. 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 . FRINGILLID^, FINCHES, ETC. GEN. 63. 133 Var. jiEXiCANA, with the upper parts continuously black, and the black of thecrown extending below the ejes, enclosing the olive under eye-lid. Mexicanborder and southward. Bd., 423; Coop.,169. This bird looks quite unlike typicalpsaltria, but the gradation through is perfect; and mexicana, more-over, leads directly into var. cohimbiana, aCentral American
. 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 . FRINGILLID^, FINCHES, ETC. GEN. 63. 133 Var. jiEXiCANA, with the upper parts continuously black, and the black of thecrown extending below the ejes, enclosing the olive under eye-lid. Mexicanborder and southward. Bd., 423; Coop.,169. This bird looks quite unlike typicalpsaltria, but the gradation through is perfect; and mexicana, more-over, leads directly into var. cohimbiana, aCentral American form in which the tail-spots are very small or wanting. Thefemales of these several varieties cannot bedistinguished with certainty. Ous. Chrysomitris magellanica, a SouthAmerican species with the whole head black,is said bj Audubon to have been taken in Kentucky, where probablj it will not be found again. Chn/Knmitris stankiji andC. yarreUii, of Audubon, were apparently cage-birds, improperly attributed toNorth Fig. 80. Mexican Gokllinch. ™=Ja
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