. Key to North American birds [microform] : 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. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. Fio. — Willow Ptnrmigan, summer plumage,) nat. bIzo. (From nrclim.) and fore parts rich chestnut or orange-brown, more tawny-brown on back and rump; the richer brown parts sparsely, the tawny-brown more closely. barre<l with black ; most of the wings and under parts remaining white. 9 similar, wholly colored excepting tli
. Key to North American birds [microform] : 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. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. Fio. — Willow Ptnrmigan, summer plumage,) nat. bIzo. (From nrclim.) and fore parts rich chestnut or orange-brown, more tawny-brown on back and rump; the richer brown parts sparsely, the tawny-brown more closely. barre<l with black ; most of the wings and under parts remaining white. 9 similar, wholly colored excepting tli(< wings, the color more tawny than iu the $, and more heavily, closely, and uniformly barrecl with black. Length ; wing about ; tail Arctic and Xorthern X. Am. from ocean to oceau, into the northernmost U. .S. Kggs very heavily colored, with bold <'ontluent blotches of intense burnt sienna cidor, upon a more or less n^ddish-tinted buff ground. All the eggs of birds of this family are colorless when the shell first forms liiuh in the ovidifct, ac((uiring pigment as they pass down; iu the ])tannigan, where tho coloring is so heavy, an egg cut from the pigment-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Coues, Elliott, 1842-1899. Boston : Estes and Lauriat
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