. 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 . color oftenFig ioo. — American Redstart. tingeing the breast across. Orange mark- ings of wings and tail of ^ replaced by clear yellow. Lores dusky; eyelids and slightstripe from n
. 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 . color oftenFig ioo. — American Redstart. tingeing the breast across. Orange mark- ings of wings and tail of ^ replaced by clear yellow. Lores dusky; eyelids and slightstripe from nostrils to eye whitish. Rather smaller than ^, about equal to the lesser severaldimensions given. ^, young: Like the 9; but upper parts more brownish, tail quite black,and yellow of sides brighter. Males changing in spring to their final plumage are irregularlypatched with black in the general olivaceous and white. The spring migration includes malesin this condition, and others irregularly patched with black, as well as those in ]ierfect dress;whence it is evident that the Redstart does not acquire his full-dress suit until in his tliird year(see Birds Col. Vail., p. 340). Temperate N. Am., but chiefly Eastern; W. to the GreatBasin regularly, casually to Upper and Lower California. Breeds in much of its U. S., andall of its British American range, abundantly from the Northern States northward; winters in. MNIOTILTIDjE: AMERICAN WARBLERS. 343 the West Indies, Mexico, and Cent, and S. Am. Nest a neat, compact structure in forkof a shrub or sapling at little elevation; eggs 3-5, averaging X , not distinguishablefrom other Warbler tlie nuptial ecstasiesthe lovely Redstart shinesamong the birds that throngthe woodland, where histransparent beauty flasheslike a lambent tongue offlame at play amidst thetender pale green foliage ofthe trees. S. picta. (Lat. pi eta,painted. Fig. 202.) PaintedEedstart. Adult <J 9:Lustrous black; middle ofbreast and belly carmin
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