. 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. bill and no ash on head, averages a little smaller, and is much duller colored; brown pai-ts of a grayish cast; rosy reduced or almost extinguished, chiefly traceable
. 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. bill and no ash on head, averages a little smaller, and is much duller colored; brown pai-ts of a grayish cast; rosy reduced or almost extinguished, chiefly traceable on rump and wing- coverts ; abdomen scarcely tinted, and quills and tail-feathers with whitish instead of rosy edg- ings. Wing , averaging little over ; tail , average Colorado and New Mexico, breeding up to 12,000 feet; a curious southerly local race of the genus. ; li. tephroco'tis. (Gr. Tf(l)p6s, tephros, gray; ovs, mros, ous, otos, the ear. Pig. 214.) Swain- SOn's Rosy Pinch. Sexes similar. Adult ^, in breeding plumage or nearly s(j : BiU and feet black. Nasal plumules white. Frontlet black; rest of pileum hoary-ash, not desceudiug bolow level of eyes and upper border of " _. aurioulars (for when the ash invades the sides of head to any extent, the bird takes the first step toward Utoralis, in which the head is extensively hooded in ash). General color, sides of head in- cluded, chocolate or liver-brown of vary- ing intensity, many feathers skirted with gray or whitish, especially the inter- scapulars, which also have dusky centres, and inchning to blackish on chin and throat. Hinder parts of the body above and below, moluding tail-coverts, rich Fig-214.—Rosy Finch, reduced. (Sheppard del. Nichols so.) rosy or carmine red, this color due to broad edgings of the dusky feathers of these parts. Wings and tail blackish, the vidng-coverts and primaries edged with rosy, showing nearly continuous in the closed wing; edgings of inner seco
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