. 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. PARIDyE, TITMICE, OK CHICKADEES. GEN. 11. 79 ij. Blach-headed Gnatcatoher. $ bluish-ash, with wholo crown Ijhick. $ ^^ - ftath crown lilvc back;, outer tail feather Avhite-edged onl}^ Southwest jr. United States. Cass., 111., 164, pi. 27; Bd., 382; Coop., 31. melanura. / Plumbeous Gnatcatclier. Duller leaden gray; crown like back; a white, and
. 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. PARIDyE, TITMICE, OK CHICKADEES. GEN. 11. 79 ij. Blach-headed Gnatcatoher. $ bluish-ash, with wholo crown Ijhick. $ ^^ - ftath crown lilvc back;, outer tail feather Avhite-edged onl}^ Southwest jr. United States. Cass., 111., 164, pi. 27; Bd., 382; Coop., 31. melanura. / Plumbeous Gnatcatclier. Duller leaden gray; crown like back; a white, and also a black (latter not in 9 ) superciliarjr line ; whole outer d web of outer tail feather, and its tip for some distance, white. Arizona. Bd.,382; Coop., 37. plumbea. Family CHAMiEIDiE. Wren- tits. Recentlj' framed for a shigle species, . T, ... 1 Fig. 20. Under h^., bliie-trray p:natcritcher; nppor mncll hkc a titmouse m general appear- lig., blark-heiKlerl ; c, tail of same; d, 1 , .,, ,1 , , ⢠1 j_i tail of ijluuibeous jrnatcatcher; all of natural size. ance, but with the tarsus not evidently 'â ^ scutellate in front; rounded wings much shorter than the graduated tail; lores bristly, and plumage extraordinarilj^ soft and lax. With the general habits of wrens, with which the species was formerly associated. 11. Genus CHAMPA Gambel. - Fasciated Tit, or Ground Wren. Dull grayish or olivaceous-brown, below paler and more fulvous; throat and breast streaked with darker; wings and tail brown, obscurely waved with dusky; whitish ring round eye ; iris white. 5J-G ; wing only 24â2J, tail 3J ; the graduation an inch. Coast region of California. A curious bird, with no special resemblance to any other species. Cass., III., 36, pi. 7; Bd., 370; Coop., 39. fasciata. Family VKRYDM. Titmice, or CMckadees. Ours are all small (under 7 in. long) birds, at once distinguished by having 10 primaries, the 1st much shorter than the 2d; wings barely or not longer than the ta
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