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COLOR KEY TO
NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS
With Bibliographical Appendix
BY
FRANK M. CHAPMAN
CURATOR OF ORNITHOLOGY
IN THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
Author of "Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America,"
"Bird-Life," Etc.
_With Upward of 800 Drawings_
BY
CHESTER A REED, B. S.
_Revised Edition_
[Illustration: Publisher's Logo]
NEW YORK
D. APPLETON & COMPANY
1912
COPYRIGHT,
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & CO.
1903
COPYRIGHT,
D. APPLETON & CO.
1912
_Published November 1912_
Printed in the United States
PREFACE.
To learn to call a bird by its right name is the first step in the
study of ornithology. We may propose to investigate the structure,
food, and habits of the birds of the world, or desire merely a
superficial knowledge of the species found in our garden, but in
either case we are at once confronted by this question of
identification.
From the scientific point of view there is but one satisfactory way to
identify a bird. A specimen of it should be in hand in order that its
form, color, and size may be accurately determined, when, with the aid
of analytical keys, with which most text-books are provided, it is a
simple matter to ascertain the bird's name.
Wide experience has shown the writer, however, that where one dead
bird is identified, hundreds of attempts are made to name the living
bird in nature. This is to be expected. It is the natural outcome of
the recent remarkable interest in the study of birds which, fostered
by Audubon Societies and nature study teachers, has assumed an
ethical and educational importance of the first magnitude.
We cannot place a gun in the hands of these thousands of bird-lovers
whom we are yearly developing; indeed most of them would refuse to use
it. Specimens, therefore, are rarely available to them and we should
make some special effort to meet their peculiar wants. The present
volume has been prepared with this end in view. Identification of the
bird in the bush is its sole end; an end, however, which we trust will
prove but the beginning of a new and potent interest in nature.
FRANK M. CHAPMAN
_American Museum of Natural History,
New York City, 1903._
PREFACE TO REVISED EDITION.
In the present edition of the Color Key the body of the book, aside
from the correction of typographical errors, remains as it was in the
preceding edition. The Systematic Table has been reset and brought up
to July, 1912, the date of the publication of the latest supplement to
the third edition of the American Ornithologists' Union's 'Check-List
of North American Birds.' Two Appendixes are added. The first includes
all the changes in nomenclature and descriptions of new birds which
have been accepted by the A.O.U. Committee on Classification and
Nomenclature since the publication of the Color Key in 1903; the
second contains a list of faunal ornithological papers which it is
hoped will add greatly to the reference value of the book.
F. M. C.
_American Museum of Natural History,
New York City, October, 1912._
CONTENTS.
INTRODUCTION 1
How to Learn a Bird's Name 1
How Birds Are Named 4
SYNOPSIS OF ORDERS AND FAMILIES OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS 9
COLOR KEY TO NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS 41
SYSTEMATIC TABLE OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS 257
APPENDIX I. ADDITIONS, SUBTRACTIONS, EMENDATIONS 298
APPENDIX II. BIBLIOGRAPHY 305
INDEX 333
ILLUSTRATIONS
The illustrations in this volume are designed to aid the student in
identifying birds in their haunts by giving, in color, those markings
which most quickly catch the eye. They do not pretend to be perfect
reproductions of every shade and tint of the plumage of the species
they figure, but aim to present a bird's characteristic colors as they
appear when seen at a distance. It was impracticable to draw all the
birds to the same scale but all those on the same page are so figured.
Reference should always be made, however, to the measurements given at
the beginning at each description. The figures are based on the male
bird.
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS.
[Male]. The sign of Mars, signifying male.
[Female]. The sign of Venus, signifying female.
Ad. Adult, a bird in fully mature plumage.
Yng. Young, a fully grown bird which has not yet acquired the
plumage of the adult.
L. Length, the distance from the tip of the bill to the end of the
tail. This measurement is made from dead birds, birds in life
appear somewhat shorter.
W. Wing, the distance from the 'bend' of the wing to the end of the
longest feather.
T. Tail, the distance from the insertion of the tail-feathers to the
end of the longest one.
Tar. Tarsus, the distance from the heel to the insertion of the toes,
or of the so-called 'leg.'
B. Bill, the distance from the feathers at the base of the bill
above to its tip.
NOTE. All measurements are in inches and tenths, and a
variation of about ten per cent. from the figures given may be
expected. The number before the name of each species is that of
the American Ornithologists' Union's 'Check-List of North
American Birds.'
INTRODUCTION
HOW TO LEARN A BIRD'S NAME
"How can I learn to know the birds?" is the first question of the
seeker after bird-lore. The scientist's reply, "By shooting them and
studying their structure and markings in detail," may do for the few
who, like himself, desire to know the birds scientifically; but it is
emphatically not the answer to give the ninety and nine who, while
they desire to secure an intimate, accurate knowledge of birds, will
not gain it at the sacrifice of bird-life.
In the present volume, therefore, an attempt has been made so to
group, figure, and describe our birds that any species may be named
which has been _definitely seen_. The birds are kept in their
systematic Orders, a natural arrangement, readily comprehended, but,
further than this, accepted classifications have been abandoned and
the birds have been grouped according to color and markings.
A key to the Orders gives the more prominent characters on which they
are based; telling for example, the external differences between a
Duck and a Grebe. In comparatively few instances, however, will the
beginner have much difficulty in deciding to what Order a bird
belongs. Probably eight times, out of ten the unknown bird will belong
to the Order Passeres, or Perching Birds, when one has only to select
the color section in which it should be placed, choose from among the
colored figures the bird whose identity is sought, and verify one's
selection by reading the description of the bird's characteristics and
the outline of its range.
In the case of closely related species, and particularly subspecies,
the subjects of range and season are of the utmost importance. Most
subspecies resemble their nearest allies too closely to be identified
in life by color alone, and in such cases a bird's name is to be
learned by its color in connection with its distribution and the
season in which it is seen.
During the breeding period, unless one chance to be in a region where
two races intergrade, subspecific names may be applied to the bird in
nature with some certainty, for it is a law that only one subspecies
of a species can nest in the same area; but during migrations and in
the winter, when several subspecies of one species may be found
associated, it is frequently impossible to name them with accuracy.
For example, during the summer one need have no hesitancy in calling
the Robins of the lowlands of South Carolina the Southern Robin
(_Planesticus migratorius achrusterus_) but later, when the Northern
Robins (_Planesticus migratorius migratorius_) begin to appear, it
would be difficult, if not impossible, to distinguish them in life
from the resident birds.
If it were possible to impress the student, who proposes to name the
bird in the bush, with the _absolute necessity_ for careful, definite
observation he would be saved many disappointing and discouraging
experiences.
It is not possible to examine your bird too thoroughly. Never be
satisfied with a superficial view and a general impression. Look at
your bird, if you can, from several points of view; study its
appearance in detail, its size, bill, crown, back, tail, wings,
throat, breast, etc., and AT ONCE enter what you see in a note-book
kept for that purpose. In this way, and this way alone, can you expect
to compete with those who use the gun.
It does not follow, however, that because one does not collect
specimens of birds one cannot study them scientifically. While the
student may not be interested in the classification of birds purely
from the standpoint of the systematist, he is strongly urged to
acquaint himself with at least the arrangement of the Orders and
Families of our birds and their leading structural characters.
To the student who desires to prepare himself for his work afield such
a study may well come before he attempts to name the birds. But where
the chief end in view is to learn a bird's name, the more technical
side of the subject may be deferred. In any event, it should not be
neglected. This orderly arrangement of knowledge will not only be
practical benefit in one's future labors but it will bring with it
that sense of satisfaction which accompanies the assurance that we
know what we know.
As one learns to recognize bird after bird it is an admirable plan to
classify systematically one's list of bird acquaintances under their
proper Orders and Families. These may be learned at once from the
systematic table at the end of the book, where the numbers which
precede each species are arranged serially, and hence systematically.
In some instances, as an aid to identification in the field,
descriptions of birds' notes have been included. It is not supposed
that these descriptions will convey an adequate idea of a bird's song
to a person who has never heard it, but it is hoped that they may
occasionally lead to the recognition of calls or songs when they are
heard.
An adequate method of transcribing bird's notes has as yet to be
devised and the author realizes only too well how unsatisfactory the
data here presented will appear to the student. It is hoped, however,
that they may sometimes prove of assistance in naming birds in life.
As has been said before, the aim of this volume is to help students to
learn the names of our birds in their haunts. But we should be doing
scant justice to the possibilities of bird study if, even by silence,
we should imply that they ended with the learning to know the bird.
This is only the beginning of the quest which may bring us into close
intimacy with the secrets of nature. The birds' haunts and food, their
seasons and times of coming and going; their songs and habits during
courtship, their nest-building, egg-laying, incubating and care of
their young, these and a hundred other subjects connected with their
lives may claim our attention and by increasing our knowledge of
bird-life, add to our love of birds.
HOW BIRDS ARE NAMED
Birds have two kinds of names. One is a common, vernacular, or popular
name; the other is a technical or scientific name. The first is
usually given to the living bird by the people of the country it
inhabits. The second is applied to specimens of birds by
ornithologists who classify them.
Common names in their origin and use know no law. Technical names are
bestowed under the system of nomenclature established by Linnæus and
their formation and application are governed by certain definite,
generally accepted rules. The Linnæan system, as it is now employed by
most American ornithologists, provides that a bird, in addition to
being grouped in a certain Class, Order, Family, etc., shall have a
generic and specific name which, together, shall not be applied to
any other animal.
Our Robin, therefore, is classified and named as follows:
CLASS AVES,
ORDER PASSERES, Perching Birds.
Suborder _Oscines_, Singing Perching Birds.
Family _Turdidæ_ Thrushes.
Subfamily _Turdinæ_ Thrushes.
Genus, _Planesticus_, Thrushes.
Species, _migratorius_ American Robin.
The Robin's distinctive scientific name, therefore, which it alone
possesses, is _Planesticus migratorius_. There are numerous other
members of the genus _Planesticus_, but not one of them is called
_migratorius_ and this combination of names, therefore, applied to
only one bird.
The questions Why use all these Latin terms? Why not call the bird
"Robin" and be done with it? are easily answered. Widely distributed
birds frequently have different names in different parts of their
range. The Flicker (_Colaptes auratus_), for instance, has over one
hundred common or vernacular names. Again, the same name is often
applied to wholly different birds. Our Robin (_Planesticus
migratorius_) is not even a member of the same family as the European
Robin (_Erithacus rubecola_.) If, therefore, we should write of birds
or attempt to classify them only by their common names, we should be
dealing with such unfixed quantities that the result would be
inaccurate and misleading. But by using one name in a language known
to educated people of all countries, a writer may indicate, without
danger of being misunderstood, the particular animal to which he
refers. Among people speaking the same tongue, where a definite list
of vernacular names of animals has been established, they can of
course be used instead of the scientific names.
Such a list of North American birds has been prepared by the American
Ornithologists' Union. It furnishes a common as well as scientific
name for each of our birds, and is the recognized standard of
nomenclature among American ornithologists. The names and numbers of
birds employed in this Color Key are those of the American
Ornithologists' Union's 'Check-List of North American Birds.'
It will be observed that in this 'Check-List,' and consequently in the
following pages, many birds have three scientific names, a generic,
specific, and subspecific. The Western Robin, for example, appears as
_Planesticus migratorius propinquus_. What is the significance of this
third name?
In the days of Linnæus, and for many years after, it was supposed that
a species was a distinct creation whose characters never varied. But
in comparatively recent years, as specimens have been gathered from
throughout the country inhabited by a species, comparison frequently
shows that specimens from one part of its range differ from those
taken in another part of its range. At intervening localities,
however, intermediate specimens will be found connecting the extremes.
Generally, these geographical variations, as they are called, are the
result of climatic conditions. For instance, in regions of heavy
rainfall a bird's colors are usually much darker than they are where
the rainfall is light. Song Sparrows, for example, are palest in the
desert region of Arizona, where the annual rainfall may not reach
eight inches, and darkest on the coast of British Columbia and Alaska,
where the annual rainfall may be over one hundred inches. In going
from one region, however, to the other the gradual changes in climate
are accompanied by gradual changes in the colors of the Song Sparrows,
and the wide differences between Arizona and Alaska Song Sparrows are
therefore bridged by a series of intermediates.
Variations of this kind are spoken of as geographic, racial, or
subspecific and the birds exhibiting them are termed subspecies. In
naming them a third name, or trinomial is employed, and the
possession of such a name indicates at once that a bird is a
geographic or racial representative of a species, with one or more
representatives of which it intergrades.
Returning now to the Robin. Our eastern Robins always have the outer
pair of tail-feathers tipped with white and, in adults, the back is
blotched with black; while Robins from the Rocky Mountains and
westward have little or no white on the outer tail-feathers, and the
back is dark gray, without black blotches. These extremes are
connected by intermediate specimens sharing the characters; of both
eastern and western birds. We do not, therefore, treat the latter as a
species, but as a subspecies, and consequently, apply to it a
subspecific name or trinomial, _Planesticus migratorius propinquus_,
(_propinquus_, meaning nearly related.)
A further study of our eastern Robin shows that in the southern parts
of its breeding range (the Carolinas and Georgia), it varies from the
northern type in being smaller in size and much paler and duller in
color; and to this second geographical variety is applied the name
_Planesticus migratorius achrusterus_, (_achrusterus_, meaning less
highly colored).
After the recognition of western and southern races of the Robin under
three names (trinomial) it would obviously be inconsistent to apply
only two names (binomial) to our eastern bird, the former being no
more subspecies of the latter than the latter is of the former. In
other words, to continue to apply only generic and specific names to
the Eastern Robin would imply that it was a full species, while the
use of a trinomial for the Western or the Southern Robin shows them to
be subspecies. As a matter of fact we know that there is but one
species of true Robin in the United States, consequently in accordance
with the logical and now generally accepted method, we apply to that
species the name _Planesticus migratorius_, and this is equally
applicable to Robins from east, south or west. When, however, we learn
that the Eastern Robin is not a species but a subspecies, we repeat
the specific name by which it was made known and call it _Planesticus
migratorius migratorius_.
It may be asked, Why give names to these geographical races? Why not
call Eastern, Western and Southern Robins by one name, _Planesticus
migratorius_, without regard to their climatic variations?
In reply, two excellent reasons may be given for the recognition of
subspecies by name; first, because in some cases they differ from one
another far more than do many species, when it would clearly be
inadvisable to apply the same name to what are obviously different
creatures. For example, it has lately been discovered by Mr. E. W.
Nelson that the small, black-throated, brown-breasted, Quails or
Bob-whites of southern Mexico, through a long series of intermediates
inhabiting the intervening region, intergrade with the large,
white-throated, black-and-white breasted, Bob-white of our northern
states. It would be absurd to call such wholly unlike birds by the
same name, nor could we give a full specific name to the Mexican
Bob-white since at no place can we draw a line definitely separating
it from the northern Bob-white. Furthermore, the use of only two names
would conceal the remarkable fact of the intergradation of two such
strikingly different birds; a fact of the first importance to students
of the evolution of species.
For much the same reason we should name those birds which show less
pronounced variations, such as are exhibited by the Robin. Here we
have a species in the making, and in tracing the relation between
cause and effect, we learn something of the influences which create
species. Thus, climate has been definitely proven so to alter a
species, both in size and color that, as we have seen in the case of
the Song Sparrows, marked climate changes are accompanied by
correspondingly marked changes in the appearance of certain animals.
In naming these animals we are, in effect, giving a 'handle to the
fact' of their evolution by environment.
Since it is evident that a bird may vary much or little, according to
the governing conditions and its tendency to respond to them, no fixed
rule can be laid down which shall decide just what degree of
difference are deserving a name. It follows, therefore, that in some
cases ornithologists do not agree upon a bird's claim to subspecific
rank.
In North America, however, questions of this kind are referred to a
committee of seven experts of the American Ornithologists' Union, and
their decision establishes a nomenclature, which is accepted as the
standard by other American ornithologists and which has been adopted
in this volume.
Foreign birds of wholly accidental occurrence, most of which have been
found in North America but once or twice, are included in the
systematic list of North American birds, but are not described or
figured in the body of the book, where their presence would tend to
convey an erroneous impression of their North American status.
Furthermore, records of the presence of birds so rare as these can be
properly based on only the capture of specimens.
In the preparation of the following pages both author and artist have
had full access to the collections of the American Museum of Natural
History, and they are also glad to acknowledge their indebtedness to
William Brewster of Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Robert Ridgway,
Curator of Birds in the United States National Museum, and to C. Hart
Merriam, Chief of the Biologic Survey, for the loan of specimens for
description and illustration.
SYNOPSIS OF ORDERS AND FAMILIES OF NORTH
AMERICAN BIRDS.
The figures are all life-size, except as stated.
=WATER BIRDS.=
Order I. Grebes, Loons, and Auks. PYGOPODES.
(3 families, 32 species, 3 subspecies.)
Duck-like birds with the bill usually pointed, never wider than high,
and without flutings, 'gutters,' or serrations on its side; wings
short, never with a bright colored patch or 'speculum'; tail
rudimentary, not noticeable; toes webbed or lobed. Color usually
blackish above, white below; the throat often dark. The Grebes and
Loons, when pursued, dive rather than fly; the Auks usually take wing.
[Illustration: PIED-BILLED GREBE.]
Family 1. GREBES. PODICIPIDÃ.
Toes four with lobate webs; tipped with a broad nail; tail wanting.
[Illustration: FOOT OF RAZOR-BILLED AUK.]
[Illustration: LOON.]
Family 2. LOONS. GAVIIDÃ.
Toes four, webbed; toe-nails not broad and flat; tail present.
Family 3. AUKS, MURRES, AND PUFFINS. ALCIDÃ.
Toes three, webbed; toe-nails sharp; tail present.
Order II. Gulls, Terns, Jaegers, Etc. LONGIPENNES.
(3 families, 42 species, 1 subspecies.)
Birds generally seen on the wing, as a rule, over water. Bill strong,
thick; hooked in the Gulls and Jaegers; sharply pointed in the Terns;
often colored in part yellow or red; wings very long, the outer
feathers much the longest; tail usually short and square in the Gulls,
long and forked in the Terns; toes webbed. Color usually pearly gray
above, white below in adult Gull and Terns; Jaegers and many young
Gulls are dark.
[Illustration: PARASITIC JAEGER.]
Family 4. SKUAS AND JAEGERS. Stercorariidæ.
Toes four; three front ones webbed; bill with swollen, hooked tip, its
base with a scaly shield.
[Illustration: HERRING GULL.]
[Illustration: COMMON TERN.]
Family 5. GULLS AND TERNS. Laridæ.
Toes usually four, three front ones webbed; upper mandible curved and
hooked; tail usually square (Gulls, subfamily _Larinæ_). Bill straight
and pointed; tail often forked (Terns, subfamily _Sterninæ_).
[Illustration: BLACK SKIMMER.]
Family 6. SKIMMERS. Rynchopidæ.
Toes four, three front ones webbed; bill thin and blade like, the
maxilla longer than the mandible; tail slightly forked.
Order III. Albatrosses, Shearwaters, Petrels, Etc. TUBINARES.
(2 families, 30 species, 1 subspecies.)
Sea-birds keeping, as a rule, well off shore, and flying low, near the
water, often skimming over the waves. Bill, with upper mandible
hooked; nostrils opening through tubes; wings long and pointed; tail
short; feet webbed; hind-toe rudimentary or absent. Color usually gray
or black and white; no bright markings.
[Illustration: BILL OF SHORT-TAILED ALBATROSS.]
Family 7. ALBATROSSES. DIOMEDEIDÃ.
Nostrils opening through tubes, separated and on either side of the bill.
[Illustration: FULMAR.]
[Illustration: LEACH PETREL.]
Family 8. FULMARS, PETRELS AND SHEARWATERS. Procellariidæ.
Nostrils joined and situated on top of the bill.
Order IV. Cormorants, Pelicans, Gannets, Man-o'war Birds,
and Tropic-Birds. STEGANOPODES.
(6 families, 19 species, 5 subspecies.)
Large birds, two feet or more in length, varying widely in appearance
and habits; in external structure agreeing only in having all four
toes joined by webs.
[Illustration: YELLOW-BILLED TROPIC BIRD.]
Family 9. TROPIC BIRDS. Phaëthontidæ.
Bill pointed, somewhat tern-like; central tail feathers much
elongated; chin feathered.
[Illustration: GANNET.]
Family 10. GANNETS. Sulidæ.
Bill stout, its tip not hooked; chin and eye space bare; tail pointed,
its feathers not 'fluted.'
[Illustration: ANHINGA.]
Family 11. ANHINGAS; SNAKE-BIRDS. Anhingidæ.
Bill straight and slender; chin and eye space bare; tail rounded; its
middle feathers fluted.
[Illustration: VIOLET-GREEN CORMORANT.]
Family 12. CORMORANTS. Phalacrocoracidæ.
Bill with a hooked tip; a small pouch at its base; plumage usually
black or blackish.
[Illustration: BROWN PELICAN.]
Family 13. PELICANS. Pelecanidæ.
Bill hooked at tip, with a large pouch; tail short, square; eye space
bare.
[Illustration: MAN-O' WAR BIRD.]
Family 14. MAN-O' WAR BIRDS. Fregatidæ.
Bill hooked; pouch small; tail long and forked; eye space feathered.
Order V. Ducks, Geese, and Swans. ANSERES.
(1 family, 49 species, 6 subspecies.)
Birds of familiar form; bill, except in Mergansers or Saw-billed
Ducks, broad and with rows of 'strainers' or 'gutters' on either side;
wings short, in the Ducks usually with a bright colored patch or
speculum; tail generally short; legs short; feet webbed. Most species,
unlike the Grebes, take wing rather than dive when pursued.
[Illustration: RED-BREASTED MERGANSER.]
[Illustration: MALLARD.]
Family 15. DUCKS, GEESE, AND SWANS. Anatidæ.
Bill long, narrow, and rounded with tooth-like projections along its
sides. (Mergansers. Subfamily _Merginæ_.)
Bill broad, flattened, typically duck-like; tarsus or leg with
transverse scales; hind toe without a lobe. (River Ducks. Subfamily
_Anatinæ_.)
Bill and tarsus as in preceding, but hind toe with a broad lobe or
flap. (Sea and Bay Ducks. Subfamily _Fuligulinæ_.)
Bill proportionately narrower than in the River or Bay Ducks; gutters
on its sides less developed; scales on front of tarsus rounded.
(Geese. Subfamily _Anserinæ_.)
Large, usually white birds, with bare eye space. (Swans. Subfamily
_Cygninæ_.)
Order VI. Flamingoes. ODONTOGLOSSÃ.
(1 family, 1 species.)
Bright red or pink and white birds, standing four feet or more in
height; side of the bill with gutters, its end bent downward; wings
rather short; legs long; feet webbed.
[Illustration: AMERICAN FLAMINGO.]
Family 16. FLAMINGOES. PhÅnicopteridæ.
Characters of the Family similar to those of the Order.
Order VII. Herons, Bitterns, Ibises, and Spoonbills. HERODIONES.
(4 families, 19 species, 3 subspecies.)
Long-legged wading birds, generally found along shores or on muddy
flats; bill variable; in the Herons straight and sharply pointed; in
the Ibises, slender, rounded, and curved downward; in the Spoonbill,
flattened: wings rounded; tail short; legs long; toes all on same
level, long, slender, without webs. Herons and Bitterns fly with a
fold in the neck, the head being drawn in; Ibises and Spoonbills fly
with the neck straight, the head being extended.
[Illustration: ROSEATE SPOONBILL.]
Family 17. SPOONBILLS. Plataleidæ.
Bill flattened and much broadened at the end; crown and face bare in
adults; toes partly webbed.
[Illustration: WHITE-FACED GLOSSY IBIS.]
Family 18. IBISES. Ibididæ.
Bill long and curved down; its side with grooves; toes partly webbed.
[Illustration: WOOD IBIS.]
Family 19. STORKS AND WOOD IBISES. CICONIIDÃ.
Bill stout, without grooves; tarsus reticulate.
[Illustration: GREEN HERON.]
Family 20. HERONS, EGRETS, AND BITTERNS. Ardeidæ.
Bill usually straight and sharply pointed; lores naked; head
feathered; tarsus with transverse scales; middle toe-nail pectinate or
with a comblike edge.
Order VIII. Cranes, Rails, Coots, Gallinules, Etc. PALUDICOLÃ.
(3 families, 16 species, 3 subspecies.)
Birds varying greatly in size and appearance, but all agreeing (and
differing from _Herodiones_) in having the hind-toe elevated, that is,
leaving the foot at a higher level than the front toes; tail short;
legs usually long. All fly with the neck extended, a fact by which
Cranes in flight may be known from Herons. Rails are short-winged
skulkers in grassy marshes; Gallinules frequent reedy shores; Coots,
which alone of the Order have webbed (lobate) toes, are as aquatic as
Ducks, from which they may be known by their pointed, white bill,
nodding motion of the head when swimming, and habit of pattering over
the water when alarmed.
[Illustration: SANDHILL CRANE.]
Family 21. CRANES. Gruidæ.
Large birds over three feet in length; head partly bare in adults.
[Illustration: LIMPKIN.]
Family 22. COURLANS. Aramidæ.
Bill long and slender; head wholly feathered; toes not webbed.
[Illustration: SORA.]
[Illustration: CLAPPER RAIL.]
[Illustration: AMERICAN COOT.]
Family 23. RAILS, COOTS, AND GALLINULES. Rallidæ.
Bill variable; toes always long, webbed (lobed) in only one species;
wings short and rounded; tail short.
Order IX. Snipes, Sandpipers, Curlews, Plovers, Etc. LIMICOLÃ.
(7 families, 55 species, 4 subspecies.)
Generally long-legged, slender-billed birds of shores and mud flats,
and sometimes fields. Most of them are under a foot in length; none
are so large as the Ibises; wings long and pointed; tail short; toes
long and slender, usually without webs; color generally brown or
blackish above, mottled and streaked with whitish and buff. Many
species utter characteristic piping whistles as they fly or when they
take wing.
[Illustration: NORTHERN PHALAROPE.]
Family 24. PHALAROPES. Phalaropodidæ.
Front toes with lobes or webs; tarsus flattened; plumage thick;
swimming Snipe.
[Illustration: AMERICAN AVOCET.]
[Illustration: BLACK-NECKED STILT.]
Family 25. AVOCETS AND STILTS. Recurvirostridæ.
Long legged, wading Snipe; in Avocets toes four, front three webbed;
bill recurved; in Stilts toes three, almost unwebbed; bill straight.
[Illustration: SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER.]
[Illustration: WOODCOCK.]
[Illustration: HUDSONIAN CURLEW.]
Family 26. SNIPES, SANDPIPERS, CURLEWS, ETC. Scolopacidæ.
Toes usually four; tarsus with transverse scales; bill generally long,
slender, and soft, used as a probe.
[Illustration: KILLDEER.]
[Illustration: BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER.]
Family 27. PLOVERS. Charadriidæ.
Toes usually three, or when four, the fourth rudimentary; tarsus with
rounded scales, bill, as compared with that of Snipe, short and stout.
[Illustration: TURNSTONE.]
Family 28. SURF BIRDS AND TURNSTONES. Aphrizidæ.
Toes four, tarsus with transverse scales; bill short, rather hard.
[Illustration: AMERICAN OYSTER-CATCHER.]
Family 29. OYSTER-CATCHERS. Hæmatopodidæ.
Toes three, webbed at base; tarsus stout, with rounded scales; bill
heavy, compressed, and said to be used for opening shells.
[Illustration: MEXICAN JACANA.]
Family 30. JACANAS. Jacanidæ.
Toes four, with their nails greatly elongated to support the bird
while walking on aquatic vegetation; wing, with a sharp spur; bill
with fleshy lobes at base and, in some species, on its sides.
LAND BIRDS.
Order X. Grouse, Partridges, Bob-Whites, Etc. GALLINÃ.
(3 families, 24 species, 25 subspecies.)
Ground-inhabiting birds of chicken-like form; bill stout, hen-like;
wings short and rounded; tail variable; feet strong; hind-toe
elevated. Color usually mixed brown, black, and buff, or bluish gray.
[Illustration: BOB-WHITE.]
[Illustration: RUFFED GROUSE.]
Family 31. GROUSE, PARTRIDGES, ETC. Tetraonidæ.
Characters the same as those of the Order; tarsus naked in Partridges
and Quails; more or less feathered in Grouse and Ptarmigan.
[Illustration: TURKEY.]
Family 32. TURKEYS, PHEASANTS, AND CHICKENS. Phasianidæ.
Tarsus naked, often spurred, tail remarkably variable (for example,
Turkey, Peacock); head often with a comb, wattles, or other
excrescences.
[Illustration: CHACHALACA.]
Family 33. CURASSOWS AND GUANS. Cracidæ.
Large tree-haunting, pheasant-like birds; toes four, all on same
level.
Order XI. Pigeons and Doves. COLUMBÃ.
(1 family, 13 species, 3 subspecies.)
Walking birds, feeding both on the ground and in trees; bill slender,
grooved, nostrils opening in a fleshy membrane; tail variable, short
and square, or long and pointed; feet stout, often reddish. Color
usually grayish brown. Call-notes a characteristic cooing.
[Illustration: MOURNING DOVE.]
Family 34. PIGEONS AND DOVES. Columbidæ.
Characters those of the Order.
Order XII. Vultures, Hawks, and Owls. RAPTORES.
(4 families, 56 species, 33 subspecies.)
Generally large birds with hooked bill; strong, heavy feet, and long,
curved nails; wings large; tail rather long, usually square.
[Illustration: TURKEY VULTURE.]
Family 35. AMERICAN VULTURES. Cathartidæ.
Bill not strongly hooked; toe-nails comparatively weak; nostrils
large, piercing the bill; head and more or less of neck, bare.
[Illustration: RED-TAILED HAWK.]
[Illustration: FOOT OF RED-TAILED HAWK.]
Family 36. FALCONS, HAWKS, EAGLES, ETC.
Falconidæ.
Nostrils opening in a cere at the base of the bill; hook of bill and
claws well developed; plumage firm and close; tarsus usually largely
bare.
[Illustration: BARN OWL.]
Family 37. BARN OWLS. Strigidæ.
Eyes black, set in a somewhat triangular facial disc; bill more or
less concealed by feathers; nostril opening at the edge of a fleshy
cere; inner edge of middle toe-nail serrate; no 'ears'; tarsus
feathered.
[Illustration: SCREECH OWL.]
Family 38. HORNED OWLS, ETC. Bubonidæ.
Eyes yellow or black, set in a circular facial disc; bill more or less
concealed by feathers; nostrils opening at the edge of a fleshy cere;
tarsus feathered.
Order XIII. Paroquets and Parrots. PSITTACI.
(1 family, 2 species.)
Usually bright green birds with, a heavy hooked bill, broad
scoop-shaped lower mandible; long, pointed wings; tail, in Parrots,
generally square; in Paroquets, pointed; feet heavy, two toes in front
and two behind.
[Illustration: CAROLINA PAROQUET.]
Family 39. PARROTS AND PAROQUETS. Psittacidæ.
Characters the same as those of Order.
Order XIV. Cuckoos, Trogons, Kingfishers, Etc. COCCYGES.
(3 families, 8 species, 2 subspecies.)
A composite Order of several groups of birds bearing no close relation
to each other. Cuckoos have slightly curved bills, long tails, and two
toes in front and two behind. Trogons have short, rather broad, stout
bills, and soft, loose plumage, often green above, red below;
moderately long tails; small feet with two toes in front, two behind.
Kingfishers have long, rather stout, pointed bills; wings, long; tail,
medium; three toes in front and one behind; middle and outer toes
joined for half their length.
[Illustration: YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO.]
Family 40. CUCKOOS, ANIS. ETC. Cuculidæ.
Toes two in front, two behind; bill, usually, more or less decurved;
tail, long and rounded, the outer feathers being, generally, much
shorter than the middle pair.
[Illustration: COPPERY-TAILED TROGON.]
Family 41. TROGONS. Trogonidæ.
Toes two in front, two behind; bill, short; upper mandible decurved
and dentate; tail square; plumage, soft, loose, and generally shining
green above.
[Illustration: BELTED KINGFISHER.]
Family 42. KINGFISHERS. Alcedinidæ.
Legs short; feet small; toes, three in front, one behind; third and
fourth toes joined; bill, stout and long.
Order XV. Woodpeckers. PICI.
(1 family, 24 species, 22 subspecies.)
Climbing birds with stout, pointed bills, bristly nostrils, pointed,
stiffened tail feathers, strong feet and nails; two toes in front and
two behind, except in _Picoides_, which has two in front and one
behind. Prevailing colors, black and white, the males usually with red
on the crown.
[Illustration: FOOT OF THREE-TOED WOODPECKER.]
[Illustration: PILEATED WOODPECKER.]
Family 43. WOODPECKERS. Picidæ.
Characters the same as those of the Order.
Order XVI. Goatsuckers, Swifts, and Hummingbirds. MACROCHIRES.
(3 families, 27 species, 6 subspecies.)
Bill, in the Goatsuckers and Swifts, small; mouth large; in the
Hummingbirds, bill long, slender, needle-like; wings and tail
variable; feet, in all three groups, small and weak. Color, in
Goatsuckers, mixed brown, buff and black; in Swifts, black and white;
in Hummingbirds, usually shining green above with resplendent
throat-patches of varied hues.
[Illustration: WHIP-POOR-WILL.]
Family 44. GOATSUCKERS, ETC. Caprimulgidæ.
Feet usually small and weak; toes, three in front, one behind; middle
toe-nail pectinate or combed; bill small; mouth very large and usually
beset by long bristles.
[Illustration: CHIMNEY SWIFT.]
Family 45. SWIFTS. Micropodidæ.
Bill small, triangular when seen from above; mouth large, no bristles;
tail variable, in _Chætura_ with projecting spines; wings long and
narrow; feet small and toes short; plumage usually dark.
[Illustration: RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD.]
Family 46. HUMMINGBIRDS. Trochilidæ.
Bill long and slender; feet slender; wings large and pointed; tail
exceedingly variable, often assuming the most striking shapes.
Order XVII. Flycatchers, Jays, Blackbirds, Finches, Swallows,
Warblers, Thrushes, and Other Perching Birds. PASSERES.
(18 families, about 325 species and 226 subspecies.)
Bill, wings, and tail variable; feet with four toes not connected, the
hind-toe as long as the middle one; its nail generally longer than
that of the middle toe. This Order contains more species than the
remaining sixteen Orders put together. In it will be found over 80 per
cent. of the birds commonly seen by field students. It is difficult of
definition, but almost any small perching bird may, with more or less
certainty, be referred to the _Passeres_.
[Illustration: FOOT OF ROBIN.--(a typical Passerine foot.)]
[Illustration: PHOEBE.]
Family 48. FLYCATCHERS. Tyrannidæ.
Bill broad, flat, hooked at tip, its base with bristles; wings rather
pointed, the second to fourth primaries longest; tarsus rounded behind
as well as in front; feathers of crown generally somewhat lengthened,
forming when erected, a small crest; pose, when perching, erect; food
of insects usually captured on the wing; voice generally unmusical.
[Illustration: HORNED LARK.]
Family 49. LARKS. Alaudidæ.
Hind toe-nail much lengthened; bill rounded, straight; tarsus rounded
behind as well as in front; our species with a tuft of feathers on
either side of the head; outer primary short or rudimentary; walking
birds, singing while on the wing.
[Illustration: BLUE JAY.]
Family 50. CROWS AND JAYS. Corvidæ.
Large perching birds, usually twelve inches or more in length; bill
stout; nostrils covered by projecting bristles; feet heavy; outer
tail-feathers usually shortest; fourth to fifth primary longest, first
about half as long.
[Illustration: PURPLE GRACKLE.]
[Illustration: BALTIMORE ORIOLE.]
Family 52. BLACKBIRDS, ORIOLES, ETC. Icteridæ.
Base of bill, between nostrils, extending back and dividing feathers
on forehead; nostrils not concealed by bristles; first three primaries
of equal length.
[Illustration: REDPOLL.]
[Illustration: SONG SPARROW.]
[Illustration: EVENING GROSBEAK.]
[Illustration: CARDINAL.]
Family 53. FINCHES, SPARROWS, ETC. Fringillidæ.
Bill short, stout, conical; third or fourth primaries longest; first
about half an inch shorter; the majority are small birds and but few
are over eight inches in length.
[Illustration: SUMMER TANAGER.]
Family 54. TANAGERS. Tanagridæ.
Bill somewhat finch-like but more swollen in outline; the upper
mandible, in typical forms, toothed or dentate.
[Illustration: TREE SWALLOW.]
Family 55. SWALLOWS. Hirundinidæ.
Bill short, broad and flat; feet small and weak; wings long and
narrow; tail notched and sometimes forked; birds of the air, feeding
while on the wing.
[Illustration: CEDAR WAXWING.]
Family 56. WAXWINGS. Ampelidæ.
Bill short, stout, and rounded, its tip notched; wings rather long;
head crested.
[Illustration: NORTHERN SHRIKE.]
Family 57. SHRIKES. Laniidæ.
Bill stout, its mandible hooked and hawk-like; feet truly Passerine;
pose, in perching, erect; solitary grayish birds.
[Illustration: RED-EYED VIREO.]
Family 58. VIREOS. Vireonidæ.
Bill small, but distinctly hooked; outer primary usually very small
and sometimes apparently wanting; olive-green gleaners among the
leaves.
[Illustration: NASHVILLE WARBLER.]
