. American bird magazine, ornithology. Birds. 360 AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY. Identification Chart No. 22-. No. 604. Black Throated Bunting or Dick cissel, (Spi^a americana). The United States east of the Rocky Mountains and chiefly west of the Alleghanies. Rare in the southern parts of New England and New York. Length about in. Male:—Above grayish brown with the middle of the back streaked with black. Throat and line extending on each side to the bill, black; middle of breast yellow; rest of under parts white; cheeks gray, separated from the crown by a white stripe; shoulders chestnut. Female s
. American bird magazine, ornithology. Birds. 360 AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY. Identification Chart No. 22-. No. 604. Black Throated Bunting or Dick cissel, (Spi^a americana). The United States east of the Rocky Mountains and chiefly west of the Alleghanies. Rare in the southern parts of New England and New York. Length about in. Male:—Above grayish brown with the middle of the back streaked with black. Throat and line extending on each side to the bill, black; middle of breast yellow; rest of under parts white; cheeks gray, separated from the crown by a white stripe; shoulders chestnut. Female similar, but paler and the throat patch lacking or spotted. No. 618. Bohemian Waxwing, {Ampelis garrulus). Whole of Canada and south in winter regularly to the northern tier of States; south to Colorado in the West and rarely to New York and Massachusetts in the East. Adults:—Length in. General color a brownish ash shading into brighter brown on the crest and sides of head; a frontal line which extends through the eye, and the chin and throat velvety black, the sides of the latter bordered with white; under tail coverts chestnut; tail ash and shading to black towards the end which is broadly tipped with yellow; primaries tipped with yellow; secondaries and primary coverts tipped with white; Secondaries shafts tipped with horny, red, waxlike appendages. No. 619. Cedar Waxwing, {Ampelis cedror- um). Length in. General color shading from a purplish chestnut on the fore part of body to clear ash on the rump, and through yellowish on the belly to white on the under tail coverts; black frontlet bor- dered with white on the forehead and chin edged with white on the sides. Wings plain but with the waxlike appendages as in the preceding species. Tail tipped with yellow. No. 628 Yellow-throated Vireo, (Vireo flav- ifrons). United States east of the Plains. Length about 9 in. Above bright olive green; below olive yellow- ish, shading into white on the belly. Ring about the eye
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