. A history of North American birds [microform] : land birds. Birds -- North America; Ornithology -- North American; Oiseaux -- Amérique du Nord; Ornithologie -- Amérique du Nord. Pipilo maculatus, var. oregonus, Bell. OBEOON OBOITND BOBIN. Pipilo orerjonus. Bell, Ann X. Y. Lye. V, 1852, ti (Oregon). — B(>S'AP. Comptes Rendus, XXXVII, Dec. 1853, 922. — Ib. Notes Oru. Delattre, 1854, 22 (same as prec.).— Bairp, Birds X. Am. 1858, 513. — Loan, Pr. R. A. Inst. IV, 64, 120 (British Col). — Cuoi'EU & SucKLEY, 200. —CuoPEK, Oru. Cal. I, 241. Fringilla ardica, AuD. Orn. Biog. V, 1839, 49, pi.
. A history of North American birds [microform] : land birds. Birds -- North America; Ornithology -- North American; Oiseaux -- Amérique du Nord; Ornithologie -- Amérique du Nord. Pipilo maculatus, var. oregonus, Bell. OBEOON OBOITND BOBIN. Pipilo orerjonus. Bell, Ann X. Y. Lye. V, 1852, ti (Oregon). — B(>S'AP. Comptes Rendus, XXXVII, Dec. 1853, 922. — Ib. Notes Oru. Delattre, 1854, 22 (same as prec.).— Bairp, Birds X. Am. 1858, 513. — Loan, Pr. R. A. Inst. IV, 64, 120 (British Col). — Cuoi'EU & SucKLEY, 200. —CuoPEK, Oru. Cal. I, 241. Fringilla ardica, AuD. Orn. Biog. V, 1839, 49, pi. cccxciv. (not of Swainsox). Pipilo ardica, Aud. Syn. 1839, 123. — Ib. Birds Am. Ill, 1841, 164, pL cxciv. Sp. Char. Upper .surface generally, with the head and neck all round to the upper part of the breast, deep hlack; the rest of lower j)arts pure white, except the oides of the body and under tail-coverts, Avhich are light chestnut- brown ; the latter rather paler. The outer webs of scapulars (usually edged narrowly with black) and of the superincumbent feathers of the back, with a rounded white spot at the end of the outer webs of the greater and middle coverts; the outer edges of the innermost tertials white; no white at the base of the primaries. Outer web of the first tail-feather black, occasionally white on the extreme edge ; the outer three with a white tip to the inner web. Outer quill shorter than ninth, or scarcely equalling the secondaries; fourth quill longest; fifth scarcely shorter. Length, ; wing, ; tail, Female with the black replaced by a more brownish tinge. Claws much as in eryihrophthalmus. Hab. Coasts of Oregon and Wtishington Territories, south to San Francisco, California. Melting eastward and south into megaJonifx. West Humboldt Mountains and Northern Sierra Nevada. Comparing tliis race with arcticns, we do not find mnch difference in the wliite of the scapular region, except that the white marks here, as elsewhere on the
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