[Illustration: YELLOW WARBLER.]
[Illustration: AMERICAN REDSTART.]
[Illustration: CHAT.]
Family 60. WARBLERS. Mniotiltidæ.
Bill, in most of the species, slender, sharply pointed, and without a
notch or hook at the tip; in the genera _Wilsonia_ and _Setophaga_,
flat and flycatcher-like; in _Icteria_ stout; back of tarsus
compressed into a thin ridge; three outer primaries of nearly equal
length.
[Illustration: AMERICAN PIPIT.]
Family 61. WAGTAILS. Motacillidæ.
Hind toe-nail much lengthened; bill slender, nostril not covered with
bristles, as in true Larks; back of tarsus thin, not rounded;
terrestrial, walking with a wagging motion of the tail.
[Illustration: AMERICAN DIPPER.]
Family 62. DIPPERS. Cinclidæ.
Thick-set birds with short wings and tail; plumage thick and
water-proof; tarsus scaled; semi-aquatic in habit, haunting mountain
streams.
[Illustration: BROWN THRASHER.]
[Illustration: HOUSE WREN.]
Family 63. WRENS, THRASHERS, ETC. Troglodytidæ.
Tarsus scaled; tail rounded, the outer feathers being shortest; third
to fourth primary longest, the outer half as long; bill in Thrashers
often decurved, its base with bristles; In Wrens, bill without
bristles; brown or grayish inhabitants of lower growth.
[Illustration: BROWN CREEPER.]
Family 64. CREEPERS. Certhiidæ.
Bill slender and much decurved; tail usually pointed and stiffened.
[Illustration: CHICKADEE.]
[Illustration: RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH.]
Family 65. NUTHATCHES AND TITS. Paridæ.
Fourth or fifth primary longest; first an inch or less in length.
Chickadees (subfamily _Parinæ_) have a short, stout bill, the nostrils
covered with bristles; the tail is rather long and rounded. Nuthatches
(subfamily _Sittinæ_) have a long, slender bill, short, square tail,
and large feet.
[Illustration: GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLET.]
Family 66. KINGLETS, GNATCATCHERS, ETC. Sylviidæ.
Bill slender and Warbler-like, but first primary only one-third as
long as the fourth.
[Illustration: WOOD THRUSH.]
Family 67. THRUSHES, BLUEBIRDS, ETC. Turdidæ.
Tarsus 'booted', without scales, (see foot of Robin under Synopsis of
Order _Passeres_); tail square; mandible notched and slightly hooked;
outer primary an inch or less in length; second to fourth of about
equal length.
COLOR KEY TO
NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS
Order I. DIVING BIRDS.
PYGOPODES.
Family 1. GREBES. Podicipidæ. 6 species.
Family 2. LOONS. Gaviidæ. 5 species.
Family 3. AUKS, MURRES, and PUFFINS. Alcidæ. 21 species, 3
subspecies.
Grebes are at home in reed-grown ponds or sloughs where their nests
are made on rafts or islets of water-soaked vegetation. Their eggs
number from four to eight, are dull white in color, and are usually
covered by the bird with a portion of the nesting material when it
leaves its home. Grebes occasionally rest on the shore, but are rarely
found far from the water. When on land they may lie flat on their
breasts or sit erect on their tails and entire foot, or tarsus. Their
progress on land, as a rule, is awkward and they may use their wings
as fore feet to assist them. In diving, Grebes sometimes spring partly
from the water and then plunge downward head first, or they may
quietly sink with scarce a ripple to mark the place of their
disappearance.
Loons generally pass the summer on some large lake, and in the winter
many of them live at sea. They nest, as a rule, on the shore, but so
near the water that the parent bird may slide off its two dark brown,
mottled eggs into its favorite element. Like the Grebes, Loons are
expert divers, and birds of both families so often seek safety under
the water rather than in the air that it is frequently difficult to
make them fly. The young of both Grebes and Loons are born covered
with feathers and take to the water shortly after birth, often using
the back of the parent bird as an ever present island on which they
may rest at will.
The Auks, Murres, and Puffins are sea birds which nest usually in
large colonies on isolated islets or rocky, inaccessible shores of the
northern part of the northern hemisphere. They lay one or two eggs,
sometimes in an exposed position among the rocks with no attempt at
nest-building, sometimes at the end of a burrow excavated by the
birds. In the latter case, the young are reared in the nest; in the
former, they sometimes enter the water at an early age.
The one egg laid by Murres is remarkable both in color and in shape.
In color it varies from bluish green to buff, and is usually heavily
scrawled with black. In outline it is pyriform or pear-shaped. When
moved it does not roll away as would a hen's egg but revolves about
its own tip. In this manner it retains its place on the narrow ledges
often chosen by Murres for nesting-sites.
Grebes and Loons
[Illustration: 2]
=2. HolbÅll Grebe= (_Colymbus holbÅlli_). L. 19. _Ads._ Crown and
hindneck glossy black; back blackish; throat, cheeks, and underparts
white; foreneck and sides rufous. _Winter._ Above blackish brown;
throat and underparts white; foreneck pale rufous. _Yng._ Similar but
no rufous. _Notes._ "An explosive _kup_" and "An exceedingly loud
harsh voice not unlike that of an angry Crow, but of much greater
volume. The calls were also given more slowly and indeed with singular
deliberation, _car_, _car_, three or four times, sometimes lengthened
to _caar_, and again, broken and quavering like _ca-a-a-r_ or
_ca-a-a-a-r_." (Brewster.)
Range.--North America, eastern Siberia, and Japan; breeds locally in
the interior from about Lat. 50° northward; winters from Maine and
British Columbia southward to South Carolina, Nebraska and Southern
California, chiefly on the coasts.
[Illustration: 3]
=3. Horned Grebe= (_Colymbus auritus_). L. 13.5. _Ads., summer._
Crown, hindneck, and throat glossy black; plumes behind eye deep buff;
back and wings blackish; foreneck, breast, sides, and lores chestnut;
abdomen white. _Winter._ Above grayish black; below white.
Range.--Northern Hemisphere; breeds largely in the interior from
eastern Quebec, northern Illinois, St. Clair Flats, North Dakota, and
British Columbia northward; winters from Maine and British Columbia
south to Gulf States and southern California.
[Illustration: 4]
=4. American Eared Grebe= (_Colymbus nigricollis californicus_). L.
13. _Ads._ Above, neck all around, and _upper breast_ brownish black;
cheek tufts yellowish brown; flanks chestnut; belly white. _Winter._
Grayish brown above; white below.
Range.--Western North America east to Kansas; breeds locally from
Texas and middle California north to Manitoba and British Columbia;
winters from British Columbia, on the Pacific coast, and Texas
southward.
[Illustration: 5]
=5. Least Grebe= (_Colymbus dominicus brachypterus_). L. 10. _Ads._
Throat black; _cheeks slaty_, above blackish; below grayish. _Winter._
Similar but no black or slate on throat or cheeks. Smallest of our
Grebes.
Range.--Lower Rio Grande Valley in Texas and southern Lower California
south to northern South America.
[Illustration: 6]
=6. Pied-billed Grebe= (_Podilymbus podiceps_). L. 13.5. _Ads.,
summer._ Above brownish black; throat and band on bill black;
foreneck, breast, and sides brownish; belly white. _Winter._ The same,
but throat white, breast more rusty, bill without black band. _Notes._
A loud, sonorous, "_cow-cow-cow-cow-cow-cow-cow-cow-cow-uh_, _cow-uh_,
_cow-uh_, _cow-uh_."
Range.--Argentine Republic; north through Mexico and West Indies to
Lat. of Hudson Bay; breeds locally throughout its range, but chiefly
northward; winters from New Jersey, Illinois, and southern California
southward.
[Illustration: No label. Assumed 1.]
=1. Western Grebe; Swan Grebe= (_Ãchmophorus occidentalis_). L. 26.
_Ads., summer._ Crown and hindneck black; back grayish brown; sides of
head and under parts white. _Winter._ Crown and hindneck like back.
_Notes._ A loud, rattling, grating whistle.
Range.--Western North America; In summer eastward to Shoal Lake,
Manitoba; northward to southern Alaska; breeds locally from northern
California and North Dakota northward; winters from British Columbia
to central Mexico.
[Illustration: 7.]
=7. Loon= (_Gavia imber_). L. 32. _Ads., summer._ Above, including
whole neck, glossy black; throat and neck with white streaks; back and
wings with white spots or bars; belly white. _Winter._ Above blackish
_margined with grayish_; no white spots; below white. _Notes._ A loud,
maniacal laugh.
Range.--Northern hemisphere; in North America, breeds from Maine,
northern Illinois, Minnesota, and northern California north to
Greenland and Alaska; winters from about southern limit of breeding
range south to Gulf of Mexico, chiefly on coasts.
=8. Yellow-billed Loon= (_Gavia adamsii_). L. 36. Similar to No. 7,
but larger and bill yellowish or whitish. _Notes._ Similar to those of
No. 7, but harsher. (Murdoch.)
Range.--"Arctic America west of Hudson Bay, and northern Asia; casual
in northern Europe." (A.O.U.)
[Illustration: 9.]
=9. Black-throated Loon= (_Gavia arctica_). L. 27; W. 12. _Ads.,
summer._ Foreneck and back bluish black; throat, neck, and back
streaked or barred with white; crown and nape _gray_; belly white.
_Winter._ Similar to No. 7, but smaller. _Notes._ A dismal
"_too-too-e-e._" (Turner.)
Range--Northern part of northern hemisphere; in America breeds from
Hudson Bay north to Arctic coast; winters south to British Columbia,
the Great Lakes and, casually, to Long Island.
=10. Pacific Loon= (_Gavia pacifica_). Similar to No. 9, but foreneck
in summer reflecting deep blue or green; hindneck paler; smaller, W.
11. _Notes._ A harsh "_kok, kok, kok._" (Murdoch.)
Range.--Western North America; breeds at Point Barrow, Alaska, and
eastward; winters south along Pacific Coast to Mexico.
[Illustration: 11.]
=11. Red-throated Loon= (_Gavia lumme_). L. 25. _Ads., summer._
Foreneck chestnut, head and neck ashy. _Winter._ Similar to No. 7, in
winter, but back spotted with white. _Notes._ A harsh "_gr-r ga, gr-r,
gr-r-ga, gr-r._" (Nelson.)
Range.--Northern part of northern hemisphere; in North America
breeds from New Brunswick to Greenland and Hudson Bay, and
northwest to Alaska; winters south to South Carolina and southern
California.
Auks, Murres and Puffins
[Illustration: 12.]
=12. Tufted Puffin= (_Lunda cirrhata_). L. 15. _Ads., summer._ Cheeks
white; a pair of long straw color plumes from behind eyes; rest of
plumage sooty. _Winter._ Cheeks sooty, plumes usually absent. _Yng._
Similar to winter adult, but breast and belly whitish.
Range.--Northern Pacific; resident locally from Santa Barbara Islands
north to Alaska. Accidental in Maine.
[Illustration: 13.]
=13. Puffin= (_Fratercula arctica_). L. 13; W. 6; B. 1.8. _Ads._
Above, and foreneck blackish; cheeks and under parts white; bill in
summer touched with bright red. _Notes._ A hoarse croak.
Range.--North Atlantic; breeds from Bay of Fundy north to Greenland;
winters south to Long Island.
=13a. Large-billed Puffin= (_F. a. glacialis_). W. 7; B. 2.1. Similar
to No. 13, but larger.
Range.--Arctic Ocean from Spitzenbergen to northern Greenland.
[Illustration: 14.]
=14. Horned Puffin= (_Fratercula corniculata_). Similar to No. 13, but
in summer with the throat blackish. _Notes._ "A hoarse snuffling,
rattling note" (Nelson.)
Range.--"Northern Pacific from Kuril Islands to British Columbia."
(A.O.U.)
[Illustration: 15.]
=15. Rhinoceros Auklet= (_Cerorhinca monocerata_). L. 15.5. _Ads.,
summer._ A horn on base of bill; _two_ pairs of white tufts; above
blackish; throat and breast grayish; belly white. _Winter._ Similar,
but no horn. _Yng._ Similar to winter ad. but no tufts.
Range.--"North Pacific: breeding south (formerly) to the Farallones;
in winter south to Lower California and Japan." (A.O.U.)
[Illustration: 16.]
=16. Cassin Auklet.= (_Ptycoramphus aleuticus_). L. 9. _Ads._ A white
spot above eye; above blackish; throat and breast grayish; belly
white. Notes. A shrill, squealing "_Come bear-r-r, come bear-r-r._"
Range.--"Pacific Coast of North America from Aleutian Islands to Lower
California; breeding south to San Geronimo Island (Lat. 30°)." (A.O.U.)
[Illustration: 23.]
=23. Marbled Murrelet= (_Brachyramphus marmoratus_). L. 9.7. _Ads.,
summer._ No crest; above dark brown, finely mixed with rusty; below
white, all feathers edged with brown. _Winter._ Wholly different;
above gray; head dark; below white; a nearly complete white nuchal
collar. _Yng._ Similar to winter ad. but blacker above; sprinkled with
blackish below.
Range.--North Pacific; breeds from Vancouver north to Aleutian
Islands; winters south to southern California.
=24. Kittlitz Murrelet= (_Brachyramphus brevirostris_). L. 9.5; B.,
from feathers on top, .4. _Ads., summer._ Above gray, mottled with
buff; breast and sides mottled with buff and black; belly white.
_Winter._ Sides of head, to _above_ eye, and lower parts white; above
gray; outer tail-feathers white.
Range.--Northern Japan, Kamchatka and Aleutian Islands, east to
Unalaska. (A.O.U.)
[Illustration: 25.]
=25. Xantus Murrelet= (_Brachyramphus hypoleucus_). L. 10. Bill
slender. _Ads._ Above slaty black; under surface of wing _white_;
inner webs of outer primaries _white_.
Range.--Pacific Coast from Monterey south to Cape St. Lucas; breeding
as far north as Santa Barbara Island.
=26. Craveri Murrelet= (_Brachyramphus craveri_). L. 10. Bill slender.
_Ads._ Above slaty or brownish black; sides slaty; under surface of
wings _dusky_, sometimes mixed with white.
Range,--Coasts of Lower California, from Cape St. Lucas north to
Espiritu Santo Island in the Gulf of California, and to Natividad
Island (lat. 28°) on the Pacific side. (A.O.U.)
[Illustration: 34.]
=34. Dovekie= (_Alle alle_). L. 8. _Ads., summer._ Above blackish;
inner wing feathers tipped with white; throat and breast blackish
brown. _Winter._ Similar, but throat and breast white or mixed
grayish.
Range--North Atlantic and East Arctic; in America breeds from Lat. 68°
northward; winters south to Long Island, rarely to Virginia.
Accidental in Michigan.
[Illustration: 17.]
=17. Paroquet Auklet= (_Cyclorrhynchus psittaculus_). L. 10. _Ads.,
summer._ _No_ crest; a white plume from behind eye; above blackish;
throat grayer, rest of under parts white. _Winter._ Throat white.
_Notes._ "A low, sonorous, vibrating whistle." (Nelson.)
Range.--"North Pacific, from Sitka and the Kuril Islands northward."
(A.O.U.) Five records for coast off San Francisco in winter.
[Illustration: 18.]
=18. Crested Auklet= (_Simorhynchus cristatellus_). L. 10. _Ads.,
summer._ Bill red; a crest of slender recurved feathers; a pair of
white tufts from behind eye; above sooty black; below grayer. _Yng._
Similar but bill brown; no crest or tufts. _Notes._ "A chirping note,"
(Nelson.)
Range.--"North Pacific from Kadiak and Japan northward." (A.O.U.)
[Illustration: 19.]
=19. Whiskered Auklet= (_Simorhynchus pygmæus_). L. 7.5. _Ads.,
summer._ White feathers at base of sides of bill and, much lengthened,
from above and below eye; a crest of slender recurved feathers; above,
and throat dark slate fading into white belly. _Yng._ Similar but no
crest; little or no white on head. _Notes._ "A low chattering note."
(Nelson.)
Range--"North Pacific, from Unalaska through the Aleutian chain to
Kamchatka." (A.O.U.)
[Illustration: 20.]
=20. Least Auklet= (_Simorhynchus pusillus_). L. 6.5. _Ads., summer._
No crest; sides of head with white feathers; above blackish; chin
sooty; throat white; under parts white, marked irregularly with sooty.
_Winter._ Little or no sooty on breast. _Yng._ Similar to winter ad.,
but no white plumes.
Range.--"North Pacific, from Sitka and Japan north to Bering Strait."
(A.O.U.)
[Illustration: 21.]
=21. Ancient Murrelet= (_Synthliboramphus antiquus_). L. 10.5. _Ads.,
summer._ No crest; head and _throat_ black; broad white stripes behind
eye; back gray; breast and belly white. _Winter._ Similar but throat
white; no white head stripes. _Notes._ "A low plaintive whistle."
(Nelson.)
Range.--North Pacific, from southern Vancouver Island and Japan
northward; south in winter to Monterey, California; accidental in
Wisconsin.
[Illustration: 27.]
=27. Black Guillemot= (_Cepphus grylle_). L. 13. _Ads., summer._
Black; greater wing-coverts white, black at base; under surface of
wings _white_. _Winter._ Above gray or black tipped with white; below
white.
Range.--Coasts of northern Europe and North Atlantic; in America
breeds from Knox Co., Maine north to southern Greenland; winters south
to Quebec and Massachusetts; rarely to Toronto, Connecticut, and Long
Island.
=28. Mandt Guillemot= (_Cepphus mandtii_). Similar to No. 27, but
bases of greater wing-coverts _white_.
Range.--Arctic regions; breeds from Labrador and Hudson Bay north to
northern Greenland and northern Alaska; in winter migrates but little
southward; no satisfactory United States record.
=29. Pigeon Guillemot= (_Cepphus columba_). Similar to No. 27, but
inner surface of wings _sooty gray_. _Notes._ A squealing, vibrant
whistle.
Range.--North Pacific; breeds from Santa Catalina Island north to
Bering Strait, west through Aleutian Islands to Kamchatka and northern
Japan; winters in same region.
[Illustration: 30.]
=30. Murre= (_Uria troile_). L. 16; B. 1.7. _Ads., summer._ Above and
neck sooty brown; under parts and tips of secondaries white; sides
with blackish streaks. _Winter._ Similar, but throat white washed with
sooty. _Notes._ A hoarse _murre_ and squawking _a-r-r-r-r-r-rh_.
Range.--North Atlantic; breeds in North America from Bird Rock,
Magdalen Islands, north to southern Greenland; winters south to Maine
and, rarely, Ontario.
=30a. California Murre= (_U. t. californica_). Similar to No. 30 but
larger, W. 8.2; B. 1.9.
Range.--North Pacific; breeds from Pribilof Islands south to
Farallones; winters south to southern California.
[Illustration: 31.]
=31. Brunnich Murre= (_Uria lomvia_). Similar to No. 30, but bill
shorter, 1.2. In summer, head and throat browner, lower mandible
swollen at sides and grayish at base.
Range.--North Atlantic and eastern Arctic; breeds in North America
from Bird Rock, Magdalen Islands, north to Greenland; winters south to
New Jersey and along St. Lawrence to Lakes Champlain and Ontario,
rarely to Lake Michigan.
=31a. Pallas Murre= (_U. l. arra_). Similar to No. 31, but larger; W.
8.6; B. 1.5. _Notes._ "A peculiar growling or hoarse chattering note."
(Nelson.)
Range.--North Pacific; south to Kadiak and Kamchatka.
[Illustration: 32.]
=32. Razor-billed Auk= (_Alca torda_). L. 16.5. _Ads., summer._ Above
sooty black, foreneck browner; tips of secondaries, line from bill to
eye, and under parts, white. _Winter._ Similar, but foreneck white.
_Yng._ Similar to winter ad. but without eye line. _Notes._ A hoarse
grunt or groan.
Range.--North Atlantic; breeds from Bird Rock, Magdalen Islands, north
to Greenland; winters south to Long Island and, rarely, to Ontario and
North Carolina.
=33. Great Auk= (_Plautus impennis_). L. 29; W. 5.7. _Ads._ Above
blackish; a large white spot before the eye; secondaries tipped with
white; sides of neck and the throat seal brown; belly, white.
Resembling No. 32 in general appearance but body much larger; wing,
however, _shorter_.
Range.--Formerly, the coasts and islands of North Atlantic, south on
American side to Florida (in winter?); now extinct.
Order II. LONG-WINGED SWIMMERS.
LONGIPENNES.
Family 1. SKUAS and JAEGERS. Stercorariidæ. 4 species.
Family 2. GULLS and TERNS. Laridæ. 37 species, 1 subspecies.
Family 3. SKIMMERS. Rynchopidæ. 1 species.
Skuas and Jaegers are pirates among the birds of the high seas. Bold
and dashing, they pursue the swift flying Terns or much larger Gulls
with equal success, forcing them to drop the fish they have captured
and catching it ere it reaches the water.
Gulls (Subfamily _Larinæ_) are usually considered so characteristic of
the sea that 'Sea Gull' is the name popularly applied to all members
of the subfamily to which they belong. Several species, however, are
equally at home, both in the winter and when nesting, on the larger
bodies of water in the interior, and one species is rarely or never
found on our sea coasts.
Gulls nest on the ground, on drifts of marsh-grass, on cliffs, and one
species, at least, among American Gulls (the Herring Gull) has as a
result of persecution, acquired the habit of nesting in trees.
Gulls feed from the surface of the water, picking up their food with
their strongly curved bills in passing or while hovering, not by
plunging into the water, as do the Terns. They are, in fact, the
scavengers of the water, and perform a service of great value to
mankind by devouring the bodies of various forms of aquatic animals
which, in dying, come to the surface and, if cast ashore, might, in
decaying, prove a source of disease.
For this reason it was especially unfortunate that the plumage of
these birds became fashionable for millinery purposes, with the result
that thousands of them were destroyed for their wings and breasts. In
this country, however, through the efforts of the American
Ornithologists' Union and the Audubon Societies, laws have been passed
prohibiting the killing of these beautiful and useful birds, and
wardens have been placed on their nesting grounds to protect them.
Gulls often rest in great flocks on the water, sitting high up and
riding the waves buoyantly, but the Terns (Subfamily _Sterninæ_),
after they have acquired the power of flight, are rarely seen on the
water. They are lighter, more active birds than the Gulls, with longer
wings and tails, and sharper, more pointed bills. They feed largely on
small fish (the species called silversides being a favorite) of no
value to man, which they secure by darting from the air with great
speed and directness. When looking for food, Terns usually fly with
the bill downward, a habit which will aid in distinguishing them from
the Gulls, whose bill is carried in a line with the body.
Terns usually nest in large colonies on the beach of some isolated
islet either on our sea coasts or in the interior. The nest is
generally composed of a few wisps of sea-weed or grass, or the two or
three eggs are not infrequently laid in a slight hollow in the sand or
among the shells and pebbles.
Like the Gulls, Terns have been slaughtered in enormous numbers for
millinery purposes; but in this country, at least, effective efforts
are now being made to preserve them.
Skimmers nest in numbers on our Atlantic Coast from Virginia
southward, laying their four eggs in a slight depression in the sand.
In feeding, their mouth is held open and the longer, thin, lower
mandible is dropped beneath the surface of the water, when, flying
rapidly, they readily pick up food.
In young Skimmers, however, the two mandibles are of equal length and
the lower mandible does not become appreciably longer than the upper
one until the birds begin to fly. During the flightless period of the
bird's life, the bill may be used to pick up food along the shore, but
when the power of flight is acquired and with it ability to feed in
the characteristic Skimmer manner, then the peculiar bill of these
birds becomes fully developed.
The young of all the Gulls and Terns are born covered with down and
can leave the nest a few hours after birth. The Noddy, however, is
said to be several weeks in its stick nest, which, unlike other
members of its group, it often builds in bushes.
The young are colored to harmonize with their usual surroundings.
Young Skimmers are pale, sandy brown, of the same color as the sand in
which they are hatched. Young Terns are darker, and young Laughing
Gulls born in nests of reeds or meadow grasses, are the darkest of the
three.
All young Gulls and Terns have the habit of squatting low near the
ground in the presence of danger and remaining motionless until
actually touched when they seem to realize that they have been seen
and trust to their legs for safety.
Skua and Jaegers
[Illustration: 35.]
=35. Skua= (_Megalestris skua_). L. 22. _Ads._ Above dark, dirty
brown; below paler. _Yng._ Similar, but more distinctly streaked with
yellowish, especially on head and neck.
Range.--North Atlantic, chiefly eastern; breeds from Shetland Islands
northward; winters south to Gibraltar, and rarely Long Island. One
specimen from California coast.
[Illustration: 36.]
=36. Pomarine Jaeger= (_Stercorarius pomarinus_). L. 20; B. 1.5.
Middle tail feathers rounded. _Ads. light phase._ Cap black; throat,
breast, and neck, all around, white tinged with straw; back, lower
belly, upper and under tail coverts brownish slate. _Ads. dark phase._
Dark brown, paler below. _Yng._ Above blackish brown margined with
rusty; below white margined with dusky and buffy. _Notes._ "A low,
hoarse, chattering cry." (Nelson.)
Range.--Northern hemisphere; breeds north of Lat. 70°; winters, mainly
at sea, south to South America, southern Africa and Australia.
[Illustration: 37.]
=37. Parasitic Jaeger= (_Stercorarius parasiticus_). L. 17; B. 1.1;
its scaly shield _longer_ than distance from end of shield to tip of
bill. _Ads._ Both phases similar in color to No. 36, but central tail
feathers _pointed_, 8.6 long. _Yng._ Similar in color to No. 36 but
smaller, bill shorter, middle tail feathers more pointed. _Notes._
"Loud wailing cries, interspersed with harsh shrieks." (Nelson.)
Range.--Northern hemisphere; breeds in Arctic regions; winters mainly
at sea, from California, Great Lakes, and Massachusetts south to South
America.
[Illustration: 38.]
=38. Long-tailed Jaeger= (_Stercorarius longicaudus_). L. 21; B. 1,
its scaly shield _shorter_ than the distance from its end to the tip
of bill. _Ads._ In both phases resembling No. 36 but central tail
feathers pointed and 12 in. long. _Yng._ Like No. 36 and No. 37, but
to be distinguished by differences in bill measurements. _Notes._
"A hoarse _qua_, a shrill _phÄÅ«-phÄÅ«-phÄÅ«-pheo_, when flying; or a
rattling _kr-r-r-r-_, _kr-r-r-r_, _kr-r-r_, _krÄ-krÄ-_, _krÄ-krÄ_,
the latter syllables shrill and querulous." (Nelson.)
Range.--Northern hemisphere; breeds in Arctic regions; winters mainly
at sea, south to Gibraltar and Gulf of Mexico; one California record.
[Illustration: Bills of 38 and 37 Nat. Size]
Gulls
[Illustration: 39.]
=39. Ivory Gull= (_Pagophila alba_). L. 17. _Ads._ Pure white; bill
yellow; feet black. _Yng._ Similar, but wings and tail tipped with
blackish; throat dusky.
Range.--Breeds in Arctic regions; winters south to Great Lakes and
British Columbia; rarely to Massachusetts.
[Illustration: 40.]
=40. Kittiwake= (_Rissa tridactyla_). L. 16. Hind toe a knob. _Ads._
Head, neck all around, underparts, and tail white; 3 in. or less, of
tips of primaries black. _Yng._ Tip of tail, ear-coverts, nape, and
wing-coverts with black; bill black; inner web of primaries with
white. _Notes._ A rapidly uttered _'kit-a-wake_, _'kit-a-wake_.
Range.--North Atlantic and eastern Arctic regions; breeds in America,
from Gulf of St. Lawrence to Greenland; winters south to Great Lakes,
Long Island and, rarely, Virginia.
=40a. Pacific Kittiwake= (_Rissa tridactyla pollicaris_). Similar to
No. 40, but hind toe more developed; black tips to 3 outer primaries,
3 in. or more in length. _Notes._ "A shrill, harsh cry when disturbed
and a low whistle when communicating with each other." (Nelson.)
Range.--"North Pacific and Bering Sea; south in winter, casually to
southern California." (A.O.U.)
[Illustration: 41.]
=41. Red-legged Kittiwake= (Rissa brevirostris). _Ads._ Similar to Ad.
of No. 40, but legs red, back and inner web of primaries darker; bill
shorter, 1.2. _Yng._ Similar to No. 40, but no black on tail or wings.
Range.--"Coasts and Islands of Bering Sea." (A.O.U.)
[Illustration: 54.]
=54. Ring-billed Gull= (_Larus delawarensis_). L. 18. _Ads., summer._
Rill greenish yellow, a black band across tip; ends of primaries
black, a white spot near tip of outer one. _Ads. Winter._ Similar, but
head and neck streaked with grayish. _Yng._ Tail grayish with a broad
black band; primaries black; back brownish gray and whitish; belly
white; end half of bill black.
Range.--North America, coast and interior; breeds from Newfoundland,
southern Minnesota, and British Columbia northward; winters from Nova
Scotia and British Columbia south to Cuba and Lower California.
[Illustration: 55.]
=55. Short-billed Gull= (_Larus brachyrhynchus_). L. 17; B. 1.50
_Ads., summer._ Head, neck, tail, and underparts white. Two outer
primaries tipped with black, their white spaces followed by black;
remaining primaries tipped with white. _Yng._ Grayish brown; basal
half of tail pearl. _Notes._ "A sharp querulous _kwew-kwew_,"
(Nelson.)
Range.--North Pacific; breeds in Alaska and interior of northern
British Columbia; winters on coast from British Columbia to southern
California.
[Illustration: 42.]
=42. Glaucous Gull= (_Larus glaucus_). L. 28; W. 17.1; B. 2.35. No
black in plumage. _Ads._ Primaries white tinted with pearl; bill with
red spot at end of lower mandible. _Yng._ Dirty white or gray, mottled
with dusky and buffy, chiefly above; primaries white; outer webs
brownish.
Range.--Northern hemisphere; breeds in America, from Labrador
northward; winters south to middle California, Great Lakes and Long
Island.
=42.1. Point Barrow Gull= (_Larus barrovianus_). Similar to No. 42,
but bill through angle not so deep, (.8 as compared with .9 in
_glaucus_); primaries more distinctly tipped with white. _Notes._
"_kû-kû-kû_, _kû-kû-kû_, _kû-lÄÄ-ÅÅ_, _kû-lÄÄ-ÅÅ_, _kû-lÄÄ-ÅÅ_,
_kû-kû-kû_, _kû-kû-kû_, the _kû-kû_ hoarse, the rest a shrill
screaming." (Nelson.)
Range.--"Bering Sea and contiguous waters; northeast to Point Barrow,
southwest to Japan." (A.O.U.)
[Illustration: 43.]
=43. Iceland Gull= (_Larus leucopterus_). L. 25; W. 16; B. 1.75.
Similar in color to Nos. 42 and 42.1, but smaller.
Range.--Atlantic; breeds in Greenland; winters south in America to
Great Lakes, and rarely, Long Island.
[Illustration: 44.]
=44. Glaucous-winged Gull= (_Larus glaucescens_). L. 27. _Ads.,
summer._ Head, tail, and underparts white; back pearl; primaries
_pearl_, tipped with _white_. _Ads., winter._ Head and neck streaked
with brownish. _Yng._ Brownish gray, more or less mixed with white,
including wings and tail.
Range.--North Pacific; breeds from British Columbia to Bering
Straits; winters south to southern California.
[Illustration: 45.]
=45. Kumlien Gull= (_Larus kumlieni_). W. 16.2; B. 1.75. Similar to
No. 43, but primaries with well defined ashy gray spaces; outer
primary tipped with white, with ashy gray on outer web and shaft part
of inner web; second primary ashy gray on only shaft part of outer
web.
Range.--"North Atlantic coast of North America, breeding in Cumberland
Gulf; south in winter to the coast of the Middle States." (A.O.U.)
=46. Nelson Gull= (_Larus nelsoni_). "Wing 18.25, culmen 2.35. _Ads._
In plumage exactly like _L. kumlieni_; depth of bill through
angle .80; tarsus 3.05; middle toe (without claw) 2.40." (Ridgway.)
Range.--"Coast of Norton Sound, Alaska." (A.O.U.)
[Illustration: 47.]
=47. Great Black-backed Gull= (_Larus marinus_). L. 29. _Ads.,
summer._ Back and wings slaty black; wing feathers tipped with white.
_Ads., winter._ Similar, but head and neck streaked with dusky. _Yng._
Back grayish brown margined with buffy white; rump whiter; primaries
black; below white more or less marked with dusky. _Notes._ "A braying
_ha-ha-ha_, a deep _keow_, _keow_, a short barking note, and a
long-drawn groan, very loud and decidedly impressive." (Brewster.)
Range.--North Atlantic and northern Europe; breeds in North America
from Nova Scotia to Greenland; winters south to Great Lakes and South
Carolina.
[Illustration: 48.]
=48. Slaty-backed Gull= (_Larus schistisagus_). L. 26. _Ads., summer._
General appearance of No. 47; back lighter; primaries as figured.
_Ads., winter._ Head and neck streaked. _Yng._ Above brown margined
with buff and white; primaries brown; tail brown with little or no
mottling; below brown.
Range.--"North Pacific, chiefly on the Asiatic side; Herald Island,
Arctic Ocean, and Alaskan coast of Bering Sea." (A.O.U.)
[Illustration: 49.]
=49. Western Gull= (_Larus occidentalis_). L. 24. _Ads., summer._
Head, neck, tail, and underparts white; back slaty gray; outer
primaries black, a large white spot near tip of first one. _Ads.,
winter._ Crown and hind neck streaked with brownish. _Yng._ Grayish
brown mixed with white; wings and tail fuscous. _Notes._
_OoÄÄk_, _ooÄÄk_, _ooÄÄk_; _ca-ca-ca_, and other calls.
Range.--Pacific coast; breeds and winters from Lower California to
British Columbia.
[Illustration: 57.]
=57. Heermann Gull= (_Larus heermanni_). L. 17. _Ads., summer._ Bill
red; head and throat white, shading into slate above and below; tail
blackish, tipped with white; primaries black. _Ads., winter._ Head and
neck streaked with grayish brown. _Yng._ Uniform grayish brown.
Range.--Pacific coast of North America; breeds from Mazatlan, Mexico,
north to Lower California; occurs regularly north to Vancouver Island;
winters south to Panama.
[Illustration: 51.]
[Illustration: 51.]
[Illustration: 51. Immature]
=51. Herring Gull= (_Larus argentatus_). L. 24. _Ads., summer._ White
spaces at end of outer primaries sometimes joined. _Ads., winter._
Similar, but head and neck, streaked with grayish. _Yng._ Above ashy
brown, margined and marked with buffy; wings brownish black; tail the
same; sometimes margined with buffy; below ashy brown, sometimes
lightly barred or streaked with dusky. _Notes._ _Cack-cack-cack_;
_hah_, _hah_, _hah_, and other notes.
Range.--Northern hemisphere; breeds in America from Maine, Great
Lakes, Minnesota, and British Columbia northward; winters south to
Cuba and Lower California.
[Illustration: 52.]
=52. Vega Gull= (_Larus vegæ_). Similar to No. 51, but back said to be
darker; feet yellow.
Range.--"Bering Sea and adjacent waters; south in winter to California
and Japan." (A.O.U.)
[Illustration: 53.]
=53. California Gull= (_Larus californicus_). L. 20. _Ads._ Similar to
No. 54 but larger; a red spot near tip of lower mandible; white spot
on outer primary, larger and nearer end. _Yng._ Similar to No. 54 but
darker; tail nearly uniform fuscous.
Range.--Western North America; breeds chiefly in interior, from Utah
to Lat. 68°, 30'; winters from British Columbia to Mexico.
[Illustration: 58.]
=58. Laughing Gull= (_Larus atricilla_). L. 16. _Ads., summer._ Head
dark slate; tail white; bill with reddish. _Ads., winter._ Similar,
but head and throat white with grayish on nape and behind eyes. _Yng._
Tail grayish with a broad black band; nape and back ashy brown;
forehead and under parts white. _Notes._ A nasal _cow-ow_, also
_cuk-cuk-cuk_, and a high, long-drawn laugh.
Range.--Eastern North America; breeds from Texas and Florida to Maine
and Nova Scotia; rare in interior; winters from South Carolina to
northern South America.
[Illustration: 59.]
=59. Franklin Gull= (_Larus franklini_). L. 15. _Ads., summer._ Breast
with a rosy tinge; outer primaries with wide black spaces near ends,
bordered at base and tip with white. _Ads., winter._ "Head mainly
white, with [its] sides and back grayish dusky." _Yng._ "Top and sides
of head and back grayish brown; quills dusky, tipped with white; tail
with subterminal band of dusky; rest of tail, under parts, forehead,
and eyelids white." (Bailey.)
Range.--Interior of North America; breeds from Iowa and Minnesota
northward to Great Bear Lake; winters from west Gulf States to South
America.
[Illustration: 60.]
=60. Bonaparte Gull= (_Larus philadelphia_). L. 14. _Ads., summer._
Outer web of outer primaries and tip black; inner web and shaft white;
bill black. _Ads., winter._ Similar, but throat and head white, its
back grayish. _Yng._ Tail white, tipped with black; outer primary
black, inner two-thirds of inner web and space near tip white; rest of
plumage much as in young of No. 58.
Range.--North America; breeds in interior from Hudson Bay and Manitoba
west to the Yukon; winters from British Columbia and Maine to Lower
California and Gulf of Mexico.
