. 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; 1887. 37f SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS. —PASSEBES— OSCINES. out its range, wiutcriiig nearly throughout; one of the common winter spari-oxvs of the Middle States. A very abunda
. 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; 1887. 37f SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS. —PASSEBES— OSCINES. out its range, wiutcriiig nearly throughout; one of the common winter spari-oxvs of the Middle States. A very abundant bird everywhere in shrubbery and tangle, garden, (jrchard, and park, as well as swanjp and brake. A hearty, sunny songster, whose quivering pipe is cjften tuned to the most dreary scenes ; the limpid notes being one of the few snatches of Ijird niehjdy tliat enlivens winter. Nesting various, in a bush near the ground, or a grass tuft, or on the ground : eggs i-6, ^o X (, greenish or grayish-white, endlessly varied with browns, from reddish to chocolate as surface-markings, and lavender or purplish shell-markings, either speckled, bhjtched, or clouded: no general effect describable in few words. Two or three briKids may be reared, 245. M. f. fal'lax, (Lat, fallax, fallaci(jus, deceitful: well named.) Gray Song Sparrow. Extremely siuiilar; the first and least departure from/f(,scMto, and scarcely ; tail rather hjnger; tone of upper parts paler, grayer ; the streaks not so obviously blackish in the centre and with less rufous; obsolete on rump. Scjuthern Rocky Mt. region and Great Basin. 248. M. t. heer'manni, (To Dr. A. L. Heer- mann.) Heekmakn'.s Song Sparrow. Sim- ilar : tone of upper parts grayish, the streaks numerous, broad, distinct, with little rufuus and mostly lacking pale edging, obsolete on the rump. Size of fasciata. California. 249. M. f. samue'lis. (To E, Samuels.) Samuels' Song Sparrow. Similar to the last, in dis- tinctness
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