. 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. Fig. 194—r. ff. swamso»i,nat. size. (FromBaird.) ¥ie,. 195. — V. Jlavifrons, na,t. size, (From V. fla'vilrons. (Lat. flavus, yellow; frons, fi-on't.) Yellow-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, 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. Fig. 194—r. ff. swamso»i,nat. size. (FromBaird.) ¥ie,. 195. — V. Jlavifrons, na,t. size, (From V. fla'vilrons. (Lat. flavus, yellow; frons, fi-on't.) Yellow-throated Greenlet. Above, rich olive-green, crown the same or even brighter, rump insensibly shading into bluish-ash; below, bright yellow, belly and crissum abruptly white, sides anteriorly shaded with olive, posteriorly with plumbeous; extreme forehead, superciliary line and ring round eye, yellow; lores dusky; wings dusky, with the inner secondaries broadly white-edged, and two broad white bars across tips of greater and median coverts; tail dusky, nearly all the feathers com- pletely encircled with white edging; bill and feet dark leaden-blue; no apparent spurious quiU. Length ; extent about ; wing about' ; taU only about A large, stout, highly-colored species, curiously resembling Icteria vvrens, common in the woods of the Eastern U. S., and adjoining British Provinces; W. only to the edge of the plains; winters in Florida and southward; breeds in all its U. S. range. Its proper name may be V. ochroleueus. V. sollta'rlus. (Lat. soUtarius, solitary; solus, alone. Fig. 196.) Blue-headed Green- let. Solitary Greenlet. Above, olive-green; crown and sides of head bluish-ash in marked contrast, with a broad white line from nostrils to and around (not beyond) eye, and a dusky loral line; below, pure white, flanks washed with olivaceous, and axillars and cris- sum pale yellow; wings and tail dusky, most of the feathers edged with white or whitish, and t
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