. A history of North American birds [microform] : land birds. Birds -- North America; Ornithology -- North America; Oiseaux -- Amérique du Nord; Ornithologie -- Amérique du Nord. 502 XOKTII AMERICAN BIRDS. foathors narrowly skirted with whitish sulpliur-yrllow. A dtisky loral spot, and a rather (hstiin-t hjrhtcr supiMcihary stripe. Win;;, ; tail, 2.')0; tarsus, .')(); middle toe, .30. Winfr-foriimla, I, 2, 3, etc Hah. Mussjiehusetti*. As the ] article on ^â Euiothim is goinij to press, we have received, throii,y:li the kiiulness ol" Dr. JUewer, a specimen of what appears to
. A history of North American birds [microform] : land birds. Birds -- North America; Ornithology -- North America; Oiseaux -- Amérique du Nord; Ornithologie -- Amérique du Nord. 502 XOKTII AMERICAN BIRDS. foathors narrowly skirted with whitish sulpliur-yrllow. A dtisky loral spot, and a rather (hstiin-t hjrhtcr supiMcihary stripe. Win;;, ; tail, 2.')0; tarsus, .')(); middle toe, .30. Winfr-foriimla, I, 2, 3, etc Hah. Mussjiehusetti*. As the ] article on ^â Euiothim is goinij to press, we have received, throii,y:li the kiiulness ol" Dr. JUewer, a specimen of what appears to be a tliird species oi' allied to the ^iJ. Jfdvirostris of Pkirope, obtained in Walthani, Mass., by Mr. William Brewster, of ('ambrid«j;e. This bird was killed in a Hock of ^E. /iiKwius, of which five were also shot at the same discharge. None of the others, nor indeetl of any of ninety specimens prepared by Mr. Brewster during the winter, were at all like tlie present one, which is entirely different from anything we have ever seen from North America. The relationship of this bird appears to 1)6 nearest to the yE. flavirostris of Europe, with the 9 of which it agrees in many respects, as distinguished from linarius and cancsvens. The European bird, however, lacks the sul- phur-yellow tinge (which gives it somewhat the appearance of Chrysomitris pinus), has the throat and jugulum strongly reddish-buff, instead of dingy yellowish-white, and is nutch browner above ; besides which the tail is longer and less deeply forked, with narrower feathers. Habits. Nothing distinctive was observed by Mr. Brewster in regard to the habits of the specimen killed by him. LBUCOSTICTE, Swaixson. Leucoatkfe, Sw.\ixson, Fauna Bur. Am. II, 1S31, 265. iType, Limtrla tephrocotis, Sw.) Gen. Bill conical, rounded, rather hlunt at the tip ; the culmen slightly convex ; the commissure slightly concave; the ncjstrils and hase of commissure concealed by. Ij'ucosticte tephro
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