. American ornithology, or, The natural history of the birds of the United States [microform]. Wilson, Alexander, 1766-1813; Wilson, Alexander, 1766-1813; Birds; Oiseaux. LOGGERHEAD S//X/XE. black pa88e, along the front, through each eye, half way down he «<ie of the neck; eye, dark hazel, sunk below tLeZ brow; ta,l cnncform, the fonr middle feathers whoUy black the four exterior ones on each side lipt more and more wUh wh,te to the outer one, which is nearly all white; wlXl⢠r parts whrte, and, m some specimens, both of male and emaks l"^, bLi: 'â¢''""" '""=
. American ornithology, or, The natural history of the birds of the United States [microform]. Wilson, Alexander, 1766-1813; Wilson, Alexander, 1766-1813; Birds; Oiseaux. LOGGERHEAD S//X/XE. black pa88e, along the front, through each eye, half way down he «<ie of the neck; eye, dark hazel, sunk below tLeZ brow; ta,l cnncform, the fonr middle feathers whoUy black the four exterior ones on each side lipt more and more wUh wh,te to the outer one, which is nearly all white; wlXl⢠r parts whrte, and, m some specimens, both of male and emaks l"^, bLi: 'â¢''""" '""=' " '''^ â¢'="« â '-- â â W» and 1 i^'!)" 'l?"]" i' â¢'''''l^'""y ''"'â ier both above and below r:;h:He:itstr -" 'â ^^"-^°'"-^^- "â : ^--^ ^^^ 54 of latitude and it attains that parallel only in the meSd an o^ h^ warm and sandy plains of the Saskatchewan, which eW r ZZ' ^'VT°" T"^'' *^^° *^^ densely VoXSrTbXS them and Hudson's Bay. Its manners are precisely similar tT those o Lit"' 'T''^"^;^^^?^ '^ grasshoppers, which are^xceedingVnumer- 0U8 Its nest was found in a bush of willows, built of twigs ofAHZeZ and dried grass, and lined with feathers ; the six inVlflT very pale yellowish gray, with many irregular aTdVonCr^ot 'oTdl green, interspersed with a few of smoke gray ^ toTt^'.T"* ?^ ""^^^^lli"g this species from several very closely allied IVr ^*^^f ^^/^^'^"t'^y. «"d from that to which it apprLhe Larest he Z. excuhtor of Europe, is due to Mr Swainson. The chief d stinct ve characters given by that naturalist are the small proportions o the bill the frontal feathers crossed by a narrow band of deep black the black stripe on the side of the head encircling the upper mTrgS^ ahe ev M ateral scales of the tarsus being divided in several pfeces, the shorter ngth of the wing when closed, and in the taU being mor graduat d the tot
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