. 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. 76 SAXICOLIDiE, BLUEBIRDS. GEN. 5, 6. Family SAXICOLIDiE. Stone-chats and Bluebirds. Chiefly Old World ; represented in North America by one European straggler and the familiar bluebirds ; authors assign different limits to it, and frequently trans- pose the genera ; it might come under Turdidce without Yiolence. As usually constituted, it cont
. 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. 76 SAXICOLIDiE, BLUEBIRDS. GEN. 5, 6. Family SAXICOLIDiE. Stone-chats and Bluebirds. Chiefly Old World ; represented in North America by one European straggler and the familiar bluebirds ; authors assign different limits to it, and frequently trans- pose the genera ; it might come under Turdidce without Yiolence. As usually constituted, it contains upwards of one hundred species, com- monly referred to about a dozen genera. Like most other groups of Passeres, it has never been defined with precision, the family being known, conventionally, by the birds ornithologists put in it. The following birds have booted tarsi; oval nostrils; bristled rictus; rather short. Fig. 17. stone-chat; natural size. square Or emargiuate tail; long, pointed wings, w-ith very short spurious 1st quill, and the tip formed by the 2d, 3d and 4th V^ . 5. Genus SAXICOLA Bechstein. \ 'j Stone-chat. Wheat-ear. Adult:—ashy gray ; forehead, superciliary line and under parts white, latter often brow^nisb-tinted; upper tail coverts white, wings and tail black, latter with most of the feathers white for half their length ; line from uostril to eye, and broad band on side of bead, black ; bill and feet black; young everywhere cinnamon-brown, paler below ; wing 3J', tail 2J, tarsus 1; middle toe and claw f. Atlantic coast, astray from Europe via, Greenland; also, North Pacific Coast, from Asia. Cass., 111., 208, pi. 34; Bd., 220, and Rev. 61 cenanthe. )vo\^- V"'' 6. Genus SIALIA Swainson. *ju*More or less hliie: bill and feet black; ? grayish or brownish, with blue traces, especially on rump, wings and tail. Yoimg like the ?, but curiously spotted. 6-7 long, wing 3|-4J-, tail 2|—3|-, bill J- or less, tarsus |- or less. Eastern Bluebird.
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