. 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 . Fie. 196. — V. solitcmus, nat. size. (From Baird.) 334 SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS. —PASSEBES— OSCINES. »79. V. s. plumbeus. (Lat. plumheus, lead-colored. Fig. 197.) Plumbeous
. 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 . Fie. 196. — V. solitcmus, nat. size. (From Baird.) 334 SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS. —PASSEBES— OSCINES. »79. V. s. plumbeus. (Lat. plumheus, lead-colored. Fig. 197.) Plumbeous , rather brighter and more ashy on the crown, but without marked contrast,faintly glossed with olive on rump; a conspicuous white line from nostril to and around eye, and below this a dusky loral stripe; below. pure white, sides of neck and breast shadedwith the color of the back, flanks, axillarsand erisgum with a mere trace of olivaceous,or none; wings and tail dusky, with con-spicuous pure white edgings and of soUta/rius or larger. Length ; extent ; wing ;tail ; bill ; tarsus ; middle toei as long as the 2d quiU. Central Plains A large stout 180. Fig. 197. -V. , nat. size. (From Baiid.) the same; spurious quill exposed about , to the Pacific, U. S., and especially Southern Eocky Mts., where it is abundant,species, a near ally of soUta/rius, but nearly all the olivaceous of that species replaced byplumbeous, and the yellowish by white, so that it is a very different-looking bird. Pallspecimens, however, are more olivaceous, and the bird evidently grades closely up to viciniop. (Lat. vicinus, neighboring.) GtEAY Greenlet. With the general appearanceof a small faded specimen of pliimbeus: leaden-gray, faintly olivaceous on the rump, belowwhite, with hardly a trace of yellowish on the sides; wings and tail hardly edged with white ;no markings about head except a whitish eye-r
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