. American ornithology, or, The natural history of the birds of the United States [microform]. Birds; Oiseaux. [⢠'1 f. 270 FEMALE ROSE-BREASTED OROSREAK. black of tlio crown passes into tho dark brown of the neck, which be- coming lighter by ilegrees, is blendcil with the yellow of the buck : tho same thing takes place beneath, where the olive brown of the brottst passes by the nicest gradations intu tho yellow of the posterior parts: the whole base of the [dnmage is pale bluish plumbeous, white before the tips of the feathers; the feinorals are black skirted with yellow; ''ic wings are four
. American ornithology, or, The natural history of the birds of the United States [microform]. Birds; Oiseaux. [⢠'1 f. 270 FEMALE ROSE-BREASTED OROSREAK. black of tlio crown passes into tho dark brown of the neck, which be- coming lighter by ilegrees, is blendcil with the yellow of the buck : tho same thing takes place beneath, where the olive brown of the brottst passes by the nicest gradations intu tho yellow of the posterior parts: the whole base of the [dnmage is pale bluish plumbeous, white before the tips of the feathers; the feinorals are black skirted with yellow; ''ic wings are four and a half inches long ; the smaller, middling, and â ? :terior larger wing-coverts are deep black, as well as tho spurious â¢>. 'ng; those nearest the body are white, black at the origin only; tho cuills are deep black, the three outer being sube(|ual and longest, attenuated on their outer web at the point, anil inconspicuously tipped ' ith whitish ; the secondaries arc marked with white on their inner \eb, that color extending more and more as they approach the body, the four or five nearest being entirely jiure white, like their immediate coverts, and dightly and inconspicuously edged with externally; tho tail is two and a half inches long, slightly forked, and as well as its long superior coverts, very deep black ; the o>iter feather on each side has on the inner v > , towards the tip, a large, roundish, white spot, which seems di ^ ./sed to become obliterated, as it is nmch more marked on one, than on that of the other side which crresponds to it, and does not exist in all specimens: a similar spot i rceptible on the second tail-feather, where if is however nearly oblit. rated ; the feet are flesh color, the nails blackish, the tarsus measiiring three-cjuarters of an inch. No difference of any consequence is observable between the sexes; though it might be said that the female is a little less in size, and rather duller in plumage. FltlSGILLA
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