. 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. Illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts. Birds. 150. FI1ING1LLID.^E, FINCHES, ETC. GEN. 82, 83. >- hi bars. Plains to tlio Pacific, replacing" cyanea; common. NuTT.,i, 478; AuD., iii, 100, pi. 171; Bd., 501; Coop., 233 abicena. Indigo bird. Adult ^J indigo-l)lue, intense and constant on the head, glancing greenish with different liglits on other parts ; wings and tail black- ish glos
. 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. Illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts. Birds. 150. FI1ING1LLID.^E, FINCHES, ETC. GEN. 82, 83. >- hi bars. Plains to tlio Pacific, replacing" cyanea; common. NuTT.,i, 478; AuD., iii, 100, pi. 171; Bd., 501; Coop., 233 abicena. Indigo bird. Adult ^J indigo-l)lue, intense and constant on the head, glancing greenish with different liglits on other parts ; wings and tail black- ish glossed with greenish-blue ; feathers around base of bill black : bill dark above, rather paler below, with a curious black stripe along the gonys. $ above jilain warm brown, l)olo\v whitey-brown, obsoletely streaky on the l)reast and sides, wing coverts and inner quills pale-edged, but not whitish; upper mandible Ijlackish, lower pale, with the black stripe just mentioned â this is a pretty' constant feature, and will distinguish the species from any of our little brown birds. Young g is like the 9 , but soon shows blue traces, and afterward is blue with white varieijation below. Size of the foregoinof. Eiistern United States, abundant, in fields and open woodland, in summer; a well meaning but rather weak vocalist. Wils., i, 100, pi. 6, f. 5 ; Nutt., i, 173; Auu., iii, 90, pi. 170; Bd., 505 cyanea. 82. Genus SPERMOPHILA Swainson. <^,^'^' Morelei's Finch. Top and sides of head, back of neck, broad band across up[)er part of breast, middle of back, wings and tail, black; chin, upper throat and neck all round, except behind, rump, and remaining under parts, white, the latter tinged with brownish-3'ello\v ; two wing-bands, and concealed leases of all the quills, also white. J olivaceous above, brownish- yellow below, wings and tail somewhat as in the ^ . Length about 4 inches; wing 2; tail less. Mexico to Texas. Bd., 507. /S. alblgnlarls Lawk., Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist., v, 1851, 124
Size: 1438px × 1737px
Photo credit: © The Book Worm / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1870, booksubjectbirds, bookyear1872
