. 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 . eaden-gray, with a slight oliveshade; the wings and tail rather purer and darker. Below, dull ashy-whitish, without anyrusty wash on the sides. No black on the head. Extreme forehe
. 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 . eaden-gray, with a slight oliveshade; the wings and tail rather purer and darker. Below, dull ashy-whitish, without anyrusty wash on the sides. No black on the head. Extreme forehead and sides of the headobscurely speckled with whitish. No decided markings anywhere. In size rather less thanL. bicolor; length usually under ; wing and tail under Young quite like the adults,which closely resemble the young of X. bicolor; but in the latter there are traces at least of thereddish of the sides or black of the frontlet, or both; the general coloration is purer, with moredistinction between the upper and under parts, and the size is rather greater. The speckledappearance of the sides of the head and lores of L. inomatus is peculiar. Southwestern UnitedStates, abundant, resident. The typical form Californian; a rather larger, stouter-biUed form,lighter leaden-gray with scarcely any olive shade, from Utah, Arizona, etc., is L. i. griseus,Ridgw., Pr. U. 8. Nat. Mus., v., 1882, p. PABIBM— PABINM : TITMICE. 265 • 43. li. atrocristatns. (Lat. a adult: Plumbeous, with a shade of oUve, the wings and tail rather darkerand purer, edged with the color of the back, or a more hoary shade of the same. Beneath, dullashy-whitish, especially on the breast, the abdomen whiter, the sides chestnut-brown as in Extreme forehead and lores whitish; entire crest glossy black. Bill blackish-plum-beous; feet plumbeou^. , Small: length about ; wing and tail Valley of the RioG-rande. Nest in natural cavities of trees, usually including cast snake-ski
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