. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. 164 BIRDS OF AMERICA with dull whitish, the inner web often notched or spotted along edge with the same; shafts of tail feathers (except middle pair) bright pure yellow with extremities black; before and above the eye, deep reddish cinnamon, below eye and sides of head together with chin, throat, foreneck, and upper chest, uniform lilac-brown; cheeks, black, forming a conspicuous elongated patch or " mustache"; lower chest, black, forming a conspicuous crescentic patch ; rest of under parts pale lilac-brown or dull buff-pinkish fading into
. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. 164 BIRDS OF AMERICA with dull whitish, the inner web often notched or spotted along edge with the same; shafts of tail feathers (except middle pair) bright pure yellow with extremities black; before and above the eye, deep reddish cinnamon, below eye and sides of head together with chin, throat, foreneck, and upper chest, uniform lilac-brown; cheeks, black, forming a conspicuous elongated patch or " mustache"; lower chest, black, forming a conspicuous crescentic patch ; rest of under parts pale lilac-brown or dull buff-pinkish fading into white or pale yellowish on sides and on under tail- coverts, conspicuously spotted with black, the spots mostly roundish, larger and subtriangular, sometimes V-shaped, on under tail-coverts; under wjng-coverts, pale buff yellow, paler along edge of wing, where spotted with black; inner webs of wings, deep yellow (in certain lights), the basal portion of outer primaries and greater part of other feathers broadly edged with bufif-yellow, extremities broadly barred or transversely spotted with the same; under surface of tail, safTron or dull yellow, broadly and abruptly tipped with black, the outside pair of feathers with a terminal spot or edg- ing of whitish, the outer web usually narrowly edged or notched with the same, or with blackish alternating with whitish ; bill, black in summer, more brownish or dusky horn color (especially on basal half above) in winter; iris, dark reddish-brown or brownish-red. Adult Female: Similar to the adult male, but without the black cheek patch or " ; this replaced by the color of throat (sometimes tinged with dull grayish).. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Pearson, T. Gilbert (Thomas Gilbert), 1873-1943. New York, The University Society
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