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Title: Report upon natural history collections made in Alaska between the years 1877 and 1881
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Nelson, Edward William, 1855-1934 Henshaw, Henry W. (Henry Wetherbee), 1850-1930 True, Frederick William, 1858-1914 Bean, Tarleton H. (Tarleton Hoffman), 1846-1916 Edwards, William H. (William Henry), 1822-1909
Subjects: Zoology -- Alaska Birds -- Alaska Bibliography
Publisher: Washington, Govt. Print. Off
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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° north,where they disappeared. It makes its nest iu bushes and weeds, generally close to the ground.The structure is a simple one, and contains five or six eggs of a greenish-olive or greenish-blueshotted with a deeper shade of the same color, the spots sometimes being scarcely visible. Theeggs measure 0™, 02 lo 0™, 014 or C, 015. In Northern Europe, the Swedish Nightingale, as thisbird is termed, frequents, by preference, the rocky or bush-grown banks of small streams. The fol-lowing description is taken from specimens in the collection of the National Museum. As thebird represents a genus as well as a species which has never been described in any Americanwork on ornithology, I give the generic characters as well as the specific. It may be prefaced thatthis genus is closely related to SaxicoU: Generic characters.—Bill slenderer than in Saxieola; gape bristled; nostrils bare and ovoid;tail about three-fourths of wing; feet, claws, and tarsus long aud sleuder iu comparison with
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Fife.). RED-SPOTTED BLUE-THROAT. Fm s. KENNICOTT5 WIH3OW WIRBLER. BlliDS. 221 tSaxicoIa. The middle toe aud claw are coutained one and one-third times in tarsus; spuriousprimary two-fifths of first primary; second primary longest; third aud fourth quills are a trifleshorter; tail slightly rounded. Specific characters.—Adnlt male. Heligoland, May, 1878. Back brown; feathers grayish atedges aud darker anteriorly, especially on the crowu, where the dark centers become nearly black :wings of a darker shade of brown than the back; two middle tail-feathers dark brown, the basalhalf of the remaining tail feathers rusty-red, with their distal portion blackish-brown; the distribu-tion of color on the tail is very similar to the pattern on the tail of the common Eedstart or inSaxicola. The chin, throat, and the upper breast are bright blue, inclosing a large rusty-redpatch ou the lower part of the throat; bordering the blue below is a crescentic band of black, suc-ceeded by a band of rusty-re

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