. 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. Illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts. Birds. 144 FRINGILLIDiE, FINCHES, ETC. GEN. 74. ^ '1^'. Fig. 87. Black-chinnecl Sparrow. the tail (fully 3), which greatly exceeds the vfings (2J) ; the young lack the black on the face, and have the crown wa,shcd with ashy-brown, and the bill dusky above; but may be known by the length of the tail. Mexico, north to Colorado Valley; Cape St. Lucas. (S
. 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. Illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts. Birds. 144 FRINGILLIDiE, FINCHES, ETC. GEN. 74. ^ '1^'. Fig. 87. Black-chinnecl Sparrow. the tail (fully 3), which greatly exceeds the vfings (2J) ; the young lack the black on the face, and have the crown wa,shcd with ashy-brown, and the bill dusky above; but may be known by the length of the tail. Mexico, north to Colorado Valley; Cape St. Lucas. (S. atri- mentalis Couch. 8. cana Bd. ,S'. evura Coues, Ibis, 1865, 118, 104.) Bd., 476; Coues, Proc. Phila. Acad., 1866, 87; Coop., 210. . ateigularis. 74. Genus ZONOTRICHIA Swainson. *.j,*Embrachig oar largest and handsomest sparrows, 6t> to 71- inches long, the rounded wings and tail each 3 or more ; the under parts witli very few streaks, or none, the middle of the back streaked, the rump plain, the wings with two white cross-bars, and the head of the adults with black. White-throated Sparrow. Peabody-Urd. Adult $ with the crown black, divided by a median white stripe, l)ouuded by a white superciliary line and yeUoiv »pot from nostrils to eye ; below this a bhick stripe through the eye ; below this a maxillary black stripe bouuding the definitely pure white throat, sharply contrasted with the dark ash of the breast aud sides of the neck and head. Edge of loing yelloiv. Back continu- ously streaked with black, chestnut and fulvous- white ; rump ashy, uumarked. AVings much edged with bay, the white tips of the median aud greater coverts formiug two conspicuous bars ; quills and tail feathers duskjs with pale edges. Below, white, shaded with ashy-brown ou sides, the ash deeper and purer on the breast; bill dark, feet pale. ? , and immature birds, with the black of the head replaced by brown, the white of the throat less conspicuously contrasted with the duller ash of surrouu
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