. 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 . dle toe alone; a bare space about the gape ? SouthAtlantic and Gulf States, north to New England, common; maritime,piscivorous. Apparently a difTerent bird, as it presents some tangible dis-tinctions, although constantly associated with the last. WiLS., v, 27, , f. 2 ; NuTT., i, 216 ; Aud., iv, 94, pi. 220 ; Bd., 571. ossifkagds. 96. Genus PICICORVUS Crotc. Gray, often bleaching on th
. 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 . dle toe alone; a bare space about the gape ? SouthAtlantic and Gulf States, north to New England, common; maritime,piscivorous. Apparently a difTerent bird, as it presents some tangible dis-tinctions, although constantly associated with the last. WiLS., v, 27, , f. 2 ; NuTT., i, 216 ; Aud., iv, 94, pi. 220 ; Bd., 571. ossifkagds. 96. Genus PICICORVUS Crotc. Gray, often bleaching on the head ; wings glossy black,most of the secondaries broadly tipped with white; tail white, the centralfeathers black ; bill and feet black. Abouta foot long ; wing 7J-8 inches ; tail 4^-5 ;bill 1|; nasal feathers very short for thisfamily ; claws very large and much belt of the West, N. to Sitka,S. to Mexico, E. to Nebraska, W. to theCoast Range; the American representa-tive of the European nutcracker, Nucifraga caryocatactes; abundant, imper-fectly gregarious. Wils., iii, 29, pi. 20; Nutt., i, 2d ed. 251; Aud., iv,127, pi. 235; Bd., 573; Coop., 289 Clarkes Crow. 97. Genus GYMNOKITTA Maximilian. Blue Crow. Dull blue, very variable in intensity, nearly uniform, butl)rightest on the head, fading on the belly ; the throat with whitish streaks ; wings dusk} on the inner webs; bill and feetblack ; <J 11-12 ; wing about 6 ; tail about 4J ;bill 1^ ; 9 smaller, duller. Rocky Mountainregion ; much the same elevated distribution asthe last, but apparently rather more southerly ;decidedly gregarious, and very abundant insome places, though still rare in remarkable bird, combining the form of a crow with the color and ratherthe habits of a jay, and a peculiarly shaped, slender, lengthened and acutebill; the antins are prominent and somewhat antrorse, but do not hide thenostrils. Cass., 111. 165, pi. 28; Bd., 574; Coop., 292. cvanocephalus.
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