. 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. 418 SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS. —PASSERES — acute and much curved, especially that of the hind toe; the lateral reaching heyond base of the middle claw. Color
. 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. 418 SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS. —PASSERES — acute and much curved, especially that of the hind toe; the lateral reaching heyond base of the middle claw. Coloration peculiar; gray, with black-and-white wings and tail. Habits much the same as those of Nucifraga; alpine and sub-boreal, pinicoline, and pinivorous. One species, confined to W. Amer. 344. P. columbia'nus. (Of the Columbia River. Fig. 270.) Clarke's Crow. ^ 9, adult: Gray, often bleaching on the head ; wings glossy black, most of the secondaries broadly tipped with wlute; tail white, including the under coverts; the central feathers and usually part of the next pair, together with the up- per coverts, black. Bill and feet black. Iris brown. Length about ; extent ; wing ; tail ; tar- sus ; bill averaging ; feet from to Sexes alike in color, but 9 smaller than (J. Young similar, but browner ash. There is great difference Fig. 270.—Clarke's Crow, reduced. (Sheppard del. Nichols sc.) [^ ^\-yq shade in adults the plumage when fresh being more glaucous-ash, wearing browner, and also bleaching in patches, especially on head. Coniferous belt of the West, N. to Sitka, S. to Mexico, E. to Nebraska, W. to the Coast Ranges; the American representative of the European nutcracker, Nucifraga caryocatactes; abundant, imperfectly gregarious. A remarkable bird, wild, restless, and noisy, sometimes congregating by thousands in the pineries of the W., roving in search of food. Breeds high in pines, in alpine and northerly localities, concea
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