. 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. 584 SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS.â GALLING â Fig. 401. â Head of Huffed Qrouee, nat. size. (Ad nftt. del. E. O.) in open country, from the Atlantic to the Easte
. 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. 584 SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS.â GALLING â Fig. 401. â Head of Huffed Qrouee, nat. size. (Ad nftt. del. E. O.) in open country, from the Atlantic to the Eastern foot-hills of the E. Mts;, in some latitudes, and now abounds on the prairies, from Illinois and Wisconsin, to Middle Kansas at least, if not found on the dryer plains westward. Its usual range includes Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Eastern half of Minnesota, Southeastern Dakota, Middle and Eastern Kansas and Nehraaka, Arkansas, and Eastern Texas. It is creeping westward â with the grain fields. Ten years ago it mixed with the sharp-tails about St. Paul's, Minne- sota, and up the Missouri to beyond Sioux City. The line of railroad is a favorite high- way for the birds. It has been almost ex- tirpated in the Middle and Eastern States, though it stUl occurs sparingly in isolated localities in New York, New Jersey, Penn- sylTania, Long Island, Nantucket, and Mar- tha's Vineyard, etc. Its abundance, and the excellence of its iiesh, render it an object of commercial importance. Though there may be little probability of its extinction, legisla- tion against its wanton or ill-timed destruction is a measure of obvious propriety. Eggs averaging shorter, rounder, and smaller than those of the sharp-tail; pale greenish-gray, with sometimes a glaucous bloom, usually unmarked, sometimes very minutely dotted with brown., 564. C. c. pallidicinc'ta. (Lat. palUdus, pale; cimctus, begirt.) Pale Pinnated GrKOusE. Above, the dark markings not in excess of the lighter markings, and rather brown
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