. A history of North American birds [microform] : land birds. Birds -- North America; Ornithology -- North America; Oiseaux -- Amérique du Nord; Ornithologie -- Amérique du Nord. 590 NORTH AMJ^llICAN BIRDS. B« Throat wliite; sides stresikod. ',]. P. belli. Xo white sii{)en' stripe. A dusky spot in middle of the lireast. Upper parts ashy, eoncolored, with iiuhstinct streaks on the Imck. Wings somewhat more brownisli, the coverts with two inihstinet h<,dit (not white) hands. a. Wing, )0; tail, ; bill, .31 ; tarsus, .74. Dorsal streaks obsolete. Hah. California. ...... var. belli


. A history of North American birds [microform] : land birds. Birds -- North America; Ornithology -- North America; Oiseaux -- Amérique du Nord; Ornithologie -- Amérique du Nord. 590 NORTH AMJ^llICAN BIRDS. B« Throat wliite; sides stresikod. ',]. P. belli. Xo white sii{)en' stripe. A dusky spot in middle of the lireast. Upper parts ashy, eoncolored, with iiuhstinct streaks on the Imck. Wings somewhat more brownisli, the coverts with two inihstinet h<,dit (not white) hands. a. Wing, )0; tail, ; bill, .31 ; tarsus, .74. Dorsal streaks obsolete. Hah. California. ...... var. belli. 8. Wing, :J,20; tail, ;}.20; bill, .35; tarsus, .76. Dorsal streaks distinct. Hub. Middle Province of United States. \av. n e vadensis. Poospiza bilineata, Sclater. BLACX-THROATED SPABBOW. Eidhcriza bilineata, Cansix, Pr. A. X. Sc. Th. V, Got. 1850, 104, pi. iii, Texas. — Ib. Illust. I, V, 1854, 150, pi. xxiii. Poospiza bilineata, Sclateii, Pr. Zool. Soc. 1857, 7. — Baiud, IJirds X. Am. 1858, 470. — Ib. Mex. Bomid. II, Buds, 15.—Hekum. X, c. 14. — Cooi'EU, Orn. Cal. I, 1870, 203. Sp. Char. Above uniform unspotted ashy-gray, tinged with light brown; purer and more plumbeous anteriorly, and on sides of head and ne<'k. Under parte? white, linged with plumbeous on the sides, and with yellowish-brown about the thighs. A sharply defined superciliary and maxillary stripe of pure white, as also the lower eyelid, the former margined internally with black. Loral region i)lack, passing insensibly into dark slate on the ears. Chin .ind throat between the white maxillary stripes black, ending on the upper part of tlic breast in a rounded outline, '''.til black, the lateral feathers edgetl exter, id tipped on inner web with white. 1'ill blue. Length, ; wing, ; tail, Sexes alike. Hab. Middle Province of United States north to 40°, l»etween Rocky Mountains and Sierra Xevada. (As fiir west as Janos and the Mohave villages.) Matamoras (rare at San Antonio; Dress


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