[Illustration: 61.]
=61. Ross Gull= (_Rhodostethia rosea_) L. 13.5. Bill small, .7; middle
tail feathers longest. _Ads., summer._ White areas tinged with pink; a
black collar. _Ads., winter._ No collar; a black spot before eye.
_Yng._ Lesser coverts black, margined with whitish; tail white,
central feathers tipped with black; back pearl; ear spot and space
about eye dusky; crown white, washed with pearl.
Range.--"Arctic regions; south in autumn and winter to Kamchatka,
Point Barrow, Alaska and Disco Bay, Greenland." (A.O.U.)
[Illustration: 62.]
=62. Sabine Gull= (_Xema sabinii_). L. 14. Tail slightly forked.
_Ads., summer._ Head and throat slaty black, margined behind with
black; bill black, tipped with yellow; outer primaries black, small
tip and inner half of inner web white. _Ads., winter._ Similar, but
head and throat white; nape region dusky. _Yng._ Tail white, tipped
with black; crown and back ashy brown; forehead and underparts white.
_Notes._ "A single harsh grating note." (Nelson.)
Range.--Arctic regions: breeds in America from St. Michaels, Alaska
and Melville Bay, Greenland, northward; winters south on Atlantic
coast, rarely to New York; casually to Texas, and on Pacific coast to
Peru.
Terns
[Illustration: 64.]
=64. Caspian Tern= (_Sterna caspia_). L. 21. T. 6., forked 1.5.
Largest of our Terns. _Ads., breeding._ Bill red; cap black; above
pearl; below-white; _primaries frosty black_. After breeding, crown
streaked black and white; bill more orange. _Yng._ Similar to last but
wings and tail with blackish. _Notes._ A loud, harsh "_kay-awk_" or
"_key-rak_."
Range.--Cosmopolitan; breeds in North America, locally from Texas to
Newfoundland and Great Slave Lake; winters mostly south of United
States; three California winter records.
[Illustration: 65.]
=65. Royal Tern= (_Sterna maxima_). L. 19; T. 7, forked 3.5; B. 2.5.
_Ads., summer._ _Primaries frosty black_, _white on inner two-thirds
of inner web except at tip_, _where frosty_; bill orange red; crown
black; above pearl; below white. _Ads., winter._ The same, but head
white with black streaks. _Yng._ Similar to winter ad. but wings and
tail with grayish.
Range.--Middle America; breeds from southern Brazil and Peru to Gulf
States, Virginia, and California; wanders north to Great Lakes and
Massachusetts; winters from Gulf States and California southward.
[Illustration: 66.]
=66. Elegant Tern= (_Sterna elegans_). L. 16.5; B. 2.7. Similar to
No. 65, but smaller; bill longer and more slender. _Ads._ Tinged
with shell pink below.
Range.--"Pacific coast of America from California to Chili." (A.O.U.)
[Illustration: 67.]
=67. Cabot Tern= (_Sterna sandvicensis acuflavida_). L. 16; T. 5.5,
forked 2.7. _Ads., breeding._ Bill black, _the tip yellow_; crown
black; above pearl; below white; primaries much as in No. 65. After
breeding, head white; nape with black streaks. _Yng._ Similar to last
but with back and tail with blackish; tip of bill less yellow.
Range.--Tropical America; breeds on east side of Mexico north along
Gulf Coast to Florida, and Atlantic coast to South Carolina; wanders
to Massachusetts; winters south of United States to West Indies and
Central America.
[Illustration: 63.]
=63. Gull-billed Tern= (_Gelochelidon nilotica_). L. 14.5; T. 5.5.
_Ads., summer._ _Bill thick, short, black; tail short, forked only
1.5_; crown black; above pearl; below white. _Ads., winter._ Head
white, with black patch before and behind eye. _Yng._ Similar, but
above edged with buffy; head and neck streaked with grayish. _Notes._
A high, thin, somewhat reedy _tee-tee-tee_, sometimes suggesting a
weak-voiced katydid.
Range.--Cosmopolitan; breeds in North America from Mexico to Florida
and north to Virginia; wanders north rarely to New Brunswick; winters
from southern Texas southward.
[Illustration: 73.]
=73. Aleutian Tern= (_Sterna aleutica_). L. 14. T. 6.7, forked 3.
_Ads., summer._ Above _and below_ pearl gray, browner below; throat
white; crown black; _forehead white; line from bill to eye black_.
_Ads., winter._ "With rather more white on forehead." (Cat. B. M.)
_Notes._ "A thin, clear, trilling whistle." (Nelson.)
Range.--Alaska from Kadiak to Bering Strait, southwest to Japan.
[Illustration: 74.]
=74. Least Tern= (_Sterna antillarum_). L. 9; T. 3.5, forked 1.7.
_Ads., summer._ Bill _yellow_, _black_ at tip; forehead _white_;
_a black line_ from bill to eye; crown black; above pearl; below
white. _Ads., winter._ Crown white; nape black; bill dark; tail
shorter. _Yng._ Similar to last, but above with buffy or brownish.
_Notes._ "A sharp squeak much like the cry of a very young pig
following its mother."
Range.--Western hemisphere; breeds locally from northern South America
northward to Massachusetts, Dakota, and southern California; winters
south of United States.
[Illustration: 76.]
=76. Bridled Tern= (_Sterna anæthetus_). L. 15. _Ads._ Forehead and
line _over_ eye white; _lores_ and crown black; nape whitish; back
sooty gray or sooty brown; _outer_ tail feathers white, except at tip;
inner ones grayish brown. _Notes._ A soft _qua_.
Range.--Tropical regions; north in Atlantic to the Bahamas; casual in
Florida.
[Illustration: 69.]
=69. Forster Tern= (_Sterna forsteri_). L. 15; T. 7, forked. 4. _Ads.,
summer._ _Inner_ web of outer tail feather dusky; below _pure white_;
bill _orange_, blackish at end; crown black; back pearl. _Ads.,
winter._ Crown white or grayish; _a large black spot about eyes_; bill
black. _Yng._ Similar to winter ad. but above with brownish. _Notes._
A long drawn, deep, reedy _cack_ and _tweet-tweet-tweet-tweet_.
Range.--North America; breeds locally north to California, and from
Texas along coast to Virginia and in interior to Manitoba; wanders to
Massachusetts; winters from southern California and Texas south to
Brazil.
[Illustration: 70.]
=70. Common Tern= (_Sterna hirundo_). L. 15; T. 5.5, forked, 3.2
_Ads., summer._ Outer web of outer tail feather dusky; below white,
_washed with dusky_; bill _red_, blackish at end; crown black; back
pearl. _Ads., winter._ Forehead and underparts white; bill black.
_Yng._ Similar to last, but above with brownish; tail shorter.
_Notes._ A vibrant, purring, _tearrr_, and other calls.
Range.--Northern hemisphere; in America, chiefly east of Plains;
breeds locally on coast and in interior from Gulf States to Barren
Grounds and Greenland; winters south of United States to Brazil.
[Illustration: 71.]
=71. Arctic Tern= (_Sterna paradisæa_). L. 15.5; T. 7.2 forked 4.5.
Similar to No. 70, but _summer ad._ with bill _wholly bright red_;
tail longer; tarsus shorter, .6 instead of .7. _Notes._ Like _tearr_
of No. 70, but shriller, ending in rising inflection, like squeal of a
pig. (Brewster.)
Range.--Northern hemisphere; breeds from Massachusetts north to
Greenland and northwest to Aleutian Islands and Alaska; winters south
to California and Virginia.
[Illustration: 72.]
=72. Roseate Tern= (_Sterna dougalli_). L. 15.5; T. 7.5, forked, 5.2.
_Ads., summer._ _Bill black, reddish only at the base; below white
tinged with shell pink_; tail wholly white; crown black; back pearl.
_Ads., winter._ Forehead with white; no pink below. Notes. A reedy
cack.
Range.--Temperate and tropical regions; breeds in North America on
east coast only, from Florida north to Nova Scotia; rare north of
Virginia; winters south of United States to Venezuela.
[Illustration: Foot of No. 70 Nat size]
[Illustration: Foot of No. 71 Natural size]
Terns and Skimmer
[Illustration: 75.]
=75. Sooty Tern= (_Sterna fuliginosa_). L. 17. _Ads., summer._
_Above blackish_, forehead and underparts white; tail black, except
outer feathers which are mostly white. _Yng._ Sooty slate; linings
of wings white; scapulars, upper tail coverts, and tail feathers
tipped with white. _Notes._ A squeaky _quack_, a nasal _ker-wacky-wak_,
and other calls.
Range.--"Tropical and subtropical coasts of the globe. In America from
Chili to western Mexico and the Carolinas, and casually to New
England." (A.O.U.)
[Illustration: 77.]
=77. Black Tern= (_Hydrochelidon nigra surinamensis_). L. 10. _Ads.,
summer._ Head and underparts black; back, wings, and tail slate.
_Ads., winter._ Forehead, nape, and underparts _white_; head gray.
_Yng._ Similar to last, but above with brownish margins.
_Notes._ A sharp _peek_.
Range.--Temperate and tropical America; breeds in interior from
California, Kansas, and Illinois to Alaska; irregular migrant on
Atlantic coast from New Brunswick southward; winters south of
United States to Chili.
[Illustration: 79.]
=79. Noddy= (_Anous stolidus_). L. 15. _Ads._ Crown silvery white;
rest of plumage _sooty brown_. _Yng._ Similar, but all sooty brown
except white line from bill to eye. _Notes._ A low reedy _cack_
increasing to a hoarse, guttural _k-r-r-r-r-r-r-r_.
Range.--"Tropical and subtropical regions; in America from Brazil and
Chili north to the Gulf and South Atlantic States." (A.O.U.)
[Illustration: 80.]
=80. Black Skimmer= (_Rynchops nigra_). L. 18. _Ads. Lower mandible
longer than upper_; forehead, underparts, part of secondaries, and
tail white; rest of plumage black. _Yng._ Plumage widely margined with
buffy. _Notes._ Varied, nasal, penny-trumpet-like; also _ca-you_,
_ca-you_, like a hound's voice.
Range.--North America, chiefly eastern; breeds from southern New
Jersey southward; wanders rarely to Nova Scotia; winters from Gulf
States to northern South America.
Order III. TUBE-NOSED SWIMMERS.
TUBINARES.
Family 1. ALBATROSSES. Diomedeidæ. 4 species.
Family 2. FULMARS, SHEARWATERS, and PETRELS. Procellariidæ.
26 species, 1 subspecies.
The Albatrosses, of which about ten species are known, are birds of
far southern seas, where they nest on isolated islands. After the
young are reared, several species migrate northward and are found off
our Pacific coast. The largest known species, the Wandering Albatross,
which has been made famous by Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient
Mariner," measures from twelve to fourteen feet in expanse of wing,
and, like other members of this family, is a tireless ocean wanderer.
In the museum of Brown University, there is a mounted Wandering
Albatross, killed off the coast of Chili by Capt. Hiram Luther,
December 20, 1847. When captured, a small bottle was found tied around
the bird's neck, containing a slip of paper from which it was learned
that the bottle had been attached to the bird December 12, 1847, by
Capt. Edwards of the New Bedford Whaler, "Euphrates," when about 800
miles off the coast of New Zealand, or about 3,400 miles from the
point at which, eight days later, the bird was secured.
The Fulmars, (genus _Fulmarus_), are northern birds and nest in
immense numbers on isolated islets, somewhat like certain Gulls.
Comparatively little is known of the nesting places of our
Shearwaters, but it is believed that most of them breed on the islands
of the South Atlantic and South Pacific, and pass their winter, (our
summer) off our coasts.
One of the Petrels, (Wilson Petrel), is known to have this habit. It
has been found nesting on Kerguelen Island, in S. Lat. 49° 54', in
February, and in May it appears off our coasts for the summer.
Petrels nest in holes in the ground, laying one white egg. They are
never seen near their homes during the day, the bird then on the nest
waiting until night to feed, when the one which has been at sea
returns to assume its share of the task of incubation. Those birds are
therefore both diurnal and nocturnal.
Albatrosses
[Illustration: 81.]
=81. Black-footed Albatross= (_Diomedea nigripes_). L. 32. _Ads._
Sooty brown, lighter below; region about base of bill whitish; upper
mandible _broad and rounded at its base_. _Notes._ A whining groan,
uttered when contesting for food. (Turner).
Range.--North Pacific; north to Lat. 52°; south at least to Lower
California.
[Illustration: 82.]
=82. Short-tailed Albatross= (_Diomedea albatrus_). L. 36. _Ads._
White; the head straw; tail and primaries gray brown; upper mandible
broad and rounded at base.
Range.--North Pacific, north to Bering Strait; south, at least, to
Lower California.
[Illustration: 82.1.]
=82.1. Laysan Albatross= (_Diomedea immutabilis_). L. 32. _Ads._ Head,
neck, rump, upper tail coverts, and whole under surface white; lores
next to the eye sooty black; back, wings, and end of the tail dark
sooty brown; interscapular region paler; base of the tail whitish.
(Cat. B. M.)
Range.--Laysan Island, Pacific Ocean; casual off the coast of Lower
California.
=83. Yellow-nosed Albatross= (_Thalassogeron culminatus_). L. 36.
_Ads._ Above slate brown, grayer on head; rump white; below white;
neck sometimes grayish; tail gray.
Range.--"Indian and southern Pacific Oceans; casual off the coast of
Oregon; accidental in the Gulf of St. Lawrence." (A.O.U.)
[Illustration: 84.]
=84. Sooty Albatross= (_PhÅbetria fuliginosa_). L. 35. _Ads._ _Sides
of lower mandible conspicuously grooved_; entire plumage sooty brown,
except a white eye-ring.
Range.--"Oceans of southern hemisphere, north to the coast of Oregon."
(A.O.U.)
[Illustration: BILLS VIEWED FROM ABOVE (84 and 81)]
Fulmars and Shearwaters
[Illustration: 86.]
[Illustration: Bill of 86 1/2 Size.]
[Illustration: 86. Gray Phase]
=86. Fulmar= (_Fulmarus glacialis_). L. 19; W. 13; B. 1.5. _Ads. Light
phase._ Head, neck, and under parts white; back, wings, and tail slaty
gray. _Dark phase._ Uniform dark slaty gray. _Notes._ Silent.
Range.--North Atlantic, breeds from Lat. 69° northward; winters south
to Lat. of Massachusetts, and rarely to Virginia.
=86b. Pacific Fulmar= (_F. g. glupischa_). Similar to No. 86, but
nasal tubes light.
Range.--North Pacific; breeds from Bering Sea north; winters south to
Mexico.
=86.1. Rodger Fulmar= (_Fulmarus rodgersii_). Similar to light phase
of No. 86, but back with white feathers; no dark phase.
Range.--"Bering Sea and adjacent parts of North Pacific." (A.O.U.)
[Illustration: 87.]
[Illustration: Bill of 87 1/2ze.]
=87. Slender-billed Fulmar= (_Priocella glacialoides_). L. 18.5.
_Ads._ Head and underparts white; back and tail pearl; primaries
black, _white on inner web_.
Range.--Southern Seas; north on Pacific coast to Washington.
[Illustration: 94.]
[Illustration: Bill of 94 1/2 Size.]
=94. Sooty Shearwater= (_Puffinus fuliginosus_). L. 17. _Ads._ Sooty
gray, lighter below.
Range.--"Atlantic Ocean, breeding in the southern hemisphere; a summer
visitor off our coast, from South Carolina northward." (A.O.U.)
[Illustration: 95.]
=95. Dark-bodied Shearwater= (_Puffinus griseus_). L. 17. _Ads._ Above
dusky black or brownish, paler below; under wing coverts _white_ and
dusky; bill black.
Range.--South Pacific; north in summer on the American coast to
California.
=96.1. Wedge-tailed Shearwater= (_Puffinus cuneatus_). L. 17. T. 5.4,
pointed. _Ads._ Above brown; below white; sides of neck mottled with
gray; middle tail feathers nearly 2. longer than lateral ones. (Cat.
B. M.)
Range.--"North Pacific Ocean, from the Hawaiian Islands north to the
Bonin Group and Lower California." (A.O.U.)
Shearwaters
[Illustration: 88.]
=88. Cory Shearwater= (_Puffinus borealis_). L. 21. _Ads._ Above
grayish brown; below, including under wing coverts and _under tail
coverts, white_.
Range.--North Atlantic; recorded only off the coast from Massachusetts
to Long Island.
[Illustration: 89.]
=89. Greater Shearwater= (_Puffinus gravis_). L. 20. _Ads._ Above
grayish brown or blackish; tips of longer upper tail coverts white;
below white; _middle of belly and under tail coverts ashy gray_.
Range.--"Atlantic Ocean, from Cape Horn and Cape of Good Hope north to
Arctic Circle." (A.O.U.)
[Illustration: 91.]
=91. Pink-footed Shearwater= (_Puffinus creatopus_). L. 19.5. _Ads._
Above dusky gray or brown; below white; sides and lower belly with
grayish; longer under tail coverts dusky brown; feet, flesh-color;
bill yellowish.
Range.--Pacific Ocean north on the American coast in summer and fall
to middle California.
[Illustration: 92.]
=92. Audubon Shearwater= (_Puffinus lherminieri_). L. 12. _Ads._ Above
black or brownish black; below white; _under tail coverts sooty_.
Range.--Middle Atlantic; breeds in West Indies and Bahamas; wanders
north to Long Island.
[Illustration: 93.]
=93. Black-vented Shearwater= (_Puffinus opisthomelas_). L. 15.
_Ads._ Above dusky _black_; below white; sides of breast grayish;
under tail coverts dusky brown; bill black.
Range.--"Pacific Ocean, chiefly southward; coast of Lower California
north to Santa Cruz, Cal." (A.O.U.)
=93.1. Townsend Shearwater= (_Puffinus auricularis_). Similar to No.
93, but bill and feet smaller, B. 1.2; above darker, nearly black;
black of head extending below eye. (Townsend.)
Range.--Pacific Ocean (Clarion Island, Lower California).
[Illustration: 96.]
=96. Slender-billed Shearwater= (_Puffinus tenuirostris_). L. 13.,
bill slender 1.2 _Ads._ "Above dark sooty slate; beneath deep sooty
gray, paler on throat where sometimes inclining to whitish." (Ridgw.)
Range.--North Pacific, from Japan and Kotzebue Sound south on the
American coast to middle California.
Petrels
[Illustration: 98.]
=98. Black-capped Petrel= (_Ãstrelata hasitata_). L. 15. _Ads._ Above
sooty brown; back of neck and upper tail coverts _white_; base of tail
_white_.
Range.--Tropical Atlantic; irregular in United States (Florida,
Virginia, New York, Kentucky, Vermont, and Ontario.)
[Illustration: 103.]
=103. Least Petrel= (_Halocyptena microsoma_). L. 5.7. _Ads._ Sooty
blackish brown, lighter below.
Range.--"Coast of Lower California south to Panama." (A.O.U.)
[Illustration: 105.]
=105. Forked-tailed Petrel= (_Oceanodroma furcata_). L. 8. 7.
_Ads._ Tail forked; bluish gray, wings darker; a blackish space
about eye.
Range.--North Pacific; breeds in Aleutian Islands; recorded north to
Bering Strait; winters south to California.
=105.1. Kaeding Petrel= (_Oceanodroma kaedingi_). W. 6. _Ads._ Similar
to _O. leucorrhoa_, but much smaller with much less deeply forked
tail. (Anthony.)
Range.--Pacific Ocean; (Socorro Islands, Lower California.)
[Illustration: 108.]
=108. Ashy Petrel= (_Oceanodroma homochroa_). L. 8.5. _Ads._ No white
on rump; tail forked; sooty black above, browner below; wing coverts
grayish.
Range.--"Coast of California; breeds on the Santa Barbara and
Farallone Islands." (A.O.U.)
[Illustration: 104.]
=104. Stormy Petrel; Mother Carey's Chicken= (_Procellaria pelagica_).
L. 5.5. _Ads._ Sooty black, browner below; upper tail coverts white,
_tipped with black_.
Range.--North Atlantic; winters south to western Africa and New
Brunswick.
[Illustration: 106.]
=106. Leach Petrel; Stormy Petrel= (_Oceanodroma leucorhoa_). L. 8.,
W. 6.2. _Ads._ Tail forked; above sooty brownish black; below browner;
_lesser wing coverts grayish brown_; longer upper tail coverts _not_
tipped with black. _Notes._ An elfin-like crow of eight notes.
Range.--North Atlantic and North Pacific; breeds from Maine to
Greenland and from Farallone to Aleutian Islands; winters south to
Virginia and California.
=106.1. Guadalupe Petrel= (_Oceanodroma macrodactyla_). L. 8.4; W.
6.4; T. 3.9, fork 1 in. deep. _Ads._ Similar to _O. leucorhoa_, but
with much longer and more deeply forked tail, larger feet, shorter
bill, and very broad dusky tips to the upper tail coverts. (Ridgw. in
Cat. B. M.)
Range.--Pacific Ocean; (Guadalupe Island, Lower California.)
[Illustration: 107.]
=107. Black Petrel= (_Oceanodroma melania_.) L. 9. _Ads._ Sooty black,
paler below; wing-coverts grayish, tail forked.
Range.--South Pacific, north to Santa Barbara Islands; breeds on
Coronados Islands, southern California.
=108.1 Socorro Petrel= (_Oceanodroma socorroensis_). W. 5.5. _Ads._
Similar to No. 108, but wings longer; tail shorter and less deeply
forked; sides of rump _whitish_; no white on under surface of wing.
(Towns.)
Range.--Pacific Ocean; (Socorro Island, southern California.)
[Illustration: 109.]
=109. Wilson Petrel; Stormy Petrel= (_Oceanites oceanicus_). L. 7.
_Ads._ Webs of feet with yellow patch: tail not forked; longer upper
tail coverts not tipped with black. _Notes._ A weak _weet_, _weet_,
and a hoarse chattering _patret-tu-cuk-cuk-tu-tu_. (Wilson.)
Range.--Atlantic Ocean; breeds in Southern seas, (Kerguelen Island in
February), and migrates north to Newfoundland, spending summer off
coast of eastern United States.
Order IV. TOTIPALMATE SWIMMERS.
STEGANOPODES.
Family 1. TROPIC BIRDS. Phaëthontidæ. 2 species.
Family 2. GANNETS. Sulidæ. 6 species.
Family 3. DARTERS. Anhingidæ. 1 species.
Family 4. CORMORANTS. Phalacrocoracidæ. 6 species, 5 subspecies.
Family 5. PELICANS. Pelecanidæ. 3 species.
Family 6. MAN-O'-WAR-BIRDS. Fregatidæ. 1 Species.
The members of this Order agree in having all four toes connected by
webs, but in other respects they differ widely in structure and,
consequently, in habit. The young of all the Steganopodes are born
naked, unlike the young of most of the other water birds, which, as a
rule, are hatched covered with feathers and can swim or run about soon
after birth. The nests of the Steganopodes are, of necessity,
therefore, more complex structures than those of birds whose nests are
merely incubators and not cradles as well.
Tropic Birds resemble the larger Terns, when in the air, but their
wing strokes are more rapid. They usually nest in holes in the face of
cliffs, and lay one whitish egg, marked with chocolate.
Gannets are true sea birds, but, as a rule, do not live very far from
the land. When breeding, Gannets are usually associated in great
numbers. Their nests, as a rule, are placed on the ground or on
cliffs, and one or two chalky white eggs are laid. At this season the
birds are exceedingly tame and in localities where they have not been
much molested, one may walk about among the sitting birds without
their taking flight. Gannets are powerful birds on the wing. Their
vigorous wing strokes are interrupted at intervals by short sails.
They feed on fish which they capture by diving from the air.
The Darters or Anhingas number four species, distributed throughout
the tropical parts of the globe, only one species inhabiting America.
This is generally called the Snakebird or Water Turkey in Florida,
where it is a common species on the more isolated rivers and lakes.
The name Snakebird is derived from the bird's habit of swimming with
the body submerged, when the long, sinuous neck, appearing above the
water, readily suggests a snake. At other times Snakebirds mount high
in the air and sail about, like Hawks, in wide circles. They build a
large, well-made nest in a bush or tree, generally over the water, and
lay four bluish white, chalky eggs.
Cormorants nest in large colonies, generally on isolated islets, but
sometimes in remote swamps. The nests are placed closely together on
the ground, in bushes, and less frequently in trees, according to the
nature of the bird's haunts.
Cormorants feed on fish which they catch by pursuing them under the
water. They dive from the surface of the water like Ducks, or from a
low perch, but not from the air, as do the Gannets.
Pelicans nest in colonies, generally on some small island, building
their nests on the ground or in bushes, and laying two or three large,
white, chalky eggs.
Brown Pelicans secure their food by plunging on it from the air,
generally from about twenty feet above the water. The sides of the
bill are then bowed outward, the opening widened, forming, with the
pouch, an effective net in which fish, twelve and fourteen inches
long, are captured.
White Pelicans, on the contrary, feed from the water, scooping up
fishes as they swim. At times a flock of these birds may surround a
school of small fish in shallow water and drive them shoreward, at the
same time actively filling their pouches.
Young Pelicans are fed on fish which they take from the pouch of the
parent bird by thrusting their bills and heads well into it and
prodding actively about for the food to be found there. Young
Cormorants secure their food in a similar manner.
Frigate Birds, of which only two species are known, have a greater
expanse of wing in proportion to the weight of their body than any
other bird. Their power of flight is consequently unexcelled and they
may spend days in the air without tiring. Their feet are as weak as
their wings are strong, and are of use only in perching.
The food of Frigate Birds consists chiefly of fish, which they catch
from near the surface of the water, or rob from Gulls and Terns by
pursuing them, forcing them to disgorge their prey, and catching it
ere it reaches the water.
Tropic Birds and Gannet
[Illustration: 112.]
=112. Yellow-billed Tropic Bird= (_Phaëthon americanus_). L. 30;
T. 19. _Ads._ Bill yellow; no bars above; middle tail feathers
lengthened. _Yng._ Above barred with black; middle tail feathers not
lengthened.
Range.--Tropical coasts; breeds in West Indies, Bahamas and Bermudas;
casual in Florida; accidental in western New York and Nova Scotia.
[Illustration: 113.]
=113. Red-billed Tropic Bird= (_Phaëthon æthereus_). L. 30; T. 20.
_Ads._ Bill red; above barred with black; long middle tail feathers
pure white.
Range.--"Coasts of tropical America, north on the Pacific coast to
Cape Colnett, Lower California; accidental on the Newfoundland Banks.
Breeds on San Pedro Martir and other Islands in the Gulf of
California." (A.O.U.)
[Illustration: 117.]
[Illustration: 117. Immature.]
=117. Gannet= (_Sula bassana_). L. 35. _Ads._ White; head and neck
tinged with straw; primaries blackish. _Yng._ Grayish brown with white
spots. _Notes._ A harsh _gor-r-r-rok_.
Range.--North Atlantic; breeds, in America, only on Bird Rock and
Bonaventure Islands, Gulf of St. Lawrence; winters off the coast,
south to Florida.
Boobies
[Illustration: 114.]
=114. Blue-faced Booby= (_Sula cyanops_). L. 28. _Ads._ Body and
lesser wing coverts white; central tail feathers whitish, others dark
brown. _Yng._ Above plain dark grayish brown with some grayish
streaks; below white; flanks streaked with grayish.
Range.--Tropical seas; north in America to Lower California and
Bahamas; casual in southern Florida.
[Illustration: 114.1.]
=114.1. Blue-footed Booby= (_Sula nebouxii_). L. 33. _Ads._ Head,
neck, and underparts white, the first two streaked with grayish; back
dusky brownish, tipped with whitish; legs and feet bright blue.
(Goss.)
Range:--Pacific coast of America, from Gulf of California to Galapagos
and Chili. (Cat. B. M.)
[Illustration: 115.]
[Illustration: 115. Immature.]
=115. Booby= (_Sula sula_). L. 30. _Ads._ Breast and belly white; bill
and feet yellow. _Yng._ Entirely brownish, lighter below; bill
blackish; feet yellow. _Notes._ A harsh, guttural _bork_, _hork_.
(Audubon).
Range.--"Atlantic coasts of tropical and subtropical America, north to
Georgia. Also, West Pacific and Indian Oceans." (A.O.U.) Accidental
on Long Island. No United States breeding record.
=115.1. Brewster Booby= (_Sula brewsteri_). L. 30. _Ads._ Similar to
No. 115, but head and neck paler, bill blue, feet greenish.
Range,--"Coasts and Islands of the eastern south Pacific Ocean, north
to Lower California; breeding as far north as Georges Island at the
head of the Gulf of California." (A.O.U.)
=116. Red-footed Booby= (_Sula piscator_). L. 28. Feet _reddish_.
_Ads._ White; head and nape straw color; primaries _hoary grayish
brown_; tail _white_. _Yng._ Above sooty brown; head, neck, and lower
parts light smoky gray. (Ridgw.)
Range.--Tropical seas, except Pacific coast of America (Cat. B. M.);
north in Atlantic to Bahamas and, rarely, southern Florida.
Cormorants
[Illustration: 119. Breeding Plumage]
=119. Cormorant= (_Phalacrocorax carbo_). L. 36; T. 7.5, of 14
feathers. _Ads._ Chin and sides of throat whitish; back glossy
brownish, _distinctly_ margined with black; below uniform shining
black. _Breeding plumage._ Head and throat with white plumes; a white
patch on flanks. _Yng._ _Belly white_; above olive grayish brown,
margined with black; throat _whitish_; neck brownish.
Range.--North Atlantic; breeds from Nova Scotia to Greenland; winters
south to Carolinas.
[Illustration: 120. Breeding Plumage]
=120. Double-crested Cormorant= (_Phalacrocorax dilophus_). L. 30; W.
12.5; T. 6.2, of 12 feathers. _Ads._ Back brownish with distinct black
margins; below shining black. _Breeding plumage._ With tufts on either
side of head black, sometimes mixed with white; throat pouch orange.
_Yng._ Back browner; head, neck, and lower belly brown; breast
whitish.
Range.--Eastern North America; breeds locally from Bay of Fundy,
Minnesota, North Dakota, northward; west to Assiniboia; winters from
southern Illinois and Virginia southward.
[Illustration: 120a.]
=120a. Florida Cormorant= (_P. d. floridanus_). Similar to No. 120,
but blacker and smaller. L. 25.
Range.--South Atlantic and Gulf States; breeds north to North Carolina
and southern Illinois.
=120b. White-crested Cormorant= (_P. d. cincinatus_). Similar to No.
120, but larger, L. 36; nuptial crests _white_.
Range.--Pacific coasts; breeds in Alaska; winters south to California.
=120c. Farallone Cormorant= (_P. d. albociliatus_). Similar to 120b.,
but smaller, L. 28.
Range.--Breeds on California coast and in interior, south to Socorro
Island. (Ridgw.)
[Illustration: 121 Breeding Plumage]
=121. Mexican Cormorant= (_Phalacrocorax mexicanus_). L. 25. W. 10.
_Ads._ Narrow border at base of pouch white. _Breeding plumage._ Neck
with white plumes. _Yng._ Head and hindneck brownish; back grayish,
margined with black; throat, foreneck and breast brownish white; belly
black.
Range.--Breeds In West Indies and Central America to west Gulf
States; north in summer rarely to Kansas and southern Illinois.
[Illustration: Hind Toe. Outer Toe. Foot of Cormorant.]
[Illustration: 122. Breeding Plumage.]
=122. Brandt Cormorant= (_Phalacrocorax penicillatus_). L. 35; T. 6.
Chin and sides of throat _buffy white or brownish_. _Ads._ Above blue
black, _faintly_ margined with black; below green black. _Breeding
plumage._ With white, hair-like plumes from back and neck; no white on
flanks; throat pouch blue. _Yng._ Above dark brown; throat and belly
whitish; breast and sides brown.
Range.--Pacific coast from Cape St. Lucas to Washington; resident.
=123. Pelagic Cormorant= (_Phalacrocorax pelagicus_). L. 28; W. 10;
T. 6.2. Forehead _feathered_; back feathers _not_ margined. _Ads._
Above glossy green and purplish black; below bottle green. _Breeding
plumage._ With white plumes on neck and rump and white patches on
flanks; nape and forehead, crested. _Yng._ Above greenish dusky brown,
less green below.
Range.--"Aleutian and Kuril Islands, and Kamchatka, south to Japan."
(A.O.U.)
[Illustration: 123a. Breeding Plumage]
=123a. Violet-green Cormorant= (_P. p. robustus_). Similar to No. 123,
but larger; bill stouter, W. 10.8.
Range.--"Coast of Alaska, from Norton Sound south to Washington."
(A.O.U.)
[Illustration: 123b.]
=123b. Baird Cormorant= (_P. p. resplendens_). Similar to No. 123, but
smaller; bill slenderer; W. 9.5. _Notes._ A croaking, guttural note.
Range.--Pacific coast from Washington south to Mazatlan, Mexico.
[Illustration: 124. Breeding Plumage]
=124. Red-faced Cormorant= (_Phalacrocorax urile_). L. 34. _Forehead_
as well as lores bare. _Ads._ Above green and purple; head and neck
blue black; belly green. _Breeding plumage._ With forehead and nape
crests and white patches on flanks. _Notes._ "A low, droning croak."
(Nelson.)
Range.--"Pribilof, Aleutian, and Kuril Islands, and coast of
Kamchatka. South in winter to northern Japan." (A.O.U.)
Anhinga, Pelicans, and Man-o'-War bird
[Illustration: 118.]
=118. Anhinga; Snakebird; Water Turkey= (_Anhinga anhinga_). L. 36.
_Ad._ [Male]. Black; grayish head and neck plumes which, in winter,
are absent. _Ad._ [Female]. Resembles male but whole head, neck, and
breast brownish. _Yng._ Similar to [Female] but black parts duller.
_Notes._ A rasping, clattering croak, uttered when fighting or in
coming to the nest.
Range.--Tropical and subtropical America; breeds north to southern
Illinois and South Carolina; winters from Gulf States southward.
[Illustration: 125.]
=125. American White Pelican= (_Pelecanus erythrorhynchos_). L. 60.
_Ads._ White; primaries black; bill in breeding season with a knob.
_Yng._ With crown brownish.
Range:--North America; breeds in interior from eastern California,
Utah, Yellowstone Park, Minnesota (?) northward to Lat. 61°; winters
from Gulf States and southern California, south to Central America.
[Illustration: 126.]
=126. Brown Pelican= (_Pelecanus occidentalis_). L. 50; W. 19.5.
_Ads._ Pouch greenish; head white, rarely yellowish; neck brown. In
fall, no brown on neck. _Yng._ Brownish gray, white below. _Notes._
Adults as a rule silent; young before flying, very noisy.
Range:--Atlantic and Gulf coast of tropical and subtropical America;
breeds from northern South America to South Carolina; has strayed to
Illinois and Nova Scotia; winters from Gulf States southward.
=127. California Brown Pelican= (_Pelecanus californicus_). Similar to
No. 126, but larger. L. 54; W. 21; pouch in breeding season, red.
Range.--Pacific coast from Galapagos north to British Columbia; breeds
north only to Los Coronados Islands.
[Illustration: 128.]
=128. Man-o'-War Bird; Frigate Bird= (_Fregata aquila_). L. 40. _Ad._
[Male]. Black, glossy above; pouch "scarlet or orange." _Ad._
[Female]. Browner; breast and belly white. _Yng._ Similar to [Female],
but head and neck white. _Notes._ Usually silent; rarely a croaking
note.
Range:--Tropical and subtropical coasts; in America north to Florida,
Texas, and southern California; casually to Kansas, Ohio and Nova
Scotia; winters from southern Florida and Lower California southward.
Order V. DUCKS, GEESE, AND SWANS.
ANSERES.
Family 1. DUCKS, GEESE, and SWANS. Anatidæ. 49 species, 6 subspecies.
The Anatidæ of North America are placed in five well-marked
subfamilies, the Mergansers (_Merginæ_), River Ducks (_Anatinæ_), Sea
Ducks (_Fuligulinæ_), Geese (_Anserinæ_), and Swans (_Cygninæ_).
The Mergansers, Saw-bills, or Shelldrakes are fish-eating Ducks and
their rounded bills, set with tooth-like projections along the sides,
are of evident use to them in holding their prey.
The River Ducks include such well-known species as the Mallard, Black
Duck, and Widgeon. They differ from the Bay or Sea Ducks in not having
a well-developed web or flap on the hind-toe. As a rule they feed in
shallow water by tipping, standing on their heads, as it were, while
reaching the bottom for food.
The Bay or Sea Ducks have the hind-toe webbed. They feed, as a rule,
in deeper water than the River Ducks, sometimes descending to the
bottom in water over one hundred feet deep. During the winter they
gather in flocks often of several thousand individuals, and frequent
the larger bodies of water.
With both the River and Bay Ducks the sides of the broad, flat bill
are set with gutters which serve as strainers, retaining the mollusks,
seeds and roots of aquatic plants on which these Ducks feed, while the
mud or water taken in with the food is forced out the sides of the
bill as it closes.
Geese are more terrestrial than Ducks and often visit the land to nip
the grass. This is particularly true in the west where large flocks
of, Geese, especially Snow Geese, may be seen feeding on the prairies.
On the water they feed over shallows by tipping and probing the
bottoms.
Swans also feed from the surface of the water either by simply
immersing the head and neck or by half submerging the body, when, with
the tail pointed to the zenith, the length of their reach is greatly
increased.
