. 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. COEVID^, CROWS AND JAYS. GEN. 96, 97. 163 %^. Var. FLORiDANUs Bd., 5G8, represents the greater relative size of the bill and feet shown by many birds of Florida and corresponding latitudes. Var. CAuiuNus Bd., 569 ; Coop., 285, is a smaller race from the Pacific Coast; maritime ; piscivorous ; voice said to be different. Fish Croio. Small; 14-16
. 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. COEVID^, CROWS AND JAYS. GEN. 96, 97. 163 %^. Var. FLORiDANUs Bd., 5G8, represents the greater relative size of the bill and feet shown by many birds of Florida and corresponding latitudes. Var. CAuiuNus Bd., 569 ; Coop., 285, is a smaller race from the Pacific Coast; maritime ; piscivorous ; voice said to be different. Fish Croio. Small; 14-16 inches long; wing 10-11; tail 6-7; tarsus about equal to middle toe alone; a bare space about the gape? South Atlantic and Gulf States, north to New England, common; maritime, piscivorous. Apparently a different bird, as it presents some tangible dis- tinctions, although constantly associated with the last. Wils., v, 27, pi. 37, f. 2; NuTT., i, 216; Aud., iv, 94, pi. 226; Bd., 571. ossifragus. 96. Genus PICICORVUS Bonaparte. V 5 0 Clarice's Oroiv. Gray, often bleaching on the head ; wings glossy black, most of the secondaries broadly tipped with white ; tail white, the central feathers black ; bill aud feet black. Aljout a foot long ; wing 7^-8 inches ; tail 4^-5 ; bill If ; nasal feathers very short for this family ; claws very large and much curved. Coniferous belt of the West, N. to Sitka, S. to Mexico, E. to Nebraska, W. to the Coast Range; the American representa- tive of the European nutcracker, Nucifraga caryocafactes; abundant, imper- fectly gregarious. Wils., iii, 29, pi. 20 ; Nutt., i, 2d ed. 251; Aud., iv, 127, pi. 235; Bd., 573; Coop., 289 Fi(i. 101. Clarke's Crow. t^ 97. Genus GYMNOKITTA Maximilian. - Blue Grow. Dull blue, very variable in intensity, nearly uniform, but brightest on the head, fading on the belly; the throat with whitish streaks; wings dusky on the inner webs; bill and feet black ; $ 11-12 ; wing about 6 ; tail about 4J ; bill Ij^; 9
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