. A history of North American birds [microform] : land birds. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. I'AL('( â Til !â ; KAIA'OXK 11)8 skins, tlio roinalo ineixsuriiiu, wiiiii, ].").;")(); tail, Tlio colors of I'uimile, howevoi', iiiv as in Aniorican cxiinii)lL's. Tlio male has liio iiliinia^c soniowiiat clilleront Irnni anything we have seen in the small series ol' Ameri- can specimens. Tiie whole U])i)er ])arts are a polished violaceous slaty- hlaek, this covering the liack and lesser wing-coverts, as well as other npjjcr parts. ^\ ere a large series of Ameri
. A history of North American birds [microform] : land birds. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. I'AL('( â Til !â ; KAIA'OXK 11)8 skins, tlio roinalo ineixsuriiiu, wiiiii, ].").;")(); tail, Tlio colors of I'uimile, howevoi', iiiv as in Aniorican cxiinii)lL's. Tlio male has liio iiliinia^c soniowiiat clilleront Irnni anything we have seen in the small series ol' Ameri- can specimens. Tiie whole U])i)er ])arts are a polished violaceous slaty- hlaek, this covering the liack and lesser wing-coverts, as well as other npjjcr parts. ^\ ere a large series of American specimens , individuals might perhaps be found eoiresponding in all resjjects with the pair in (iues- tion. LIST OF ). Xatioiial Miisouin, !): Philiulcliiliia , 3; Now York ^[;cniM, t (Ria/.il); lJos(oii Sot'ioty, 1 ; t'amlii-iil'j;o Miisuiuii, 2; Cab. G. X. Lawrence, .'i; Coll. It. PiiclL'wav, 1. Total, 2;!. Habits. The Swallow-tailed TIawk has an extended ilistrihution in the eastern portion l North America. It is irregularly distributed ; in a large. Nniirfrrif^ fttrfiratm. part of the country it occurs only occasionally and in small numbers, and is probably nowhere abundant exeejit in the southwestern States, or along the rivers and inland waters. On the Atlantic coast it has been traced, according to Ur. Lawrence, as far north as New York City. Accord- ing to Mr. Nuttall, individuals have been seen on the ])])! as far as St. Anthony's Falls, in latitude 44°. It is found more or less conunon along the tributaries of the Ohio ami ]\rississip])i, where it is ess(>ntially a i>rairie bird, and breeds in Southern Wisconsin, in Towa, Nebraska, and ivansas, and throughout Illinois. It has been taken in Cul)a, and occasionally also in Jamaica. It is found in Ceutiul America, and in South America to North- V(ju ni. 25. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digita
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