In spite of their comparatively short wings the large muscles attached
to them give to the Anatidæ great power of flight. Not only do they
make extended journeys, when migrating, without a rest, but they
attain a speed which is surpassed by but few birds. Some of the
smaller species, when alarmed, doubtless flying at the rate of one
hundred miles an hour.
In common with other diving water birds the Ducks, when molting, lose
most of their wing feathers all at once, and for a time are therefore
unable to fly. During this comparatively helpless period the brightly
colored males assume in part the plumage of the females and are
thereby rendered less conspicuous. With the return of the power of
flight, however, they regain their distinctive, male plumage, which is
usually brighter than that of the female. With our Geese and Swans
there is no sexual difference in color.
Most of our Ducks and Geese breed in the north, some within the Arctic
Circle, and winter from the southern limit of frozen water southward.
The American Merganser, Hooded Merganser, Wood Duck, Buffle-head,
Golden-Eyes, Tree Ducks, and possibly Harlequin Duck nest in hollow
trees, at times some distance from the water. The young of the
American Golden-eye and of the Wood Duck have been seen to reach the
water by jumping from the nest-hole and fluttering down in response to
the calls of the parent below. It is said that they are also brought
down in the bill of the old bird, but this statement apparently lacks
confirmation.
The remaining species of our Ducks, Geese, and Swans, nest as a rule,
on the ground generally near water. From five to fifteen and, in the
case of the Fulvous Tree Duck, possibly as many as thirty eggs are
laid. In color they vary from white to buffy and pale olive and are
always uniformly colored. Incubation is performed by the female alone.
The males at this period among most Ducks deserting their mate to
undergo the partial molt before mentioned. While incubating the
females surround their nest with soft down plucked from their bodies
and when leaving the nest to feed, this down is drawn over the eggs
with the double object, doubtless, of concealing them and of keeping
them warm.
With Eider Ducks this down constitutes the larger part of, if not the
entire nest. Saunders states that in Iceland the down in each nest
weighs about one-sixth of a pound. This is gathered by the natives,
who, however, are careful to afford the sitting bird an opportunity to
raise her brood without further molestation.
The collection of Eider down thus furnishes an admirable illustration
of proper economic relations between man and birds. The down is an
important source of income to the natives of the comparatively barren,
northern countries in which the Eiders nest. So long as man can
remember it has been gathered annually. Still the Ducks continue to
return in numbers year after year to the same region, perhaps the
exact spot in which they nested the year before.
Less intelligent methods would perhaps rob the bird of its second, as
well as of its first nest and, unable to reproduce its kind, the
species would become extinct within a comparatively short period.
The evils which would follow such a course are, however, thoroughly
understood. The Ducks, in the first place, are encouraged in every
way. It is said that should one walk into a peasant's cabin and
preempt his cot as a nesting-site, the peasant would gladly give up
his bed to so valuable a visitor.
Ducks
[Illustration: 129.]
=129. American Merganser= (_Merganser americanus_). L. 25; B. from
nostril, 1.5; nostril midway between eye and tip of bill. _Ad._
[Male]. No band of streaks on breast; no crest. _Ad._ [Female]. and
_Yng._ _Chin white_; crown and throat reddish brown; rest of
underparts and speculum white; above and tail ashy.
Range.--North America; breeds from New Brunswick, rarely mountains of
Pennsylvania, Minnesota, and mountains of Colorado and California
northward; winters from Maine and British Columbia south to South
Carolina and southern California.
[Illustration: 130.]
=130. Red-breasted Merganser= (_Merganser serrator_). L. 22; B. from
nostril, 1.8; nostril nearer to eye than to tip of bill. _Ad._ [Male].
Breast with a broad cinnamon band streaked with black; head feathers
lengthened. _Ad._ [Female] _and Yng_. Crown grayish brown, washed with
rusty. Chin and throat paler; rest of underparts and speculum white:
back and tail ashy. _Notes._ When alarmed, several low, guttural
croaks. (Elliot.)
Range.--Northern hemisphere; breeds, in America, from New Brunswick
and northern Illinois north to Greenland and Alaska; winters from
southern breeding limits, south to Cuba and Lower California.
[Illustration: 131.]
=131. Hooded Merganser= (_Lophodytes cucullatus_). L. 17.5. _Ad._
[Male]. A large, circular black and white crest. _Ad._ [Female] _Yng._
A small cinnamon crest, head, neck and breast grayish brown; back,
blackish; belly white. _Notes._ "A hoarse croak, like a small edition
of that of the Red-breasted Merganser." (Elliot.)
Range.--North America from Cuba and Lower California north to Labrador
and Alaska; breeds locally throughout its range, chiefly in interior
of British America; winters from British Columbia, Illinois, and
Massachusetts southward.
[Illustration: 132.]
=132. Mallard= (_Anas boschas_). L. 23. Speculum (patch in wing)
purple bordered by black and _white_; under surface of wing pure
white. _Ad._ [Male]. Head green; breast chestnut, a white neck-ring.
_Ad._ [Female]. Above blackish and buffy, below rusty buff mottled
with dusky grayish brown. _Notes._ The familiar _quack_ of the
barn-yard Duck.
Range.--Northern hemisphere; breeds, in America, from Labrador,
Indiana, Iowa, and California north to Greenland and Alaska; winters
from British Columbia, Kansas, and New Jersey to Central America and
West Indies.
[Illustration: 143.]
=143. Pintail= (_Dafila acuta_). L. [Male], 28; [Female], 22. _Ad._
[Male]. Central tail feathers black, 7.5 long, pointed. _Ad._
[Female]. Tail 3.5,; feathers _sharply pointed_; brownish black, with
buff bars; under wing-coverts _dusky_ and _buff_; back blackish with
_internal_ buff loops. _Notes._ A loud _quack_, less sonorous than
that of the Mallard; a low mellow whistle, and a harsh rolling note.
(Nelson.)
Range.--Northern hemisphere; breeds, in America, from New Brunswick,
Iowa, Illinois, and British Columbia northward; winters from British
Columbia, Illinois, and Virginia, south to Central America and West
Indies.
[Illustration: 133.]
=133. Black Duck= (_Anas obscura_). L. 22. _Ads._ Speculum bluish
purple tipped with _black_; no white in wing; lining of wing white and
_dusky_; crown _without_ paler margins; throat, usually, without
markings; legs "olivaceous brown," bill "greenish black, dusky olive,
or olive-green." _Notes._ A _quack_ resembling that of the Mallard.
Range.--Eastern North America; chiefly east of Mississippi; breeds
locally from New Jersey and Illinois north to Labrador and Hudson Bay;
winters from Maine to West Indies.
=133a. Red-legged Black Duck= (_A. o. rubripes_). Similar to No. 133
but larger; crown edged with buff or gray; throat spotted; legs red;
bill yellow.
Range.--Summer range not definitely known, but breeding specimens have
been taken in northern Labrador, James Bay, and west shore of Hudson
Bay; in winter south to Virginia and Arkansas.
[Illustration: 134.]
_134. Florida Duck_ (_Anas fulvigula_). L. 20. _Ads._ Throat and front
of neck plain buff, usually unmarked; speculum sometimes tipped with
white; belly rusty buff; broadly _streaked_ with black. _Notes._ A
_quack_ similar to that of No. 133.
Range.--Florida to coast of Louisiana; resident.
=134a. Mottled Duck= (_A. f. maculosa_). Similar to No. 134, but
underparts _mottled_ with black, the markings being _rounder_.
Range.--Eastern Texas; breeds (at least) from Corpus Christi north to
Kansas; winters on west Gulf Coast.
[Illustration: 135.]
=135. Gadwall= (_Chaulelasmus streperus_), L. 19.5. Under wing coverts
and axillars _pure white_. _Ad._ [Male]. Wing-coverts chestnut; breast
_ringed_ with white. _Ad._ [Female]. Head and throat as in [Male],
back fuscous and buffy; breast and _sides_ ochraceous thickly spotted
with blackish; speculum ashy gray and white. _Notes._ A _quack_ like
that of the Mallard but shriller and more often repeated.
Range.--Northern hemisphere; in America, breeds in the interior from
Kansas and California north to Manitoba and Assiniboia; winters from
Maryland to Florida, rare in northeastern Atlantic States.
[Illustration: 136.]
=136. Widgeon= (_Mareca penelope_). L. 18.5. _Ad._ [Male]. Head and
neck reddish brown; crown buff; sides with wavy black and white lines.
_Ad._ [Female]. Head and throat _rusty_, finely streaked and barred
with black; breast and sides rusty; speculum blackish. _Notes._ Of
male, a shrill, whistling _whee-you_; of female, a low, purring growl.
(Saunders.)
Range.--Northern hemisphere; breeds in America, only in the Aleutian
Islands; casual in migrations and in winter in California and on
Atlantic coast from North Carolina to Greenland.
[Illustration: 137.]
=137. Baldpate= (_Mareca americana_). L. 19. No rusty on head. _Ad._
[Male]. Under tail-coverts black; streak from eye to nape glossy
green. _Ad._ [Female]. Head and throat _whitish_ finely marked with
black; breast and sides rusty washed with grayish. _Notes._ "A low,
soft whistle." (Elliot.)
Range.--North America; breeds in the interior from Minnesota and
British Columbia north to Alaska; winters from British Columbia and
Virginia south to South America; only a migrant on northeast Atlantic
coast to Labrador.
[Illustration: 139.]
=139. Green-winged Teal= (_Nettion carolinensis_). L. 14.5.
Wing-coverts gray, tipped with buff or white. _Ad._ [Male]. A white
crescent in front of wing; speculum (wing-patch) green bordered by
black tipped with white. _Ad._ [Female]. Wings as in [Male]; throat
and sides of neck white, finely spotted with black; breast and sides
washed with rusty, marked with black. _Notes._ A "peculiar chirping
almost a twittering" as they fly. (Seton.)
Range.--North America; breeds from New Brunswick, Minnesota, and
British Columbia north to Greenland and Alaska; winters from Virginia,
Kansas, and British Columbia south to Central America and West Indies.
[Illustration: 140.]
=140. Blue-winged Teal= (_Querquedula discors_). Wing-coverts blue.
_Ad._ [Male]. Cheek patch white. _Ad._ [Female]. Resembles [Female] of
No. 139, but wing-coverts blue; speculum greenish brown not distinctly
tipped with white. L. 16.
Range.--North America; chiefly east of Rockies; breeds from New
Brunswick, Kansas, southern Illinois and northern Ohio, north to
Alaska, mainly in interior; winters from Virginia and Lower
Mississippi Valley to northern South America, California, and Lower
California.
[Illustration: 141.]
=141. Cinnamon Teal= (_Querquedula cyanoptera_). _Ad._ [Male]. Head
and neck, breast and sides reddish brown. _Ad._ [Female]. Resembles
[Female] of No. 140, but the underparts, _including throat_, are
usually suffused with rusty; the throat often being blackish or
speckled with dusky. _Notes._ A rather thin, nasal _quack_. L. 16.
Range.--Western North America from British Columbia south to South
America, east to Rockies and south Texas; rarely to Florida.
[Illustration: 142.]
=142. Shoveller= (_Spatula clypeata_). L. 20. Bill much broader at tip
than at base. _Ad._ [Male]. Belly chestnut; breast around to back
white. _Ad._ [Female]. Wing-coverts blue; back conspicuously margined
with buff. _Notes._ "Occasionally a few feeble quacks." (Elliot.)
Range.--Northern hemisphere; in America chiefly in interior; breeds
locally from Texas, and regularly from Minnesota and British Columbia
north to Alaska and Barren Grounds; winters from British Columbia,
Illinois, and Maryland south to northern South America.
[Illustration: 144.]
=144. Wood Duck= (_Aix sponsa_). L. 18.5. _Ad._ [Male]. Head crested;
green, blue, and purple with white stripes. _Ad._ [Female]. A white
streak through and behind eye; crown glossy purplish brown; back
olive-brown glossed with greenish. _Notes._ A frightened, plaintive,
_oo-eek_.
Range.--North America; breeds locally from Florida to Labrador and
British Columbia, winters from British Columbia, southern Illinois,
and southern New Jersey, south to southern California and Cuba.
[Illustration: 146.]
=146. Redhead= (_Aythya americana_). L. 19. _Ad._ [Male]. Head and
_upper_ neck entirely bright reddish brown. _Ad._ [Female]. Throat
white; back grayish brown without fine bars; speculum gray.
_Notes._ "A hoarse guttural rolling sound." (Elliot.)
Range.--North America; breeds chiefly in interior from Maine,
Minnesota, and California north to Labrador and British Columbia;
winters from British Columbia and Maryland south to Lower California
and West Indies.
[Illustration: 147.]
=147. Canvas-back= (_Aythya vallisneria_). L. 21. _Ad._ [Male]. Head
and _whole_ neck _dull_ reddish brown. _Ad._ [Female]. Head and neck
_rusty_ grayish brown; back grayish brown, _finely barred with black
and white_. _Notes._ "A harsh guttural croak." (Elliot.)
Range.--North America; breeds only in interior from Minnesota and
Oregon north to Alaska and the Barren Grounds; winters from British
Columbia and Maryland south to southern California, Mexico and West
Indies.
[Illustration: 148.]
=148. American Scaup Duck= (_Aythya marila_). L. [Male], 18.5;
[Female], 17.5. _Ad._ [Male]. Head glossed with greenish; sides
without distinct black bars. Ad. [Female]. Feathers about base of bill
white; breast and back rusty grayish brown; speculum white. _Notes._
"Similar to the guttural sound made by the Canvas-back, Redhead and
other diving Ducks." (Elliot.)
Range.--Northern parts of northern hemisphere; in America, breeds in
the interior rarely from Minnesota, and regularly from North Dakota
northward; winters from Long Island to northern South America.
[Illustration: 149.]
=149. Lesser Scaup Duck= (_Aythya affinis_). L. [Male] 17; [Female],
16.5. _Ad._ [Male]. Head glossed with purplish; sides with distinct
black bars. _Ad._ [Female]. Similar to [Female] of No. 148, but
smaller.
Range.--North America; breeds only in interior from Iowa rarely, North
Dakota commonly, and British Columbia, north to Barren Grounds;
winters from British Columbia and Virginia south to Guatemala and West
Indies.
[Illustration: 150.]
=150. Ring-necked Duck= (_Aythya collaris_). L. 16.5. _Ad._ [Male]. A
chestnut neck-ring; chin _white_; back _black_; speculum _gray_. _Ad._
[Female]. Feathers about sides of base of bill and throat white, back
and breast _rusty_ grayish brown; speculum gray. Resembles [Female] of
No. 146, but is smaller and rustier.
Range.--North America: breeding only in the interior from Minnesota
northward; winters from Maryland and British Columbia south to
Guatemala and West Indies; rare on Atlantic coast north of Maryland.
[Illustration: 151.]
=151. American Golden-eye= (_Clangula clangula americana_). L. 20.
_Ad._ [Male]. Head _greenish_; white patch at base of bill _circular_.
_Ad._ [Female]. Head and throat brown; breast and back gray, a white
throat-ring; belly and speculum white. _Notes._ Rarely a low croak; a
high whistling sound produced by wings in flight.
Range.--North America; breeds from Maine, northern Minnesota, and
Alberta, north to Arctic Regions; winters from southern Alaska, the
Great Lakes and Maine, south to Mexico and Cuba.
[Illustration: 152.]
=152. Barrow Golden-eye= (_Clangula islandica_). L. 20. _Ad._ [Male].
Head _purplish blue_; white patch at base of bill _twice as high as
wide_. _Ad._ [Female]. Resembles [Female] of No. 151. _Notes._ A high
whistling made by wings in flight, probably also a low croaking as in
No. 151.
Range.--Northern North America; breeds from Gulf of St. Lawrence, and
mountains of Colorado north to southern Greenland; winters south to
Virginia, Illinois, and California.
[Illustration: 153.]
=153. Buffle-head= (_Charitonetta albeola_). L. 14.7. _Ad._ [Male].
Head blue, purple, and green; a white band from eye to eye across
nape. _Ad._ [Female]. A whitish patch on either side of head; throat
and upper parts grayish brown; belly and speculum white. _Notes._ A
single guttural note like a small edition of the Canvas-back's roll.
(Elliot.)
Range.--North America; breeds from Maine, Iowa, and British Columbia
northward; winters from southern limit of breeding range to West
Indies and Mexico.
[Illustration: 167.]
=167. Ruddy Duck= (_Erismatura jamaicensis_). L. 15. Tail-feathers
narrow and stiff; bill short (1.5) and broad. _Ad._ [Male]. Cheeks
white, cap black, back reddish brown. _Ad._ [Female]. A whitish streak
through dusky cheeks; back grayish brown with fine buffy bars; belly
silvery whitish. _Yng._ [Male]. Similar, but cheeks all white or
whitish.
Range.--Western hemisphere from northern South America to Hudson Bay;
breeds locally throughout its range, but chiefly northward; winters
from New Jersey, southern Illinois and California southward.
[Illustration: 168.]
=168. Masked Duck= (_Nomonyx dominicus_). L. 14. Tail-feathers long,
(4.5) narrow, stiff and pointed. _Ad._ [Male]. Front of head black;
behind it reddish brown all around; white in wing. _Ad._ [Female]. A
brownish streak through eye: buffy streaks above and below it; back
blackish regularly _barred_ with buff; below washed with rusty.
Range--Tropical America north to Lower Rio Grande; accidental in
Wisconsin, Lake Champlain, and Massachusetts.
[Illustration: 154. Winter]
[Illustration: 154. Summer]
=154. Old-squaw= (_Harelda hyemalis_). L. [Male], 21; [Female], 16;
T. [Male], 8; [Female], 2.5. No colored speculum. _Ad._ [Male].
Central tail-feathers much lengthened; in winter, crown, nape, throat,
and neck all around white. In summer, black, with rusty markings on
back. _Ad._ [Female]. winter. Cheeks, neck all around, and underparts
white; breast and sides of neck dusky. In summer, crown, cheeks and
nape blackish, throat and breast dusky; a whitish patch back of eye.
_Notes._ In spring, a rich, musical _a-leedle-a_, frequently repeated in
deep, reed-like tones. (Nelson.) Also "_o-onc-o-onc-ough-egh-ough-egh_."
(Mackay.)
Range.--Northern hemisphere; breeds from northern Labrador and
Aleutian Islands north to Arctic Ocean; winters south to Virginia,
Upper Mississippi Valley, and California, "rarely to Florida and
Texas."
[Illustration: 155.]
=155. Harlequin Duck= (_Histrionicus histrionicus_). L. 17. _Ad._
[Male]. Back and breast slaty blue; head darker. _Ad._ [Female]. Front
half of cheeks and spot over ears whitish, above blackish brown; below
dusky and whitish. _Notes._ "A confusion of low gabbling and
chattering notes." (Nelson.)
Range.--"Northern North America, breeding from Newfoundland, the
northern Rocky Mountains, and the Sierra Nevadas (latitude 38°),
northward; south in winter to the Middle States and California;
eastern Asia, Iceland." (A.O.U.)
[Illustration: 156.]
=156. Labrador Duck= (_Camptolaimus labradorius_). L. 20. _Ad._
[Male]. Primaries blackish; rest of wing white. _Ad._ [Female]. Ashy
gray: speculum white. _Yng._ [Male]. Like [Female] but throat and ends
of greater wing-coverts white.
Range.--Formerly North Atlantic coast; bred from Labrador northward;
wintered south to New Jersey; believed to be extinct; last records,
Grand Menan, New Brunswick, 1871; Long Island, 1875.
[Illustration: 157.]
=157. Steller Eider= (_Eniconetta stelleri_). L. 18. _Ad._ [Male].
Throat and neck black nearly divided by a white ring; top and sides
of head white, forehead and nape greenish; breast chestnut. _Ad._
[Female]. Above and below black and rusty, speculum purple bordered
with white; tail feathers pointed.
Range.--"Arctic and subarctic coasts of the northern hemisphere,
Aleutian Islands, east to Unalaska and Kadiak; Kenai Peninsula."
(A.O.U.)
[Illustration: 158.]
=158. Spectacled Eider= (_Arctonetta fischeri_). L. 21. _Ad._ [Male].
Front of head plush-like; cushiony pads around eyes; above largely
white; breast slaty black; belly black.
Range.--"Alaskan coast of Bering Sea and north to Point Barrow."
(A.O.U.)
[Illustration: 159.]
=159. Greenland Eider= (_Somateria mollissima borealis_). L. 23.
Feathers on sides of bill reaching to nostrils, bare spaces on either
side of feathers on culmen _pointed_ at base (posteriorly.) _Ad._
[Male]. Crown black with a white wedge. _Ad._ [Female]. Brownish black
above margined with rusty and buff; below dusky finely margined with
buff. _Yng._ [Male]. Similar to [Female] but more buffy. _Notes._
"A sort of cooing sound" in the breeding season. (Elliot.) A raucous,
moaning, _'ha ho, 'ha ho_; female's like that of Mallard. (Brunnich.)
Range.--Northeastern North America; breeds from Labrador to Greenland;
winters south to Massachusetts.
[Illustration: 160.]
=160. American Eider= (_Somateria dresseri_). L. 23. Similar in color
to No. 159, but bare spaces on either side of feathers of culmen
_rounded_ at the base (posteriorly).
Range.--Northeastern North America; breeds from Isle au Haut, Maine,
to Labrador; winters south to New Jersey and Great Lakes.
[Illustration: 161.]
=161. Pacific Eider= (_Somateria v-nigra_). Similar to No. 159, but
_Ad._ [Male] with a black =V= on throat; sides of bill more broadly
feathered, distance from end of feathers to base of bare space on
culmen less than distance from same place to end of bill.
_Notes._ "A low guttural note." (Nelson.)
Range.--North Pacific from Aleutian Islands north to Arctic Ocean east
to Great Slave Lake.
[Illustration: 162.]
=162. King Eider= (_Somateria spectabilis_). L. 23. Feathers at side
of bill _not_ reaching nostril. _Ad._ [Male]. White patch on either
side of rump, crown ashy blue. _Ad._ [Female] in 1 _Yng._ Resembling
same plumages of No. 159 and No. 160.
Range.--Northern hemisphere; breeds from Labrador and St. Michaels,
Alaska north to Greenland and Arctic Ocean; winters south to New
Jersey (rarely Ga.), and Great Lakes; one California record.
[Illustration: 163.]
=163. American Scoter= (_Oidemia americana_). L. 19. Feathers at base
of bill not extending forward on sides or top. _Ad._ [Male]. Wholly
black; bill black, yellow at base. _Ad._ [Female]. Brownish above,
lighter below; no white on wing or on sides of head. _Notes._ A long
musical whistle. (Elliot.)
Range.--Northern North America; breeds from Labrador and Alaskan
shores of Bering Sea northward; winters south to Virginia, Great
Lakes, Colorado, and California.
[Illustration: 166.]
=166. Surf Scoter= (_Oidemia perspicillata_). L. 20. Feathers
extending forward on top of bill. _Ad._ [Male]. Black, nape and crown
white; bill orange, yellow, and white, a round black patch on its
sides. _Ad._ [Female]. Above black, throat and breast paler; belly
whitish; a whitish patch at base of bill. _Yng._ Similar but with
white patches on ears.
Range.--Northern North America; breeds from Newfoundland northward;
winters south to Virginia, Florida, Illinois, and Lower California.
[Illustration: 165.]
=165. White-winged Scoter= (_Oidemia deglandi_). L. 22. A white patch
on wing; feathers extending forward along _sides and top_ of bill
nearly to nostrils. _Ad._ [Male]. Black, a white spot about eye; bill
orange, black at base. _Ad._ [Female]. Dusky brown above; lighter
below. _Yng._ [Male]. Similar but sides and front of head whitish.
Range.--Northern North America; breeds from Labrador and North Dakota
northward; winters south to Virginia, southern Illinois, and Lower
California.
[Illustration: 177.]
=177. Black-bellied Tree Duck= (_Dendrocygna autumnalis_). L. 22.
_Ads._ belly and tail coverts _black_: foreback and breast gray;
greater wing-coverts whitish. _Notes._ A shrill whistle. (Elliot.)
Range.--Tropical America north to southern Texas.
[Illustration: 178.]
=178. Fulvous Tree Duck= (_Dendrocygna fulva_). L. 22. _Ads._ Belly
uniform rusty brown; upper tail coverts white; a black streak on
hindneck; no white in wing. _Notes._ A squealing whistle.
Range.--Tropical America, north in summer to Texas, Louisiana, Nevada
and central California. "Casual in North Carolina and Missouri." (A.
O. U.)
Geese and Swans
=169. Lesser Snow Goose= (_Chen hyperborea_). L. 23-28, _Ads._ White,
head sometimes rusty; primaries black. _Yng._ Head, neck, and above
grayish.
Range.--"Pacific coast to the Mississippi Valley, breeding in Alaska;
south in winter to southern Illinois and southern California; casually
to New England." (A.O.U.)
[Illustration: 169a.]
=169a. Greater Snow Goose= (_C. h. nivalis_). Similar to No. 169, but
larger, L. 30-38.
Range.--Eastern North America; breeds in Arctic regions; winters from
Chesapeake, New Jersey (rarely) south to Cuba; rare on Atlantic coast
north of Maryland.
[Illustration: 170.]
=170. Ross Snow Goose= (_Chen rossii_). L. 21; B. 1.6. Similar in
color to No. 169, but much smaller; bill particularly smaller.
Range.--Arctic America in summer; Pacific coast to southern California
and east to Montana in winter.
[Illustration: 180.]
=180. Whistling Swan= (_Olor columbianus_). L. 55. Nostril nearer to
tip of bill than to eye. _Ads._ White, bill and feet black; a small
yellow spot before the eye. _Yng._ Head and neck brownish, rest of
plumage washed with grayish. _Notes._ _'whoogh_, _'whoogh_, very loud
and shrill. (Nuttall.)
Range.--North America; breeds within Arctic Circle; winters from
British Columbia (?) Lower Mississippi Valley, Chesapeake Bay, south
to Gulf of Mexico; rare on Atlantic Coast north of Virginia.
[Illustration: 180. Bill of.]
[Illustration: 181. Bill of.]
=181. Trumpeter Swan= (_Clor buccinator_). L. 65. Nostril about in
middle of bill. _Ads._ White, bill and feet black; _no_ yellow on
lores. _Yng._ Head and neck brownish; rest of plumage washed with
grayish. _Notes._ Loud and sonorous in tone like those of a French
horn. (Elliot.)
Range.--"Chiefly the Interior of North America, from the Gulf Coast to
the Fur Countries, breeding from Iowa and the Dakotas northward; west
to the Pacific Coast; rare or casual on the Atlantic." (A.O.U.)
Geese
[Illustration: 169.1]
=169.1. Blue Goose= (_Chen cærulescens_). L. 28. _Ads._ Head and neck
white; below brownish gray; foreback like breast; rump gray. _Yng._
Similar but head and neck grayish brown.
Range.--North America; breeds in Hudson Bay region; winters on west
coast of the Gulf of Mexico; two California records; said to have
occurred in New Jersey.
[Illustration: 171a.]
=171a. American White-fronted Goose= (_Anser albifrons gambeli_). L.
28. _Ads._ Forehead and rump white; below spotted with black. _Yng._
Similar but no white on head no black below.
Range.--North America; breeds in Arctic region; winters on Gulf Coast,
California and Mexico; rare on Atlantic coast.
[Illustration: 176.]
=176. Emperor Goose= (_Philacte canagica_). L. 26. _Ads._ Foreneck
blackish; rest of head and neck white sometimes tinged with rusty;
tail mostly white. _Yng._ Body less distinctly scaled; head and
hindneck spotted with grayish. _Notes._ When flying, a deep, hoarse,
strident _clâ-hâ, clâ-hâ, clâ-hâ_; when alarmed and about to fly, a
ringing _û-lûgh_,_-ûlûgh_. (Nelson.)
Range.--"Coast and islands of Alaska north of the Peninsula; chiefly
about Norton Sound and Valley of the Lower Yukon; Commander Islands,
Kamchatka; casually south to Humboldt Bay, California." (A.O.U.)
Geese and Brant
[Illustration: 172.]
=172. Canada Goose= (_Branta canadensis_). L. 38. _Ads._ A white patch
on cheeks and throat; rest of head and neck black; no whitish ring at
base of black neck. _Yng._ Similar but with blackish on white of
throat. _Notes._ A sonorous _honk_.
Range.--North America; breeds from Labrador, Minnesota and British
Columbia, north chiefly in the interior, to Alaska; winters from Long
Island, Illinois and British Columbia south to Mexico and southern
California.
=172a. Hutchins Goose= (_B. c. hutchinsii_). Similar to No. 172, but
smaller; L. 30; tail feathers, 14-16.
Range.--Western North America; breeds in Arctic regions; winters from
British Columbia and Kansas south to Lower California and Mexico.
=172b. White-cheeked Goose= (_B. c. occidentalis_). Size of No. 172,
but throat blackish, lower neck with white collar.
Range.--"Pacific coast region, from Sitka, south in winter to
California." (A.O.U.)
[Illustration: 172c.]
=172c. Cackling Goose= (_B. c. minima_). Similar to No. 172b, but
smaller, L. 24; tail feathers 14-16.
Range.--Western North America; breeds in Alaska; winters from British
Columbia southward; east rarely to Wisconsin.
[Illustration: 173.]
=173. Brant= (_Branta bernicla glaucogastra_). L. 26.
_Ads._ Sides of neck with white markings; belly _whitish_.
_Notes._ A guttural _car-r-rup_, or _r-r-r-rouk_. (Elliot.)
Range.--Northern hemisphere; breeds in Arctic regions; winters in
America, from Mississippi Valley east, and from Illinois and Massachusetts
southward; rare in interior.
[Illustration: 174.]
=174. Black Brant= (_Branta nigricans_). L. 26. _Ads._ _Sides_ and
_front_ of neck with white markings; belly nearly as dark as back.
_Notes._ A low guttural _gr-r-r-r-r_; on alarm repeated often with
emphasis. (Nelson.)
Range.--Western North America; breeds in northern Alaska and eastward;
winters from British Columbia to Lower California; occasional on
Atlantic Coast.
Order VI. FLAMINGOES.
ODONTOGLOSSÃ.
Family 1. FLAMINGOES. PhÅnicopteridæ. 1 species.
Flamingoes might be called long-legged Ducks. Their feet are webbed,
and their bill is set with ridges, which serve as sieves or strainers,
as do the 'gutters' on a Duck's bill. They are, however, wading birds
and their webbed feet are of use in supporting them on the soft mud of
shallow lagoons or bays where they search for the favorite food of
small mollusks. In feeding the flat top of the bill is pressed into
the mud when its tip points upward toward the bird's body. Flamingoes
fly with the neck and legs stretched to the utmost presenting on the
wing a picturesque, but by no means so graceful an appearance as do
the Herons. Their voice is a vibrant _honking_ like that of a Goose.
Order VII. HERONS, STORKS, IBISES, ETC.
HERODIONES.
Family 1. SPOONBILLS. Plataleidæ. 1 species.
Family 2. IBISES. Ibididæ. 3 species.
Family 3. STORKS and WOOD IBISES. Ciconiidæ. 1 species.
Family 4. BITTERNS, HERONS, ETC. Ardhidæ. 14 species, 3 subspecies.
The Roseate Spoonbill was formerly a common bird in Florida and along
the Gulf coast, but so many have been killed for their plumage that in
the United States the species is now exceedingly rare except in the
most remote parts of southern Florida.
Spoonbills build a rude nest of sticks in mangrove bushes or small
trees and lay three to five whitish eggs speckled with shades of
brown.
Ibises are usually found in flocks along the shore of lagoons, lakes,
etc., or in marshy places. They fly with the neck outstretched and are
generally silent. Their nests of reeds, weed stalks, etc., are
sometimes placed in low bushes, at others in grassy marshes. The eggs
number from three to five. They are plain blue in the Glossy Ibis,
greenish white with chocolate markings, in the White Ibis.
The Storks are largely Old World birds, only three of the some twenty
known species inhabiting the Western Hemisphere. But one of these is
found regularly north of the Rio Grande, the so-called Wood Ibis which
is abundant in southern Florida. It lives in flocks and builds a nest
of sticks usually in cypress trees, often forty feet from the ground,
laying two or three white eggs. When flying the neck is extended. It
progresses by alternate flapping and sailing and occasionally soars
high overhead in circles, like a Vulture.
The Bitterns and Herons unlike our other long-legged wading birds, fly
with a fold in the neck. They belong in two subfamilies, the
_Botaurinæ_ and _Ardeinæ_, respectively. The Bitterns are usually
solitary birds inhabiting grassy or reedy marshes where their colors
harmonize with their surroundings and render them difficult to see.
The American Bittern nests on the ground and lays three to five pale
brownish eggs. The Least Bittern usually weaves a platform nest of
reeds among rushes growing in the water and lays four or five bluish
white eggs.
Herons feed along the shore and are consequently more often seen than
Bitterns. With the exception of the Green Heron and the Yellow-crowned
Night Heron, which usually nest in isolated pairs, our species gather
in colonies to nest. Several hundred pairs occupying a limited area
in some wooded or bushy swamp to which, when undisturbed, they return
year after year.
Herons build a rude platform nest of sticks, sometimes placing it in
bushes, sometimes in the tallest trees, and at others on the ground or
beds of reeds in marshes. The eggs are greenish blue in color and
usually four in number. It is among those Herons, which in nesting
time are adorned with delicate plumes or aigrettes, that the greatest
ravages of the millinery hunter have been made. Attacking these birds
when they have gathered on the nesting ground, they are not permitted
to rear their young and the species is thus exterminated branch and
root.
The voice of Herons is a harsh squawk varying in depth of tone with
the size of the bird.
Flamingo, Spoonbill and Ibis
[Illustration: 182.]
=182. Flamingo= (_Phoenicopterus ruber_). L. 45; from toe to bill, 60.
_Ads._ Rosy red, lighter on back; primaries and secondaries black.
_Yng._ Smaller, grayish brown; lighter below. _Notes._ A _honk_
resembling that of a Canada Goose.
Range.--Atlantic coasts of tropical and subtropical America; resident
(breeding?) in southwestern Florida (Monroe county); casual
west to Texas, north to South Carolina.
[Illustration: 183.]
=183. Roseate Spoonbill= (_Ajaia ajaja_). L. 32. _Ads._ Head and
throat bare; sides of breast and end of tail rusty buff; lesser
wing-coverts, upper and under tail-coverts carmine. _Yng._ Head
feathered, buff and carmine replaced by pink.
Range.--Tropical and subtropical America; north to Gulf States.
[Illustration: 185.]
=185. Scarlet Ibis= (_Guara rubra_). L. 24. _Ads._ Scarlet: tips of
primaries black. _Yng._ Grayish brown, lower back, rump, and upper
tail-coverts white; underparts dull white.
Range.--"Florida, Louisiana and Texas, southward to the West Indies
and northern South America. No record of its recent occurrence in the
United States." (A.O.U.)
Ibises
[Illustration: 184.]
=184. White Ibis= (_Guara alba_). L. 25. _Ads._ White, tips of outer
primaries black, face orange red. _Yng._ Grayish brown, rump, breast
and belly white. _Notes._ When near nest, _crook_, _croc_, _croo_;
when disturbed, a loud, hoarse, _bunk_, _bunk_, _hunk_. (Audubon).
Range.--Tropical America; breeds north to Lower California, southern
Indiana, southern Illinois and South Carolina; winters from Gulf
southward; accidental in South Dakota, Connecticut and Long Island.
[Illustration: 186.]
=186. Glossy Ibis= (_Plegadis autumnalis_). L. 24. _Ads._ Front of
head black with greenish reflections. _Yng._ Head and neck fuscous
brown margined with white, rest of underparts fuscous brown; back with
greenish reflections.
Range.--Tropical and subtropical regions in America; rare or local in
southeastern United States; casual north to Massachusetts and
Illinois.
[Illustration: 187.]
=187. White-faced Glossy Ibis= (_Plegadis guarauna_). L. 24. _Ads._
Front of head _white_. _Yng._ Resembles young of No. 186.
Range.--Tropical and subtropical America; north to California, (rarely
British Columbia), Texas, Kansas, east rarely to Florida; winters
south of United States.
[Illustration: 188.]
=188. Wood Ibis= (_Tantalus loculator_). L. 40. _Ads._ Head and
neck bare; white, primaries, secondaries and tail blackish.
_Yng._ Resembles ad. but head and neck feathered, grayish brown.
_Note._ When alarmed, a rough, guttural croak. (Audubon.)
Range.--Tropical and subtropical America; breeds In Gulf States,
(Lower California?), and later may stray as far north as New York,
Wisconsin, and California.
Bitterns
[Illustration: 190.]
=190. American Bittern= (_Botaurus lentiginosus_). L. 28. _Ads._
A glossy black streak on either side of the neck. _Yng._ Similar
to ad. but colors much deeper, more rusty. _Notes._ Call, _quawk_;
song, _pump-er-lunk_.
Range.--North America north to Labrador and British Columbia, breeding
chiefly north of latitude 35°; winters from about latitude 35°
southward.
[Illustration: 191.]
=191. Least Bittern= (_Ardetta exilis_). L. 13. _Ad._ [Male]. Hindneck
rufous, foreneck, underparts, and under tail-coverts white and buff.
_Ad._ [Female]. Similar, but crown and back brown, below streaked with
brownish. _Notes._ Call, an explosive _quab_; song, a soft _coo_
repeated four or five times.
