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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
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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sus 1 ^; hind toe jw,its claw y;; middle toe f;, its claw T32. Adult Female. The female is smaller. The parts which are black in the male, are black-ish-grey, which on the fore part and sides of the neck is tinged with reddish-brown. In other respects there is not much difference in the plumage. Length to end of tail S inches; bill along the ridge ^ wing from flexure3^; tail 4; tarsus 1; hind toe y;, its claw -ff; middle toe -ff, its claw -ff. The male above described was shot b^^iMffowxsKxn on the Columbiariver, on the 14th of May, 1S35; the H ^the 11th of October, 1S34. In form, size, and colour, this bird^PWost closely allied to the TowheFinch, Fringilla erythrophthalma of Linnaeus, from which, however, it isat once distinguishable by the spots of white on the scapulars and wing-coverts which are wanting in that species. The latter on the other hand hasa patch of white on the basal part of the outer webs of the primaries, thatpart being black in the present species. 1^°3 9 PL 195.
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