. 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 . 332 SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS. — PASSEBES— OSCINES. 171. olive outside, with whitish inside; bUl dusky above, pale below; feet leaden-blue; eyes red:no dusky maxillary streaks; no appare
. 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 . 332 SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS. — PASSEBES— OSCINES. 171. olive outside, with whitish inside; bUl dusky above, pale below; feet leaden-blue; eyes red:no dusky maxillary streaks; no apparent spurious quill. Little different with age, sex, orseason ; young and fall birds the brightest colored, especially on the sides, crissum, and liningof wings. Large; length ; extent ; wing ; tail ; billabout ; tarsus E. N. Am.; N. to Hudsons Bay and even Greenland; W. some-times to Utah and Washington Territory; breeds throughout its U. S. range, and winters fromthe Gulf States southward. In most places the most abundant species of the genus, in wood-land ; a voluble, tireless songster. V. flavivlridis. (Lat. fiavus, yellow ; viridis, green. Fig. 190.) Yellow-green Green-let. Very similar to the last; more yellowish below ; under wing- and taU-coverts decidedlyyellow; sides of body decidedly greenish-yellow. Texas and southward. 172. 173. Fig. 190. — , nat. size. (From Baird.) Fig. 191. — V. a. barbatulus, nat size. (From Baird.) V. altiloquus barbatulus. (Lat. alius, high, loquus, speaking; barbatulus, having a littlebeard. Fig. 191.) Black-whiskered Greenlet. Whip-tom-kelly. Similar to oUva-ceus; distinguished by a narrow dusky maxillary line, or line of spots, on each side of thechin; biU longer, ; proportion of quills slightly different (see the figs.). Cuba,Bahamas, and casually in Florida. [V. altiloquus is the West Indian stock-form.]V. philadelphicus. (Gr. ^tXew, phileo, I love; abe
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