. 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, inclusive of Greenland and Lower California, with which are incorporated General ornithology: an outline of the structure and classification of birds; and Field ornithology, a manual of collecting, preparing, and preserving birds. Birds; Birds. ICTERIBJE: AMERICAN STABLINGS; BLACKBIRDS, ETC. 399 parts shading from color of the upper through grayish-olive and olive-gray to sordid whitish, purest on the middle
. 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, inclusive of Greenland and Lower California, with which are incorporated General ornithology: an outline of the structure and classification of birds; and Field ornithology, a manual of collecting, preparing, and preserving birds. Birds; Birds. ICTERIBJE: AMERICAN STABLINGS; BLACKBIRDS, ETC. 399 parts shading from color of the upper through grayish-olive and olive-gray to sordid whitish, purest on the middle of the belly. Inner webs of wing-quiUs fuscous ; taO. the same, but more glossed with greenish, and sometimes showing traces of crosswise watering with darker waves, as often seen in the song sparrow. Whole bend and lining of wing bright clear yellow. Crown like back, with two broad stripes of dull rufous from nostrils to nape; a similar rufous stripe behind eye, sometimes traceable past eye to the lore, then defining a superciliary line of light olive-gray or whitish. A whitish eye-ring. Upper mandible light brown, lower drying yellowish; feet pale. Length (not , as in Baird) ; extent ; wing ; tail the same; bill ; tarsus ; middle toe and claw ? said to difier immaterially, and young to lack Young, first plumage: Above, mixed brown and olive-tawny; wings brown, edged with olive, the coverts edged and tipped with tawny; breast like back ; belly tawny. Texas, in Lower Eio Grande Valley. Inhabits shrubbery, chaparral, and close cover of all kinds, where it is difficult to discover, owing to its quiet ways and greenish tints. Keeps near the ground, but builds a domed nest of twigs and grasses in bushes and low trees; two broods are reared in May-June, and Eggs 3—i, pure white, unmarked, averaging X , but from by 17. Family ICTERID-,E : American Stariings: Blackbirds, etc. C
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