. 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; 1887. CAPB,IMULGII)2EâCAFjRIMULGIN2E: TRUE GOATSUCKERS. 45^ frosted pattern of colciratiou. Markiugs of crown transverse; priniaries barreil with black' ami tawny. Siz
. 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; 1887. CAPB,IMULGII)2EâCAFjRIMULGIN2E: TRUE GOATSUCKERS. 45^ frosted pattern of colciratiou. Markiugs of crown transverse; priniaries barreil with black' ami tawny. Size small. Sexes alike. Note dissyllabic. Eggs white. 398. P. nut'talli. (To Thos. Nuttall.) Nuttall's Poor-will. (J?, adult: Assunjing tlie upper parts of a beautiful bronzy-gray ground color, this is elegantly frosted over \\'itli suft silver-gray, and watered in wavy cross-pattern with black, these black double crescents enlarg- ing to herring-bone marks on the scapulars and inner (piills. Four middle tail-feathers patterned after the back; others with firmer black bars on motley brown ground, and slmrt wjiile lipi-. Prhnaries and longer secondaries bright tawny, with pretty regular black bars, and inaitili-d tips (the half-opened wing viewed from below is cmdonsly like that of the shoit-careil owl.) A largo firm sUky-white throat-bar. Under parts grounded in blackish-brown, gi\ing «'ay behind through oehrey with dark bars to nearly uniforuj ochrey. It is impossible in words to give an idea of the artistic blending of the colors in this elegant little night-jar. The sexes \ '. Fig. 295. - Night-liawk, or Bull-bat, 3 nat. size. (From Brelim. Bill too bristly.) scarcely difi'er; specimens before me marked ? have as purely white as the $, but the tail-tips are shorter and tinged with tawny. Length ; extent ; wing about . â tail or less; tarsus, or middle toe without claw, Plains to the , U. S. and southward, abundant. Note of t
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