. 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 . ; a similar rufous stripebehind eye, sometimes traceable past eye to the lore, then defining a superciliary line of lightolive-gray or whitish. A whitish eye-ring. Upper mandible l
. 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 . ; a similar rufous stripebehind eye, sometimes traceable past eye to the lore, then defining a superciliary line of lightolive-gray or whitish. A whitish eye-ring. Upper mandible light brown, lower dryingyellowish; feet pale. Length (not , as in Baird) ; extent ; ; tail the same; bill ; tarsus ; middle toe and claw 9 said to diflFerimmaterially, and .young to lack the head-stripes. Young, first plumage : Above, mixed brownand olive-tawny; wings brown, edged with olive, the coverts edged and tipped with tawny ;breast like back ; belly tawny. Texas, in Lower Rio Grande Valley. Inhabits shrubbery,chaparral, and close cover of all kinds, where it is difficult to discover, owing to its quiet waysand greenish tints. Keeps near the ground, but builds a domed nest of twigs and grasses inbushes and low trees; two broods arc reared in May-June, and Eggs 2-4, purewhite, unmarked, averaging X , but from by 17. Family ICTERID^ : American Starlings: Blackbirds, etc. Cultrirostral Oscines tvith 9 primaries. — A family of moderate extent,confined to America, where it repre-sents the Sturnidce, or Starlings ofthe Old World. It consists of theBlackbirds and Orioles, among theformer being included the Bobolinks,Cow-birds, and Meadow is nominally composed of 15Uspecies, half of which may provevalid, distributed among 50 generaor subgenera, of which one-fourthmay be considered worthy of reten-tion. The relationships are very close- ^^a^^~ with the Fringillida;, on the one
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