. 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. llIliUNDIKWJE: SWALLOWS. ail) HIIH not all iire medially, tthaded on ihe cides with the eolor of the baek, hrigiitcnin!; alnioKt into orange on the throat. (Quills and'tail futwHtus, with olivaeeous-yollow edgings, the former darker than the latter. Youni; ^ : Like the 9 '. i" niah-s eliaMi;inir, the fhara*'t ''&
. 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. llIliUNDIKWJE: SWALLOWS. ail) HIIH not all iire medially, tthaded on ihe cides with the eolor of the baek, hrigiitcnin!; alnioKt into orange on the throat. (Quills and'tail futwHtus, with olivaeeous-yollow edgings, the former darker than the latter. Youni; ^ : Like the 9 '. i" niah-s eliaMi;inir, the fhara*'t ''"' former with oehraeeons amiss ends of greater and middle coverts. Southern Hocky .Mt. region and southward. 1S8. I*. IiKloviein'iiu. (I^at. of Louisiana, formerly (d* great extent in the West; name now ina|i- jdieable.) ('kimsox-iikaki'.h Taxaciek. (J, adult: .Middle of back, wings, and tail, Idack ; wings crosse<l by two yellow or yellowish-white bars on ends of greater and middle rump. Iris brown; bill horn-c "'"' '" progress toward maturity every gradation between the two is pn'senteil. The distinctive dark area, and traces of the re(l of the head, soon appear. In a usual condition of incomplete dress, the black of the back is mixed with gray or (dive, the yellow of the back of the neck obscure(l, that of the under ]iarts is .shaded with (dive, and the head is only ]iartly red. I'pper region and eastern foot- hills of the Uocky Mts. to the Pacific; Itritish ('(duuibia. Itreeds in all its N. A. rang(.-and winters Habits, nests, and eggs like those (d° our other Tanagers. 12. Family HIRUNDINID^: Swallows. Sirnlloirs nir JisKironlriil Osciue Pimsrrea irilh nine primarifs. Kill short, broad, tiat, some- what triangular, deeply (deft, the gape wide and about twice as long as the cuhuen, the mouth thus opening to about beneath the eye:.. This is the stnuigest character (d" the family in com- with i
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