. Birds of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains; a manual for the identification of species in hand or in the bush. Birds. FAM. I. THRUSHES, BLUEBIEBS, ETC. 55 head, upper tail coverts and basal half of the tail feathers are white, the rest of the tail black. Female similar, but duller and browner. Young with much cinnamon- brown and without the cheek stripe. (Stone- chat.) Length, %\; wing, 4 (3|-4|) ; tail, 2\ ; tarsus, 1 ; culmen, -1. An Old World species breeding in Labrador and straggling southward to the United States (Maine, Long Is- land, New Orleans).. Wheatear 9. Bluebird (7
. Birds of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains; a manual for the identification of species in hand or in the bush. Birds. FAM. I. THRUSHES, BLUEBIEBS, ETC. 55 head, upper tail coverts and basal half of the tail feathers are white, the rest of the tail black. Female similar, but duller and browner. Young with much cinnamon- brown and without the cheek stripe. (Stone- chat.) Length, %\; wing, 4 (3|-4|) ; tail, 2\ ; tarsus, 1 ; culmen, -1. An Old World species breeding in Labrador and straggling southward to the United States (Maine, Long Is- land, New Orleans).. Wheatear 9. Bluebird (766. Si- Mia sidlis). — A very common, small, blue-backed, chestnut-breasted, white-bellied bird. The female is more of a grayish-blue. Till the introduc- tion of the English sparrow, this bird was to be found everywhere around our homes. Its sweet, joyous singing welcomed in the spring, and its sadder notes of autumn told of the dying year. From southern New York and Illinois southward, it is to be found throughout the year. In the northern portion of its winter range a few can generally be found liv- ing near cedar groves. Length, G3; wing, 4 (3|-4;) ; tail, 2}; culmen, J. From the Kocky Mountains eastward throughout the United States, north to Ontario. The Mountain Bluebird (768. Sialia Arctica), a large bird without chest- nut on the breast, and with a more ^^ greenish-blue on the back, has been occasionally seen east of the Eocky Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Apgar, A. C. (Austin Craig), 1838-1908. New York, Cincinnati [etc. ] American Book Co
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