. 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 . eyes; thissooty color passinginsensibly on rumpand breast into dullblue. Wings andtail richer blue,crossed with numer-ous black bars, noton secondary cov-erts. Bill and feetblack.
. 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 . eyes; thissooty color passinginsensibly on rumpand breast into dullblue. Wings andtail richer blue,crossed with numer-ous black bars, noton secondary cov-erts. Bill and feetblack. Young morefuliginous ; wing-bars faint if notwanting. Size of theEastern Blue Jay,or rather larger. Pa-cific coast region,from portions of Cal-ifornia tlirougli Ore-gon, Washington, and British Cine belts, as of the (oast and CascaLvYNARn, Orn. and (>()1. Apr. 1880, j). 50, Van-couver Island, is rejected as untenable by the .V. 0. U. Committee: see Auk, .Ian. 18!>0, p. (15and p. 91.). 496 SYSTEMA TIC SYNOPSIS. — PA SSERES — OSCIXES. C. s. annectens. (Lat. onnedens, annexini^.) Black-headed Jay. This name has beengiven to specimens directly connecting stelleri and macrolopha. General tone of the former jquite blackish, short-crested, with plain wing-coverts; but blue frontal streaks and whitish eye-patch of the latter. N. Rocky Mts., U. S., W. to eastern Oregon and Washington, S. to theWahsatch range, N. to B. Col.; originally named by Baiid in 1874, but disallowed by theA. O. U. Committee for some years before it was recognized as entitled to the place it hadcontinuously occupied in the 2d and 3d eds. of the Key. C. s. frontalis. (Lat. frontalis, pertaining to frons, the forehead.) Blue-froxted Jay. An offset from stelleri; sooty color rather brownish than blackish; blue of dif-ferent shade on body from the deep indigo on wings and tail; whole crest glossed with bluish,and conspicuous blue streaks on forehead; no whitish eye-patches; wing-coverts obs
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