. 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, inclusive of Greenland and lower California, with which are incorporated General ornithology: an outline of the structure and classification of birds; and Field ornithology, a manual of collecting, preparing, and preserving birds. Birds; Birds; 1887. SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS. — PASSERES — OSCINES. rich clicstiiut, other coverts and inner secondaries edged with paler. Bill dark horn-blue; feet brown. Lciiuth (
. 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, inclusive of Greenland and lower California, with which are incorporated General ornithology: an outline of the structure and classification of birds; and Field ornithology, a manual of collecting, preparing, and preserving birds. Birds; Birds; 1887. SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS. — PASSERES — OSCINES. rich clicstiiut, other coverts and inner secondaries edged with paler. Bill dark horn-blue; feet brown. Lciiuth (; extent ; wing , shai-p-poiuted; tail , emarginate. ?. Smaller; wing under , etc.; above, like the $, hut head and neck plainer; below, less tinged with yellow, the black tliroat-patcli wanting, replaced by sparse sharp maxillary and pectoral streaks, the wing-coverts not chestnut, though so indicated by rufous edg- ings of the individual feathers. Young ^ : Larger than the 9, but in general similar; throat-patcli indicated by blackish feathers ; wing-coverts chest- nut. An elegant species, of trim form, tasteful colors and very smooth plumage, abundant in the fertile portions of the Eastern U. S.; N. to Massa- chusetts ; W. to Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, and in the south to Arizona; rather southerly, scarcely reaching the N. border of the U. S. anywhere; winters wholly extraliuiital; breeds throughout its U. S. range. Not a good vocalist; the simjile ditty sounds like chip-chip-chee, cliee, cliee. Nest normally plain greenish-white, rarely speckled ;. Fig. 247 - ( del. Black-throated Bunting, reduced. Nicbols sc.) on tlie ground, or in a low bush ; eggs i- X 288. S. town'sendi. (To J. K. Townsend.) Townsbnd's Bunting. " Upper parts, head and neck all round, sides of body and forepart of breast, slate-blue ; back and upper surface of wings tinged with yellowish-browu ; interscapulars streaked with black ; super
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