Range.--North America; breeds from Gulf States to New Brunswick and
Manitoba; winters from Gulf States southward. "Less common west of
Rocky Mountains; on the Pacific coast north to northern California."
(A.O.U.)
[Illustration: 191.1]
=191.1. Cory Bittern= (_Ardetta neoxena_). L. 13. _Ad._ [Male].
Hindneck black, foreneck chestnut, belly mixed black and chestnut,
under tail-coverts black. _Ad._ [Female]. Similar, but crown and back
duller.
Range.--Eastern North America; recorded from Florida, Ontario,
(breeding), Massachusetts, and Michigan; about 20 specimens known.
Herons
[Illustration: 192.]
=192. Great White Heron= (_Ardea occidentalis_). _Ads._ White, no
"aigrette" plumes. A white Heron about the size of a Great Blue Heron.
What is supposed to be a gray-blue phase of this bird has been called
_Ardea wuerdmanni_, a bird which resembles No. 194, but has the head
and neck whitish.
Range.--Southern Florida, Cuba and Jamaica.
[Illustration: 196.]
=196. American Egret= (_Herodias egretta_). L. 41. _Ads._ White, about
50 _straight_ "aigrette" plumes grow from the back between the wings;
legs and feet _black_. Ads. when not breeding and Yng., the same, but
no plumes.
Range.--Tropical and temperate America; breeds north to Virginia,
southern Illinois, and California; later strays to New Brunswick,
Minnesota, and Oregon; winters from southern California and Gulf
States southward.
[Illustration: 197.]
=197. Snowy Heron= (_Egretta candidissima_). L. 24. _Ads._ White,
about 50 _recurved_ "aigrette" plumes grow from back between the
wings; legs black, feet _yellow_. Ads. when not breeding and Yng.
The same, but no plumes.
Range.--Tropical and temperate America; bred formerly north to Long
Island, southern Illinois and California; now very rare in eastern
North America; winters from Gulf States and southern California
southward.
[Illustration: 194.]
=194. Great Blue Heron= (_Ardea herodias_). L. 45; W. 18.5; B. 5.5;
Tar. 7. _Ads._ Center of crown white, head crested; legs blackish.
_Yng._ Similar, but no crest, crown wholly black, plumage more
streaked.
Range--Northern South America north to Arctic regions; breeds locally
throughout most of North America range; winters from about latitude
42° southward.
=194a. Northwest Coast Heron= (_A. h. fannini_). Similar to No. 194
but much darker; upperparts bluish slate black; tarsus shorter, 5.3.
Range.--Pacific coast from Vancouver to Sitka.
=194b. Ward Heron= (_A. h. wardi_). Similar to No. 194 but whiter
below, neck darker; legs olive; larger, L. 52; W. 20; B. 6.5; Tar. 8.
Range.--Florida; coast of Texas.
[Illustration: 202.]
=202. Black-crowned Night Heron= (_Nycticorax nycticorax nævius_).
L. 24. _Ads._ Crown and back greenish black lower back, wings and
tail ashy; head with two or three rounded white plumes, except just
after breeding season. _Yng._ Grayish brown streaked with white; below
white streaked with blackish; outer webs of primaries, _pale rufous_.
_Notes._ An explosive _qûawk_.
Range.--Western hemisphere; breeds in North America north to New
Brunswick, Quebec, Manitoba, and Oregon; winters from California and
Gulf States southward.
[Illustration: 203.]
=203. Yellow-crowned Night Heron= (_Nyctanassa violaceus_). L. 23.
_Ads._ Blue-gray; crown and ear-coverts whitish, rest of head black;
scapulars streaked with black; head with two or three rounded, white
plumes, except just after nesting season. _Yng._ Crown _black_,
streaked with whitish; primaries _bluish slate, no rufous_; back
brownish streaked with white; below whitish streaked with blackish.
Range.--Tropical and subtropical America; breeds north to South
Carolina, southern Illinois, and Lower California; strays to
Massachusetts and Colorado; winters from Gulf States southward.
[Illustration: 2198.]
=198. Reddish Egret= (_Dichromanassa rufescens_). L. 29. Two color
phases independent of age. _Ads._ _Dark phase_, Head and neck rufous;
back slate; about 30 "aigrette" plumes. _White phase._ White,
including plumes; tips of primaries sometimes speckled with gray.
_Yng._ Rufous and gray, or white, without plumes.
Range.--West Indies and Central America north to coasts of Gulf
States, Illinois (rarely), and Lower California.
[Illustration: 199.]
=199. Louisiana Heron= (_Hydranassa tricolor ruficollis_). L. 26.
_Ads._ "Aigrette" plumes, short, dirty gray; rump and belly white;
legs blackish. _Yng._ Head and neck brownish; throat and line down
foreneck white; above slaty washed with brownish, rump, and belly
white.
Range.--West Indies and Central America north to Gulf States, casually
to Long Island and Indiana.
[Illustration: 200.]
=200. Little Blue Heron= (_Florida cÅrulea_). L. 22. _Ads._ Head and
neck maroon; rest of plumage slaty blue. _Yng._ White, tips of
primaries bluish, legs _greenish yellow_.
Range.--Tropical America and eastern United States; breeds north to
Virginia and Illinois, later may stray north as far as Nova Scotia;
winters from South Atlantic and Gulf States southward.
[Illustration: 201.]
=201. Little Green Heron= (_Butorides virescens_). L. 17. Smallest of
our Herons. _Ads._ Crown, glossy green-black; throat and line down
foreneck buffy; rest of head and neck purplish chestnut; back green
washed with bluish gray. _Yng._ Neck and below streaked with blackish;
back-feathers not lengthened; duller. _Notes._ A rattling
_oc-oc-oc-oc-oc_, a startling _scow_, and, more rarely, a deep, hollow
groan. (Brewster.)
Range.--Tropical and temperate North America; breeds from Gulf States
north to Nova Scotia and Manitoba; winters from Gulf States southward
to northern South America.
=201a. Frazar Green Heron= (_B. v. frazari_). Similar to No. 201, but
rather larger and darker, neck more purplish, light stripings on
throat and foreneck more restricted. (Brewster.)
Range.--Lower Califorinia.
=201b. Anthony Green Heron= (_B. v. anthonyi_). Similar to No. 201,
but slightly larger, and paler, light markings of wings, neck, and
throat less restricted and whiter. (Mearns.)
Range.--Arid portions of southwestern United States, south into
Mexico.
Order VIII. CRANES, RAILS, ETC.
PALUDICOLÃ.
Family 1. CRANES. Gruidæ. 3 species.
Family 2. COURLANS. Aramidæ. 1 species.
Family 3. RAILS, GALLINULES, and COOTS. Rallidæ. 12 species,
3 subspecies.
Cranes bear a general resemblance to Herons in that they are
long-legged, long-necked birds, but when on the wing, they carry the
neck fully extended, a habit which will readily distinguish them from
the curved neck Herons. Cranes are less aquatic than Herons and are
often found feeding on the prairies or pine-barrens where worms,
grasshoppers, lizards, roots, etc., form their fare. They nest on the
ground laying two buffy eggs thickly marked with brown. The young,
unlike the nearly naked, helpless young of Herons, are born covered
with down and can soon follow their parents. The Cranes have loud
sonorous voices; the Herons raucous croaks.
The Limpkin is a singular inhabitant of the more retired Florida
swamps. It feeds upon the ground largely upon a kind of land shell,
but also perches in trees. Its nest of twigs is placed in a small tree
or bush, and it lays from four to seven pale buffy eggs stained and
speckled with cinnamon brown.
The Rails (Subfamily Rallinæ) are inhabitants of grassy marshes where,
trusting to their long legs, they more often escape observation by
running than by flying. One may hear their characteristic notes coming
from the dense growth only a few yards distant and still be unable to
catch a glimpse of their maker.
Rails nest on the ground laying six to twelve or fifteen buffy eggs
spotted with reddish brown. The young of all our species are born
covered with a shining black down.
The Gallinules (Subfamily Gallinulinæ) are more aquatic than the Rails
and are consequently less difficult to observe.
The Coots (Subfamily Fulicinæ) are still more aquatic than the
Gallinules, as might be supposed from their lobed toes, in fact are as
much at home in the water as though they were Ducks. Both Gallinules
and Coots lay eight to sixteen buffy, thickly speckled eggs in a nest
of reeds often built on a pile of rushes in the reeds.
Cranes and Limpkin
[Illustration: 204.]
=204. Whooping Crane= (_Grus americana_). L. 50. _Ads._ White; skin of
top of head dull red; primaries black. _Yng._ Head feathered, plumage
more or less washed with rusty.
Range.--Interior of North America: breeds from northern Mississippi
Valley north to Arctic regions; winters from Gulf States southward.
=205. Little Brown Crane= (_Grus canadensis_). L. 35. W. 18; B. 4.
_Ads._ Skin of top of head dull red; plumage brownish gray. _Yng._
Head feathered, plumage with more or less rusty.
Range.--"Northern North America from Hudson Bay to Alaska, migrating
south through western United States east of Rocky Mountains to
Mexico." (Ridgway.)
[Illustration: 206.]
=206. Sandhill Crane= (_Grus mexicana_). Similar to No. 205, but
larger. L. 44: W. 20; B. 5. _Notes._ A loud, sonorous, grating,
_krrrow_, repeated five or more times.
Range.--North America; breeds locally from Texas, Cuba, Florida north
through Mississippi Valley to Manitoba, British Columbia, and Oregon;
winters from northern California and Gulf States southward.
[Illustration: 207.]
=207. Limpkin= (_Aramus giganteus_). L. 28. _Ads._ Glossy olive-brown,
striped with white; wings and tail more bronzy. _Notes._ A loud
_wah-ree-ow_, repeated and the last note prolonged into a wail.
Range.--Central America and West Indies north to southern Texas and
Florida.
Rails
[Illustration: 208.]
=208. King Rail= (_Rallus elegans_). L. 15. _Ads._ Above olive-brown,
black, and olive-gray; wing-coverts reddish brown; neck and breast
cinnamon; belly and sides _blackish_, _sharply_ and broadly barred
with white. _Notes._ A loud _bup_, _bup_, _bup_, repeated and ending
in a roll.
Range.--Eastern United States; breeds from Florida north to
Connecticut and South Dakota; strays to Maine; winters from Virginia
and Lower Mississippi Valley south to Gulf States.
=209. Belding Rail= (_Rallus beldingi_). Similar to No. 208, but
paler; flank-bars narrower.
Range.--Lower California.
=210. California Clapper Rail= (_Rallus obsoletus_). L. 17. Above
grayish olive-brown streaked with blackish brown; breast cinnamon;
flanks dusky brown narrowly banded with white. Margins to back
feathers much broader than in forms of _crepitans_.
Range.--Salt Marshes of Pacific coast north to Washington.
[Illustration: 212.]
=212. Virginia Rail= (_Rallus virginianus_). L. 9.5; B. 1.5. _Ads._
Above blackish and grayish brown; wing-coverts reddish brown; below
cinnamon, flanks black and white. Resembling a King Rail in color, but
much smaller. _Notes._ Calls, _kep_ or _kik_; song, a grunting sound
and _cut_, _cûtta-cûtta-cûtta_. (Brewster.)
Range.--North America; breeds from Pennsylvania, Long Island, northern
Illinois, and middle California north to Labrador, Manitoba, and
British Columbia; winters from about its southern breeding limits
south to Cuba and Guatemala.
[Illustration: 215.]
=215. Yellow Rail.= (_Porzana noveboracensis_). L. 7; B. .5. _Ads._
Above black and buffy barred with white; breast buffy; sides brownish
barred with white. Notes. An abrupt cackling, _'krék_, _'krek_,
_'krek_, _'krek_, _kûk_, _'k'k'k_. (Nuttall.)
Range.--Eastern North America north to New Brunswick, Quebec, and
Hudson Bay, west to Manitoba and rarely California; probably breeds
chiefly north; winters in southern States.
[Illustration: 211.]
=211. Clapper Rail, Marsh Hen= (_Rallus crepitans_). L. 14.5; W. 5;
B. 2.5. _Ads._ Above _pale_ olive bordered by _gray_; wing-coverts
_pale_ grayish brown; breast _pale_ cinnamon; flanks barred _gray_
and white. _Notes._ _Gkak_, _gkak_, _gkak_, at first loud and rapid,
ending lower and slower.
Range.--Salt marshes of the Atlantic coast; breeds from North Carolina
to Connecticut; winters from Long Island (rarely) southward, north
casually to Massachusetts; south casually to Louisiana.
=211a. Louisiana Clapper Rail= (_R. c. saturatus_). Similar to
No. 211, but above rich brown edged with olive; breast darker
cinnamon; bill more slender, 2.3.
Range.--Coast of Louisiana.
[Illustration: 211b.]
=211b. Scott Clapper Rail= (_R. c. scotti_). Similar to No. 211, but
much darker; sooty brown or black above edged with olive-brown or
olive-gray; breast and neck cinnamon, washed with brownish; flanks
brown and white. Darkest bird of group.
Range.--Gulf coast of Florida.
=211c. Wayne Clapper Rail= (_R. c. waynei_). Similar to No. 211, but
darker, back rich olive-brown edged with gray; breast more ashy.
Range.--Atlantic coast, North Carolina to eastern Florida.
=211.2. Caribbean Clapper Rail= (_Rallus longirostris caribæus_).
L. 14; W. 5.7; B. 2.4. _Ads._ Above olive-brown edged with
olive-ashy, breast cinnamon; flanks _brown_ and white.
Range.--West Indies; coast of southeastern Texas (and northeastern
Mexico?).
[Illustration: 214.]
=214. Carolina Rail= (_Porzana carolina_). L. 8.5; B. 8. _Ads._ Region
about base of bill black. _Yng._ Similar, but no black about base of
bill; breast more cinnamon. _Notes._ Calls, _kuk_ or _peep_, song,
_ker-wee_; and a high, rolling _whinny_.
Range.--North America; breeds from Long Island, Illinois, Kansas, and
southern California, north to Newfoundland, Hudson Bay region, and
British Columbia; winters from South Carolina, southern Illinois, and
northern California south to South America.
[Illustration: 216.]
=216. Little Black Rail= (_Porzana jamaicensis_): L. 5; B. 6. _Ads._
Head, breast, and belly slate; back blackish brown barred with white;
nape reddish brown. _Notes._ Probably, _kik-kik-kik_, _quee'ah_, or
_kik-ki-ki-ki_, _ki_, _quee'ah_, or variants. (Brewster.)
Range.--"Temperate North America north to Massachusetts, northern
Illinois, and Oregon: south to West Indies and Guatemala." (A.O.U.)
Probably breeds throughout its North American range (Connecticut,
Illinois, Kansas).
Gallinules and Coot
[Illustration: 218.]
=218. Purple Gallinule= (_Ionornis martinica_). L. 13. _Ads._
Crown-plate bluish, bill carmine tipped with greenish; back shining
green; below purplish blue; under tail-coverts white. _Yng._ Above
browner; below with white; no red on bill.
Range.--Tropical and subtropical America; breeds only in eastern North
America north to southern Illinois and South Carolina, strays to Maine
and Wisconsin; winters from southern Florida south to South America.
[Illustration: 219.]
=219. Florida Gallinule= (_Gallinula galeata_). L. 13.5. _Ad._
Crown-plate red, bill red tipped with greenish; legs green with a red
ring; back olive-brown; flanks slate _streaked with white_. _Yng._
Crown-plate smaller with bill brownish; no red on legs; below grayish.
_Notes._ An explosive _chuck_ and many loud and varied calls
suggesting a disturbed brooding hen, the squawking of a struggling
hen, etc.
Range.--Temperate and tropical America; breeds locally north to Maine,
Montreal, Minnesota, and northern California; winters from Gulf States
and California southward.
[Illustration: 221.]
=221. American Coot= (_Fulica americana_). L. 15. Toes with scallops.
_Ads._ Bill whitish; crown-plate and two spots on bill brownish; head
and neck black; rest of plumage slate. _Yng._ Whiter below, browner
above, crown-plate smaller. _Notes._ An explosive _cuck_ and noisy
cackling notes.
Range.--North America; breeds in the interior (chiefly northward)
north to the Mackenzie and on Pacific coast to British Columbia;
winters from British Columbia and Gulf States south to Central America
and West Indies.
Order IX. SHORE BIRDS.
LIMICOLÃ.
Family 1. PHALAROPES. Phalaropodidæ. 3 species.
Family 2. AVOCETS AND STILTS. Recurvirostridæ. 2 species.
Family 3. SNIPES, SANDPIPERS, ETC. Scolopacidæ. 33 species,
2 subspecies.
Family 4. PLOVERS. Charadriidæ. 9 species, 2 subspecies.
Family 5. SURF BIRDS AND TURNSTONES. Aphrizidæ. 4 species.
Family 6. OYSTER-CATCHERS. Hæmatopodidæ. 3 species.
Family 7. JACANAS. Jacanidæ. 1 species.
The Phalaropes are swimming Snipes. The Northern and Red Phalaropes,
both of which have well-developed lobes or scalloped webs on their
toes, except when nesting, live at sea a hundred miles or more off
shore, where they find an abundance of food in small forms of marine
life. The Wilson Phalarope is a bird of the interior and consequently,
is far less aquatic than the remaining species of the family;
nevertheless it readily takes to water, swimming buoyantly and
gracefully.
Contrary to the general rule, the female Phalarope is larger and more
brightly colored than the male and this difference in size and plumage
is accompanied by similarly unusual habits; the female taking the
place of the male in the Phalarope household. The female of necessity
lays the eggs, but they are hatched by the male alone, who it is said,
cares for the young, also without the assistance of his mate.
The Avocets and Stilts are wading Snipes. The Stilts secure their food
by quick thrusts of the bill, but the Avocets use their singular,
upturned member in a more interesting manner. When in water two or
three inches deep, the bill is dropped below the surface, until the
curved lower mandible evidently touches the bottom; then walking
rapidly, or even running, the bill is swung from side to side and the
bird thus explores the mud in its search for food, which, when it is
felt, is picked up in the usual way.
Many of the members of the family Scolopacidæ are probing Snipe. The
Woodcock, Wilson Snipe, and Dowitcher are good examples. Their bill is
long and sensitive and they can curve or move its tip without opening
it at the base. When the bill is thrust into the mud the tip may
therefore grasp a worm and it thus becomes a finger as well as a
probe.
Though not ranked as song birds, many of the Snipes and Plovers have
pleasing calls and whistles and in the breeding season they become
highly musical or indulge in singular vocal performances.
The song of the Bartramian Sandpiper would attract the attention of
the least observant and the singular aërial evolutions of the Snipe
and Woodcock lend an unusual interest to the study of these birds in
the spring. The Pectoral Sandpiper was observed by Nelson in Alaska,
in May, to fill its Åsophagus with air dilating the skin of the neck
and breast and forming a sack as large as the body. Then in the air or
on the ground the bird produced a series of hollow booming notes,
constituting its love song.
The Plovers have shorter, harder bills than the true Snipe and several
of our species frequent the uplands rather than muddy shore or tidal
flats.
The Turnstones are true shore birds. Their home with us is on the
seacoast where they feed along the beach turning over shells and
pebbles in their search for food.
The Oyster-catchers are also strictly maritime. They frequent bars
left bare by the tide and, it is said, use their stout bills to force
open mussels; oysters, or other bivalves left exposed by the water.
This belief, however, does not appear to rest on careful, definite
observation.
The Jacana belongs to a small family of birds with representatives
throughout the tropics. All its members are remarkable for the length
of their toes, the wide extent of which enable these birds to walk
over aquatic vegetation. So, for instance, I have seen them running
over small lily leaves which, sinking slightly beneath the surface,
made the birds appear to be walking on the water.
The Limicolæ, as a rule, nest on the ground. The Phalaropes, Snipes,
and Plovers lay four eggs, the Oyster-catcher three, the Jacanas, it
is said, four in some species to ten in others. The eggs of all are
proportionately large and pointed or pear-shaped and are usually
thickly marked with dark spots. The young are born covered with down
and leave the nest just after hatching.
Shore Birds
[Illustration: _Foot of Phalarope 1/2 Size_]
[Illustration: 222.]
=222. Red Phalarope= (_Crymophilus fulicarius_). L. 8.10; B. 9. Bill
heavy, wider than deep. _Ad._ [Female]. Below entirely reddish brown;
cap black, back black and buff. _Ad._ [Male]. Similar, but smaller;
crown and back streaked with brown, black, and buff. _Yng._ Resemble
[Male], but upper tail-coverts plumbeous, underparts _white_.
_Winter._ _Crown_ and underparts white, hindneck black, back gray.
_Notes._ A musical _clink_, _clink_. (Nelson.)
Range.--"Northern parts of northern hemisphere, breeding in the Arctic
regions and migrating south in winter; in the United States south to
the Middle States. Ohio Valley, and Cape St. Lucas; chiefly maritime."
(A.O.U.)
[Illustration: 223.]
=223. Northern Phalarope= (_Phalaropus lobatus_). L. 7.7; B. .8. Bill
short, slender, sharply pointed. _Ad._ [Female]. Breast rufous; above
slaty gray mixed with ochraceous on back. _Ad._ [Male]. Smaller, less
rufous; on throat; above blackish streaked with rusty. _Yng._
Underparts and _forehead_ white; crown sooty; back blackish streaked
with straw-color. _Winter._ Upperparts gray mixed with white;
underparts white. _Notes._ A low chippering, clicking note.
Range.--Northern hemisphere; breeds from Labrador and northern British
America north to Greenland and Alaska; winters apparently south of
United States where it is known as a migrant chiefly off the coasts.
[Illustration: 224.]
=224. Wilson Phalarope= (_Steganopus tricolor_). L. 9.5; B. 1.3. Bill
long. _Ad._ [Female]. Sides of neck black and chestnut; crown and back
gray. _Ad._ [Male]. Smaller; chestnut and black much less and duller;
crown and back blackish, latter sometimes with rufous. _Yng._ Below
white; crown and back black margined with ochraceous; nape brownish
gray. _Winter._ Above gray, upper tail-coverts white; below white.
_Notes._ A soft, trumpet _yna_, _yna_.
Range.--North America, chiefly in the interior; breeds from northern
Illinois (rarely), Minnesota and Central California, north to latitude
55°; winters south of United States to southern South America.
[Illustration: 283.]
=283. Turnstone= (_Arenaria interpres_). Similar to 283.1 but larger,
W. 6., and upperparts in _ad._ with black prevailing. _Yng._ Blacker
than young of 283.1.
Range.--Eastern hemisphere, in America, only in Greenland and Alaska.
=283.1. Ruddy Turnstone= (_Arenaria morinella_). L. 9.5; W. 5.7.
_Ads._ Reddish brown prevailing in upper surface. _Yng._ Above and
breast grayish brown margined with buffy, throat, abdomen, rump and
long upper tail-coverts _white_ as in ad.; shorter upper tail-coverts
black. _Notes._ When flying, a loud twittering note. (Nuttall.)
Range.--Nearly cosmopolitan; breeds in Arctic regions; winters in
America south of United States to Patagonia.
[Illustration: 288.]
=288. Mexican Jacana= (_Jacana spinosa_). L. 8. Toes over 1.5. _Ads._
Chestnut and black; wings mostly greenish. _Yng._ Forehead, line over
eye, and below white. Above grayish brown, sometimes with rump
chestnut, nape black. _Notes._ A harsh, rapidly repeated _eep_, _eep_,
_eep_.
Range.--Central America and Mexico north to Lower Rio Grande Valley,
Cuba and Haiti.
[Illustration: 225.]
=225. American Avocet= (_Recurvirostra americana_). L. 16.5; B. 3.7.
_Ads._ Head and neck rufous; belly white; wings black and white. _Yng.
and Ads. in winter._ Similar, but head and neck grayish or whitish.
_Notes._ A rather musical, loud _plÄÄ-ÄÄk_ hurriedly
repeated.
Range.--North America west of Mississippi; breeds from northern
States, central California and rarely Texas, north in the interior to
latitude 54°: winters from southern California and western Gulf States
to Central America and West Indies; casual on Atlantic coast.
[Illustration: 264.]
=264. Long-billed Curlew= (_Numenius longirostris_). L. 24; B. 6.,
longest among our Snipe. _Ads._ Above black and buffy; tail barred
buffy and black; below buffy, neck and breast finely streaked with
dusky. _Yng._ Similar, but buff deeper.
Range.--North America; breeds on Atlantic coast from Florida to North
Carolina; in interior north to Manitoba and British Columbia; later
strays casually to Newfoundland and Ontario; winters from Gulf States
and southern California southward.
[Illustration: 265.]
=265. Hudsonian Curlew= (_Numenius hudsonicus_). L. 17; B. 3.7. _Ads._
Less buff than No. 264; above dark grayish brown and brownish gray;
tail barred with same; below white, breast streaked; sides barred with
blackish.
Range.--North America; breeds in Arctic region; winters south of
United States to South America.
[Illustration: 266.]
=266. Eskimo Curlew= (_Numenius borealis_). L. 13.5; B. 2. _Ads._ Tail
barred with grayish brown and black; above blackish and buffy; below
buffy, the breast thickly streaked; sides barred with blackish.
Range.--Eastern North America; breeds In Arctic regions; winters south
of United States to South America; migrates chiefly through interior.
[Illustration: 226.]
=226. Black-necked Stilt= (_Himantopus mexicanus_). L. 15; Tar 4.10.
_Ad._ [Male]. Forehead, lower back, and underparts white; crown,
hindneck, upper back, and wings black. _Ad._ [Female]. Similar, but
upper back and scapulars grayish brown. _Yng._ Similar to [Female],
but brown and black feathers lightly margined with buffy.
_Notes._ A sharp, rapidly uttered _ip-ip-ip_ when flying; a hoarse
_k-r-r-r-r-ing_ note when on the ground.
Range.--Temperate and tropical America; breeds north to Gulf States,
(locally and rarely in Mississippi Valley to Minnesota) and
California; winters from southern California and West Indies to
northern South America; rare east of Mississippi except in Gulf
States.
[Illustration: 286.]
=286. American Oyster-catcher= (_Hæmatopus palliatus_). L. 19. _Ads._
Base of tail and longer upper tail-coverts white, shorter coverts and
_all_ back blackish brown; white in wings conspicuous in flight.
_Yng._ Similar but feathers above with buffy margins. _Notes._ A sharp
_eep_, _eep_.
Range.--Temperate and tropical America; breeds on sea coasts only,
north to Virginia and western Mexico; winters south of United States
to South America; casual north to Nova Scotia.
=286.1. Frazar Oyster-catcher= (_Hæmatopus frazari_). Similar to No.
286, but darker above, black breast passing into white belly through a
mottled black and white band; upper tail coverts with brown markings.
Range.--"Lower California (both coasts), north to Los Coronados
Islands." (A.O.U.)
[Illustration: 287.]
=287. Black Oyster-catcher= (_Hæmatopus bachmani_). L. 17. _Ads._
Black. _Yng._ Somewhat browner. _Notes._ A musical, piping whistle.
Range.--"Pacific coast of North America from Aleutian Islands to La
Paz, Lower California."
[Illustration: 228.]
=228. American Woodcock= (_Philohela minor_). L. 11. _Ads._ Below
ochraceous-rufous; _no bars_; forehead slaty crown black with rusty
bars; back mixed black, rusty and slaty. _Notes._ A nasal _peent_ or
_paip_; a whistling of wings and a twittering whistle.
Range.--Eastern North America; breeds locally from Florida to Labrador
and Manitoba, but chiefly northward; winters from southern New Jersey
and southern Illinois to Gulf States.
[Illustration: 230.]
=230. Wilson Snipe= (_Gallinago delicata_). L. 11.2. _Ads._ Throat and
belly white or whitish; breast rusty buff indistinctly streaked; sides
_barred_; above streaked black and cream-buff; tail black and rusty;
outer feathers barred black and white. _Notes._ When taking flight
several sudden, hoarse _scaipes_; a tremulous, penetrating bleating,
thought to be produced by air rushing through the birds wings; a
_kûk-kûk-kûk_. (Brewster.)
Range.--North America; breeds from northern New England (rarely
Connecticut), northern Illinois and northern California north to
Labrador, Hudson Bay, and Alaska; winters from California, southern
Illinois, and South Carolina to northern South America.
[Illustration: 261.]
=261. Bartramian Sandpiper= (_Bartramia longicauda_). L. 11.5. Outer
primary barred black and white. _Ads._ Above black, ochraceous, and
brownish gray; breast and sides with dusky arrowheads; throat and
belly whitish. _Yng._ Similar, but more buffy. _Notes._ Call, a soft,
bubbling whistle; song, a prolonged, mournful, mellow whistle,
"_chr-r-r-r-r-ee-e-e-e-e-e-oo-oo-o-oo_."
Range.--North America chiefly interior; breeds locally from Kansas and
Virginia to Alaska and Nova Scotia; winters south of United States to
South America.
[Illustration: 262.]
=262. Buff-breasted Sandpiper= (_Tryngites subruficollis_). L. 8.5.
Inner border of inner web of primaries beautifully speckled with black
and white. _Ads._ Above black widely margined with grayish brown;
below ochraceous-buff; a few black spots. _Yng._ Above blackish brown,
finely and evenly margined with whitish; below much as in adult.
Range.-"North America especially in the interior; breeds in the Yukon
district and the interior of British America north to the Arctic
coast; south in winter as far as Uruguay and Peru." (A.O.U.)
[Illustration: 281.]
=281. Mountain Plover= (_Podasocys montana_). L. 9. No black on
breast. _Ads._ Lores and crown-band black; above grayish brown washed
with pale rusty. _Yng._ Similar, but no black, rusty wash deeper.
_Winter._ Same as last but rusty paler.
Range.--Western United States; breeds from Kansas to North Dakota;
winters westward to California, south to Lower California and Mexico;
accidental in Florida.
[Illustration: 231.]
=231. Dowitcher= (_Macrorhamphus griseus_) L. 10.5; B. 2.1, pitted at
tip. _Ads._ _Rump_, _tail_, under wing-coverts, and axillars _barred_
black and white; above black margined with rusty; rump, white; below
reddish brown, spotted and barred with black. _Yng._ Similar, but
breast gray tinged with rusty; belly white. _Winter._ Above gray,
breast gray mixed with dusky, belly white.
Range.--Eastern North America; breeds chiefly north and northwest of
Hudson Bay; winters from Florida to northern South America.
[Illustration: 232.]
=232. Long-billed Dowitcher= (_Macrorhamphus scolopaceus_). B. 2.1 to
2.9. Similar to preceding but larger, bill longer; in adult spring
plumage more barred below. _Notes._ A lisping, energetic musical,
_peet-peet_; _pÄe-ter-wÄe-too_; _wÄe-too_ repeated. (Nelson.)
Range.--"Western North America, breeding in Alaska to the Arctic
coast, migrating south in winter through western United States
(including Mississippi Valley) to Mexico, and less commonly along
Atlantic coast." (A.O.U.)
[Illustration: 233.]
=233. Stilt Sandpiper= (_Micropalama himantopus_). L. 8.2; tarsus
long, 1.6. _Ads._ Entire underparts and upper tail-coverts white
barred with black; tail not barred. _Yng._ Resembles ad. but below
white, breast lightly streaked: rump white no bars. _Winter._ Similar
to yng. but back gray.
Range.--Eastern North America; breeds within Arctic Circle; winters
from Florida to South America.
[Illustration: 234.]
=234. Knot= (_Tringa canutus_). L. 10.5; B. 1.3. Upper tail-coverts
with black bars and loops; tail feathers without bars narrowly
margined with white. _Ads._ Mixed black, gray and reddish brown above,
reddish brown below. _Yng._ Above gray, margined with cream-white and
black; below white; breast lightly streaked. _Winter._ Similar, but
above gray.
Range.--Northern hemisphere; breeds within Arctic circle; winters from
Florida to South America: migrates chiefly along the coasts, rare on
Pacific coast of United States.
[Illustration: 244.]
=244. Curlew Sandpiper= (_Erolia ferruginea_). L. 8; B. 1.5, slightly
curved. _Ads._ Below chestnut-rufous, above rusty and black. _Yng._
Above brownish gray margined with whitish; back blacker; below white.
_Winter._ Above plain brownish gray; below white.
Range.--"Old World in general; occasional in Eastern North America and
Alaska." (A.O.U.)
[Illustration: 235.]
=235. Purple Sandpiper= (_Arquatella maritima_). L. 9. _Ads._ Above
black, margined with rusty and cream-buff; below white, breast and
sides heavily marked with black. _Winter._ Head, neck, and breast,
slaty; back blacker, margined with slaty; central secondaries largely
white.
Range.--"Northern portions of the northern hemisphere; in North
America chiefly the northeastern portions, breeding in the high north,
migrating in winter to the Eastern and Middle States (casually to
Florida), the Great Lakes and Upper Mississippi Valley." (A.O.U.)
[Illustration: 236.]
=236. Aleutian Sandpiper= (_Arquatella couesi_). L. 8.5. Similar to
No. 235, but ad. and yng. with more ochraceous; in winter grayish
margins to back lighter and wider. _Notes._ When flying, a low, clear,
musical _tweo-tweo-tweo_; when feeding, _clū-clū-clū_. (Nelson.)
Range.--"Aleutian Islands and coast of Alaska, north to Kowak River,
west to Commander Islands, Kamchatka." (A.O.U.)
[Illustration: 256.]
=256. Solitary Sandpiper= (_Helodromas solitarius_). L. 8.4. Under
wing-coverts, axillars, and all but middle tail-feathers barred black
and white. _Ads._ Above fuscous with a faint greenish tinge; head and
neck streaked, back spotted with whitish; below white; throat and
breast distinctly streaked with dusky. _Yng._ Fewer spots and streaks
above; breast markings fused. _Winter._ Practically no white markings
above.
Range.--Eastern North America; breeds from Northern States (rarely and
sporadically) northward; little known of breeding habits; winters
south of United States to South America.
=256a. Western Solitary Sandpiper= (_H. s. cinnamomeus_). Similar to
No. 256, but spots above buffy, especially in fall; inner margin of
outer primary speckled black and white.
Range.--Western North America; breeds in British Columbia (exact
breeding range unknown); winters south of United States.
[Illustration: 263.]
=263. Spotted Sandpiper= (_Actitis macularia_). L. 7.5. _Ads._ Below
white _thickly_ spotted with black; above brownish gray with a faint
greenish lustre, lightly marked with black. _Yng._ Similar above but
faintly margined with dusky and buff; below white, breast grayer; _no
black marks_. _Winter._ Same but no margins above. _Notes._
_Peet-weet_, repeated.
Range.--North America, north to Hudson Bay; breeds throughout its
North American range; winters from southern California and West Indies
to South America.
[Illustration: 284.]
=284. Black Turnstone= (_Arenaria melanocephala_). L. 9. No rusty;
lower back, longer upper tail-coverts and base of tail white; shorter
upper tail-coverts black. _Ads._ Above and breast brownish black;
belly white. _Yng._ Browner margined with whitish. _Winter._ Same as
Yng, but no margins. _Notes._ A sharp, _weet_, _weet_, _too-weet_.
(Nelson.)
Range.--"Pacific coast of North America from Point Barrow, Alaska to
Santa Margarita Island, Lower California; breeding from Alaska to
British Columbia." (A.O.U.)
[Illustration: 237.]
=237. Pribilof Sandpiper= (_Arquatella ptilocnemis_). L. 10. _Ads._
Similar to No. 236 above but crown much lighter; _breast_ with a
_black patch_. _Yng._ Resemble adult above but breast grayish
indistinctly streaked and with a pale buff band; belly white.
_Winter._ Similar to yng. but slaty gray above.
Range.--"Breeding in the Pribilof Islands, Alaska, and migrating to
coast of adjacent mainland south of Norton Sound." (A.O.U.)
[Illustration: 243a.]
=243a. Red-backed Sandpiper= (_Pelidna alpina pacifica_). L. 8;
B. 1.5; slightly curved. _Ads._ Belly black; back chiefly rusty.
_Yng._ Breast buffy, lightly streaked with dusky; belly white
_spotted_ with black; back black, rusty, and buff. _Winter._ Above
brownish gray; below white; breast grayish, indistinctly streaked.
Range.--North America; breeds in Arctic regions and winters from Gulf
States and California to South America.
[Illustration: 246.]
=246. Semipalmated Sandpiper= (_Ereunetes pusillus_). L. 6.3; B. .6
to .8. Toes webbed at base. _Ads._ Above brownish gray and black;
_little or no rusty_; below white, breast _indistinctly_ streaked.
_Yng._ Above with rusty and whitish margins; below white, breast grayish
no streaks. _Winter._ Above brownish gray with black shaft streaks;
below white. _Notes._ _weet-weet_.
Range.--Eastern North America; breeds in Arctic regions; winters from
Gulf States to South America.
[Illustration: 247.]
=247. Western Sandpiper= (_Ereunetes occidentalis_). Similar to
preceding but bill longer .8 to 1.2; ads. more rusty above, breast
streaks more distinct, and more numerous. _Notes._ Call, a soft
_weet-weet_; song, uttered on the wing, "a rapid, uniform series of
rather musical trills." (Nelson.)
Range.--North America, chiefly west of Mississippi Valley; breeds in
Arctic regions; winters from Gulf States to South America.
[Illustration: 248.]
=248. Sanderling= (_Calidris arenaria_). L. 8. Three toes, tarsus
scaled. _Ads._ Above rusty, black and grayish; below white, breast
spotted with black and _washed with rusty_. _Yng._ Nape grayish, back
_black_, feathers with _two_ white or yellowish white terminal spots;
below silky white. _Winter._ Above brownish gray with dusky shaft
streaks; below silky white.
