. 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, inclusive of Greenland and lower California, with which are incorporated General ornithology: an outline of the structure and classification of birds; and Field ornithology, a manual of collecting, preparing, and preserving birds. Birds; Birds; 1887. 246 SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS. â PASSEBESâ Fig. lis. â Wood Thriisli ( T. mnstelinux}, nat. size. (Ad. nat. del. E. C.) to Mexico, abundant, migratory; accid
. 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, inclusive of Greenland and lower California, with which are incorporated General ornithology: an outline of the structure and classification of birds; and Field ornithology, a manual of collecting, preparing, and preserving birds. Birds; Birds; 1887. 246 SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS. â PASSEBESâ Fig. lis. â Wood Thriisli ( T. mnstelinux}, nat. size. (Ad. nat. del. E. C.) to Mexico, abundant, migratory; accidcutal in Mass., N. J., and Lone: Island. A beautiful and very distinct species, representing the subgenus Hesperocichla (r4r. fanepos, hesjJeros, Lat. vesperus, western, and Ki'xXa, kichla, a thrush). Nest in bnslies, of twigs, grasses, mosses, ami lichens ; eggs X , light greenish-blue, speckled with dark brown. 6. T. musteli'nns. (Lat. mustelinus, weasel-like; i. e., tawny in color; mustela, a weasel. Fig. AVoOD Thkush. <J ?, adult: Upper parts, including the surface of the closed wings, tawny-brown, purest and deepest on the head, shading insensibly into olivaceous on the rump and tail. Below, pure white, faintly tinged on the breast with buff, and everywhere, excepit on the tliroat, middle of belly, and crissum, marked M'ith numerous large, well-deiiued, rounded or subtriangular blackish spots. Inner webs and ends oi quills fuscous, with a white or buffy idgiug toward the base. Greater under wing-coverts iiiustly white. Auriculars sharply streaked with dusky and white. Bill blackish-brown, with ilesh- colored or yellowish base. Feet like this part of the bUl. Length ; extent about ; wing ; tail ; bill ; tarsus ; middle toe and claw less. Young; Speckled or strealved above with pale yellnvish or whitish, espe- cially noticeable as triangular spots on the wing- coverts. But these speedily disappear, when a plumage s
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