. 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. 272 SYSTEM A TIC SYNOPSIS. — PA SSEBES — OSCINES. Size of the last. Young: Differs much as the ? of canadensis does from the ^, in having the top of the head like the
. 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. 272 SYSTEM A TIC SYNOPSIS. — PA SSEBES — OSCINES. Size of the last. Young: Differs much as the ? of canadensis does from the ^, in having the top of the head like the back. U. S. from the Rocky Mts. to the Pacific, abundant, chiefly in pine woods; N. to Vancouver. Eggs 6-7, white, profusely speckled with reddish, X 5. Family ^ : Creepers. A very small, well-marked group, of about a dozen species, and four or five genera, which fall in two sections, commonly called subfamilies ; one of these, TichodrommiB, is represented by the well-known European Wall Creeper, Tichodroma mura/ria, and several (chiefly Aus- tralian) species of the genus Climacteris; while the genus Certhia, with five or six species or varieties, and certain allied genera (all but one Old World) constitute the. Fig. 145. — Common Brown Creeper, Certhinfamiliaria, nearly nat. size. (From Brcbm.) 8. Subfamily CERTHIIN/E: Typical Creepers. Our species may be known on sight, among North American Osdnes, by its rigid, acumi- nate tail-feathers, like a woodpecker's. Besides: — bill about equal in length to head, ex- tremely slender, sharp, and decurved; nostrils exposed; no rictal bristles; tarsus seuteUate, shorter than 3d toe and claw, which is connate for the whole of the 1st joint with both 2d alid 4th toe; lateral toes of unequal lengths, 1st toe shorter than its claw; claws aU much curved and very sharp; wing 10-primaried, the 1st primary very short, not one-half the 2d, which is less than the 3d; point of wing formed by 3d, 4th, and 6th quills; ta
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