. The land-birds and game-birds of New England; with descriptions of the birds, their nests and eggs, their habits and notes, with illustrations;. Birds. 234 LAND-BIRDS. in Watertown, Mass., March 25tli, ; * S . ^^^^^' ? ' browner. Lower breast, etc., white. Back and wing-edgings, " dull reddish brown " ; sides, paler. xvin. piPiLo. A. EETTHKOPHTHALMUS. Towkee Buuting. " ; "Chewink" ''Ground ; " Marsh ; "Swamp ; ^ A common summer resident in Massachusetts, but not common to the northward of this State, f.
. The land-birds and game-birds of New England; with descriptions of the birds, their nests and eggs, their habits and notes, with illustrations;. Birds. 234 LAND-BIRDS. in Watertown, Mass., March 25tli, ; * S . ^^^^^' ? ' browner. Lower breast, etc., white. Back and wing-edgings, " dull reddish brown " ; sides, paler. xvin. piPiLo. A. EETTHKOPHTHALMUS. Towkee Buuting. " ; "Chewink" ''Ground ; " Marsh ; "Swamp ; ^ A common summer resident in Massachusetts, but not common to the northward of this State, f. Fig. 10. Towhee Bunting, (i) a. 8—8^ inches long. (Iris, in the summer season red, ex- cept in the young; otherwise, white or nearly so.;]:) ^, black; lower breast, beUy, and nearly the whole of the outermost tail- feathers, white. A conspicuous patch on the side of the breast, chestnut (with paler traces of it behind). Wings and tail with some white, besides that mentioned. § , of a deep, warm brown where the male is black. b. The nest, which near Boston is generally finished in the last week of May, is to be found in the " scrub " and low wet * On re-examination ttis bird proves to be a typical example of Junco hye- malis shufeldti Coale, a form very closely related to the true oregonus, from which it was separated some time after the original determination of the Watertown specimen was made.— W. B. ^^ This name has been applied indis- criminately to several different birds. t A common summer resident of southern New England, breeding also sparingly and somewhat locally in the less elevated and older settled portions of northern New England. There is a record of a specimen taken in January at Portland, Connecticut. — W. B. X This is incorrect. The iris is whitish in a southern form (alteni), but in true erythrophthalmus it is red in old birds at all seasons, and dark ashy or light brown in the young. — W. Please note that these images are extracted fro
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