. The bird book, illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds, also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs . are not easilydistinguishable from those of that species, but they areusually more sparsely specked and the markings more dis- Greenish blue tinct. Size X .75. Green-t.\ileu Towhee. Oreospiza chlorura. Range.—Western United States, chiefly westof the Rockies from Montana and Washingtonsouth to Mexico: wintering in southwesternUnited States. This handsome and entirely different plumag-ed species from any of the preceding would,from
. The bird book, illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds, also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs . are not easilydistinguishable from those of that species, but they areusually more sparsely specked and the markings more dis- Greenish blue tinct. Size X .75. Green-t.\ileu Towhee. Oreospiza chlorura. Range.—Western United States, chiefly westof the Rockies from Montana and Washingtonsouth to Mexico: wintering in southwesternUnited States. This handsome and entirely different plumag-ed species from any of the preceding would,from appearance, be better placed in the groupwith the White-throated Sparrow than its pres-ent position. It has a reddish brown crown,the remainder of the upperparts, wings and tail beinggreenish yellow; the throatis white, bordered abruptlywith gray on the breast andsides of head. These birdsplace their nests on theground. The nests are builtsimilarly to those of the east-ern Towhee, and the eggs; too. are similar, be-ing whitish, flnelj dotted and specked withreddish brown, the markings being most numer-ous around the larger end. Size .85 x .
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