. 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. Fio. 251. —Hill of Cuirncii, iiat. size. (A<liiut. () (J, but the white siuits reduced or obsolete. Bill light-eolored bi'low. lu the ^ the ten- dency is to j)eriectly black head, back, tail, and wings, the two former juire and continuous, the two latter boldly spotted with white as described ; but such faultless full d
. 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. Fio. 251. —Hill of Cuirncii, iiat. size. (A<liiut. () (J, but the white siuits reduced or obsolete. Bill light-eolored bi'low. lu the ^ the ten- dency is to j)eriectly black head, back, tail, and wings, the two former juire and continuous, the two latter boldly spotted with white as described ; but such faultless full dress is not often seen. This stylish AVestern representative of the elegant rose-breast is common in suitable woodland from the Plains to the l*adged, the former with whitey-brown cross-bars; bill and feet brown. Young $ at first lik«> 9 t when changing, shows coufuseil brown ami blue; after- ward, blue inteiTUitted \vith white be- low. IT. S., from Atlantic to Pacific, but southerly; rarely N. to Massachu- setts, and even Maine ; winters wholly cxtralimital; breeds throughout its U. S. range. Its limit of northward migra- tion with regularity and in any numbers is about the latitude of Philadelphia. Fig. 252.—BiuoGrosbeak, reduced. (Slicpiiard del. Klcbolssc.) \est ill bushcs, vines or Other shrub- bery, sometimes a low tree, of grasses and rootlets; eggs 1—5, averaging X , palest bluish, normally unspotted ; quite like those of the indigo-bird, but larger. 91. PASSERI'NA. (Lat. j)f».ssmn«s, sparrow-like: not well applied to these " matchless ;) Painted Finches. Bill relatively smaller and weaker than in the , with less conspicuous angulation, the ciilmen regularly a little convex, the gonys nearly .straight. Outer 4 primaries longest; 1st usually between 4th and 5th, the latter much shorter. Tail little shorter than wing, about even or emarginate. Feet moderate; tarsus about ecpial to the middle too and claw; lateral toes about equal t
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