. 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 . Fig. 196. — V. solitarius, nat. size. (From Baird.) 334 SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS. —PASSEBES— 119. V. s. plumbeus. (Lat. plmnheus, 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 . Fig. 196. — V. solitarius, nat. size. (From Baird.) 334 SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS. —PASSEBES— 119. V. s. plumbeus. (Lat. plmnheus, lead-colored. Fig. 197.) Plumbeous , rather brighter and more ashy^^ the crown, but witlaiut marked contrast,faintly glossed with olive on rump; a conspicuOTS white line from nostril to and around eye, and below this a dusky loral stripe ; below,pure white, sides of neck and breast shaded with the color of the back, flanks, axillarsand crissum with a mere trace of olivaceous,or none; wings and tail dusky, with con-spicuous pure white edgings and of soUtarius or larger. Length ; extent : wing ;FIG. , nat. size. (From Baird.) ^^^-^ ; biU , tarsus ; middle toe the same; spurious quill exposed about , i as long as the 2d quill. Central Plainsto the Pacific, U. S., and especially Southern Rocky Mts., where it is abundant. A large stoutspecies, a near ally of solitarms, but nearly all the olivaceous of that species replaced byplumbeous, and the yellowish by
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