. 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. Birds; Birds; 1887. L. arcto'a. (Gr. dpKTaos, arldoios, northera.) Pallas's Rosy Finch. Dusky-purplish; neck above pale yellowish; forehead and nasal feathers blackish; outer webs o
. 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. Birds; Birds; 1887. L. arcto'a. (Gr. dpKTaos, arldoios, northera.) Pallas's Rosy Finch. Dusky-purplish; neck above pale yellowish; forehead and nasal feathers blackish; outer webs of quills and wing-coverts, tail-covcrts, rump and crissuin silvery-gray, rosy-margiued. Kurile and Aleu- tian Islands; Siberia. Subgenerically different from any of the foregoing. ^;GI'0THUS. (Gr. Alylodos, nom. propr. Fig. 216.) Ked-poll Linnets. Bill small, short, straight, very acute, more or less compressed, the lateral outlines usually a little concave, those of culmen and gouys straight; commissure straight to the slight angulation. Base of bill thickly beset with a ruff of antrorse plumules, concealing the small nasal fossse and round Udstrils. Wings longer than tail, pointed by first 3 primaries. Tail rather long for this group, forked. Feet small and weak, but tarsi longer than middle toe without claw; lateral toes of equal lengths, their claw-tips falling beyond base of middle claw. (s, etc.) the pattern of coloration being the most avail- able distinction. Arboreal, gregarious, highly boreal finches of distributiim, breeding in high latitudes and alpine regions, roving south in winter in great flocks. The species are -pj^, â^^ â Det,iilsof â Enin- much involved ; we have four recognizable forms. thusi^E. honumanni, nnl. }. (From Elliot.) Ana/ysls of Species. Tiirsus as long as middle toe .ind claw. Heavily streaked below. Kump always fully streaked. Smaller: length about ; wing ; bill moderate (N. Am. at large) linaria 207 Larger:
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