. 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. Illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts. Birds. 116 PTILOGONYDIN/E, MYIADESTIN^. GEN. 51. 0 ' Carolina Waxwlnrj. Cedar Bird. Cherry Bird. Under tail coverts whitish ; little or no oraiige-browu iil)out Ijead ; no white on wings ; chin black, shading gradually into the color of the throat; a black frontal, loral and transocular stripe, as in garrulus, Ijut this bordered on the forehead with w
. 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. Illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts. Birds. 116 PTILOGONYDIN/E, MYIADESTIN^. GEN. 51. 0 ' Carolina Waxwlnrj. Cedar Bird. Cherry Bird. Under tail coverts whitish ; little or no oraiige-browu iil)out Ijead ; no white on wings ; chin black, shading gradually into the color of the throat; a black frontal, loral and transocular stripe, as in garrulus, Ijut this bordered on the forehead with whitish; a white touch on lower eyelid, feathers on side of under jaw white; abdomen soiled yellowish. 6 or 7 long ; wing about 3|. Eastern North America to Hudson's Ba^'; an abundant bird, irregularly migratory, going in flocks nearly the "whole year; breeds late (iu June) in orchards and thickets ; the nest is placed in the crotch of a tree; tlio eggs are 3-4, dull pale bluish, speckled with purplish and blackish. "\'\'ils., i, 107, pi. 7; NuTT., i, 248; Aud., iv, 165, pi. 245; Bd., 318 cedeorum. Subfamih/ PTILOOONYDIN^^E. Ptilogonys. no. 5fi. Caroiin., gjjj j^^^^,^ ..^^^ j^^ ^^^ y^^^ subfamily, but slenderer for its length ; nasal scale naked ; a few short bristles about the base of the bill. Tarsus scutellate anteriorly, and sometimes also on the sides ; about as long as the middle toe and claw ; hind toe remarkably short. Wings not longer than the tail, much rounded, of ten primaries ; the 1st spurious, less than half as long as the 2nd, which is only about as long as the 8th ; point of the wing formed by the 4th, 5th and 6th or 3rd quills. Tail long, nearly even, with broad plane feathers {Phceiiopepla) ; or much graduated, with tapering central feathers {Ptilogonys). Head couspicuously crested ; sexes (in our genus) dissimilar ; young not streaked or spotted. There are only two genera of the subfamily as thus restricted — P/icenopepla and Ptilogonys,
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