. Handbook of birds of the western United States including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande valley . lly exposed ; tail more than3 three times as long as tarsus; under parts spotted inFig. 599. young. KEY TO SPECIES. 1. Outer tail feather with distinct white spot at tip of inner web ; colors darker migratoria, p. 472. 1. Outer tail feather without distinct white tip to inner web ; colors paler. propinqua, p. 472. 761. Merula migratoria {Linn.). Robin. Like M. m. propinqua., but outer tail feather with a distinct white spot at tip of inner web ;anterior portion
. Handbook of birds of the western United States including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande valley . lly exposed ; tail more than3 three times as long as tarsus; under parts spotted inFig. 599. young. KEY TO SPECIES. 1. Outer tail feather with distinct white spot at tip of inner web ; colors darker migratoria, p. 472. 1. Outer tail feather without distinct white tip to inner web ; colors paler. propinqua, p. 472. 761. Merula migratoria {Linn.). Robin. Like M. m. propinqua., but outer tail feather with a distinct white spot at tip of inner web ;anterior portion ofback usually some-what clouded withblack in fully adultbirds. Length: 9-10,wing , , stribution. —•Breeds from Alaskaand the arctic coastssoutheast throughHudson Bay regionand the Rocky Moun- From Biological hurvey, U. S. Dept. o± Agriculture. ^^j^^ ^^ Kansas, Vir- Iig- 600. ginia, and the Atlan- tic coast; winters from southern Canada southward. Nest and eggs. — Like those of M. m. propinqua. Food. — Crickets, grasshoppers, and otlier noxious insects, seeds, wildfruit, and 761a. M. m. propinqua Bidgw. Western — Head, wings, and tail blackish; rest of upper parts slaty 1 A specimen of Merula confinis was taken by Mr. Emerson at Haywards, Cal., in Janu-ary, 1882. (Zoe, i. 46.) THRUSHES, SOLITAIRES, BLUEBIRDS, ETC. 473 gray, black of hind neck sharply contrasting with gray of anterior part ofback ; outer tail feather without distinct white tip, often with no white;throat black, streaked with white ; rest of under parts, except tail coverts,rufous; in female paler and duller. In winter : upper parts tinged withbrown ; under parts with feathers edged with white. Young : under partsspotted ; upper parts streaked with white. Young in first winter : headand neck brownish gray, like upper parts; rufous of breast paler, moreolivaceous. Length: 10-11, wing , tail , bill . Distribution. — B
Size: 2088px × 1196px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, bookidhandbook, booksubjectbirds
