. 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 . e., crested; crinis, hair. Fig. 284.) GreatCrested Flycatcher. ^ 9 ? adult: Decidedly olivaceous above, a little browner on head,where the feathers have dark centres; throat and fo
. 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 . e., crested; crinis, hair. Fig. 284.) GreatCrested Flycatcher. ^ 9 ? adult: Decidedly olivaceous above, a little browner on head,where the feathers have dark centres; throat and fore breast ])ure dark ash ; rest of underparts bright yellow, the two colors meeting abruptly ; primaries margined on both edges withchestnut; secondaries and coverts edged and tipped with yellowish-white; tail with all thefeathers but the central pair chestnut on the whole of the inner web (excepting perhaps a verynarrow space next the shaft) ; outer web of outer feathers edged with yellowish ; middlefeathers, outer webs of the rest, and wings except as stated, dusky-brown. The foregoingphrases are intended to be chiefly antithetical to those used in describing cinerescens, 375. Other diagnostic points are: bill dark but not quite black, pale at base below :stout and comparatively short, hardly or not as long as tarsus, the latter perhaps never . TYRANNID^—TYRANNINJE: TYBANT FLYCATCHERS. 435. Fig 284.— Great Crested Flycatcher,reduced. (Sheppard, del. Nichols sc.) the olive back, ash throat, and ytUow bt-lly scvoi-ally pure in color; all tail-feathers but middlepair so exteusively rufous ou iuner webs that a mere line, if any, of fuscous persists nextthe shaft (compare erythrocercus and cooperi), and this fuscous line, if any, runuinij of samenarrowness to ends of the feathers (compare cinerescens) ;never more tlian a trace of rufous on outer webs. Veryyoung birds have rufous skirting of many feathers, in ad-dition to the chestnut above described, but this so
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