. 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. Birds; Birds. SYLVICOLID^— SETOPHAOINJE: FLY-CATCHING WABBLEBS. 315 feathRred specimens have the head plain red, the cap sooty-blaok. There is much difference in the character of th
. 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. Birds; Birds. SYLVICOLID^— SETOPHAOINJE: FLY-CATCHING WABBLEBS. 315 feathRred specimens have the head plain red, the cap sooty-blaok. There is much difference in the character of the white on the nape. Length : wing ; tail ; tarsus ; 1) , quite different in shape from that of Setophaga. Yi)ung, newly fledged : Ash of upper parts much shaded with brown, and white of the under parts the same. Eump snowy-white, as in the adult, but the nuchal patch obscure or inappreciable. Wings and tail as in the adult, but with browner edgings. Black cap restricted to top of head, and of a dull sooty oast. Red' parts of the adult, including those parts of the side of the head which are occupied in the adult with the extension of the black cap, dull grayish-brown, tinged or irregularly slashed with red, especially on the forehead and throat. Bill light brown ; feet pale. Arizona, and doubtless New Mexico and Texas ; common in the pineries of Southern Arizona. 46. SETO'PHAGA. (Gr. tnjs, (tj/tos, ses, setos, an insect; (pdyo), phago, I eat.) Redstarts. Bill thoroughly Muscicapine in depression and breadth at base, where wider than high, straightness of superior and lateral outlines, and development of rictal bristles, which reach far beyond the nostrils. Wings pointed, not shorter than tail; 2d, 3d, and 4th quills nearly equal and longest; 1st intermediate betvi'een 4th and 5th. Tail rather long and fan-shaped, with broad flat feathers, widening at their ends. Feet slender, with long tarsi indistinctly scutellate externally, and short toes, the middl
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