. 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 . white, flankswashed with olivaceous, and axillars and cris-sum pale yellow; wings and tail dusky, mostof the feathers edged with white or whitish,and two conspicuous bars of the sa
. 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 . white, flankswashed with olivaceous, and axillars and cris-sum pale yellow; wings and tail dusky, mostof the feathers edged with white or whitish,and two conspicuous bars of the same acrosstips of middle and greater coverts; bill andfeet blackish-plumbeous; iris brown. ; extent ; wing ; tail ; bUl about , stout, nearly at base; spurious quill long, about i as long as 2d primary. Young and fallspecimens more brightly colored. A stoutly-built species, known at a glance by the bluish U. S. and Canada; not rare, but hot so common as oUvaceus, flamfrons, or noveio-racensis ; inhabits woodland. V. ». casslnl. (To John Cassin.) Cassins Ureenlet. Scarcely diflferent; said to beduller and more brownish-olivaceous ; under parts tinged with buflf or ochrey where solitariusis pure white; loral line and eye-ring impurely whitish. Arizona and California. (Not at alllike V. plwmbeus, with which it is geographically associated.). Fie. 196. — V. solitcmus, nat. size. (From Baird.) 334 SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS. —PASSEBES— OSCINES. »79. V. s. plumbeus. (Lat. plumheus, lead-colored. Fig. 197.) Plumbeous , rather brighter and more ashy on the crown, but without marked contrast,faintly glossed with olive on rump; a conspicuous white line from nostril to and around eye, and below this a dusky loral stripe; below. pure white, sides of neck and breast shadedwith the color of the back, flanks, axillarsand erisgum with a mere trace of olivaceous,or none; wings and tail dusky, with con-sp
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