. 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 . ening Grosbeak, reduced. black, white, and yellow. Sexes dissimilar. Little(Sheppard del. Nichols sc.) different from Old World Coccothraustes, excepting coloration and sim];)licit
. 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 . ening Grosbeak, reduced. black, white, and yellow. Sexes dissimilar. Little(Sheppard del. Nichols sc.) different from Old World Coccothraustes, excepting coloration and sim];)licity of H. vespertina. (Lat. vespertina, of Hesperus. Fig. 206.) Evening Grosbeak. Adult^ : General color sordid yellow, overlaid wnth a sooty-olive shade, deepest on fore parts, quiteblack on crown, clearest below behind. Forehead and line over eye, scapulars, and rump,yellow. Wings and tail black ; several inner secondaries and inner half of the greater covertswhite; lining of wings black and yellow. A narrow black line around base of upper man-dible ; tibiae black. Bill greenish-yellow; feet apparently dusky flesh-color. ; wing ; tail ; bill long, deep, broad. 9 :Brownish-ash, paler below, whitening on belly, irregularly patched or mixed with yellowish;white of wings imperfect, or tinged with yellow ; primaries, which are quite black in ^, with. FRINGILLID^: FINCHES, BUNTINGS, SPARROWS, ETC. 343 large white spaces on inner webs, and sometimes tipped with white. Adult $ 9 diflFer in theshade of yellow and degree of its obscuration. (Specimens from Southern Rocky Mts. saidto have less turgid bill and narrower yellow frontlet.) A bird of distinguished appearance,wlujse very name suggests the far-away land of tlie dipping sun, and the tuneful romancewliich the wild bird throws around the fadiug light of day; clothed in striking color-contrastsof black, white, and gold, he seems to represent the allegory of diurnal tra
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