. 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. Illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts. Birds. FIU>, FINCflES, ETC. GEN-. 74. 145 Gononil color a fiae (Lirk ash, paler below, whiteiihig- iasonsihly on chin and holly, more brownish on the rump, changing to dull l)ro\viiish on the flanks and crissum, the middle of the back streaked with dark purplish-bay and ashj^-white. No bright bay, like that of dUjimlUs, anywliere, except
. 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. Illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts. Birds. FIU>, FINCflES, ETC. GEN-. 74. 145 Gononil color a fiae (Lirk ash, paler below, whiteiihig- iasonsihly on chin and holly, more brownish on the rump, changing to dull l)ro\viiish on the flanks and crissum, the middle of the back streaked with dark purplish-bay and ashj^-white. No bright bay, like that of dUjimlUs, anywliere, except some edirinir on the wing coverts and inner secondaries; middle and greater coverts tipped with white, form- ing two bars; no j'ellow anywhere; Ijill and feet reddish. Young birds have the black of the head replaced by very rich warm brown, the white of the head l)y pale brownish, and the general ash h:is a I • 1 IV • 1 j-T 1 1 • „ Ti j-1 4- Fig. 80. Wliite-crownedSparrow. brownish sullusion, and the back is more bke that of ulfjicolUs; but the two species can hardly l)o confounded. North America, especially eastern and rather northerly, not nearly .so aljundant in the United States as albicolUs, but common in many sections in winter and during the migrations. WiLS., iv, 49, pi. 31, f. 4; Nutt., i, 479; Aud., iii, 157, pi. 192; Ijd.,458; Coop., 196. leucophuys. *, (L Var. Exactly like the last, but the lores gi'ay or asliy, continuous * with the white stripe over the eye, i. e., the black of tlie forehead does not descend to the eye. Perhaps averaging a trifle smaller, and didler colored. Mi'. Allen tells me he has seen specimens that resembled leuGoplmjs on one side of the liead, and gambelii on the other! Rocky Mountains to the Pacific, there mostl}' replacing true leucophnjs. Nutt., 2d ed. i, 556 ; Bd., 4C0 ; Coop., 195. ' I ^^ Golden-croivned Sparrotu. Adults of both sexes with the forehead and sides of the crown black, enclosing a dull yellow coronal pat
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