. 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. 282 SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS.—PASSEBES— OSCINES. 83. 84. throat white or sulphury-yellow. Bill pluinbcous-bluckish, bluish-plunibcous at base below (soinetiuu's there yt'llowi.'*!!) ; feet ami daws black; iris brown. Length of (J, ; extent ; wing ; tail ; bill, from extreme base of culmen,
. 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. 282 SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS.—PASSEBES— OSCINES. 83. 84. throat white or sulphury-yellow. Bill pluinbcous-bluckish, bluish-plunibcous at base below (soinetiuu's there yt'llowi.'*!!) ; feet ami daws black; iris brown. Length of (J, ; extent ; wing ; tail ; bill, from extreme base of culmen, ; tarsus 'JO; middle too and claw rather less; hind claw about , usually longer than its digit, but very variable. 9 commonly smaller than tlm <J ; length ; extent ;}.25; wing about , etc. (J 9, adult, in winter: As usually seen in most of the United States in the fall, winter, and early spring, ditt'er from the above in more sordid coloration of the upper parts, which may be simply grayish-brown, heavily streaked with dusky, even on the crown, with little or none of the '* pinkLsh " tints ; and in lack or re- striction of the black markings of the head and breast, or their being veiled with whitish tips of the individual feathers ; nevertheless, tlie sulphury tinge of the white parts about the head is usually viM'y conspicuous. Fledglings have the upper parts dusky, mixed with some yellowish- brown, and sprinkled all over with whitish or light tawny dots, each feather having a tenninal speck. Most of the wing- and tail-feathers have rusty, tawny, or whitish edging and tipping. The under parts are white, mottled with the colors of the upper parts along the sides and across the back; no tractes of definite black markings about the head and bn^ast, nor any yellow tinge. Bill and feet jjale or yellowish. This peculiar speckled stage is of brief duration ; with an early autumnal change, a dress, little if at all difl'erent from
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