Range.--"Nearly cosmopolitan, breeding in Arctic and Sub-Arctic
regions, migrating, in America, south to Chili and Patagonia."
(A.O.U.)
[Illustration: 238.]
=238. Sharp-tailed Sandpiper= (_Actodromas acuminata_). L. 8.7. _Tail
feathers pointed._ _Ads._ A white line over eye; breast buff streaked
with blackish. _Yng._ Crown as in ad., back black and rusty; below
white, breast buffy, no streaks. _Winter._ Back grayish brown streaked
with blackish; below as in yng., but breast grayer and with indistinct
streaks. _Notes._ A soft metallic _pleep-pleep_. (Nelson.)
Range.--"Eastern Asia, and coast of Alaska, migrating south to Java
and Australia." (A.O.U.)
[Illustration: 239.]
=239. Pectoral Sandpiper= (_Actodromas maculata_). L. 9. _Ads._ Middle
tail-feathers longest, pointed, blackish margined with rusty; above
black and rusty; below white, breast thickly streaked; upper
tail-coverts _black_. _Yng. and in winter_ much the same. _Notes._
Call, a grating whistle; song, a hollow, resonant, musical
_tÅÅ-Å«_, repeated eight times, made after filling æsophagus
with air until it is puffed out to size of the body. (Nelson.)
Range.--North America; breeds in Arctic regions; winters south of
United States to South America; rare on Pacific coast.
[Illustration: 240.]
=240. White-rumped Sandpiper= (_Actodromas fuscicollis_). L. 7.5.
Longer upper tail-coverts _white_. _Ads._ Breast white, _distinctly
spotted_ or streaked. _Yng._ More rufous above; breast less distinctly
streaked. _Winter._ Brownish gray above; similar to yng. below.
Range.--Eastern North America; breeds in the interior north of Hudson
Bay; winters south of United States to southern South America; rare on
Pacific coast.
[Illustration: 241.]
=241. Baird Sandpiper= (_Actodromas bairdii_). L. 7.5. No rusty in
plumage. _Ads._ Longest upper tail-coverts _blackish_; breast buffy,
_faintly_ streaked. _Yng._ Similar, but back _conspicuously_ margined
with whitish. _Winter._ Above "buffy grayish brown," no white margins.
Range.--Interior of North America; breeds in the Arctic regions and
winters south of United States to southern South America.
[Illustration: 242.]
=242. Least Sandpiper= (_Actodromas minutilla_). L. 6. Smartest of our
Sandpipers. _Ads._ Above black, buff and rufous; below white breast
lightly streaked. _Yng._ Similar, but breast less distinctly streaked.
_Winter._ Above brownish gray, often streaked with black, below white.
_Notes._ _Peep-peep._
Range.--North America; breeds from Sable Island and Magdalens
northward; winters from Gulf States and California south to South
America.
[Illustration: 249.]
=249. Marbled Godwit= (_Limosa fedoa_). L. 18; B. 4; slightly
recurved. Tail barred, cinnamon and black; under wing-coverts cinnamon
with more or less fine black markings. _Ads._ Above black and
ochraceous; below buffy white finely and uniformly barred with black.
_Yng._ Similar, but with no or with but few bars below.
Range.--North America; breeds in the interior from western Minnesota,
rarely Iowa and Nebraska northward; winters south of United States to
Central America and West Indies.
[Illustration: 250.]
=250. Pacific Godwit= (_Limosa lapponica baueri_). L. 16. B. 3.7,
slightly recurved, tail barred black and white; under wing-coverts
black and white. _Ads._ "Head, neck and lower parts, plain cinnamon
color." (Ridgw.) _Winter._ Above black, grayish and rusty, former
prevailing; below white; throat streaked, elsewhere with irregular,
black bars. _Notes._ "A loud ringing _kû-we'w_, repeated."
Range.--"Shores and Islands of the Pacific Ocean, from New Zealand and
Australia to Kamchatka and Alaska. On the American coast recorded
south of Alaska only from La Paz, Lower California." (A.O.U.)
[Illustration: 251.]
=251. Hudsonian Godwit= (_Limosa hæmastica_). L. 15; B. 3.2, slightly
recurved. Under wing-coverts dusky; upper tail-coverts black and
white; tail black at end, white at base. _Ads._ Above black, rusty and
grayish, below chestnut-red barred with blackish and faintly tipped
with white. _Yng._ Similar, but below buffy whitish, breast grayer.
_Winter._ Similar below but above brownish gray.
Range.--Eastern North America chiefly interior; breeds in Arctic
Regions; winters south of United States to South America.
[Illustration: 270.]
=270. Black-bellied Plover= (_Squatarola squatarola_). L. 11. Hind-toe
present, small. _Ads._ Above black and white, no yellowish; below
black. _Yng._ Above grayish brown spotted with white and some
yellowish; below white. _Winter._ Similar to preceding but nearly
uniform brownish above.
Range.--Northern Hemisphere; breeds in Arctic Regions, winters in
America from Florida to Brazil.
[Illustration: 272.]
=272. American Golden Plover= (_Charadrius dominicus_). L. 10.5; W. 7.
No hind-toe; axillars dusky. _Ads._ Above conspicuously spotted with
yellow; below black, sides of breast white. _Yng._ Duller above, below
grayish white with dusky marks and yellowish wash. _Winter._ Similar
but no yellow below. _Notes._ Call, a plaintive _too-lee-e_; song, a
marvelously harmonious succession of notes. (Nelson.)
Range.--Western Hemisphere; breeds in Arctic Regions; winters from
Florida to Patagonia, rare on Pacific coast.
=272a. Pacific Golden Plover= (_C. d. fulvus_). Similar to No. 272 but
wing shorter, 6.5; yellow richer.
Range.--"Breeding from northern Asia to the Pribilof Islands and coast
of Alaska, south in winter through China and India to Australia and
Polynesia." (A.O.U.)
[Illustration: 254.]
=254. Greater Yellow-legs= (_Totanus melanoleucus_). L. 14; B. 2.2.
No rusty; upper tail-coverts mostly white; tail barred with black and
white or gray. _Ads._ Above black margined with whitish; below white
and black. _Yng._ Above grayish margined with whitish; below white,
breast lightly streaked. _Winter._ Similar but white margins less
conspicuous. _Notes._ A whistled _wheu_, _wheu-wheu-wheu-wheu-wheu-wheu_,
_wheu-wheu_.
Range.--North America; breeds from Minnesota, rarely northern
Illinois, and Anticosti northward; winters from Gulf States and
California to southern South America.
[Illustration: 255.]
=255. Yellow-legs= (_Totanus flavipes_). L. 10.7; B. 1.4. Similar in
color to preceding but smaller in size.
Range.--North America; breeds rarely in upper Mississippi Valley but
chiefly north of latitude 55°; winters from Gulf States to southern
South America; rare on Pacific coast.
[Illustration: 258.]
=258. Willet= (_Symphemia semipalmata_). L. 15; W. 8; B. 2.1.
Primaries black with a broad white band; upper tail-coverts mostly
white. _Ads._ Above brownish gray, black, and a little buff; below
white heavily marked with black and slightly washed with buff. _Yng._
Above brownish gray margined with buffy; below white, breast lightly
streaked with dusky. _Winter._ Similar, but above plain brownish gray.
_Notes._ Song, _pilly-will-willet_, repeated.
Range.--Eastern North America; breeds from Florida to southern New
Jersey, later strays casually to Maine; winters from Gulf States to
South America.
=258a. Western Willet= (_S. s. inornata_). Similar to No. 258 but
slightly larger. W. 8.5; B. 2.4. In summer above paler, less heavily
marked with black both above and below. _Yng. and Winter._
Indistinguishable in color from No. 258.
Range.--Western United States; breeds from Texas to Manitoba; winters
from southern California and Gulf States southward. A rare migrant on
Atlantic coast from South Carolina to Florida.
[Illustration: 259.]
=259. Wandering Tatler= (_Heteractitis incanus_). L. 11. Tail-coverts
plain slaty gray. _Ads._ Above plain slaty gray; below white barred
with slaty gray. _Yng._ Above slaty gray more or less margined with
whitish; breast and sides slaty gray; throat and belly white.
_Winter._ Similar, but no white margins above.
Range.--Pacific coast; breeds from British Columbia northward; winters
south to Hawaiian Islands and Galapagos.
[Illustration: 282.]
=282. Surf Bird= (_Aphriza virgata_). L. 10; B. 1. Upper tail-coverts
and base of tail-feathers white. _Ads._ Above black, slaty, and rusty.
_Yng._ Above slaty margined with whitish; breast barred slaty and
whitish; belly white spotted with slaty. _Winter._ The same, but no
whitish margins.
Range.--"Pacific coast of America, from Alaska to Chili." (A.O.U.)
[Illustration: 273.]
=273. Killdeer= (_Oxyechus vociferus_). L. 10.5. Rump and upper
tail-coverts rusty. _Ads._ Above grayish brown and rusty; below white
with _two_ black rings. _Notes._ A noisy _kildeÄ_, _kildeÄ_.
Range.--North America, north to Newfoundland, Manitoba and British
Columbia; (rare on North Atlantic coast); breeds locally throughout
its range; winters from Virginia, Lower Mississippi Valley and
California south to South America.
[Illustration: 274. Foot detail 1/2 Size.]
[Illustration: 274.]
=274. Semipalmated Plover= (_Ãgialitis semipalmata_). L. 6.7. Web
between bases of inner and middle toes. _Ads._ _One_ black ring around
neck; a white ring in front of it. _Yng._ Similar, but black parts
brownish; back margined with whitish. _Winter._ Same as last but no
whitish margins.
Range.--Breeds from Labrador northward; winters from Gulf States to
Brazil.
=275. Ring Plover= (_Ãgialitis hiaticula_). L. 7.5. No webs between
toes. Similar to 274 but larger, bill yellow at base, black or brown
bands wider.
Range.--"Northern parts of Old World and portions of Arctic America,
breeding on the west shore of Cumberland Gulf." (A.O.U.)
[Illustration: 277.]
=277. Piping Plover= (_Ãgialitis meloda_). L. 7; B. short, .5. Very
pale above. _Ads._ Above ashy, crown and _sides_ of breast black; no
rusty. _Yng._ Similar, but black replaced by ashy gray. _Notes._ A
short plaintive, _piping_ whistle, repeated.
Range.--Eastern North America; breeds from Virginia to Newfoundland;
winters from Florida southward.
=277a. Belted Piping Plover= (_Ã. m. circumcincta_). Similar to No.
277 but black on sides of breast meeting to form a breast band.
Range.--Mississippi Valley; breeds from northern Illinois and Nebraska
north to Lake Winnipeg, east to Magdalen and Sable Islands; winters
from Gulf southward; casual migrant on Atlantic coast.
[Illustration: 278.]
=278. Snowy Plover= (_Ãgialitis nivosa_). L. 6.5. No complete ring.
_Ads._ Black on crown; ear-coverts and sides of breast black. _Yng._
The same, but no black; above margined with whitish. _Winter._ Same as
last but no whitish margins.
Range.--Western United States east to Texas and Kansas; breeds from
Indian Territory and southern California northward; winters from Texas
and southern California southward.
[Illustration: 280.]
=280. Wilson Plover= (_Ochthodromus wilsonius_). L. 7.5; B. .8. No
black on hindneck. _Ad._ [Male]. One black breast-and crown-band;
some rusty about head. _Ad._ [Female]. Similar but black areas
brownish gray. _Yng._ Same as last, but above margined with whitish.
_Winter._ No whitish margins.
Range.--Tropical and temperate America; breeds north to Virginia, Gulf
States, and Lower California; winters southward to Brazil; casual
north to Nova Scotia.
Order X. GROUSE, PARTRIDGES, BOB-WHITES, ETC.
GALLINÃ.
Family 1. GROUSE, PARTRIDGES, etc. Tetraonidæ. 21 species,
22 subspecies.
Family 2. TURKEYS, PHEASANTS, etc. Phasianidæ. 1 species.
3 subspecies.
Family 3. CURASSOWS and GUANS. Cracidæ. 1 species.
The members of the family Tetraonidæ are usually placed in three
subfamilies as follows: (1.) Perdicinæ, containing the true Quails and
Partridges of the Old World and with no species in America.
(2.) Odontophorinæ, including the Bob-whites and so-called 'Quails'
and 'Partridges' of the New World, and with no species in the eastern
hemisphere. (3.) Tetraoninæ, the Grouse, with representatives in the
northern parts of both hemispheres. All the members of the first two
families have the legs bare, while the Grouse have the legs, and
often even the toes, more or less feathered.
The application of different names to the members of this family, in
various parts of the country, often make it uncertain just what
species is referred to under a given title. Our Bob-white, for
example, is a 'Quail' at the north and a 'Partridge' at the south. As
a matter of fact it is, strictly speaking, neither a true Quail nor
Partridge but a member of a family restricted to America.
Again, the Ruffed Grouse is a 'Partridge' at the north and a
'Pheasant' at the south, whereas in truth it is neither one nor the
other. So far as the application of these local names goes, it is to
be noted that where the Bob-white is called 'Quail' the Grouse is
called 'Partridge' and that where it is called 'Partridge' the Grouse
is known as 'Pheasant'.
All the Tetraonidæ are ground-inhabiting birds, and their plumage of
blended browns, buffs and grays brings them into such close harmony
with their surroundings that, as a rule, we are unaware of the
presence of one of these birds until, with a whirring of short, stiff,
rounded wings it springs from the ground at our feet. It is this habit
of 'lying close,' as sportsmen term it, in connection with their
excellent flesh, which makes the members of this family the favorites
of the hunter and epicure and only the most stringent protective
measures will prevent their extinction as their haunts become settled.
With the Ptarmigan this harmony in color is carried to a remarkable
extreme, the birds being white in winter and brown, buff and black in
summer; while during the early fall they assume a grayish, neutral
tinted plumage to bridge over the period from the end of the nesting
season, in July, to the coming of the snow in September.
The Tetraonidæ all nest on the ground, laying usually from ten to
twenty eggs. The young, like those of their relative, the domestic
fowl, are born covered with downy feathers and can run about shortly
after birth.
The Turkey is the only wild member of the Phasianidæ in this country,
but the family is well-represented in the domesticated Chickens,
Peacocks, and Pheasants, all of which have descended from Old World
ancestors. Our domesticated Turkey is derived from the Wild Turkey of
Mexico, which was introduced into Europe shortly after the Conquest
and was thence brought to eastern North America. It differs from the
Wild Turkey of the eastern United States chiefly in the color of the
tips of the upper tail-coverts. These are whitish in the domesticated
Turkey, as they are in the Mexican race from which, it has descended,
and rusty brown in the Eastern Wild Turkey.
Besides the five races of Wild Turkey described beyond, another
species of Turkey is found in America. This is the Honduras or Yucatan
Turkey, now largely confined to the peninsula of Yucatan. It is not so
large as our bird, but is even more beautifully colored, its plumage
being a harmonious combination of blue, gray and copper.
Ring-necked and 'English' Pheasants have been introduced into various
parts of the United States, and in Oregon and Washington and in the
east, on various private game preserves, they have become naturalized.
The true English Pheasant (_Phasianus colchicus_) is believed to have
been introduced into England from Asia Minor probably by the Romans.
Unlike the Ring-necked Pheasant (_Phasianus torquatus_) it has no
white collar. The last named species, however, has also been
introduced into England where it freely interbreeds with the earlier
established English Pheasant and individuals without at least a trace
of white on the neck are now comparatively rare.
The Curassows and Guans are tropical American birds, only one species
reaching the southern border of the United States. They are arboreal
in habit and form an interesting link between the Partridges, etc. and
the Pigeons.
Bob-white and Partridge
[Illustration: 289.]
=289. Bob-white; 'Quail;' 'Partridge'= (_Colinus virginianus_). L. 10.
_Ad._ [Male]. Throat, forehead and line over eye white. _Ad._
[Female]. Throat, forehead and line over eye buff. _Notes._ Song, a
ringing, whistled _Bob-white_ or _buck-wheat-ripe_; calls, a
conversational _quit-quit_ and a whistled _where-are-you_ and _I'm
here_, repeatedly uttered when the individuals of a flock are
separated.
Range.--Eastern North America, resident from southern Dakota, southern
Minnesota, southern Ontario, southern Vermont, New Hampshire and
Maine, south to Georgia and western Florida; west to South Dakota,
Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and eastern Texas. "Introduced at various
points in Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Idaho, California and
Washington." (A.O.U.)
[Illustration: 289a.]
=289a. Florida Bob-white= (_C. v. floridanus_). Similar to No. 289,
but smaller, L. 8.5, and much darker; black bars below more numerous.
_Range.--Florida; typical only in southern half of peninsula, grading
into No. 289 in northern and western parts of the state._
=289b. Texan Bob-white= (_C. v. texanus_). Similar to No. 289, but
brown and buff areas paler; black bars below wider.
Range.--Texas, except western part, rarely to western Kansas, south to
Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas, Mexico.
[Illustration: 291.]
=291. Masked Bob-white= (_Colinus ridgwayi_). L. 9. _Ad._ [Male].
Throat black; breast and belly reddish brown. _Ad._ [Female].
Resembles [Female] of No. 289b. _Notes._ Song, _Bob-white_; call, when
the birds are scattered, _hoo-we_. (H. Brown.)
Range.--Northern Sonora, Mexico, north to Pima County, Arizona.
[Illustration: 296.]
=296. Mearns Partridge= (_Cyrtonyx montezumæ mearnsi_). L. 9. _Ad._
[Male]. Sides with numerous, large, crowded white spots. _Ad._
[Female]. _Pinkish brown_, above _streaked_ with buffy and marked with
chestnut and black, below with a few broken black bars.
_Notes._ A low, murmuring whine; a clear _dsiup-chiur_, when alarmed,
_chuk-chuk-chuk_. (Bendire.)
Range.--Northern Mexico, western Texas, southern New Mexico and
southern Arizona.
Partridges
[Illustration: 292.]
=292. Mountain Partridge= (_Oreortyx pictus_). L. 11. _Ads._
_Hindhead_ and _nape_ same color as back; inner margins of tertials
buff. _Notes._ Song, an explosive whistle ending in a throaty tone;
call, a rapidly repeated _cuh-cuh-cuh-cuh_, and a sharp _pit-pit_.
Range.--Pacific coast from Santa Barbara, California, north to
southern Washington.
=292a. Plumed Partridge= (_O. p. plumiferus_). Hindhead, nape, and
foreback same _color as breast_; inner margins of tertials _white_.
Range.--Sierra Nevada (both slopes), east to Panamint Mountains; and
to Mount Magruder, Nevada; south in the coast ranges from San
Francisco Bay to Lower California (Campos). (A.O.U.)
=292b. San Pedro Partridge= (_O. p. confinis_). Similar to No. 292a,
but upperparts much grayer, the back, rump, and upper tail-coverts
being gray very slightly tinged with olive; bill stouter. (Ridgway.)
Range.--San Pedro Martir Mountains, Lower California.
[Illustration: 293.]
=293. Scaled Partridge= (_Callipepla squamata_). L. 10. _Ads._ Belly
_without_ chestnut patch; breast and foreback grayish blue edged with
black; back brownish gray. _Notes._ A nasal _pe-cos' pe-cos'_
(Bailey.)
Range.--"Tableland of Mexico, from the Valley of Mexico, north to
central and western Texas, Santa Fe, New Mexico and southern
Arizona." (A.O.U.)
=293a. Chestnut-bellied Scaled Partridge= (_C. s. castanogastris_).
Similar to No. 293, but [Male] with chestnut patch on belly; [Female]
with belly much rustier than in [Female] of No. 293.
Range.--Lower Rio Grande Valley, northwest to Eagle Pass, Texas; south
into northeastern Mexico.
[Illustration: 294.]
=294. California Partridge= (_Lophortyx californica_). L. 10.
_Ad._ [Male]. Above _olive-brown_; belly patch chestnut. _Ad._
[Female]. Plumes shorter; throat whitish streaked with dusky; no
distinct chestnut patch on belly. _Notes._ Song, a pheasant like crow
and a crowing, emphatic _sit-right-down'_, _sit-right-down'_; calls,
a sharp _pit-pit pit_, and a note like that of a young Robin.
Range.--"Coast region of California south to Monterey, introduced in
Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia." (A.O.U.)
=294a. Valley Partridge= (_L. c. vallicola_). Similar to No. 294, but
much grayer above; sometimes plain bluish gray without brown tinge.
Range.--"From western and southern Oregon, except near the coast,
south through western Nevada and the interior of California to Cape
St. Lucas." (Bendire.)
[Illustration: 295.]
=295. Gambel Partridge= (_Lophortyx gambelii_). L. 10. _Ad._ [Male].
Throat, forehead and belly patch _black_; hindhead chestnut. _Ad._
[Female]. Similar, but throat grayish buff; forehead gray; no black on
belly; hind head brownish; crest smaller. _Notes._ Song, _yuk-käe-ja._
Range.--"Western Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, southern Utah, southern
Nevada, southern California in the Colorado Valley and south into
northwestern Mexico." (A.O.U.)
[Illustration: 297.]
297. Dusky Grouse (_Dendragapus obscurus_). L. [Male], 20. [Female],
18. _Ad._ [Male]. Gray tail-band _over_ one inch wide on middle
feather; below grayish slate; above blackish with fine rusty and
grayish markings. _Ad._ [Female]. With more white below; foreback
regularly _barred_ with buffy; middle tail-feathers irregularly barred
with buff or grayish; terminal gray band finely marked with black.
_Notes._ A loud, ventriloquial, hooting or booming.
Range.--"Rocky Mountains, from central Montana and southeastern Idaho
to New Mexico and Arizona; east to the Black Hills, South Dakota and
west to East Humboldt Mountains, Nevada." (A.O.U.)
=297a. Sooty Grouse= (_D. o. fuliginosus_). Similar to No. 297, but
slightly darker, gray band on central tail feather _less_ than one
inch wide.
Range.--"Northwest Coast Mountains, from California to Sitka, east to
Nevada, western Idaho and portions of British Columbia." (A.O.U.)
=297b. Richardson Grouse= (_D. o. richardsonii_). Similar to No. 297a,
but _no_ tail band, or, if showing indistinctly from above, not
visible from below.
Range.--"Rocky Mountains, especially on the eastern slopes, from
central Montana, northern Wyoming and southeastern Idaho, into British
America to Liard River." (A.O.U.)
[Illustration: 298.]
=298. Hudsonian Spruce Grouse= (_Canachites canadensis_). L. 15.
_Ad._ [Male]. Tail-feathers tipped with brown; foreback margined with
_bluish gray_. _Ad._ [Female]. Above, bases of feathers more or less
barred with rusty especially on foreback; throat and breast barred
with rusty and black; belly as in male. _Notes._ A drumming sound
produced by the beating of the wings. (Bendire.)
Range.--Labrador and Hudson Bay region.
=298b. Alaska Spruce Grouse= (_C. c. osgoodi_). _Ad._ [Male]. Similar
to _Ad._ [Male]. of No. 298c, but margins to feathers of foreback
_brownish ashy_. _Ad._ [Female]. Similar to _Ad._ [Female] of No.
298c, but paler, barred with buff instead of rusty.
Range.--Alaska.
=298c. Canada Grouse= (_C. c. canace_). _Ad._ [Male]. Similar to
_Ad._ [Male]. of No. 298. _Ad._ [Female]. Similar to _Ad._ [Female] of
No. 298, but above more rusty, rusty bars deeper and more conspicuous,
showing throughout upper surface and on flanks.
Range.--Northern New England, northern New York, New Brunswick, Nova
Scotia and Quebec west to northern Minnesota.
[Illustration: 299.]
=299. Franklin Grouse= (_Canachites franklinii_). Resembles No. 298,
but tail without brown tips, sometimes tipped with white.
Range.--"Northern Rocky Mountains, from northwestern Montana to the
coast ranges of Oregon and Washington, and northward in British
America, reaching the Pacific coast of southern Alaska (latitude
60°)." (A.O.U.)
Grouse and Ptarmigan
[Illustration: 300.]
=300. Ruffed Grouse; 'Partridge;' 'Pheasant'= (_Bonasa umbellus_).
L. 17. _Ad._ [Male]. Prevailing color above rusty brown; tail rusty
or gray. _Ad._ [Female]. Similar but neck-tufts smaller. _Notes._
The male produces a drumming sound by rapidly beating its wings; the
female utters a _cluck_ and when defending her brood, a singular low
whining sound.
Range.--Eastern United States from Minnesota, southern Ontario,
southern New Hampshire and southern Vermont, south to Virginia and
along the Alleghanies to Georgia; west to northwestern Arkansas.
=300a. Canadian Ruffed Grouse= (_B. u. togata_). Similar to No. 300,
but slightly grayer above; tail generally gray; bars on breast and
belly darker and better defined.
Range.--Spruce forests of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Maine northern
New Hampshire, northern Vermont and south to higher mountains of
Massachusetts and northern New York; west to eastern slope of coast
ranges of Oregon, Washington and British Columbia; north to James Bay.
=300b. Gray Ruffed Grouse= (_B. u. umbelloides_). Similar to No. 300a,
but grayer; prevailing color of upperparts, including crown, gray;
tail always gray.
Range.--Rocky Mountains, from Colorado north to latitude 65° in
Alaska, east to Mackenzie and poplar woods of western Manitoba.
[Illustration: 300c.]
=300c. Oregon Ruffed Grouse= (_B. u. sabini_). Similar to No. 300, but
much darker, prevailing color of upper parts rusty brown; tail always
rusty brown.
Range.--Pacific coast ranges from Cape Mendocino, California, north to
British Columbia.
Ptarmigan
[Illustration: 301. Winter]
[Illustration: 301. Summer]
=301. Willow Ptarmigan= (_Lagopus lagopus_). L. 15. Bill large, more
than .4 deep at base; tail _black_, narrowly tipped with white. _Ad._
[Male] _Summer._ Throat and upper breast rusty brown. _Ad._ [Male]
_Fall._ Rustier and more finely marked above. _Ad._ [Female].
_Summer._ Above black barred with buff and tipped with white; below
buff barred with black; middle of belly whitish. _Ad._ [Female].
_Fall._ Much like fall male. _Ads._, _Winter_. White, tail black
tipped with white; _no_ black before eye. _Notes._ Song, _kû-kû-kû-kû_
while ascending five or ten yards in the air; a hard rolling
_kr-r-r-r_ when descending. (Nelson.)
Range.--Arctic Regions; in America breeding south to Lat. 55° in
winter migrating south to Lat. 50°; recorded once from Penobscot Co.,
Maine, and once from Manchester, Mass.
=301a. Allen Ptarmigan= (_L. l. alleni_). Similar to No. 301, but
[Female] more finely marked; shafts of primaries, at all seasons,
strongly black spreading to the web of the feather.
Range.--Newfoundland.
[Illustration: 302.]
[Illustration: 302. Autumn.]
=302. Rock Ptarmigan= (_Lagopus rupestris_). L. 14. Bill _less_
than .4 deep at base; tail black. Always to be known from No. 301 by
its smaller bill. _Ad._ [Male] _Summer._ Above irregularly barred and
mottled with gray and rusty buff; below barred black and white and
rusty buff. _Ad._ [Male] _Fall._ Above minutely speckled black, gray
and buff, the prevailing color being grayish brown. _Ad._ [Male]
_Winter._ White, lores and tail black. _Ad._ [Female] _Summer._ Above
black barred with rusty and margined with whitish; below rusty barred
with black and tipped with whitish. _Ad._ [Female] =Fall.= Like fall
[Male]. _Ad._ [Female] _Winter._ Like winter [Male] but no black
before eye.
Range.--North America from Gulf of St. Lawrence and higher mountains
of British Columbia north to Arctic Regions (except northern Labrador)
west through Alaska to Aleutian Islands.
=302a. Reinhardt Ptarmigan= (_L. r. reinhardti_). _Ad._ [Male]
_Summer._ Similar to No. 302, but "less regularly and coarsely barred
above" (Ridgw.) _Ad._ [Female] _Summer._ Resembles [Female] of No.
302. _Ads. Fall._ Much grayer than No. 302 in fall. _Ads. Winter._
Like No. 302 in winter. _Notes._ When courting the male utters a
growling _kurr-kurr_. (Turner.)
Range.--Northern Labrador north to Greenland.
=302b. Nelson Ptarmigan= (_L. r. nelsoni_). _Ad._ [Male], _Summer._
Ground color of upperparts deep umber-brown, very finely and densely
vermiculated; chest barred with bright tawny brown and black. _Ad._
[Female], _Summer._ Similar to [Male] of No. 302. (Ridgw.)
Range.--Unalaska, Aleutian Islands.
[Illustration: Beaks - 301. 302. Nat. Size]
=302c. Turner Ptarmigan= (_L. r. atkhensis_). Lighter in general hue
than 302d and without black blotches on upperparts. (Elliot.) _Ad._
[Male], _Summer._ "Ground color of upperparts pale raw-umber brown,
mixed with pale grayish; chest and neck barred with pale brownish
ochre and black." _Ad._ [Female], _Summer._ Ground color of upperparts
rusty, mixed with pale grayish buff, narrowly and irregularly barred
with black; chest and neck coarsely barred with rusty and black.
(Ridgw.)
Range.--Atka, Aleutian Islands.
=302d. Townsend Ptarmigan= (_L. r. townsendi_). _Ad._ [Male],
_Summer._ Above, breast and flanks raw umber finely vermiculated with
black on back; with black blotches on head, neck and upperpart of back
and wings. _Ad._ [Female], _Summer._ Above ochraceous, blotched and
barred with black; lighter below. (Elliot.)
Range.--Kyska and Adak, Aleutian Islands.
[Illustration: 302.1]
=302.1. Evermann Ptarmigan= (_Lagopus evermanni_). L. 13.9. _Ad._
[Male], _Summer._ Above and breast black slightly marked with rusty.
_Ad._ [Female], _Summer._ Entire body plumage, ochraceous, blotched
and barred with black and above tipped with white or ochraceous: below
black bars wider and no white tips. (Elliot.)
Range.--Attu, Aleutian Islands.
=303. Welch Ptarmigan= (_Lagopus welchi_). L. about 14. Bill and tail
as in No. 302; plumage grayer than in No. 302. _Ad._ [Male], _Summer._
Above black _finely_ and irregularly marked with wavy lines of buff
and white. _Ad._ [Female], _Summer._ Above black _finely_ and
irregularly barred with buffy, grayish and white.
Range.--Newfoundland.
[Illustration: 304.]
=304.? White-tailed Ptarmigan= (_Lagopus leucurus_). L. 13. Tail
_white_. _Ad._ [Male], _Summer._ Breast barred, black and white. _Ad._
[Female], _Summer._ Above black barred with rich buff; below rich buff
barred with black. _Ads., Fall._ Above and breast rich buff finely
vermiculated with black. _Ads., Winter._ Entirely white. _Notes._ When
about to fly and at the beginning of flight a sharp cackle like that
of a frightened hen. (Grinnell.)
Range.--"Alpine summits of Rocky Mountains; south to New Mexico; north
into British America (as far as Fort Halkett, Liard River); west to
higher ranges of Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia." (Bendire.)
=304a.? Kenai White-tailed Ptarmigan= (_L. l. peninsularis_). Similar
to No. 304, but in summer buff markings much paler; in fall, colors
much grayer.
Range.--Kenai Peninsula, Alaska.
Prairie Hens and Grouse
[Illustration: 305.]
=305. Prairie Hen= (_Tympanuchus americanus_). L. 18. Underparts with
distinct brown and white bars of about equal width. _Ad._ [Male]. A
neck-tuft of ten or more _rounded_ feathers. _Ad._ [Female].
Neck-tufts much smaller; whole tail barred. _Notes._ Song, a loud
"booming."
Range.--"Prairies of Mississippi Valley; south to Louisiana and Texas;
east to Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan and Ontario; west through
eastern portions of North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas and
Indian Territory; north to Manitoba; general tendency to extension of
range westward and contraction eastward; migration north and south in
Minnesota, Iowa and Missouri." (A.O.U.)
[Illustration: 305a.]
=305a. Attwater Prairie Hen= (_T. a. attwateri_). Similar to No. 305,
but smaller and darker; neck-tufts proportionately wide; tarsus not
fully feathered.
Range.--Southwestern Louisiana and eastern Texas.
=306. Heath Hen= (_Tympanuchus cupido_). Similar to No. 305, but
smaller; scapulars more broadly tipped with buff; neck-tuft of _less_
than ten feathers; obtusely _pointed_; axillars _barred_ with dusky.
Range.--Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.
=307. Lesser Prairie Hen= (_Tympanuchus pallidicinctus_). Similar to
No. 305, but smaller, more buffy above; brown bars below narrower than
whitish spaces between them. _Notes._ Doubtless the same as those of
No. 305.
Range.--Southwestern parts of Kansas and western Indian Territory,
western (and southern?) Texas. (Bendire.)
=308. Sharp-tailed Grouse= (_PediÅcetes phasianellus_). L. 17. Breast
feathers with internal =V= shaped _loops_; no neck-tufts. _Ads._
Prevailing color above _black_; narrowly barred with rusty and
margined with paler.
Range--Interior of British America, east to Rocky Mountains, about
James Bay (Moose Factory) and the west shore of Hudson Bay, northern
Manitoba, north at least to Fort Simpson, Mackenzie River, northwest
territory. (Bendire.)
=308a. Columbian Sharp-tailed Grouse= (_P. p. columbianus_). Similar
to No. 308, but prevailing color above buffy.
Range.--"Northwest United States; south to northeastern California,
northern Nevada and Utah; east to Montana and Wyoming, west to Oregon
and Washington; north, chiefly west of Rocky Mountains, through
British Columbia to central Alaska (Fort Yukon)" (Bendire.)
[Illustration: 308b.]
=308b. Prairie Sharp-tailed Grouse= (_P. p. campestris_). Similar to
No. 308a, but more rusty. _Notes._ Song, a bubbling crow, a rattling
of tail-feathers, and stamping of feet. Calls, when disturbed, _cack_,
_cack_, _cack_; a soft clear whistle and a grunt of alarm. (Seton.)
Call of mother to young and of young in reply a guttural, raucous
croak. (Grinnell.)
Range--"Plains and prairies of United States, north to Manitoba; east
to Wisconsin and northern Illinois; west to eastern Colorado; south to
eastern New Mexico." (Bendire.)
Grouse, Turkeys and Chachalaca
[Illustration: 309.]
=309. Sage Grouse= (_Centrocercus urophasianus_). _Ad._ [Male], L. 29;
_Ad._ [Female], L. 22. Similar to [Male], but smaller, throat whiter;
breast barred black and whitish. _Notes._ When courting, low,
grunting, guttural sounds; when alarmed, a sort of cackle, _käk_,
_käk_. (Bendire.)
Range.--"Sage regions of the Rocky Mountain Plateau, and west chiefly
within the United States, but north to Assiniboia and the dry interior
of British Columbia; east to North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska and
Colorado; south to northern New Mexico, Utah and Nevada; west in
California, Oregon and Washington, to the Sierra Nevada and Cascade
Range." (A.O.U.)
[Illustration: 1/10 Nat. Size.]
=Pheasant= (_Phasianus torquatus à P. colchicus_). An introduced
species, see remarks on page 114.
[Illustration: 310. 1/16 Nat. Size.]
=310. Wild Turkey= (_Meleagris gallopavo silvestris_). [Male] _Ad._
L. about 48; upper tail-coverts and tail tipped with rusty chestnut:
white bars in primaries entire, crossing the webs of the feathers.
_Notes._ Similar to those of the domesticated Turkey.
Range.--Eastern United States from Pennsylvania south to central
Florida; west to Nebraska and northeastern Texas.
=310a. Merriam Turkey= (_M. g. merriami_). Similar to No. 310, but
tail and upper tail-coverts tipped with whitish.
Range.--"Mountains of southern Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and
western Texas; and northern Chihuahua and Sonora, Mexico." (Bailey.)
=310b. Florida Wild Turkey= (_M. g. osceola_). Similar to No. 310, but
smaller; primaries with narrow _broken_ bars _not_ reaching across
feather.
Range.--Southern Florida.
=310c. Rio Grande Turkey= (_M. g. intermedia_). Tips of upper
tail-coverts and of tail rusty buff intermediate in color between
those of Nos. 310 and 310a.
Range.--"Lowlands of southern Texas and northeastern Mexico."
(A.O.U.)
[Illustration: 311.]
=311. Chachalaca= (_Ortalis vetula maccalli_). L. 21. _Ads._ Above
olive-brown; tail blacker, all but middle-feathers bordered with
whitish; belly brownish. _Notes._ A loud, trumpeting _cha-cha-laca_,
repeated a number of times.
Range.--Tropical portions of eastern Mexico, from Vera Cruz north to
Lower Rio Grande Valley.
Order XI. PIGEONS AND DOVES.
COLUMBÃ.
Family 1. PIGEONS and DOVES. Columbidæ. 13 species, 3 subspecies.
Pigeons are distributed throughout the greater part of the globe, but
their center of abundance appears to be in the Malay Archipelago,
where about one hundred and twenty of the some three hundred known
species are found. One hundred or more species have been described
from the New World but only twelve of these inhabit North America.
The various races of domestic Pigeons, 'Pouters,' 'Fantails,' etc. are
descendants of the Rock Dove of Europe, modified in form and habit
through the selection by the breeder or 'fancier.'
