. 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. Illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts. Birds. I'K^ r \K 142 FEINGILLIDiE, FINCHES, ETC. GEN. 73. Phila. 1866, p. 50. Specimens intermediate between oregonus and hyemalis have been instanced (Eidgway, Proc. Pliila. Acad. 1869, 126), and all these forms of the genus, in fact, seem to be nascent species, still unstable in character ; but the modification of the Junco stocli has passed the mer
. 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. Illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts. Birds. I'K^ r \K 142 FEINGILLIDiE, FINCHES, ETC. GEN. 73. Phila. 1866, p. 50. Specimens intermediate between oregonus and hyemalis have been instanced (Eidgway, Proc. Pliila. Acad. 1869, 126), and all these forms of the genus, in fact, seem to be nascent species, still unstable in character ; but the modification of the Junco stocli has passed the merely varietal stage. 73. Genus SPIZELLA Bonaparte. *.«* Small species, 5-6 inches long, with the long, broad-feathered, forked tail about equalling the rather pointed wings, witli no j'ellowish anywhere, and no streaks on tlie under parts tolien adult. * Species with the crown of the adult chestnut. Tree Sparroiv. Bill black above, yellow below; legs brown, toes black; no black on forehead; crown chestnut (in winter specimens the feathers usually skirted with gray), bordered by a grayish-white superciliary and loral line, and some vague chestnut marks on sides of head ; below impurely whitish, tinged with ashy anteriorly, washed with pale brownish posteriorly, the middle of the breast with an obscure dusky blotch; middle of Ijack boldly streaked with black, bay and flaxen ; middle and lesser wing coverts black, edged with bay and tipped with white, forming two conspicuous cross-bars; inner secondaries similarly variegated, other quills and tail feathers dusky, with pale edges. A handsome sparrow, the largest of the genus, at least (3 inches long; the wing and tail almost 3; al)undant in the United States in winter, flocking in shrubbery; breeds in mountainous and boreal regions. Wils., ii, 12, pi. 12, f. 3; Nutt., i, 2d ed. 572; Aud., ^ iii, 83, pi. 166; Bd.,472; Coop., 206 monticola. '^ Ghijpping Sparroiv. Chiphird or Oldppy. Ilairhird. Adult: bill black ; feet pale; crown che
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