. 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 . Fio. 310. — Head of Cardinal Grosbeak,nat. size. (Ad. nat. del. E. C.) FRINGILLIDjE: FINCHES, BUNTINGS, SPARROWS. 455 subsimilar. There are several species of this strildiigiy heau
. 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 . Fio. 310. — Head of Cardinal Grosbeak,nat. size. (Ad. nat. del. E. C.) FRINGILLIDjE: FINCHES, BUNTINGS, SPARROWS. 455 subsimilar. There are several species of this strildiigiy heautiful genus, as C- carneus andC. phoeniceu!^, but only one of them, with several of its subspecies, occurs in our cardinalis. (Figs. 310, 311.) Cardinal Grosbeak. Cardinal Redbird. CrestedRedbird. Virginia Redbird. Virginia Nightingale. Adult $ : Rich red, usuallyvermilion, sometimes rosy; pure and intense on crest and under parts, darker on back, whereobscured with ashy-gray, as it is also on upper surfaces of wings and tail; feathers of wings. Fio 311 —Cardinal Gro^bt ik iii)ik i Ro,( Ijrt l•^t(.(l , lower, reduced (From Breliiu ) -==# x,-nr-*^ fuscous on inner webs. A jet-black mask on face, entirely surrounding l)ill, extending onthroat. Bill coral-red; feet brown. Length ; extent ^.OO; wing .•;tail ; ; tarsus 9 ratlier less : Ashy-bmwn, i>aler and some-what ycUowisli-brown below, witli traces of red; reddening much as in J on crest, wings, andtail. Young ,$■. At first like 9? 1^>t soon reddening; at an early age, bill dark. EasternU. S. southerly, seldom N. to the Connecticut ValleyLakes region, and only casually finther N.; W. to th lower Hudson Valley, and GreatGreat Plains; resident in the Hermu- 456 SYSTEMA TIC SYNOPSIS. — PASSERES — OSCIXES. das; along the Mexican border shading into other varieties. A bird uf striking appearanceand brilliant vocal powers, resident and abun
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