. 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. PICARI^, PICARIAN BIRDS. GEX. 111. 177 111. Genus PYROCEPHALUS Gould. Vermilion Flycatcher. <J pure dark brown; wings and tail l)lackLsli with sliglit pale edgings; the full globular crest, and all the under parts, scarlet; bill and feet black. $ dull brown, including the little crested crown ; l)elow, white, tinged with red or reddish in so
. 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. PICARI^, PICARIAN BIRDS. GEX. 111. 177 111. Genus PYROCEPHALUS Gould. Vermilion Flycatcher. <J pure dark brown; wings and tail l)lackLsli with sliglit pale edgings; the full globular crest, and all the under parts, scarlet; bill and feet black. $ dull brown, including the little crested crown ; l)elow, white, tinged with red or reddish in some places, the l)reast with slight dusky streaks. Immature $ shows gradation between the characters of both sexes; the red is some- times rather oransje. 5i—6 : wino; SJ ; tail 2J-. Valleys ° -' o-±' i/"i Fig. 114. Vennilion Fly- ot the Rio Grande and Colorado, and southward. Cass., catcher. 111. 127, pi. 17; Bd., 201; Coop., 333. . eubineus var. mexicanus. Order PICAEIll. Picarian Birds. This is a miscellaneous assortment (in scientific language, " a poljmiorpliic group,") of birds of highly diversified forms, grouped together more because tliey differ from other birds in one way or another, than on account of their resemblance to each other. As commonly received, this order includes all the Iiisessores down to those with a cored bill (parrots and birds of prey). Excluding the parrots, which constitute a strongly marked natural group, of equal value with those called orders in this work, the Picarke correspond to the Strisores and Scanso7-es of authors, including, however, some that are often referred to Claina- tores. This " order" Scansores, or Zygodcwtyli, containing all the birds that have the toes arranged in pairs, two in front and two behind (and some that have not), is one of the most unmitigated inflictions that ornithology has suffered ; it is as thoroughly unnatural as the divisions of my artificial key to our genera. As a
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