. 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 . all seasons. The summer plumage mostly rich chestnut or orange-brown, and black. In winter, no black stripe on head. Bill stout albus 56ft The summer plumage wholly brownish-yellow
. 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 . all seasons. The summer plumage mostly rich chestnut or orange-brown, and black. In winter, no black stripe on head. Bill stout albus 56ft The summer plumage wholly brownish-yellow and black, except on wings and tail. In winter a black stripe on head. Bill slender rupestris 560 Tail white at all seasons. The summer plumage ochrey-brown and black. In winter entirely white leucurus 570 586 SYSTEM A TIC SYNOPSIS. — GALLING — ALECTOROPODES. 568. L. albus. (Lat. alhus, white. Figs. 403, 40i.) Willow Grouse. Willow very stout and convex, its dejjth at base as much as the distance from nasal fossa to tip;whole culmen ; hill black at all seasons. $ 9 , in winter: Snow white; 14 tail-feathersblack, white-tipped; the middle pair (which most resemble and perhaps are true rectrices, hav-ing no after-shafts) together with all the coverts, one pair of which reach to end of tail, white;shafts of several outer wing-quills black; no black stripe on head. ^, in summer : The head. Fig. 403. —Willow Ptarmigan, summer plumage, \ nat. size. (From Brelim.) and fore parts rich chestnut or orange-brown, ujore tawny-brown on back and rump; the richerbrown parts sparsely, the tawny-brown more closely, barred with black ; most of the wings andunder parts remaining white. 9 similar, wholly colored excepting the wings, the color moretawny than in the $, and more heavily, closely, and uniformly barred with black. ; wing about ; tail Arctic and Northern N. Am. from ocean to ocean,into the northernmost U. S. Eggs very heavily colored,
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