enclosing a white streak
. 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. 146 riilNGILLIDiE, FINCHES, ETC. GEN. 75, 76. 1 75. Genus CHONDESTES Swainson. Larlc Finch. Head enviously variegated witli chestnut, lilack and wliite ; crown cliestuut l)lackcning on forehead, divided by a median stripe, and l)onuded hy superciliary stripes, of white; a black line through e3'e, and another l)elow eye, enclosing a white streak under the eye and the chestnut auriculars ; next, a shai'p black maxilhiry stripe not C]uite reaching the bill, cutting otf a white stripe from the white chin and throat. A black blotch on middle of lireast. Under parts white, faintly shaded with grayish-brown : upper parts grayish-brown, the middle of the back with tine black streaks. Tail very long, its central feathers lil^e the back, the rest jet-black, broadly tipped with pure white in diminishing amount from the lateral pair inward, and the outer web of the outer pair entirely white ; 6J-7 ; wing 3^, pointed; tail 3, rounded. A beautiful species, abundant from the eastern edge of the prairies to the Pacilic ; the young ditfer somewhat, particularlj' about the head, but the bird is mimistakable in any plumage ; the coloration of the tail alone is diagnostic. A sweet songster; nest on the ground, of dried grass; eggs 4-5, white, with straggling zigzag dark lines, as in many Icteiidce. Aud., iii, 63, pi. 158; NuTT.,i,480; Bd.,456; Coop., 193 Fig. 00. LarkFinoh. J>^ V ^4^ 76. Genus PASSER Aiactorum. English Sj)arrow. Bill shaped much as in tlie purple finch, with a slight basal rutf; tarsus as long as the middle toe ; wings pointed ; tail forked a little, I as long as the wing, g , above, reddish-brown, the back black-streaked, the crown and under parts l)rownish-ash, the chin and throat black ; $ lack- ing the
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