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Identifier: birdsofamericafr02audu (find matches)
Title: The birds of America : from drawings made in the United States and their territories
Year: 1840 (1840s)
Authors: Audubon, John James, 1785-1851 Bowen, John T., ca. 1801-1856?, lithographer
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: New York : Published by J.J. Audubon Philadelphia : J.B. Chevalier
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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ch colour also are the tips ofthe wing-coverts. Quills and tail dusky, edged with greenish-yellow. Thesilky feathers of the crown of the head vermilion. The under parts greyish-white. Length 4;- inches, extent of wings 6; bill ^; tarsus f-. Adult Female, in summer plumage. The female resembles the male, but the tints are in general duller, espe-cially the greenish-yellow of the wings. The Narrow-leaved Kalmia, or Laurel. Kalmia angustifolia, Willd., Sp. PL, vol. ii. p. 601. Pursch, Fl. Amer., vol. i. p. 296.—Decandria Monogynia, Linn.—Rhododendra, Juss. This species is characterized by its petiolate, ternate, cuneato-oblongleaves, which are obtuse and tinged with red beneath. The corymbs ofbeautiful deep rose-coloured flowers are lateral; the peduncles and calyxdowny, and the bracteas smooth. It grows to the height of two or evensometimes four feet, and is common in the Northern States and BritishProvinces; flowers from the end of June to the middle of August. isro27. PL 134 Y*--.
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(LbTwmtm/ J^O/tte 7 Male. 2. Femalf.3 Thung >»■» /f7Jr//^r ._y%tf//*///j </t<Z.St Liih11 Prmlifd i-Colbv .1 T fWr,, n„U 171 Genus II.—SIALIA, Swains. BLUE-BIRD. Bill of ordinary length, nearly straight, broader than high at the base,compressed toward the end; upper mandible with the dorsal line straightand slightly decimate, until near the end, when it becomes convex, the ridgenarrow, the sides convex toward the end, the edges overlapping, with adistinct notch close to the narrow deflected tip; lower mandible with theangle of moderate length, and narrow, the dorsal line straight, the sidesconvex, the edges direct, the tip narrow. Nostrils basal, oval. Head ratherlarge, ovate, neck short; body moderately full. Feet of ordinary length,rather slender; tarsus shorter than the middle toe and claw, its lower scutellaonly distinct; toes of moderate length, the first stouter, the lateral equal, thethird much longer; the fourth adherent at the base; claws moderate, wellcurved,

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