. Key to North American birds [microform] : 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. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. CAFIilMULGinJ^—CAPSIMULGIN.^: TRUE GOATSUCKEBS. 453 frosted pattern of coloration. Markings of crown transverse; priinurics barred with black and tawny. Size small. Soxes alike. Note dissyllabic. Eggs \\\\\W. 398. P. nut'talll. (To Thos. Nuttall.) Nvttall's $ 9» "dull: Assuming the upper parts of a beautiful bronz
. Key to North American birds [microform] : 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. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. CAFIilMULGinJ^—CAPSIMULGIN.^: TRUE GOATSUCKEBS. 453 frosted pattern of coloration. Markings of crown transverse; priinurics barred with black and tawny. Size small. Soxes alike. Note dissyllabic. Eggs \\\\\W. 398. P. nut'talll. (To Thos. Nuttall.) Nvttall's $ 9» "dull: Assuming the upper parts of a beautiful bronzy-gray ground color, this is elegantly frosted over with soft silver-gray, and watered in wavy cross-i)attern with black, these black double crescents enlarg- ing to herring-bone marks on the scapulars and inner quills. Four middle tail-featliers patterned after the back; others with firmer black bars on motley brown ground, and short whito tips. Priniarics and longer secondaries bright tawny, with pretty regular black bars, and niarbh'd tips (the half-opened wing viewed from below is curiously like that of the short-earetl owl.) A large firm silky-white throat-bar. Under parts grounded in blackish-brown, giving way behind through ochrey with dark bars to nearly uniform ochrey. It is impossible in words to give an idea of the artistic blending of the colors in this elegant little night-jur. The sexes. Fig. 295. — Niglit-liawk, or Bull-but, i nat. size. (From Brclim. Bill too brUtly.) scarcely differ; specimens before me marked ? have as purely white throat as the $, but the tail-tips are shorter and tinged with tawny. Length ; extent ; wing about .; tail or less; tarsus, or middle toe without claw, Plains to the Pacific, U. S. and southward, abundant. Note of two syllables, the first of the " whippoorwill " omitted. Eggs 2, X , elliptical, white. 130. CHORDEDI'LES. (Gr. x°P^hi chorde, a stringed musical instrument; &ei\
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