. 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 . s tlie clioice of the A. 0. U. List, 2d ed. 214, No. 519 b. C. m. cleiuentis. (Lat. clemens, gen. clementis, adj., clement, mild; proper name of SauctusClemens, St. Clement
. 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 . s tlie clioice of the A. 0. U. List, 2d ed. 214, No. 519 b. C. m. cleiuentis. (Lat. clemens, gen. clementis, adj., clement, mild; proper name of SauctusClemens, St. Clement, a person, applied in Spanish form San Clemente to an island.) House Finch. Intermediate between the form of frontalis inhabiting the neigh-boring mainland of California and C. Mcgregori.^ San Clemente and Santa Barbara , Auk, July, 1898, p. 258; C. mexicanus clementis, A. 0. U. Suppl. List, Auk, , p. 114, No. 519 c. C. amplus. (Lat. umplus, ample, large.) Guadalupe House Finch. An insular form,resembling C. m. frontalis proper, but with darker tints, and considerably larger ; ^, ; tail ; bill from nostril, and same in depth; tarsus :9 somewhat smaller. Guadalupe Island, Lower California. Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv. ii, , p. 187; Key, 3d ed. 1887, p. 872; A. 0. U. Lists, No. 520. 384 SYSTEMA TIC SYNOPSIS.—PASSERES— C. mcgregori. (To R. C McGregor, of Palo Alto, Cal.) House C. ampins; slightly smaller, with more compressed, somewhat grooved bill, and longertail; red of $ replaced by orange. San Benito Island, Lower California. Anthony, Auk,Apr. 1897, p. 165, fig. h; A. 0. U. Suppl. List, Auk, Jan. 1899, p. 114, No. 520. (Gr. \o^6si loxos, crooked.) Crossbills. Bill metagnuthoiis ; both mandiblesfalcate, deflected to opposite sides, their points crossed (unique among birds). Upper mandible stout and broad at base, rapidly narrow-ing to the elongate, de
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