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Title: A history of North American birds (microform) : land birds
Identifier: cihm_01316 (find matches)
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Baird, Spencer F. , 1823-1887; Brewer, T. M. (Thomas Mayo), 1814-1880; Ridgway, Robert, 1850-1929
Subjects: Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie
Publisher: Boston : Little, Brown
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FKINGJ LLID.E - THE FlXCIIEs 457 l^nser. the tail l.ss nna.^inate. father d (loroncos exist in the grooves and i.s .luout equiiJ to Imid elaw ; not longer, as in J'inieola. 'Hm'^iinuHl'i/rrhiila ;san Old World one ; extending aeniss i'roni tiie Atlantic to the Pacific, six or eiglit s))(ujies or varieties lieing recognized ))y naturalists. All have the luick ash-coloretl; the wings and tail, with to)) of head, lustrous Mack ; the under parts asli, generally witli \ci'- P„rr/„„„ „,„,•„;. rnalion on the cheeks and chin, son.et.ues extending over the .hole under sinlace, the nunp and crissunr white : the females sinnlar, hut laekin.^ the vennihon. Its .ntroduetion into the Xorth An^erican fauna rests on the col- lecting I,y the naturalists of the Russian Telegraph Expedition in Alaska of a specunen which-if a full-plun.aged nude, as stated - dillers from all of Its cougeuers lu the entire absence of any vermilion tint.
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Pyrrhula cassini, Baikd. CASSIN'S BTTLLFINCH. P. cnr,;;,ca, var. <».«/»/, nAiia., Tmns. ('hiniK-., A.. S... I. ISO!., ii, p. 316 - Dvu & Baxnistkh, T-.n,i,. a. 1 18.;!., .S, (Alaska). ,, ...,,, T.a.'ham. Ibis, 187^ 2J1.—FiNscii, Onufh. X. W. Am(-iika.s, 1S7-J, 54. Sp. C„a,;^ D...,.,ipli„„ of spoein.,.,, Xo. 40,055 : Tpp.,. pa,-,. ..U..,- ash-prav, as are tl.c alula, and ll,o kvsser an,l nii,l i n i . . , • ^^"' "" ""f-'^f' P-i '^1" ""hite in the' tcrnunal half ,.lo„n ,l,o shah, but not .-ear-hin. ,;,o ,ip. Bin ,,,„,,, ; li.et dnskv Din.ens.ons (prepared speei.nen): Total length. 0.50; wiu^r, ;5.55; tail, ;).25' Evpo...) 1^.- .on o„,.st pr,n.ary, 2m. 1.11: Len„h tron. (o.-ehead. .44 ; from nostril, '.S^T^' laKsu.s, wo; elaw alone, .20 ; hind toe and claw, .45 ; elaw alone ."5 58

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