Pigeons build a flimsy, platform nest of twigs and lay two white eggs.
Both sexes incubate, one relieving the other at certain hours each
day. The young are born naked and are fed by regurgitation, on
'Pigeons' milk,' the parent thrusting its bill into the mouth of its
young and discharging therein food which has been softened in its own
crop.
Some species of Pigeons nest in isolated pairs, others in large
colonies, but it is the habit of many species to gather in large
flocks after the nesting season.
The Wild or Passenger Pigeon, once so abundant in this county, was
found in flocks throughout the year. Alexander Wilson, the 'father of
American Ornithology' writing about 1808, estimated that a flock of
Wild Pigeons seen by him near Frankfort, Kentucky, contained at least
2,230,272,000 individuals. Audubon writes that in 1805 he saw
schooners at the wharves in New York city loaded in bulk with Wild
Pigeons caught up the Hudson River, which were sold at one cent each.
As late as 1876 or 1877 there was a colony of nesting Wild Pigeons in
Michigan, which was twenty-eight miles long and averaged three or four
miles in width, and in 1881 the birds were still so abundant in parts
of the Mississippi Valley that the writer saw thousands of birds,
trapped in that region, used in a Pigeon match near New York City.
Today, however, as a result of constant persecution, the Wild Pigeon
is so rare that the observation of a single individual is noteworthy.
Pigeons and Doves
[Illustration: 312.]
=312. Band-tailed Pigeon= (_Columba fasciata_). L. 15. _Ad._ [Male].
Tail-band ashy above, whiter below; a white nape-band; tail square.
_Ad._ [Female]. Similar, or in some specimens, nape band absent;
pinkish of crown and breast dingy. _Notes._ An owl-like hooting,
sometimes a calm _whoó-hoo-hoo_, _whoó-koo-hoo_, at others a spirited
_hoóp-ah-whóo_, and again _wh'oo-ugh_. (Bailey.)
Range.--"Western United States from Rocky Mountains to the Pacific:
north to Washington and British Columbia; south to Mexico and the
highlands of Guatemala; distribution irregular, chiefly in wooded
mountain regions." (A.O.U.)
=312a. Viosca Pigeon= (_C. f. vioscæ_). Similar to No. 312, but paler,
more clearly bluish slate above; pink of crown and breast with a
grayish _bloom_.
Range.--Cape Region of Lower California.
[Illustration: 313.]
=313. Red-billed Pigeon= (_Columba flavirostris_). L. 15. _Ads._ No
tail-band; wings, tail, and belly slate; head and neck purplish pink;
no iridescent markings. _Notes._ A fine, loud, _coo-whoo-er-whoo_.
Range.--Costa Rica migrating north to southern Texas, New Mexico and
Arizona.
[Illustration: 314.]
=314. White-crowned Pigeon= (_Columba leucocephala_). L. 13.5 _Ad._
[Male]. Crown white; body slate; lower hindneck iridescent; nape
maroon. _Ad._ [Female]. Much paler; crown ashy.
Range.--Greater Antilles and Islands about Anegada Channel, coast of
Honduras, Bahamas and certain Florida Keys.
[Illustration: 315.]
=315. Passenger Pigeon, Wild Pigeon= (_Ectopistes migratorius_).
L. 16. Outer tail-feathers chestnut at base of inner web. _Ad._
[Male]. Chin, whole head., and lower back bluish slate. _Ad._
[Female]. Browner above, breast brownish ashy; neck feathers less
iridescent. _Notes._ An explosive, squeaky, squawk.
Range.--Formerly eastern North America north to Hudson Bay; now
exceedingly rare, less so in the upper Mississippi valley than
elsewhere.
[Illustration: 316.]
=316. Mourning Dove, Carolina Dove= (_Zenaidura macroura_). L. 11.8.
Outer tail-feathers slate color at base of inner web. _Ad._ [Male].
Chin whitish; sides of head buffy; _a black ear mark_. _Ad._ [Female].
Similar but paler, breast more ashy brown, neck-feathers less
iridescent. _Notes._ _Coo-o-o-ah, coo-o-o-coo-o-o-coo-o-o._
Range.--North America, breeding from West Indies and Mexico north to
southern Maine, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba and British Columbia;
winters from southern New York, southern Illinois, Kansas and southern
California southward.
[Illustration: 317.]
=317. Zenaida Dove= (_Zenaida zenaida_). L. 10. _Ad._ [Male]. Tail
short, _without_ white markings; all but central pair of feathers
tipped with ashy blue; secondaries tipped with white. _Ad._ [Female].
Similar but pinkish of crown and underparts brownish; neck feathers
less iridescent. _Notes._ Resemble those of No. 316, but are louder
and deeper.
Range.--Greater Antilles, coast of Yucatan and Bahamas, north in April
to Florida Keys.
[Illustration: 318.]
=318. White-fronted Dove= (_Leptotila fulviventris brachyptera_).
L. 12. No black ear-mark; under wing-coverts rusty chestnut. _Ad._
[Male]. Forehead whitish; all but central pair of tail-feathers tipped
with white. _Ad._ [Female]. Forehead dingier; breast brownish ashy;
neck feathers less iridescent. _Notes._ A short, soft _coo_.
Range.--Central America and Mexico, north in February to valley of
Lower Rio Grande.
[Illustration: 319.]
=319. White-winged Dove= (_Melopelia leucoptera_). L. 12.
Wing-coverts, externally, widely margined with white; large black ear
marks. _Ads._ All but central pair of tail-feathers bluish slate
with a black band and whitish tip. _Notes._ A loud, crowing
_cookeree-cookeree-coo-ree-coo_, _crow-co-er-coo_, _crow-co-er-coo_.
Range.--Southern border of United States from Texas to Arizona south
to Lower California and Central America, Cuba and Jamaica, casual at
Key West, Florida.
[Illustration: 320.]
=320. Ground Dove; Mourning Dove= (_Columbigallina passerina
terrestris_). L. 6.7. Smallest of our Doves. _Ad._ [Male]. Forehead
and underparts deep vinaceous pink; hindhead and nape ashy blue
margined with dusky; base of bill _coral_, tip black. _Ad._ [Female].
Forehead and breast brownish gray; breast feathers with dusky centers
and margins. _Notes._ A soft, crooning _coo_.
Range.--Atlantic and Gulf States north to northern North Carolina,
west to eastern Texas; more common near coast.
=320a. Mexican Ground Dove= (_C. p. pallescens_). Similar to No. 320,
but forehead and underparts much paler; back grayer.
Range.--Texas to southern California and south to Central America.
=320b. Bermuda Ground Dove= (_C. p. bermudiana_). Similar to 320a, but
smaller and paler; bill wholly black. (Bangs and Bradlee.)
Range.--Bermuda.
[Illustration: 321.]
=321. Inca Dove= (_Scardafella inca_). L. 8. _Ads._ Tail long, outer
feathers tipped with white; plumage above and below margined with
dusky, giving a scaled appearance.
Range.--Southern Texas (San Antonio), southern Mexico and southern
Arizona south to Lower California and Central America.
[Illustration: 322.]
=322. Key West Quail-Dove= (_Geotrygon chrysia_). L. 12. _Ads._ A
white line below eye; belly white; back rich rusty with beautiful,
metallic, purplish, _green_ and _blue_ reflections; tail rusty with no
white.
Range.--Cuba, Hayti, Bahamas and, rarely, Florida Keys.
=322.1. Ruddy Quail-Dove= (_Geotrygon montana_). L. 11. _Ad._ [Male].
No white line below eye; breast dull pinkish; belly deep buff; back
rich rusty with purplish reflections, tail rusty without white. _Ad._
[Female]. Above olive-brown with greenish reflections; below rusty
buff.
Range.--Mexico south to Brazil; West Indies; casual at Key West
Florida.
[Illustration: 323.]
=323. Blue-headed Quail Dove= (_StarnÅnas cyanocephala_). L. 12.
_Ads._ Crown and sides of throat dull blue; middle of upper breast
black with white bars and pinkish tips; belly rusty brown, lower back
as in No. 316. _Notes._ A hollow sounding _hu-up_, the first syllable
long, the second short. (Gundlach.)
Range.--Cuba, and rarely Florida Keys.
Order XII. VULTURES, HAWKS, AND OWLS.
RAPTORES.
Family 1. AMERICAN VULTURES. Cathartidæ. 3 species.
Family 2. FALCONS, HAWKS, EAGLES, etc. Falconidæ. 33 species,
13 subspecies.
Family 3. BARN OWLS. Strigidæ. 1 species.
Family 4. HORNED OWLS. Bubonidæ. 19 species, 20 subspecies.
In the Raptores we have a group of birds of great value to man but
whose services for the most part, are so little appreciated that, far
from protecting these birds, we have actually persecuted them.
The Vultures, it is true, are given credit for their good work as
scavengers and they are protected both by law and by public sentiment.
Every one knows that a living Vulture is infinitely more useful than a
dead one. As a result throughout countries inhabited by these birds
they are usually both abundant and tame, entering the cities to feed
in the streets with an assurance born of years of immunity from harm.
But how differently their kin of the family Falconidæ act in their
relations to man! 'Wild as a Hawk' has become an adage. These birds
are universally condemned. To kill one is a commendable act. Every
ones hand is raised against them. In some localities a price has
actually been set upon their heads.
A fondness for chickens, it is alleged, is the chief crime of Hawks,
and in popular parlance all Hawks are 'Chicken Hawks' and as such are
to be killed on sight.
Naturalists have long been aware that only one of our common Hawks
habitually preys upon poultry while most of our species, by feeding
largely on meadow mice, are actually beneficial. It was not, however,
until this matter received the attention of the Biological Survey of
the United States Department of Agriculture, that the economic status
of Hawks, as well as of Owls, was placed on a sound scientific basis.
In Dr. A. K. Fisher's report on the food of Hawks and Owls, issued by
the Biologic Survey in 1893, the results of the examination of the
contents of several thousands stomachs of these birds is tabulated. It
is stated, for example, that only three out of two hundred and twenty
stomachs of the so-called 'Chicken' or Red-shouldered Hawk contained
the remains of poultry, while mice were found in no less than one
hundred and two, and insects in ninety-two.
That the Sparrow Hawk is also wrongly named is clear from a study of
its food, only fifty-four out of three hundred and twenty stomachs
examined containing remains of birds, while insects were found in two
hundred and fifteen.
As a matter of fact, among our commoner Hawks, the Cooper and
Sharp-shinned are the only ones feeding largely on birds and poultry,
and if the farmer will take the pains to ascertain what kind of Hawk
it is that pays unwelcome visits to his barn-yard, he will be spared
the injustice of condemning all Hawks for the sins of one or two.
Feeding after sunset, when the small mammals are most active, Owls are
even more beneficial than Hawks. The Great Horned Owl, it is true,
has an undue fondness for poultry, but the bird is generally so rare
near thickly populated regions that on the whole it does comparatively
little harm.
Fortunately, it is those Owls which are most common in settled regions
which are of most value to man. Thus, our little Screech Owl feeds
chiefly on mice and insects. Only one of the two hundred and
fifty-five stomachs examined by Dr. Fisher contained the remains of
poultry while mice were found in ninety-one and insects in one
hundred. Of the Short-eared or Marsh Owl, seventy-seven out of one
hundred and one stomachs contained mice remains, and the same
injurious little rodents were found in eighty-four out of one hundred
and seven stomachs of the Long-eared Owl.
The bones and hair of the small mammals eaten by Owls are rolled into
oblong pellets in the stomach and are ejected at the mouth. These
pellets may often be found in large numbers beneath the roosts in
which Owls pass the day. In 200 such castings of the Barn Owl Dr.
Fisher found the remains of 454 small mammals of which no less than
225 were meadow mice.
Hawks build large-bulky nests of sticks placing them usually well up
in large trees, and lay, as a rule, four eggs which are generally
whitish, blotched with brown. The Marsh Hawk is an exception. Its nest
built largely of grasses, is placed on the ground in marshes and the
eggs, often numbering six and rarely eight, are bluish white unmarked.
The Owls nest in holes in trees or banks, or, in some instances, an
old Hawk or Crow nest may be occupied. The eggs usually number three
to five and are always pure white.
Vultures and Osprey
[Illustration: 324.]
=324. California Vulture= (_Gymnogyps californianus_). L. 44-55;
Ex. 8 1-2 to nearly 11 feet. (Ridgw.) _Ads._ Head and neck orange,
blue, and red, unfeathered; feathers around neck and on underparts
narrow and stiffened; greater wing-coverts tipped with white;
_under wing-coverts white_.
Range.--"Coast ranges of southern California from Monterey Bay, south
to Lower California and east to Arizona" (Bailey). Recorded from
Burrard Inlet, British Columbia (Fannin).
[Illustration: 325.]
=325. Turkey Vulture; Turkey Buzzard= (_Cathartes aura_). L. 30;
T. 11. _Ads._ Head and neck _red_ unfeathered; brownish black; no white
in plumage; bill whitish. _Notes._ A low hissing sound when disturbed.
Range--Western Hemisphere from central and northeast New Jersey,
central Illinois, northern Minnesota, the Saskatchewan region and
British Columbia, south to Patagonia; winters from southern New
Jersey, southern Illinois and southern California southward.
[Illustration: 326.]
=326. Black Vulture; Carrion Crow= (_Catharista urubu_). L. 24. T. 8.
_Ads._ Head and neck unfeathered, black, plumage black; _under surface
of wings silvery_. _Notes._ A low grunting sound when disturbed.
Range.--Tropical America, north, as a resident to North Carolina,
southern Illinois and southern Kansas; west to the Plains, south to
northern South America, strays as far north as Maine and South Dakota.
[Illustration: 364.]
=364. American Osprey; Fish Hawk= (_Pandion haliaëtus carolinensis_).
L. 23. Nape white; feet large; no bars on primaries. _Ad._ [Male].
Below white with few or no spots on breast. _Ad._ [Female]. Similar,
but breast with numerous grayish brown spots and streaks. _Notes._
Loud, plaintive, whistles.
Range.--America; breeds from Florida, Texas and Lower California,
north to Labrador, Great Slave Lake and northern Alaska; winters from
South Carolina and Lower Mississippi Valley to northern South America.
Kites and Marsh Hawks
[Illustration: 327.]
=327. Swallow-tailed Kite= (_Elanoides forficatus_). L. 24. _Ads._
Back purplish black, wings and tail blue-black. _Notes._ A shrill,
keen, _e-e-e_ or _we-we-we_. (Bendire.)
Range.--Middle America; summers north to Virginia, central Illinois,
northern Minnesota, Manitoba and Dakota; west to central Kansas,
rarely to Colorado; winters in Central and South America.
[Illustration: 328.]
=328. White-tailed Kite= (_Elanus leucurus_). L. 15.5. _Ads._
Shoulders black; back and middle tail-feathers ashy gray; rest of
tail-feathers, forehead and underparts white. _Yng._ Upperparts with
rusty. _Notes._ A plaintive, musical whistle. (Barlow.)
Range.--Middle America north to South Carolina, southern Illinois,
Indian Territory, western Texas, Arizona and central California; south
to Argentine Republic; rare east of the the Mississippi.
[Illustration: 329.]
=329. Mississippi Kite= (_Ictinia mississippiensis_). L. 14. _Ads._
Head, ends of secondaries, and underparts bluish gray; back bluish
slate; tail black without bars. _Yng._ Head streaked black and white;
back blackish, tipped with rusty; tail with three or four broken white
bars; underparts buffy, streaked with rusty and blackish.
Range.--Middle America; breeds north to South Carolina, southern
Illinois and Kansas; winters in tropics.
[Illustration: 330.]
=330. Everglade Kite; Snail Hawk= (_Rostrhamus sociabilis_). L. 18.
Longer upper tail-coverts and base of tail white. _Ads._ Slaty black;
end of tail with brownish and whitish bands. _Yng._ Above blackish
brown tipped with rusty; below mottled rusty, blackish and buff.
Range.--Tropical America north to southern Florida and eastern Mexico;
south to Argentine Republic.
[Illustration: 331.]
=331. Marsh Hawk; Harrier= (_Circus hudsonius_). L. [Male], 19;
[Female], 22. Upper tail-coverts and base of tail white. _Ad._ [Male].
Above gray or ashy; underparts with rusty spots. _Ad._ [Female], and
_Yng._ Above brownish black with more or less rusty, particularly on
the nape; below brownish rusty with black streaks on breast. _Notes._
A peevish scream and peculiar clucking or cackling. (Preston.)
Range.--North America; breeds locally north to about latitude 60°;
winters from southern New York, northern Illinois, northern Kansas,
Colorado and British Columbia south to Central America.
Hawks
[Illustration: 332.]
=332. Sharp-shinned Hawk= (_Accipiter velox_). L. [Male], 11.2;
[Female], 13.5; T. [Male], 5.5; [Female], 7. Tail _square_ at end.
_Ads._ Above slaty gray; crown darker; below barred white and rusty
brown. _Yng._ Above blackish brown lightly margined with rusty; below
white streaked with brown. Note the relatively long tail in this and
the two following species. _Notes._ _Cac-cac-cac._ (Ralph.)
Range.--North America; breeds throughout its range but chiefly
northward; winters from Massachusetts and Vancouver Island southward.
[Illustration: 333.]
=333. Cooper Hawk= (_Accipiter cooperii_). L. [Male], 15.5; [Female],
19; T. [Male], 7.7; [Female], 9. Similar in color to No. 332, but tail
_rounded_; adult with crown blacker. _Notes._ A cackling or
chattering. (Bendire.)
Range.--North America; breeds from southern Mexico north to British
America; winters from Massachusetts, Lower Mississippi Valley and
Oregon southward.
[Illustration: 334.]
=334. American Goshawk= (_Accipiter atricapillus_). L. [Male], 22;
[Female], 24; T. [Male], 10; [Female], 11.5. _Ads._ Above bluish
slate; crown darker; a whitish line over the eye to the nape; below
_finely_ marked with gray and white. _Yng._ Above blackish brown,
rusty and buff; below buffy white streaked with blackish.
Range.--North America; breeds chiefly north of United States; winters
south to New Jersey, rarely Virginia, Illinois, Missouri and Kansas;
west to Oregon.
=334a. Western Goshawk= (_A. a. striatulus_). Similar to No. 334, but
_Ad._ dark plumbeous above, markings on lower parts heavier and
darker. Stripes on lower parts of _Yng._ broader and blacker. (Ridgw.)
_Notes._ A shrill scream and a frequently repeated _keeah_ or
_kreeah_. (Bendire.)
Range.--"Western North America; north to Sitka, Alaska; south to
California; east to Idaho. Breeds in the Sierra Nevada south to
latitude 38°." (A.O.U.)
[Illustration: 346.]
=346. Mexican Goshawk= (_Asturina plagiata_). L. 17. _Ads._ Above
slaty gray; below barred slaty-gray and white. _Yng._ Above blackish
brown with rusty markings, particularly on wing-coverts; longer upper
tail-coverts white with black spots or bars; tail brownish with
numerous black bars; below whitish with large elongate spots. _Notes._
A peculiar piping note uttered while hovering in the air. (Bendire.)
Range.--Middle America, from Panama north, in March, to Mexican border
of United States.
Hawks
[Illustration: 335.]
=335. Harris Hawk= (_Parabuteo unicinctus harrisi_). L. [Male], 19;
[Female], 22. Longer upper tail-coverts, base and tip of tail white.
_Ads._ Shoulders, thighs and under wing-coverts, reddish brown; under
tail-coverts white. _Yng._ Similar but streaked below with rusty, buff
and black; legs barred with white. _Notes._ A long, harsh, Buteo-like
scream. (V. Bailey.)
Range.--Middle America from Panama north to southern Texas, rarely
Mississippi and southern California.
[Illustration: 337.]
=337 Red-tailed Hawk= (_Buteo borealis_). L. [Male], 20; [Female], 23.
_Four_ outer primaries notched. _Ads._ Tail rusty brown with a black
band, sometimes broken, near its tip; below buffy white, a band of
spots across the belly; legs usually without bars. _Yng._ Tail grayish
brown with a rusty tinge and numerous blackish bars; upper
tail-coverts barred black and white; below less buffy than in adult;
legs more often barred. _Notes._ A shrill whistle, suggesting the
sound of escaping steam.
Range.--Eastern North America, west to the Great Plains, north to
about latitude 60°; breeds throughout its range; winters from
Massachusetts, Illinois and South Dakota southward.
=337a. Krider Hawk= (_B. b. kriderii_). Similar to No. 337, but nearly
or wholly white below. _Ads._ Usually without black tail band.
Range.--"Great Plains of United States from Minnesota to Texas;, east
irregularly or casually to Iowa and northern Illinois." (Bendire).
[Illustration: 337b.]
=337b. Western Red-tail= (_B. b. calurus_). Very variable in color.
_Ads._ Sometimes sooty brown above and below with more or less rusty;
in light phase resembles No. 337, but tail _averages_ paler and
sometimes has more than one bar; the underparts are deeper and legs
are usually _barred with rusty_. _Yng._ Similar to _Yng._ of No. 337,
but markings below heavier; flanks more barred.
Range.--Western North America from Rocky Mountains to Pacific; north
to British Columbia, south to central America; generally resident.
=337d. Harlan Hawk= (_B. b. harlani_). _Ads._ Above sooty brown; tail
closely _mottled_ with blackish, rusty and whitish; below varying from
white, more or less-spotted on belly to sooty brown. _Yng._ Similar,
but tail barred with blackish, gray, rusty or whitish.
Range.--"Gulf States and Lower Mississippi Valley, north (casually) to
Kansas, Iowa, Illinois and Pennsylvania; east to Georgia, and
Florida." (Bendire).
Hawks
[Illustration: 339.]
=339. Red-shouldered Hawk= (_Buteo lineatus_). L. [Male], 18.3;
[Female], 20.3. _Four_ outer primaries notched. _Ads._ Lesser
wing-coverts bright reddish brown. _Yng._ Below whitish _streaked_
with brownish; lesser wing-coverts less reddish; primaries with _rusty
buff_. _Notes._ A loud screaming _keé-yer_, _keé-yer_.
Range.--Eastern United States to Oklahoma, eastern Kansas, eastern
Nebraska and Minnesota, north to Maine, south to northern Florida;
generally resident.
=339a. Florida Red-shouldered Hawk= (_B. l. alleni_). Smaller than
No. 339. (W. [Male], 11.) _Ad._ Much grayer above, no rusty on head,
much paler below.
Range.--Florida north along coast to South Carolina; west along coast
to eastern Texas.
=339b. Red-bellied Hawk= (_B. l. elegans_). Similar to No. 339, but
rusty of breast usually unbroken. Young with lower parts deep brownish
or dusky prevailing; less buff on primaries. (Ridgw.)
Range.--Pacific coast from Lower California north to British Columbia;
east rarely to Colorado and western Texas.
[Illustration: 342.]
=342. Swainson Hawk= (_Buteo swainsoni_). L. [Male], 20. _Three_ outer
primaries notched. _Ad._ [Male]. Breast patch rusty brown. _Ad._
[Female]. Breast-patch grayish brown. Dark phase. Brownish black more
or less varied with rusty; tail obscurely barred. _Yng._ Below _rich_
rusty buff with elongate black spots. _Notes._ _Pi-tick_, _pi-tick_,
frequently repeated. (Bendire.)
Range.--"Western North America from Wisconsin, Illinois, Arkansas and
Texas to the Pacific coast; north to Arctic regions and south to
Argentine Republic, casual east to Maine and Massachusetts. Breeds
nearly throughout its North American range." (A.O.U.)
[Illustration: 343.]
=343. Broad-winged Hawk= (_Buteo platypterus_). L. [Male], 15.8;
[Female], 16.7. _Three_ outer primaries notched. _Ads._ Tail with two
whitish bands and a brownish tip; below _barred_ with rusty brown.
_Yng._ _No_ buff in primaries; tail brownish with several black bars;
below whitish, streaked with blackish. _Notes._ A high, sharp, keen,
penetrating whistle.
Range.--Eastern North America, breeds west to Plains, north to New
Brunswick and Saskatchewan; winters from southern New Jersey south to
northern South America.
Hawks and Caracara
[Illustration: 340.]
=340. Zone-tailed Hawk= (_Buteo abbreviatus_). L. [Male], 19;
[Female], 21. _Ads._ Tail with little if any white tip; _inner_ webs
of all but middle feathers with black and white bars. _Yng._ Browner;
tail grayish brown; white on inner webs, with numerous blackish bars.
_Notes._ Not unlike those of _Buteo borealis_. (Belding.)
Range.--Tropical America north to southern Texas, southern Arizona and
southern California.
[Illustration: 344. Dark Phase.]
=344. Short-tailed Hawk= (_Buteo brachyurus_). L. 17; T. 7. _Ads._
Above slaty gray, tail barred with black and tipped with white; sides
of breast rusty; rest of underparts _white_. Dark phase. Blackish,
forehead whitish; tail lighter than back, barred with black. _Yng._
Above blackish brown, below cream buff, _without_ black markings.
_Notes._ Somewhat resembling the scream of the Red-shouldered Hawk,
but more prolonged. (Pennock.)
Range.--Tropical America, north to eastern Mexico; rare in Florida.
[Illustration: 345.]
=345. Mexican Black Hawk= (_Urubitinga anthracina_). L. [Male], 19;
[Female], 21. _Ads._ Tail with a white tip and broad white band across
_all_ the feathers. _Yng._ Above brownish black, buff and rusty; below
buffy striped with blackish; tail with several black and whitish bars.
_Notes._ Piping cries like the spring whistle of _Numenius
longirostris_. (Bendire.)
Range.--"Tropical America in general, north to central Arizona, and
the Lower Rio Grande Valley in Texas." (Bendire).
[Illustration: 362.]
=362. Audubon Caracara= (_Polyborus cheriway_). L. 22. Tail white with
a black end and numerous black bars. _Ads._ Breast and hindneck
barred; belly black. _Yng._ Crown, back, and belly dark brown;
hindneck, breast and belly _streaked_ with buffy. _Notes._ Generally
silent, but sometimes utters a prolonged cackling note. (B. F. Goss.)
Range.--Northern South America, north to southern Texas, southern
Arizona and Lower California; interior of southern Florida; resident.
=363. Guadalupe Caracara= (_Polyborus lutosus_). Resembles No. 362,
but has rump and upper tail-coverts dull brownish buff broadly barred
with dull brown; tail brownish buff with broad bars of grayish brown
bordered by narrower zigzag bars or lines of dusky; terminal band less
than 2.00 wide. (Ridgway.)
Range.--Guadalupe Island, west of Lower California.
Hawks
[Illustration: 341.]
=341. Sennett White-tailed Hawk= (_Buteo albicaudatus sennetti_).
L. [Male], 21; [Female], 23. Three outer primaries cut. _Ads._ Grayish
slate above. _Yng._ Above brownish black; breast usually white, throat
blackish, belly heavily marked with rusty and blackish; sometimes
wholly black below; tail generally _silvery gray_., white on inner
webs with numerous indistinct blackish bars. _Notes._ A cry much like
the bleating of a goat (Merrill.)
Range.--"From southern Texas and Arizona south to Mexico." (Bailey.)
[Illustration: 347a.]
=347a. American Rough-legged Hawk= (_Archibuteo lagopus
sancti-johannis_). B. .7 deep, _smaller_ than in No. 348. L. [Male],
21; [Female], 23. Legs feathered to the toes. _Ads._ Basal half of
tail white, end half barred with black; belly with more or less black.
_Yng._ No black bars on end half of tail; buffier below, more black on
belly. Black phase. Black more or less varied with brown and rusty as
it approaches light plumage of ad. or yng; but to be known by
feathered legs.
Range.--North America; breeds north of United States; winters south to
Virginia, Missouri and central California.
[Illustration: 348.]
=348. Ferruginous Rough-Leg= (_Archibuteo ferrugineus_). B. 1. deep,
larger than in No. 347a; L. [Male], 22; [Female], 24. Legs feathered
to toes. _Ads._ Above rich rusty streaked with black; legs rusty
barred with black; tail grayish sometimes washed with rusty. _Yng._
Above blackish brown margined with rusty; below white; breast with a
few streaks; legs _spotted_; tail with inner webs and base white;
outer webs grayish. Dark phase. Sooty brown more or less varied with
rusty; _tail as in ad_.
Range.--"Western North America from the Plains (east North Dakota to
Texas), west to the Pacific and from the Saskatchewan region south
into Mexico; casually east to Illinois. Breeds from Utah, Colorado and
Kansas north to the Saskatchewan Plains." (A.O.U.)
[Illustration: 355.]
=355. Prairie Falcon= (_Falco mexicanus_). L. [Male], 17; [Female],
20. A blackish patch on the sides. _Ad._ [Male]. Above including
middle tail feathers, grayish brown; back with more or less concealed
buffy bars. _Ad._ [Female]. No buffy bars on back. _Yng._ Above
margined with rusty and whitish; head much as in ad. _Notes._ _Kee_,
_kée_, _kee_ and a sort of cackle. (Bendire.)
Range.--"United States from the eastern border of the Plains to the
Pacific and from the Dakotas south into Mexico; casual east to
Illinois. Breeds throughout its United States range." (A.O.U.)
Eagles and Gyrfalcons
[Illustration: 349.]
=349. Golden Eagle= (_Aquila chrysaëtos_). L. [Male], 30-35; [Female],
35-40; Ex. [Male], 78-84; [Female], 84-90. (Ridgw.) Legs feathered to
toes. _Ads._ Back of head and nape paler than body; basal two-thirds
of tail white. _Yng._ Base of tail with broken grayish bars. _Notes._
A shrill, _kee-kee-kee_, and, when alarmed, _kiah-kiah_ repeated a
number of times. (Bendire.)
Range--Northern parts of northern hemisphere; in America south into
Mexico; rare east of Mississippi, more common in Rocky Mountains and
mountains of Pacific coast.
[Illustration: 352.]
=352. Bald Eagle= (_Haliæetus leucocephalus_). L. [Male], 33;
[Female] 35; Ex. [Male], 84; [Female], 89. Legs _not_ feathered to
toes. _Ads._ Head, neck and tail white. _Yng._ Head and body blackish,
more or less varied with white; tail blackish mottled with white.
_Notes._ Of the male, a loud, clear _cac cac-cac_; of the female harsh
and broken. (Ralph.)
Range.--North America breeding locally throughout its range, more
frequently near the Atlantic coast; resident in United States.
=352a. Alaska Bald Eagle= (_H. l. alascanus_). Similar to No. 352, but
larger. W. [Male], 23.8; [Female], 24.6; T. [Male], 11.5; [Female],
12; Tar. [Male], 4.1; [Female], 3.7. (Townsend.)
Range.--Alaska.
[Illustration: 353.]
=353. White Gyrfalcon= (_Falco islandus_). L. [Male], 22; [Female],
24. Tarsus feathered in front nearly to toes; only outer primary
notched. Under tail coverts _pure_ white. _Ads._ Below white with few
or no black markings. _Yng._ Dark areas above larger, below with
elongate blackish spots.
Range.--Arctic regions, in America south in winter casually to Maine.
=354. Gray Gyrfalcon= (_Falco rusticolus_). L. [Male], 22; [Female],
24. Tarsus feathered in front nearly to toes; only outer primary
notched. Under tail coverts _with_ dusky margins. _Ads._ Crown usually
more white than dusky; above _barred_ with blackish and grayish; below
white, breast streaked; sides and legs barred with dusky. _Yng._ Above
dark brown with broken buffy bars and margins: tail with white and
brown bars of nearly equal width, below white everywhere streaked with
blackish.
Range.--Arctic regions; south in winter to the northern border of the
United States; casually as far as Kansas and Maine.
=354a. Gyrfalcon= (_F. r. gyrfalco_). Similar to No. 354, but head
usually with more dusky than white; back in ad. indistinctly barred
with grayish. _Yng._ With dark stripes of lower parts usually about
equal in width to white interspaces.
Range.--"Northern Europe and Arctic America, from northern Labrador
and coasts of Hudson Bay to Alaska" (Ridgw.); south in winter
casually, to northern border of United States as far as Long Island.
[Illustration: 354b.]
=354b. Black Gyrfalcon= (_F. r. obsoletus_). Similar to No. 354, but
much darker; above plain dusky with few or no buffy markings; below
dusky margined with buffy, the former prevailing. _Notes._ A
chattering _ke-a_, _ke-a_, _ke-a_, blending into a rattling scream.
(Turner.)
Range.--Labrador: south in winter to northern New England; casually to
Long Island.
Hawks
[Illustration: 356.]
=356. Duck Hawk= (_Falco peregrinus anatum_). L. [Male], 16; [Female],
19. Sides of throat black. _Ads._ Above bluish slate; below buffy.
_Yng._ Above blackish margined with rusty; tail with broken rusty bars
and whitish tip; below _deep_ rusty buff streaked with blackish; under
surface of wing uniformly barred. _Notes._ Loud screams and noisy
cacklings. (Bendire.)
Range.--Western Hemisphere; breeds locally from Southern States to
Arctic regions; winters from Northern States southward; more common
west of Rocky Mountains.
=356a. Peale Falcon= (_F. p. pealei_). _Ads._ Crown uniform with back;
chest heavily spotted with blackish; bars of remaining underparts very
broad. (Ridgw.)
Range.--"Pacific coast region of North America from Oregon to the
Aleutian and Commander Islands, breeding throughout its range." (A. O.
U.)
[Illustration: 357.]
=357. Pigeon Hawk= (_Falco columbarius_). L. [Male], 10.5; [Female],
13. Two outer primaries notched. _Ad._ [Male]. Above slaty blue;
middle tail feather with not more than _four_ black bands. _Ad._
[Female] and _Yng._ Above dark blackish brown; bars in middle tail
feather five or less; below more heavily barred than in [Male].
Range.--North America; breeds chiefly north of United States from
Rocky Mountains and westward; breeds from Colorado and California
north to Alaska; winters from Gulf States, Colorado and California,
south to northern South America.
=357a. Black Merlin= (_F. c. suckleyi_). Similar to No. 357, but much
darker above and more heavily, marked below; bars on tail and under
side of wing nearly obsolete.
Range.--Pacific coast from northern California to Sitka; east to
eastern Oregon and Washington.
[Illustration: 358.]
=358. Richardson Merlin= (_Falco richardsonii_). Resembles No. 357,
but is paler and has the central tail feather crossed by six light
bars, counting the terminal one.
Range.--Interior of North America from eastern border of Great Plains
west; rare west of Rockies; north to, at least, latitude 53°; south to
Mexico.
[Illustration: 359.]
=359. Aplomado Falcon= (_Falco fusco-cærulescens_). L. [Male], 16;
[Female], 17.5. Middle of belly black. _Ads._ Above slaty gray; breast
buff, lower belly rusty. _Yng._ Similar but grayish brown above, belly
paler.
Range.--South and Central America north to southern border of the
United States.
[Illustration: 360. Male.]
[Illustration: 360. Female.]
=360. Sparrow Hawk= (_Falco sparverius_). L. 10; [Female], 11. _Ad._
[Male]. Tail with one black bar; below _spotted_. _Ad._ [Female].
Whole back barred; tail with numerous black bars; below _streaked_.
_Notes._ A rapidly repeated _killy-killy-killy_, usually uttered while
on the wing.
Range.--Eastern North America west to Rocky Mountains; breeds from
Gulf States to Hudson Bay; winters from southern Illinois and New
Jersey southward.
Hawks and Owls
=360a. Desert Sparrow Hawk= (_F. s. phalæna_). Similar to No. 360, but
slightly larger and appreciably paler; [Female] with black bars above
narrower; streakings of underparts finer and more rusty. [Male], L.
10.6; W. 7.5; T. 5.3; [Female], L. 10.8; W. 7.7; T. 5.3. (Mearns.)
Range.--"Western United States, north to western British Columbia and
western Montana south, to Mazatlan in northwestern Mexico." (A.O.U.)
=360b. St. Lucas Sparrow Hawk= (_F. s. peninsularis_). Similar to No.
360a, but paler; smaller than No. 360. [Male], W. 6.4; T. 4.5;
[Female], W. 7; T. 4.7. (Mearns.)
Range--Lower California (Cape Region only?)
[Illustration: 365.]
=365. Barn Owl; Monkey-faced Owl= (_Strix pratincola_). L. 18. No
ear-tufts; eyes black. _Ads._ Above gray and yellowish buff; below
white more or less washed with buff and spotted with black. _Yng._
More buffy below. _Notes._ A sudden, harsh scream and a screaming
_cr-r-r-r-e-e_, repeated several times generally when flying.
Range.--United States north to Long Island, (rarely Massachusetts),
southern Ontario, Minnesota and Oregon; migrates slightly south and
winters south to Mexico.
[Illustration: 366.]
=366. American Long-eared Owl= (_Asio wilsonianus_). L. 14.8.
Ear-tufts long; eyes yellow. _Ads._ Above varied with _gray_; belly
_barred_. _Notes._ Usually silent except during the breeding season
when they utter a soft toned, slow _wu-hunk_, _wu-hunk_ and a low,
twittering, whistling _dicky_, _dicky_, _dicky_. (Bendire.)
Range.--North America; breeds from Nova Scotia, Manitoba, and British
Columbia south into Mexico.
[Illustration: 367.]
=367. Short-eared Owl= (_Asio accipitrinus_). L. 15.5. Ear tufts
short; eyes yellow. _Ads._ No gray above; belly _streaked_. _Notes._ A
shrill barking call like the _ki-yi_ of a small dog. (Lawrence.)
