. New England bird life: being a manual of New England ornithology; . Z.) Bechst. Chars. Adult: Ashy-gray; forehead, supraciliary line, and underparts white, latter often brownish-tinted. Upper tailcovertswhite ; wings and tail black, latter with most of the feathers whitefor half their length. Line from nostril to eye, and broad bandon side of head, black. Bill and feet black. Young, everywherecinnamon brown, paler below. Wing, ; tail, ; tarsus,; middle toe and claw, — {Coues.) A rare straggler to New England, of entirely for-tuitous occurrence. [In 1868, I included this spe
. New England bird life: being a manual of New England ornithology; . Z.) Bechst. Chars. Adult: Ashy-gray; forehead, supraciliary line, and underparts white, latter often brownish-tinted. Upper tailcovertswhite ; wings and tail black, latter with most of the feathers whitefor half their length. Line from nostril to eye, and broad bandon side of head, black. Bill and feet black. Young, everywherecinnamon brown, paler below. Wing, ; tail, ; tarsus,; middle toe and claw, — {Coues.) A rare straggler to New England, of entirely for-tuitous occurrence. [In 1868, I included this species in my New Eng-land List (Pr. Essex Inst., v, 1868, p. 268), on thestrength of its repeatedoccurrence along theAtlantic coast of NorthAmerica, from Green-land and Labrador toLong Island and theBermudas. The pro-priety of enumerating itamong the New Eng-land stragglers has beenlately established by , who records a specimen secured at Calais,Maine (Bull. Nuttall Club, V, 1880, p. 115). I found thebird in Labrador in i860, and the alleged Nova Scotian. Fig. 13. —Details of Structure ofSaxicola cenanthe. 68 SAXICOLID^ : STONE CHATS, ETC. example mentioned in my list has since been ascertainedto have come from the same country (see Brewer,Pr. Bost. Soc, xvii, 1875, p. 450), where, I am inclinedto believe, the Stone Chat will ultimately prove to befound regularly, and not so rarely as has been sup-posed. Mr. Boardmans New England record remainssingle. Mr. Lawrences Long Island record is inAnn. N. Y. Lye. Nat. Hist., viii, 1866, p. 282.— C] SIALIS (Z.) Hald. Chars. Male, in full plumage: Rich azure-blue, the throat,breast and sides chestnut, the belly and under tail-coverts whiteor bluish-white, the ends of the wing-quills dusky. Bill and feetblack. Female, and male in imperfect plumage : The blue ofthe upper parts obscured by grayish-brown, or interrupted byreddish-brown edging of the feathers ; the chestnut paler, thewhitish of the belly more ex
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