. A history of North American birds [microform] : land birds. Birds -- North America; Ornithology -- North American; Oiseaux -- Amérique du Nord; Ornithologie -- Amérique du Nord. — THE FLNCIIES. ni This y the large swollen bill, with its curved culiiieu ; tiie huge strung feet and claws; the long wings, a little huiger than the tail, and with the ter- tiids as long as tlie primaries ; the first tour«|uills aliout eijual, and aliriii)tly longest; the tail short and graduated. The only grou]) of North American Spizcllina-, with the tertials ei^ual to the i)rimaries in tlie closed w
. A history of North American birds [microform] : land birds. Birds -- North America; Ornithology -- North American; Oiseaux -- Amérique du Nord; Ornithologie -- Amérique du Nord. — THE FLNCIIES. ni This y the large swollen bill, with its curved culiiieu ; tiie huge strung feet and claws; the long wings, a little huiger than the tail, and with the ter- tiids as long as tlie primaries ; the first tour«|uills aliout eijual, and aliriii)tly longest; the tail short and graduated. The only grou]) of North American Spizcllina-, with the tertials ei^ual to the i)rimaries in tlie closed wing, is Passe re alas. Til is, however, has a dift'erently formed bill, weaker feet, the caiamosp,za buoior. inner i)rimaries longer and UKU-e regularly graduated, the tail-feathers more acute and shorter, and the plumage streaked brownish and white instead of Calamospiza bicolor, Bonap. LABK BUNTIHO; WHITE-WINGED BLACKBIBO. FrhujiUa bicolor, T(.\vnseni», J. A. N. Sc. Ph. VII, 1837, 189.— Ir. Narrative, 1839, 346. — Aui). Orn. Biog. V, 1839, 19, \\. Cdhmtoapiza bicolor, lJt>NAP. List, 1838. — In. )eetus, , — Baiud, Binls N. Am. 1858, 49i>. — Hep:um. X, o, tU>r)idnUna bicolor, All). Synopsis, 1839, 130. — In. Birds Am. Ill, 1841, 195, pi. cci. — Max. Cab. J. VI, 1858, 347. — Coopek, Orn. Cal. I, 225. Dolkhonyz bicolor, NUTTALL, Manual, I, (2d ed.,) 1840, 203. Sp. CifAR. Male entirt'iy black; a Inroad band on the wing (covorinc^ the whole of the greater covert'?), with the outer edges of the quills and tail-fcatliers, white. Length, about ; wing, ; tail, ; tarsus, ; bill al>ove, .60. Female pale brown, streaked with darker above; l)cneath white, spotted and streaked rather sparsely with black on the breast and sides. Throat nearly innnaculate. A maxillary stripe of black, bordered above by white. Region around the eye, a faint stripe above it. and an obsciu'e crescent back of the ear-coverts,
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