. 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. ICTERIDJE: AMEBIC AN STARLINGS; BLACKBIIWS, ETC. 399 parts shading from color of tho upper through grayish-olivo and olive-gray to sordid whitish, purest on the middle of the belly. Inner webs of wing-([uills fuscous ; tail the same, but nmro glossed with greenish, and sometimes sliowiiig traces of crosswise watering with darker w
. 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. ICTERIDJE: AMEBIC AN STARLINGS; BLACKBIIWS, ETC. 399 parts shading from color of tho upper through grayish-olivo and olive-gray to sordid whitish, purest on the middle of the belly. Inner webs of wing-([uills fuscous ; tail the same, but nmro glossed with greenish, and sometimes sliowiiig traces of crosswise watering with darker waves, as often seen in the song sparrow. Wliole bend and lining of wing bright clear yellow. Crown like back, with two broad stripes of dull rufous from nostrils to nape; a similar rufous stripe behind eye, scunetimos traccalde ])ast eye to the lore, then defining a superciliary line of light olive-gray or whitish. A whitish eye-ring. Tpper mandible light brown, lower drying yellowish; feet pale. Length O.^) (in't , as in Baird) ; extent ,).(K); wing ; ttiil the same; bill ; tarsus (l.'.i;); middle toe and daw 9 said to ditler immaterially, and young to lack the head-stripes. Young, first idumage : Above, mixed hmwu and olive-tawny; wings brown, edged with olive, the coverts edged and tip|)ed with tawny ; bri st like back ; belly tawny. Texa.^, in l^owiT Hio (irande Valley. Iniiabits .shrubbery, e'.aparral, and close cover of all kinds, where it is dlHicult to discover, owing to its (juiet ways .vnd greenish tints. Keeps near the groinid, but builils a domed nest of twigs and grasses in bushes and low trees; two broods are reared in May-June, and Eggs 2-4, pure white, unmarked, averaging X , but frtmi by 0.( 17. Family ICTERID-^ : American Starlings: Blackbirds, etc. Cultrirostral Osciiies with 9 prima- ries. — A family of moderate extent, confined to America, where it repre- sents the Stitniuhc, or Star
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