. Key to North American birds [microform] : 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. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. 854 SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS. —PASSEBES— Fin. 'J18. — I'iiie Fiiicli, reduced. (Slieppard del. Kicliulg K.) shorter. Tarsus about as long as middle too with claw j lateral toes of equal lengths, their claws reaching base of middle claw; hind claw shorter than its digit. Everywhere thickly streaked. No red. Sexes alike. Habit
. Key to North American birds [microform] : 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. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. 854 SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS. —PASSEBES— Fin. 'J18. — I'iiie Fiiicli, reduced. (Slieppard del. Kicliulg K.) shorter. Tarsus about as long as middle too with claw j lateral toes of equal lengths, their claws reaching base of middle claw; hind claw shorter than its digit. Everywhere thickly streaked. No red. Sexes alike. Habit gregarious. Nest in trees. Eggs speckled. 212. C. pi'nus. (Lat. pinus, a pine. Fig. 218.) Pine Linnet. Pine Finch. American Sis- kin. ^ 9, adult: Continuously streaked, above with dusky or dark olivaceous-brown and flaxen or whitisli, below M-ith dusky and whitish, tlie wliolo body usually suffused with yellowish, most evident on the rump. Wings dusky, tlie basal portion of all the quills and their inner webs for some distance suli)hury-yellow, usually showing as a spot just beyond tlie coverts, sometimes restricted and hidden. Outer webs of the quills also nanowly edged with yellow, separated from the basal yellow patch by a blackish interval. Tail dusky, its basal half yellow, and outer webs edged with yellow. Kill and feet brown. Length about ; extent ; wing ; tail Very variable in yellowness of tone, sometimes quite bright, again plain streaky, dusky and whitisli or flaxen; but the yellow colora- tiim of the wings and tail is distinctive. Young birds have the markings diflusc, with a general buft'y- browuish suttusion. N. Am. at large, breeding northerly, ranging in flocks in the winter through most of the U. S., abundant. Nest high in trees, preferably conifers; eggs pale greenish, speckled with brown ; about X Flight undulatory; voice querulous. 71. ASTRAGALI'NUS. (Gr. dorpayaXIvor, astragalinos, name of some bird.) American
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