File:Handbook of birds of the western United States, including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande valley (1904) (14568995427).jpg

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Title: Handbook of birds of the western United States, including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande valley
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Bailey, Florence Merriam, b. 1863
Subjects: Birds -- West (U.S.)
Publisher: Boston, New York, Houghton, Mifflin and company
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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emale:length (skins) 7.00-8.20, wing 3.22-3.(37, tail 3.58-4.12, bill .70-80. Distribution. — From Texas south to Central Mexico. GENUS PYRRHULOXIA. General Characters. — Head with conspicuous crest; bill very short,thick, and deep, culmen convex; wing short, much rounded; tail long,rounded. KEY TO adult MALES. 1. Ring around bill conspicuously marked with black . texana, p. 371.1. Ring around bill rose red . . sinuata, p. 370. 594. Pyrrhuloxia sinuata Bonap. Arizona Pyrrhuloxia. Bill short and parrot-like, yellow or orange in summer, duller in winter.Adxdt male : ring around bill, tliroat, breast patch, thighs, and under sideof wing light rose red; lateral imder parts light gray ; tip of crest darkerred ; ring around bill with only faint trace of black ; upper parts light graytinged with brown ; wings and tail blackish and dark red. Adult female :like male, but red of face and under parts wanting or only suggested;under parts buffy brown. Young male: like adult female, but paler,
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TEXAS PYRRHULOXIA FINCHES, SPARROWS, ETC. 371 buffy below and on wing bands; median under parts and face more or lesstinged with red. Young female: like young male, but without red. Male:length (skins) 7.45-8.41, wing ;>.52-;).88, tail 3.72-4.25, bill .5i»-.6o. Fe-male: length (skins) 6.90-7.J4, wing 3.46-3.07, tail 3.69-3.82, bill .58-.62. Distribution. — Lower Sonoran zone from southern Arizona to westernTexas and northwestern Mexico. Nest and eggs similar to those of the cardinals, but eggs averagingsmaller. Though not so brilliant as the Cardinalis group, the Pyrrhuloxiaswhen among their native mesquites seem even more beautiful. Therose-colored vest that lights up their soft gray plumage gives anexquisite delicacy and freshness that adds charm to their individual-ity and sprightliness. Their expression changes astonisliingly withthe movement of their crest. When it is flattened the short curvedbill and round head suggest a bored parrot in a cage, but when thecrest is raised

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