. 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 . f quills slightlydifferent. (See the figs.) Cuba, Bahamas, andcasually in Florida. V. altiloquus is the WestIndian stock-form, to which I have hithertoFig. 218. - V. c. barbatulus,
. 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 . f quills slightlydifferent. (See the figs.) Cuba, Bahamas, andcasually in Florida. V. altiloquus is the WestIndian stock-form, to which I have hithertoFig. 218. - V. c. barbatulus, nat. size. (From Baird.) referred our Whip-tom-kelly ; but it now ap-pears to be itself but a form of the South American V. calidris ; hence the change of name fromformer eds. of the Key. V. olivaceus. (Lat. olivaceus, olive-colored. Fig. 219.) Red-eyed Greenlet. ThePreacher. Above, olive-green; crown ash, edged on each side with a blackish line, belowthis a white superciliary line, below this again a dusky stripe through eye ; under parts white,faintly shaded with greenish-yellf)w ahnig sides, and tinged with the same on under wing- andtail-coverts; wings and tail dusky, the feathers edged with olive outside, with whitish inside:bill dusky above, pale below; feet leaden-blue; eyes red: no dusky maxillary streaks; noapparent spurious quill. Little different with age, sex, or season; young and fall birds the. 364 S YSTEMA TIC S YNOPSIS. - PA SSERES - OSCINES.
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