. A history of North American birds [microform] : land birds. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. 484 NOKTll AMEUU'AN BIRDS. Loxia curvirostra var. americana, Baiup. RED OBOSSBILL. Ctirvirostra nmerianiii, Am. Oiii. IV, 1811, 44, pi. , f. 1, 2. âBaihd, Birds N. Am. ISnS, 4'2t5. â Coi'i:!t & Siiki,ky, 198. â & , Tr. Cli. Ac. I, 18G9, 281 (). âI'cidi'KI!, Orii. t'al. I, 148.â , 291. Loxia amerkam, Bon. List, 1838. â Box. & Scmlkgki,, Moii. , .'>, tab. vi. â Nkwdkishy, Zoiil. California ami Oregon Uoutf, P. R. 1!. lU-p. VI
. A history of North American birds [microform] : land birds. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. 484 NOKTll AMEUU'AN BIRDS. Loxia curvirostra var. americana, Baiup. RED OBOSSBILL. Ctirvirostra nmerianiii, Am. Oiii. IV, 1811, 44, pi. , f. 1, 2. âBaihd, Birds N. Am. ISnS, 4'2t5. â Coi'i:!t & Siiki,ky, 198. â & , Tr. Cli. Ac. I, 18G9, 281 (). âI'cidi'KI!, Orii. t'al. I, 148.â , 291. Loxia amerkam, Bon. List, 1838. â Box. & Scmlkgki,, Moii. , .'>, tab. vi. â Nkwdkishy, Zoiil. California ami Oregon Uoutf, P. R. 1!. lU-p. VI, iv, 1857, 87. â Bon. & ,, Moil. Lox. .'â >, ]il. vi. Liixia ciirvirostrn, FousTKit, I'hil. Trans. LXII, 1772, No. 23. Aui). Biog. II, 1834, .Wn ; V, 511, 1>1. ixcvii. â In. Birds Am. Ill, 1841, 186, pi. cc. " Laviiipiisilhi, Illigek" (Bp.). "Loxia fituca, Vieillot" (Bp.). Sp. Ciiah. Old male dull red (the shade dideniifr in the specimen, sometimes brick-rod, sometimes vermilion, etc.); darkest across the back; wings and tail dark blackish- brown. YoiiMj male yellowish. Female dull above, each feather with a dusky centre; rump and crown bright greenisli-yellow. Beneath grayish ; tinged, especially on the sides of the body, with greenish-yellow, Fw'/»(7 olive above; whit- ish beneath, conspicuously streaked above and below with blackish. Male about G inches; wing, 3.;]0; tail, Northern America generally, com- ing southwanl in winter. Resident in the Alleghany and Rocky Mountains. Tliere are coiisicUnable diflerences both ill color and size, especially of bill, in sj)cciineiis from various ])arts of North America, and to a loss dt'oree from the same locality. While those of the Atlantic and Pacific coast have bills of much tlie same size, in skins from tiie mountains of California this niemlxir is much stouter; in this character ai)]iroachin<j tiie L. of Strickland, in wiiich the bill p
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