. A manual of North American birds [microform]. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. 406 NORTH AMERICAN Genus RHYNCHOPHANES Baird. (Page 383, pi. CVIII., fig. 1.) Species. Tail-feathers (except middle pair) white, broadly tipped with black (outer feathers almost entirely white). Adult male in summer: Middle, and posterior lesser, wing-coverts rufous; crown, rictal stripe, and crescentic patch on chest bUiclf; sides of head grayish ; back, etc., gray or brownish, streaked with dusk}'; lower parts (except chest) white, tinged laterally with grayish. Adult male in win- ter: Crown an
. A manual of North American birds [microform]. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. 406 NORTH AMERICAN Genus RHYNCHOPHANES Baird. (Page 383, pi. CVIII., fig. 1.) Species. Tail-feathers (except middle pair) white, broadly tipped with black (outer feathers almost entirely white). Adult male in summer: Middle, and posterior lesser, wing-coverts rufous; crown, rictal stripe, and crescentic patch on chest bUiclf; sides of head grayish ; back, etc., gray or brownish, streaked with dusk}'; lower parts (except chest) white, tinged laterally with grayish. Adult male in win- ter: Crown and other upjjer parts dull brownish buff, streaked with dusky; black rictal streak obsolete, and black patch on chest hidden by light dull huffy tips to feathers. Adult female: Similar to winter male, but without concealed black on chest or rufous on Aving-coverts; the colors brownish above and dull huffy be- neath in winter, grayer above and whiter beneath in summer. Young: Upper parts dusky, the feathers broadly bordered with pale graj'ish buff; beneath white, distinctly washed with buff across chest, where sometines indistinctly streaked. Length about , wing , tail Mest on ground in open phxces, composed of dried grasses, etc., lined with the same, usually mixed with hair and feathers. Eggs 3-6, .79 X -60, similar to those of Calcarius ornatus, but usually with grou"d-colo'' more olive. Hab. Great Plains, breeding from western Kansas north to Saskatchewan, migrating south, in winter, through Texas, New Mex- ico, and Arizona to plateau of Mexico 539. R. mccownii (Lawr.). McCown's Longspur. Genus POOCffiTES Baird. (Page 384, pi. CVIII., fig. 2.) Species. Adult: Above brownish or brownish gray, everywhere streaked with dusky ; lesser wing-coverts more or less distinctly rusty, sometimes inclining to rufous; outer tail-feathei's partly white; lower parts dull white, streaked along sides of throat and across chest with dark grayish brown. You
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