. A history of North American birds [microform] : land birds. Birds -- North America; Ornithology -- North American; Oiseaux -- Amérique du Nord; Ornithologie -- Amérique du Nord. I —THE FINCHES. II3 The bill of Mr. ^laynard's specimen is about the size of that of more northern ones; the iris is described by him as pale yellowish-white, much lighter than usual. Pipilo maculatus,^ var. megalonyx, Baird. LONO-CLAWEI) TOWREE BinniHG. Pipilo mcgalonijx, Raikd, Birds X. Am. 1858, 515, pi. Ixxiii. — Heekm. X, ,S', 51 (uest). — CooPEU, Orn. Cal. I, 242. Sp. Char. Similar to P. ardims in
. A history of North American birds [microform] : land birds. Birds -- North America; Ornithology -- North American; Oiseaux -- Amérique du Nord; Ornithologie -- Amérique du Nord. I —THE FINCHES. II3 The bill of Mr. ^laynard's specimen is about the size of that of more northern ones; the iris is described by him as pale yellowish-white, much lighter than usual. Pipilo maculatus,^ var. megalonyx, Baird. LONO-CLAWEI) TOWREE BinniHG. Pipilo mcgalonijx, Raikd, Birds X. Am. 1858, 515, pi. Ixxiii. — Heekm. X, ,S', 51 (uest). — CooPEU, Orn. Cal. I, 242. Sp. Char. Similar to P. ardims in amount of white on the wings and scapulars, though this frequently edged with black, but without basal wlnte on outer web of pri- maries. Outer edge of outer web of external tail-feather white, sometimes confluent with [/ that at tip of tail. Concealed white spots on \( feathers of side of neck. Claws enonnouslv large, the hinder longer than its digit; the hind toe and claw reaching to the middle of the niiddle claw, which, with its toe, is as long as or longer than the tarsu^^. Inner lateral claw reaching nearly to the middle of middle claw. Length, ; wing, ; hind toe and claw, .00. Female with the deep black replaced by dusky sbity-olive. Hab. Southern coast of California and across through valleys of Gila and Rio Grande; north through the Great Basin across from Fort Crook, California, to Fort Bridger, Wyoming. ig- This form constitutes so stronj^ly marked a variety as to be worthy of particular description. The general appearance is that of P. ardinis, whicli it resembles in the amount of white spotting on tlie w^ngs. This, however, does not usually involve the whole outer web at the end, btit, as in orcgomis, has a narrow border of black continued around the wliite terminally and sometimes externally. There is not quite so much of a terminal wliite blotch on the outer tail-feather, this being but little over an inch in length, and the outer web of the same
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