. A history of North American birds [microform] : land birds. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. 132 XORTH AMEHFCAN «IRI)S. Campylorhjmchus brunneicapillus, Gray. CACTUS WBEN. I'li-iihiptn hninnricnpilliin, I,afi!\ayk, Mng. dc Zool. 1835, 61, j)l. xlvii.—Lawr. Ann. X. Y. I,yc. V, 1851, 114.— Cassis, Hirds C'ul. Tex. 1854, 15(i, \>\. xxv. — Hkkumann, .1. A. N. Se. II, 1853, 263. ('. , (!kay, Gimhmii, I, 1847, 15i). — Bp. I'onsii. 1S50, 'i'iS. — Sci,. P. A. N. S. 156, 264. — lUiim, Kinla N. Am. 1858, 355; I'r. riiil. Aciul. 185!", 3, otc. ; Ucv. itH. — Hkkiim


. A history of North American birds [microform] : land birds. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. 132 XORTH AMEHFCAN «IRI)S. Campylorhjmchus brunneicapillus, Gray. CACTUS WBEN. I'li-iihiptn hninnricnpilliin, I,afi!\ayk, Mng. dc Zool. 1835, 61, j)l. xlvii.—Lawr. Ann. X. Y. I,yc. V, 1851, 114.— Cassis, Hirds C'ul. Tex. 1854, 15(i, \>\. xxv. — Hkkumann, .1. A. N. Se. II, 1853, 263. ('. , (!kay, Gimhmii, I, 1847, 15i). — Bp. I'onsii. 1S50, 'i'iS. — Sci,. P. A. N. S. 156, 264. — lUiim, Kinla N. Am. 1858, 355; I'r. riiil. Aciul. 185!", 3, otc. ; Ucv. itH. — Hkkiimann, 1*. K. K. X, 185S>. — Dkessek, llns, , 482 (Tcxiis). — Cdoi-kh, Oim. ("al. 1, 1870, 6;. Sp. CiiAii. Hill as lon<; as tlic lioad Abovo brown; darkest on the head, wliifh ;» nnspottod. Fealhcrs on thi' back sticakod centrally with white, nencatli , tiii)?ed with rusty on the belly ; tiic leathers of the throat and upper parts, and under tail-eoverts, with larp'. rounded black spots; of the reinainini; inider parts with snndler, more linear ones, i 'liin and line over the eye white. Tail-leathers black beneath, barred subter- luinally (the outer one throufrhout) with white. Iris, reddish-yellow. Leiifrth, 8 inches; winjr, ; tail, ,')."). Hah. Adjacent borders of the United States and Mexico, from the mouth of the Rio (irande to the Valley of the Colorado, and to the Paeilio coast of Southern California. Replaced at Cape St. Lneas liy <\ nffiiiis. Tliis sjiet' is lotnul iiliundaiilly along tlie line of the IJio drande and Ciila, extoiuling noitlnvard .some , and everywhere conspicuous by its wion-like habits and cnornions nest. v Habits. The Brown-headed ('iee])er is a compnratively recent addition to the fauna of the rnited Staters, but ajtjiears to be common idong tlie southwestern borders of tlie I'liited States, from the valley of the liio (irande to San Diego, in California. In Lower C


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