. 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. TUEBID2E â SAXICOLINJE: BLUE-BIBDS. 257 olive-brown, superciliary line, edges of wings and tail, and all under parts, cinnamon-brown ; tail black and white as iu
. 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. TUEBID2E â SAXICOLINJE: BLUE-BIBDS. 257 olive-brown, superciliary line, edges of wings and tail, and all under parts, cinnamon-brown ; tail black and white as iu the adult. Length of <J ; extent ; wing ; tail ; tarsus ; middle toe and claw ? smaller: length ; extent , etc. Atlantic coast, from Europe via Greenland ; also North Pacific and Arctic coast, frcjm Asia. Common in Greenland, and probably also breeds in Labrador. Nest in holes in the ground or rocks, crevices of stone walls, etc. ; eggs 4-7, , greenish-blue, without spots. 7. SIA'LIA. (Gr. o-iuXi's', .siaKs, a kind of bird.) Blue-bikds. Primaries 10, the 1st spurious and very short. Wings pointed, the tip formed by the 2d, 3d, and 4th quills. Tail much shorter than wings, emarginate. BiU about half as long as head or less, straigbt, stout, wider than deep at base, compressed beyond nostrils, notched near tip, the culmen at first straight, then gently convex to the end, gonys slightly convex and ascending, commissure slightly curved throughout. Nostrils overhung and nearly concealed by projecting bristly feathers; lores and cliiu likewise bristly. Gape ample, the rictus cleft to below the eyes, furnished with a moderately developed set of bristles reaching about opposite the nostrils. Feet short, though rather stout, adapted exclusively for perching (in Saxicola the structure of the feet indicates terrestrial habits). Tarsus not longer than the middle toe; lateral toes of unequal lengths; claws all strongly curved. Blue is th
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