Range.--"Nearly cosmopolitan;" in America breeds locally from
Virginia, northern Mississippi Valley, and Dakotas northward; winters
from northern United States southward.
[Illustration: 378.]
=378. Burrowing Owl= (_Speotyto cunicularia hypogæa_). L. 10. Tarsi
bare behind. _Ads._ Spotted above with buffy; belly barred; chin and
breast-patch white. _Yng._ Less distinctly spotted above; belly
without bars. _Notes._ A mellow, sonorous _coo-c-o-o_; a chattering
note uttered when flying, and a short, shrill alarm-note, _tzip-tzip_.
(Bendire.)
Range.--Western North America from humid coast region east to prairies
of Mississippi Valley (western Nebraska, central Kansas, western
Minnesota); north to about line of Canadian Pacific R. R.; south to
Central America.
=378a. Florida Burrowing Owl= (_S. c. floridana_). Similar to No. 378,
but slightly smaller and whiter throughout; spots above white with
little if any buff; tarsi nearly bare.
Range.--Interior of southern Florida.
Owls
[Illustration: 368.]
=368. Barred Owl= (_Syrnium varium_). L. 80. No ear-tufts; eyes
black. _Ads._ Head, back and breast _barred_; _toes feathered
nearly if not quite to the nails_. _Notes._ A loud, sonorous
_whoo-whoo-whoo-too-whoo_, _to-whoo-ah_; a long-drawn, _whoo-ah_;
rarely a wild scream; and when two individuals meet, a remarkable
medley of hoots and _ha-has_.
Range.--Eastern North America except Gulf Coast; north to Nova Scotia
and Manitoba; west to Colorado; resident, except at northern limit of
range.
=368a. Florida Barred Owl= (_S. v. alleni_). Similar to No. 368, but
smaller, darker; black bars especially on breast, wider; _toes nearly
if not quite bare_.
Range.--Florida; north along coast to South Carolina; west along coast
to Texas.
=368b. Texas Barred Owl= (_S. v. helveolum_). Similar to No. 368 in
color, but with the toes bare as in No. 368a.
Range.--Southern Texas.
[Illustration: 369.]
=369. Spotted Owl= (_Syrnium occidentale_). Resembles No. 368, but has
the head and neck _spotted_ with white; primaries with broad, whitish
tips. _Notes._ Probably similar to those of No. 368. (Bendire.)
Range.--Western United States from southern Colorado and New Mexico,
west to California, south to Lower California and Guanajuato, Mexico.
=369a. Northern Spotted Owl= (_S. o. caurinum_). Similar to No. 369,
but darker; white markings smaller; white spots on head and neck
reduced to minimum; white tips to primaries nearly obsolete.
(Merriam.)
Range.--Western Washington and British Columbia.
[Illustration: 370.]
=370. Great Gray Owl= (_Scotiaptex nebulosa_). L. 27. No ear-tufts;
eyes yellow. _Ads._ Above black finely and _irregularly_ marked with
white; breast _streaked_; feet feathered to toe-nails. _Notes._ Said
to be a tremulous, vibrating sound. (Fisher.)
Range.--North America; breeds north of Lat. 55°; winters south to
northern border of United States casually as far as New Jersey,
Illinois, Minnesota, Idaho, and northern California.
=371. Richardson Owl= (_Nyctala tengmalmi richardsoni_). L. 10. _Ads._
Above _grayish_ brown with numerous white _spots_, particularly on
head; feet feathered to toes and usually with indistinct, dusky bars.
_Notes._ A musical, soft whistle. (Wheelright.) A peculiar grating
cry. (Nelson.) (See next page.)
Range.--Northern North America; breeds from Gulf of St. Lawrence and
Manitoba northward; winters south to northern border of United States,
casually to Massachusetts, Iowa, and Colorado; no Pacific coast record
(?).
[Illustration: 371.]
[Illustration: 372.]
=372. Saw-whet Owl; Acadian Owl= (_Nyctala acadica_). L. 8. _Ads._
Above _cinnamon_ brown; forehead with many, hindhead with few
_streaks_; back with white spots; feet and legs less heavily feathered
than in No. 371 and _without_ dusky bars. _Yng._ Breast and back
cinnamon brown with few white markings; belly _rusty buff,
unstreaked_. _Notes._ A frequently repeated whistle; sometimes high,
sometimes low; generally begins slow and ends rapidly; resembles noise
of saw-filing. (Ralph.)
Range.--North America; breeds from mountains of Pennsylvania,
Massachusetts (rarely), northern New York, northern Illinois; and, in
Rocky Mountains, from Mexico northward; winters south to Virginia,
Kansas and central California.
=372a. Northwest Saw-whet Owl= (_N. a. scotæa_). Similar to No. 372,
but darker both above and below, dark markings everywhere heavier;
flanks, legs and feet more rufescent. (Osgood.)
Range.--Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia.
[Illustration: 379.]
=379. Pygmy Owl= (_Glaucidium gnoma_). L. 7. Top of head _spotted_.
_Ads._ Above grayish brown; spots whitish. _Yng._ No spots on head.
_Notes._ A soft cooing _coohuh_, _coohuh_, repeated a number of times.
(Bendire.)
Range.--"Timbered regions of western North America, from southern
Rocky Mountains in Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona," west to
California, Oregon, and Washington, except coast belt, south into
Mexico.
=379a. California Pygmy Owl= (G. g. californicum). Similar to No. 379,
but darker; spots above buff or rusty.
Range.--Humid coast region from Monterey, California, north to British
Columbia.
=379.1. Hoskin Pygmy Owl= (_Glaucidium hoskinsii_). Similar to No.
379a, but smaller and grayer, the forehead and facial disc with more
white, the upperparts less distinctly spotted. (Brewst.)
Range.--Southern Lower California.
[Illustration: 380.]
=380. Ferruginous Pygmy Owl= (_Glaucidium phalænoides_). L. 7. Top of
head _streaked_. _Ads._ Above varying from grayish brown marked with
whitish to plain reddish brown without marks; below white streaked
with grayish brown or reddish brown. _Yng._ No streaks on head.
_Notes._ A softly whistled _coo_ repeated many times at intervals of
about one second.
Range.--Tropical America; from Brazil north to Mexican border of
United States.
[Illustration: 381.]
=381. Elf Owl= (_Micropallas whitneyi_). L. 6. Smallest of our Owls.
_Ads._ Above grayish brown, head spotted; back barred with rusty;
below mixed rusty, white and grayish. _Notes._ A tremulous _cha-cha_,
_cha-cha_, in different keys, sometimes low, sometimes distinct.
(Bendire.)
Range.--Tableland of Mexico from Puebla north to Mexican border of
United States; Lower California, and (rarely) California.
[Illustration: 373.]
=373. Screech Owl= (_Megascops asio_). L. 9.4; W. 6.4; T. 3. Two color
phases; with ear-tufts; eyes yellow. _Ad._ Gray phase. Above buffy
gray irregularly marked with black; below gray, white, rusty and
black. _Ad._ Red phase. Above bright rusty brown with a few black
streaks; below white streaked with black and barred with rusty brown.
_Yng._ Above gray or rusty _barred_ with black and white; below white
thickly barred with blackish. _Notes._ A frequently repeated
tremulous, wailing whistle; often followed by a slower refrain-like
call; a castanet-like snapping of the mandibles.
Range.--Eastern North America from Florida north to New Brunswick,
Ontario and Minnesota, west to the Great Plains; resident.
=373a. Florida Screech Owl= (_M. a. floridanus_). Smaller than No.
373, W. 6.0; T. 2.8. Two color phases. Similar to those of No. 373,
but averaging darker and more heavily marked below; especially in red
phase.
Range.--Florida, north along coast to South Carolina; west along coast
to Louisiana.
=373b. Texas Screech Owl= (_M. a. mccalli_). Similar to No. 373, but
smaller, W. 6.1; underparts, especially sides of belly, with more
black bars; toes barer. I have seen only a gray phase.
Range.--"From western and southern Texas across east border of
tablelands of Mexico." (Bailey.)
=373c. California Screech Owl= (_M. a. bendirei_). W. 6.6. A gray
color phase only. Resembling No. 373, but somewhat darker above; less
buff about the nape; black streakings more regularly distributed;
underparts much as in No. 373b.
Range.--California and southern Oregon.
[Illustration: 373d.]
=373d. Kennicott Screech Owl= (_M. a. kennicottii_). L. 10; W. 7.25.
_Ads._ Sooty brown prevailing above; blackish markings below nearly if
not fully as wide as white ones; darkest of our Screech Owls.
Range.--Pacific coast from Oregon to Sitka.
[Illustration: 373e.]
=373e. Rocky Mountain Screech Owl= (_M. a. maxwelliæ_). W. 7. Similar
to No. 373f above but paler; pale grayish buff predominating; black
markings throughout much narrower and less numerous than in No. 373g;
palest of our Screech Owls.
Range.--"Foothills and adjacent plains of the east Rocky Mountains
from Colorado north to Montana" (Bendire).
=373f. Mexican Screech Owl= (_M. a. cineraceus_). A gray color phase
only. Similar to No. 373b. but much grayer above; buff markings of No.
373b almost wholly absent; below black bars more numerous and narrower
than in No. 373b.
Range.--"New Mexico, Arizona, Lower California, and western Mexico."
(A.O.U.)
=373g. Aiken Screech Owl= (_M. a. aikeni_). A gray color phase only.
W. 6.5. Similar to 373f, but still grayer; almost no buff above; black
markings wider on head, back, and underparts.
Range.--"Plains, El Paso County, Colorado, south probably to central
New Mexico and northeastern Arizona." (A.O.U.)
=373h. MacFarlane Screech Owl= (_M. a. macfarlanei_). A gray color
phase only. _Ads._ Of the size of _kennicottii_, but with color and
markings of _bendirei_. W. 7.2; T. 3.8. (Brewst.)
Range.--"Eastern Washington and Oregon to western Montana and probably
intermediate regions, and north to the interior of British Columbia."
(Bailey.)
=373.1. Spotted Screech Owl= (_Megascops trichopsis_). L. 7.7. _Ads._
Above mixed black, grayish brown and buff; black prevailing on head;
feathers of foreback with buffy white _spots_ on either side near the
end; below much as in No. 373f.
Range.--Southern Arizona and southward into northern Mexico.
=373.2. Xantus Screech Owl= (_Megascops xantusi_). W. 5.3. _Ad._
[Male]. Above drab, back tinged with pinkish rusty and faintly
vermiculated with reddish brown; breast paler ashy faintly suffused
with pinkish or rusty; belly whitish; underparts finely barred with
reddish brown and streaked with clove-brown. (Brewst.)
Range.--Cape Region of Lower California.
[Illustration: 374.]
=374. Flammulated Screech Owl= (_Megascops flammeola_). L. 7. _Ads._
Ear-tufts small; eye surrounded by rusty, then by gray; crown, nape
and tips of scapulars largely rusty; neck band rusty.
Range.--Mountains of Guatemala north to Colorado (11 specimens, 7 from
Boulder County, Cook), west rarely to California (2 specimens).
=374a. Dwarf Screech Owl= (_M. f. idahoensis_). Similar to No. 374,
but slightly smaller and paler, especially on underparts where ground
color is white and black markings are restricted.
Range.--Idaho, eastern Oregon and California (San Bernardino
Mountains, 3 specimens, Grinnell).
[Illustration: 375.]
=375. Great Horned Owl= (_Bubo virginianus_). [Male], L. 22; W. 15.
_Ads._ Ears conspicuous; the feathers nearly throughout the body rusty
basally; facial disc rich rusty. _Notes._ A loud, low, deep-toned
_whoo_, _hoo-hoo-hoo_, whooo-whooo, variable, but usually on the same
note; rarely a hair-raising scream.
Range.--Eastern North America; north to Labrador, south to Central
America; resident.
=375a. Western Horned Owl= (_B. v. pallescens_). Smaller and paler
than No. 375, W. 13.7; facial disc washed with rusty.
Range.--Western United States, except Pacific coast region, east to
Great Plains; casually Wisconsin and Illinois north to Manitoba and
British Columbia; south to Mexico.
[Illustration: 375b.]
=375b. Arctic Horned Owl= (_B. v. arcticus_). Black and white
prevailing above; bases of feathers light yellowish buff; below black
and white with little or no buffy; facial disc gray.
Range.--Interior of Arctic America, from Rocky Mountains east to
Hudson Bay; breeds north of Lat. 51°; in winter straggles southward to
adjacent border of United States; rarely to Wyoming and Nebraska.
=375c. Dusky Horned Owl= (_B. v. saturatus_). Size of No. 375b, but
much darker; black bars below equalling white ones in width; darkest
bird of group.
Range.--"Pacific coast region from Monterey Bay, California, north to
Alaska; east to Hudson Bay and Labrador." (A.O.U.)
=375d. Pacific Horned Owl= (_B. v. pacificus_). Somewhat smaller than
No. 375b, W. 13.5; more like No. 375 in color but less rusty.
Range.--California, except humid coast region; east to Arizona.
=375e. Dwarf Horned Owl= (_B. v. elachistus_). Similar to No. 375c,
but very much smaller. W. [Male], 12.8; [Female], 13.4. (Brewster.)
Range.--Lower California.
[Illustration: 376.]
=376. Snowy Owl= (_Nyctea nyctea_). L. 25. _Ad._ [Male]. White more or
less barred with blackish. _Ad._ [Female]. Similar, but more heavily
barred.
Range.--Northern parts of northern hemisphere; in America breeds from
Lat. 50° northward; winters south to northern United States; straggles
as far as Texas and California.
[Illustration: 377a.]
=377a. American Hawk Owl= (_Surnia ulula caparoch_). L. 15; T. 7.2
long and _rounded_. _Ads._ Above brownish black, crown thickly
spotted, scapulars conspicuously margined with white; chin blackish;
belly barred. _Notes._ A shrill cry generally uttered while flying.
(Fisher.)
Range.--Northern North America: breeds from Newfoundland and northern
Montana northward; winters south to northern United States, rarely to
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Illinois; rare on Pacific coast.
Order XIII. PAROQUETS AND PARROTS.
PSITTACI.
Family 1. PARROTS and PAROQUETS. Psittacidæ. 2 species.
Parrots are found throughout the warmer parts of the earth. About one
hundred and fifty of the some five hundred known species inhabit
America. The Carolina Paroquet, practically the only member of this
family found in the United States, since the Thick-billed Parrot
barely reaches our border in Arizona, was once an abundant bird in the
Southern States, but it is now restricted to a few localities in
Florida and possibly Indian Territory.
Order XIV. CUCKOOS, TROGONS, KINGFISHERS, Etc.
COCCYGES.
Family 1. CUCKOOS, ANIS, etc. Cuculidæ. 5 species 2 subspecies.
Family 2. TROGONS. Trogonidæ. 1 species.
Family 3. KINGFISHERS. Alcedinidæ. 2 species.
The Cuckoos are a group of world-wide distribution, but are more
numerous in the eastern than in the western hemisphere where only
thirty-five of the some one hundred and seventy-five species are
found. The habit of the European Cuckoo in placing its eggs in the
nest of other birds is well known. The American species, however,
build nests of their own though it is true they are far from well made
structures. With the Anis one nest serves for several females who may
deposit as many as thirty eggs, incubation and the care of the young
being subsequently shared by the members of this singular family.
Trogons are found in the tropics of both the Old and New Worlds. They
are quiet, sedentary birds inhabiting forests and feeding largely on
fruit. So far as is known they nest in hollow trees.
Only eight of the one hundred and eighty or more known Kingfishers are
found in America, the remaining species being confined to the Old
World where they are most numerous in the Malay Archipelago.
Parrots and Paroquets
[Illustration: 382.1]
=382.1. Thick-billed Parrot= (_Rhynchopsitta pachyrhyncha_). L. 16.5.
_Ads._ Forehead, loral region, stripe over eye, bend of wing and
thighs red; greater under wing-coverts yellow; rest of plumage green.
Range--Central Mexico north rarely to southern Arizona.
[Illustration: 382.]
=382. Carolina Paroquet= (_Conurus carolinensis_). L. 12.5 _Ads._
Forehead and cheeks deep orange, rest of head yellow. _Yng._ Forehead
and loral region orange; rest of head green like back; no yellow on
bend of wing. _Notes._ A sharp, rolling _kr-r-r-r-r-r_.
Range.--Formerly eastern United States, north to Maryland, Great
Lakes, and Iowa; west to Colorado, Oklahoma and eastern Texas; now
restricted to southern Florida and parts of Indian Territory.
Cuckoos
=383. Ani= (_Crotophaga ani_). Resembling No. 384 but upper mandible
without grooves. _Notes._ A complaining whistled _oo-eeek_, _oo-eeek_.
Range eastern South America; north to West Indies and Bahamas, rarely
to southern Florida; accidental in Louisiana and Pennsylvania.
[Illustration: 384.]
=384. Groove-billed Ani= (_Crotophaga sulcirostris_). L. 12.5 B. .7
_high_; the upper mandible with ridges and furrows. _Ads._ Blue-black,
many of the feathers with iridescent margins.
Range.--Northwestern South America, north through Mexico to Lower
California and southeastern Texas; casually Arizona, Louisiana and
Florida.
[Illustration: 385.]
=385. Road-runner= (_Geococcyx californianus_). L. 23. Toes two in
front, two behind. _Ads._ Above glossy olive-brown with whitish and
rusty margins, tail much rounded, outer tail-feathers tipped with
white. _Notes._ A soft cooing and a low _chittering_ note produced by
striking the mandibles together. Bendire mentions a note like that of
a hen calling her brood.
Range central Mexico north, rarely to southwestern Kansas, southern
Colorado, and Sacramento Valley, California, rarely to southern
Oregon.
[Illustration: 386.]
=386. Mangrove Cuckoo= (_Coccyzus minor_). L. 13. _Ads._ Underparts
_uniformly_ rich buff; above grayish brown, crown grayer; ear-coverts
black; tail black, outer feathers broadly tipped with white.
Range.--Northern South America, north through Central America, Mexico
and Greater Antilles (except Porto Rico?) to Florida and Louisiana,
migrating south in fall.
=386a. Maynard Cuckoo= (_C. m. maynardi_). Similar to No. 386, but
underparts paler, the throat and forebreast more or less ashy white.
Range.--Bahamas and (eastern?) Florida Keys.
[Illustration: 387.]
=387. Yellow-billed Cuckoo= (_Coccyzus americanus_). L. 12.2. _Ads._
Below white; lower mandible largely yellow, tail black, outer feathers
widely tipped with white. _Notes._ _Tut-tut_, _tut-tut_, _tut-tut_,
_tut-tut_, _cl-uck_, _cl-uck_, _cl-uck_, _cl-uck_, _cl-uck_, _cl-uck_,
_cow_, _cow_, _cow_, _cow_, _cow_, _cow_, usually given in part.
Range.--Eastern North America; breeds from Florida to New Brunswick
and Minnesota; winters in Central and South America.
=387a. California Cuckoo= (_C. a. occidentalis_). Similar to No. 387
but somewhat grayer and larger; the bill slightly longer, 1.05.
Range.--Western North America; north to southern British Columbia;
east to Western Texas; winters south into Mexico.
[Illustration: 388.]
=388. Black-billed Cuckoo= (_Coccyzus erythrophthalmus_). L. 11.8.
_Ads._ White below; bill _black_; tail, seen from below, grayish
_narrowly_ tipped with white; above, especially on crown, browner than
No. 387. _Notes._ Similar to those of No. 387, but softer, the _cow_
notes connected.
Range.--Eastern North America; west to Rocky Mountains; breeds north
to Labrador and Manitoba; winters south of United States to Brazil.
[Illustration: 389.]
=389. Coppery-tailed Trogon= (_Trogon ambiguus_). L. 12. _Ad._ [Male].
Wing-coverts finely vermiculated; tail coppery tipped with black;
outer web and end of outer feathers white, mottled with black. _Ad._
[Female]. Ear-coverts gray; back grayish brown; middle tail-feathers
rusty brown tipped with black; breast brownish; upper belly grayish;
ventral region pink. _Notes._ Resemble those of a hen Turkey.
(Fisher.)
Range.--Southern Mexico north to Lower Rio Grande and Arizona.
[Illustration: 390.]
=390. Belted Kingfisher= (_Ceryle alcyon_). L. 13. _Ad._ [Male].
Breast-band and sides like back. _Ad._ [Female]. Breast-band and sides
rusty. _Notes._ A loud, harsh rattle.
Range.--North America; breeds from Florida, Texas, and California
north to Arctic regions; winters from Virginia, Kansas, and southern
California south to northern South America.
[Illustration: 391.]
=391. Texas Kingfisher= (_Ceryle americana septentrionalis_). L. 8.7.
_Ad._ [Male]. Breast rusty brown; back greenish; a white collar. _Ad._
[Female]. Throat and breast white, sometimes tinged with buffy; a
breast and belly band of greenish spots. _Notes._ When flying, a
sharp, rattling twitter; when perching, a rapid, excited ticking.
Range.--Tropical America, from Panama north to southern Texas.
Order XV. WOODPECKERS.
PICI.
Family 1. WOODPECKERS. Picidæ. 24 species, 22 subspecies.
The some three hundred and fifty known species of Woodpeckers are
distributed throughout the wooded parts of the world, except in
Australia and Madagascar, nearly one half of this number being found
in the New World. Feeding largely upon the eggs and larvæ of insects,
which they can obtain at all seasons, most of the North American
species are not highly migratory but are represented in the more
northern parts of their range at all times of the year.
Woodpeckers nest in holes in trees generally excavated by themselves.
The eggs, four to eight or nine in number, like those of most birds
that lay in covered situations, are pure white. The young are born
naked and are reared in the nest.
In few birds is the close relation between structure and habit more
strikingly illustrated than in the Woodpeckers. Their lengthened toes
placed two before and two behind (except in one genus) and armed with
strong nails enable them readily to grasp the bark of trees up which
they climb. Their stiffened, pointed tail-feathers are also of
assistance to them in retaining their position on tree trunks, serving
as a prop on which they may rest while chiseling out their homes or
laying bare the tunnels of the grubs of wood boring beetles. For this
purpose they use their bill, a marvellously effective tool with which
some of the large Woodpeckers perform astonishing feats. I have seen
an opening made by a Pileated Woodpecker in a white pine tree, twelve
inches long, four inches wide, and eight inches deep, through
perfectly sound wood to reach the larvæ at work in the heart of the
tree. The bill is also used as a musical instrument, the 'song' of
Woodpeckers being a rolling tattoo produced by rapid tappings on some
resonant limb.
As might be supposed the Woodpeckers are great of economic value.
Professor Beal states that at least two-thirds to three-fourths of the
food of our common Downy and Hairy Woodpeckers consists chiefly of
noxious insects.
Woodpeckers
[Illustration: 392.]
=392. Ivory-billed Woodpecker= (_Campephilus principalis_). L. 20; B.
2.7, ivory white. _Ad._ [Male]. Crest scarlet. _Ad._ [Female]. Similar
to the [Male], but crest black. _Notes._ A sharp, penny trumpet-like
_yap-yap_.
Range.--Florida west to eastern Texas; north to southern Missouri and
Oklahoma; formerly north to North Carolina, Illinois, and Indiana.
[Illustration: 400.]
=400. Arctic Three-toed Woodpecker= (_Picoides arcticus_). L. 9.5.
Back shining black _without_ white; toes two in front, one behind
_Ad._ [Male]. Crown yellow. _Ad._ [Female]. Crown black. _Notes._ A
sharp, shrill, _chirk_, _chirk_. (Hardy.)
Range.--"Northern North America, from the Arctic regions south to
northern United States, (New England, New York, Michigan, Minnesota
and Idaho), and in the Sierra Nevadas to Lake Tahoe." (A.O.U.)
[Illustration: 401.]
=401. American Three-toed Woodpecker= (_Picoides americanus_). L. 8.7.
Back _with_ white: toes two in front, one behind. _Ad._ [Male]. Crown
yellow; white bars on back broken, detached _not_ confluent. _Notes._
A prolonged squealing, rarely uttered. (Turner.)
Range.--Northern North America; west to Rocky Mountains; breeds from
Maine, mountains of New Hampshire, northern New York, and northern
Minnesota northward; south in winter, rarely to Massachusetts, central
New York, and northern Illinois.
=401a. Alaskan Three-toed Woodpecker= (_P. a. fasciatus_). Similar to
No. 401, but white bars on back confluent forming a more or less
continuous white patch.
Range.--"Alaska Territory; casually? south through western British
Columbia to northwestern Washington (vicinity of Mt. Baker); east
irregularly to Great Bear Lake and the Mackenzie River Valley,
Northwest Territory." (Bendire.)
=401 b. Alpine Three-toed Woodpecker= (_P. a. dorsalis_). Similar to
No. 401a, but larger. W. 5; bill narrower. _Notes._ A harsh, nasal
cry; a sudden, sharp _whip_, _whip_, _whip_, (Mearns.)
Range.--"Rocky Mountain region from British Columbia and Idaho south
into New Mexico." (A.O.U.)
[Illustration: 405.]
=405. Pileated Woodpecker= (_CeophlÅus pileatus_). L. 17. W. 8.9.
_Ad._ [Male]. Crown, crest, and streaks on sides of throat red; sides
of neck and patch on wing white. _Ad._ [Female]. Forehead brownish, no
red on sides of throat. _Notes._ A sonorous _cow-cow-cow_, repeated
slowly many times and a _wichew_ call when two birds meet; both
suggesting calls of the Flicker.
Range.--Southern United States, north to South Carolina.
=405a. Northern Pileated Woodpecker= (_C. p. abieticola_). Similar to
No. 405, but slightly larger, W. 9; T. 6.2.
Range.--Locally distributed throughout more heavily wooded regions of
North America, except in southern United States, north to Lat. 63°.
[Illustration: 393.]
=393. Hairy Woodpecker= (_Dryobates villosus_). L. 9; W. 4.7 Outer
tail-feathers white _without_ terminal black marks. _Ad._ [Male].
Wing-coverts spotted, underparts white; nape with a red band. _Ad._
[Female]. Similar but nape band white. _Notes._ A sharp _peek_ and a
Kingfisher-like rattle.
Range.--Eastern United States from North Carolina to Canada.
=393a. Northern Hairy Woodpecker= (_D. v. leucomelas_). Similar to
No. 393, but larger; L. 10; W. 5.2.
Range.--British America north to Alaska.
=393b. Southern Hairy Woodpecker= (_D. v. audubonii_). Similar to
No. 393, but smaller; L. 8; W. 4.2.
Range.--South Atlantic and Gulf States, north to South Carolina.
[Illustration: 393c.]
=393c. Harris Woodpecker= (_D. v. harrisi_). Similar to No. 393, but
wing-coverts usually _without_ white spots; underparts dirty, dusky,
brownish.
Range.--Pacific coast from northern California to British Columbia.
=393d. Cabanis Woodpecker= (_D. v. hyloscopus_). Similar to No. 393c,
but whiter below.
Range.--California, east to Arizona.
=393e. Rocky Mountain Hairy Woodpecker= (_D. v. monticola_). Similar
to No. 393c, but pure white below; larger, size of No. 393a.
Range.--Rocky Mountain region from northern New Mexico north to
British Columbia.
=393f. Queen Charlotte Woodpecker= (_D. v. picoideus_) Similar to
No. 393c, but middle of back barred and spotted with black; flanks
streaked with black. (Osgood.)
Range.--Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia.
[Illustration: 394.]
=394. Southern Downy Woodpecker= (_Dryobates pubescens_). L. 6; W.
3.5. Outer tail-feathers white _with_ terminal black marks. _Ad._
[Male]. Nape-band red; smallest of group, underparts dingier than in
No. 394c; white of less extent; wing-coverts spotted. _Ad._ [Female].
Similar but nape-band white. _Notes._ A sharp _peek_ and a rattle
similar to that of No. 393, but not so loud.
Range.--South Carolina, Georgia, and Gulf States to Texas.
[Illustration: 394a.]
=394a. Gairdner Woodpecker= (_D. p. gairdnerii_). Similar to No. 394b,
but underparts sooty gray; the darkest below of any form in the group.
Range.--Pacific coast from northern California north to British
Columbia.
=394b. Batchelder Woodpecker= (_D. p. homorus_). Similar to No. 394c,
but wing-coverts with few or no white spots, under tail-coverts
without dusky streaks.
Range.--"Rocky Mountain region of the United States." (A.O.U.)
=394c. Northern Downy Woodpecker= (_D. p. medianus_). L. 6.5; W. 3.7.
Similar to No. 394, but larger; whiter below; white markings of
greater extent.
Range.--Eastern North America south to South Carolina.
=394d. Alaskan Downy Woodpecker= (_D. p. nelsoni_). W. 4. Similar to
No. 394c, but still larger and whiter; largest of the group.
Range.--Alaska.
=394e. Willow Woodpecker= (_D. p. turati_). Similar to No. 394a, but
smaller, W. 3.8. superciliary patch and underparts whiter; tertials
always more or less spotted with white. (W. K. Fisher.)
Range.--"California, _except_: desert ranges and eastern slope of
Sierra Nevada, coast region north of Marin Co., and region north of
upper end of Sacramento Valley." (W. K. Fisher.)
[Illustration: 395.]
=395. Red-cockaded Woodpecker= (_Dryobates borealis_). L. 8.4. Sides
of head and neck white bordered by black below. _Ad._ [Male]. A nearly
concealed red tuft on either side of the hindhead. _Ad._ [Female].
Similar, but no red on head. _Notes._ A loud, hoarse, _yank_, _yank_.
Range.--Southern United States; west to eastern Texas; north to
Virginia and Arkansas.
[Illustration: 396.]
=396. Texan Woodpecker= (_Dryobates scalaris bairdi_). L. 7.5. Outer
tail-feathers barred to their base; nasal tufts brownish. _Ad._
[Male]. All crown feathers tipped with red; back barred: below
_brownish white_, spotted and streaked with black. _Ad._ [Female].
Similar but top of head wholly black.
Range.--Northern Mexico, north to Texas boundary, New Mexico, southern
Colorado, southern Nevada, southwestern Utah, and southeastern
California.
=396a. Saint Lucas Woodpecker= (_D. s. lucasanus_). Similar to
No. 396, but outer tail-feather barred with black only on terminal half
or less, except sometimes on inner web. (Ridgw.)
Range.--Lower California, north, rarely to Colorado Desert,
California.
[Illustration: 397.]
=397. Nuttall Woodpecker= (_Dryobates nuttallii_). L. 7.5. Below white
only _slightly_ soiled; outer tail-feather barred only on end half.
_Ad._ [Male]. Crown _black_ streaked with white; nape red. _Ad._
[Female]. Similar but top of head entirely black, usually, with a few
white spots. _Yng._ Top of head dull red. _Notes._ A sharp
_quee-quee-quee-queep_; a diminutive _chittah_. (Bailey.) Loud
rattling notes. (Henshaw.)
Range.--Northern Lower California, north locally, to southern Oregon.
[Illustration: 398.]
=398. Arizona Woodpecker= (_Dryobates arizonæ._). L. 8.2. Above _brown_,
below _spotted_. _Ad._ [Male]. A red nape band. _Ad._ [Female].
Similar but no red on nape, brown of crown continuous with that of
back. _Yng._ Whole crown red.
Range.--Northwestern Mexico north to southern Arizona and southwestern
New Mexico.
[Illustration: 399.]
=399. White-headed Woodpecker= (_Xenopicus albolarvatus_). L. 9. Whole
head and part of wings white. _Ad._ [Male]. Nape red. _Ad._ [Female].
Nape white. _Notes._ A sharp, clear _witt-witt_; a rather silent bird.
(Bendire.)
Range.--Mountains of western United States from southern California
north to southern British Columbia; east to western Idaho and western
Nevada.
[Illustration: 402.]
=402. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker= (_Sphyrapicus varius_). L. 8.5; W.
4.8. _Ad._ [Male]. Crown and throat red; a _whitish_ band from eye to
eye across nape; belly washed with yellow; breast patch black _Ad._
[Female]. Similar, but throat white; crown rarely black. _Yng._ Breast
grayish with internal dark rings or bars; crown dirty yellowish
margined with dusky; red feathers soon appear on throat and crown.
_Notes._ A clear ringing _cleur_ repeated; a low snarling cry
resembling _mew_ of Catbird. (Brewster.)
Range.--Eastern North America; breeds from Massachusetts and northern
Illinois north to about Lat. 63° 30'; south in Alleghanies to
northwest Georgia; winters from southern Illinois and southern
Virginia to Central America.
=402a. Red-naped Sapsucker= (_S. v. nuchalis_). Similar to No. 402,
but slightly larger. W. 5; the nape band red; _red_ of throat
encroaching on black bordering streaks; female the same but chin
white.
Range.--Rocky Mountain region; breeds from Colorado and northeastern
California (?), north to British Columbia; winters from southern
California south to northwestern Mexico.
[Illustration: 403.]
=403. Red-breasted Sapsucker= (_Sphyrapicus ruber_). L. 9. _Ads._
Crown, whole throat and _breast_ dull red; in other respects
resembling No. 402. _Notes._ _Jay_ or _chaÄ_, _peeye_, _pinck_, and
_peurr_: (Bendire.)
Range.--Breeds in mountains from northern Lower California north to
southern Oregon.
=403a. Northern Red-breasted Sapsucker= (_S. r. notkensis_). Similar
to No. 403, but colors deeper, red brighter; belly yellower.
Range.--Pacific coast region from Santa Cruz Mountains, California,
north to southern Alaska.
[Illustration: 404.]
=404. Williamson Sapsucker= (_Sphyrapicus thyroideus_). L. 9. Belly
_bright_ yellow; rump white. _Ad._ [Male]. Above black;, a red stripe
on throat; lesser wing-coverts white. _Ad._ [Female]. Crown and throat
brownish; back and lesser wing-coverts barred black and whitish.
_Yng._ Similar to [Female], but breast barred like sides. _Notes._ A
shrill _huit-huit_ uttered when flying. (Bendire.) The roll of this
Woodpecker is not continuous, but is broken or interrupted.
Range.--Higher mountain ranges of western United States; breeds from
northern New Mexico, Arizona, and southeastern California north to
Wyoming and southern British Columbia; winters from southern
California and western Texas into Mexico.
[Illustration: 408.]
=408. Lewis Woodpecker= (_Asyndesmus torquatus_). L. 11. _Ads._ Breast
and a collar around the neck gray; region about base of bill dark red;
belly pinkish red; above shining green black. _Yng._ No gray collar;
crown suffused with red. _Notes._ A weak, peeping twitter. (Lawrence).
Generally a silent bird.
Range.--Western United States; breeds from New Mexico, Arizona, and
southern California north to southern Alberta and British Columbia;
winters from southern Oregon and Colorado south to western Texas and
southern California.
[Illustration: 406.]
=406. Red-headed Woodpecker= (_Melanerpes erythrocephalus_). L. 9.7.
_Ads._ Whole head and breast red; end half of secondaries white.
_Yng._ Whole head and breast grayish streaked with blackish; back
black margined with grayish; end half of secondaries white with black
bars. _Notes._ A tree-toad-like _ker-r-ruck, ker-r-ruck_.
Range.--Eastern United States west to Rocky Mountains: breeds from
Florida and Texas north to New York and Manitoba; local and irregular
in northern parts of range; winters from Virginia, and occasionally
from New York, southward.
[Illustration: 407.]
=407. Striped-breasted Woodpecker= (_Melanerpes formicivorus_).
L. 9.5. Breast band _streaked with white_; rump white. _Ad._ [Male].
Forehead, white, _crown_, nape, and breast-spot red. _Ad._ [Female].
Center of crown with a black band of _same_ width as white band on
forehead. _Notes._ A loud _tchurr, tchurr_.
Range.--Mexico north to southwest Texas and Arizona.
=407a. Californian Woodpecker= (_M. f. bairdi_). Similar to No. 407,
but black breast-band with white only on its posterior margin.
Range.--Pacific coast region from northern California to southern
Oregon.
=407b. Narrow-fronted Woodpecker= (_M. f. angustifrons_). _Ad._
[Male]. Similar to No. 407, but smaller, W. 5.2; the throat brighter
yellow. _Ad._ [Female]. With black crown-band _wider_ than white
forehead band.
Range.--Cape Region of Lower California.
[Illustration: 409.]
=409. Red-bellied Woodpecker= (_Centurus carolinus_). L. 9.5. Center
of belly reddish. _Ad._ [Male]. Top of head and nape entirely red.
_Ad._ [Female]. Nape red, crown grayish, forehead tinged with red.
_Notes._ A hoarse, _chûh-chûh_.
Range.--Eastern United States, west to the Plains; breeds from Florida
and Texas to Maryland, Ontario, and South Dakota; winters from
Virginia and southern Ohio southward; casually north as far as
Massachusetts.
[Illustration: 410.]
=410. Golden-fronted Woodpecker= (_Centurus aurifrons_). L. 10.5;
center of belly yellow. _Ad._ [Male]. Forehead yellow, crown-patch
red, nape orange. _Ad._ [Female]. Forehead and nape yellow, crown
entirely gray. _Notes._ Loud and penetrating. (Bailey.)
Range.--Mexico, north to central Texas.
[Illustration: 411.]
=411. Gila Woodpecker= (_Centurus uropygialis_). L. 10. Center of
belly yellow. _Ad._ [Male]. Top of head and nape _sooty_ gray; a
red-crown patch. _Ad._ [Female]. Top of head and nape entirely sooty
gray. _Notes._ _Dchūrr, dchūrr_; when flying, a shrill _huit_ like
call-note of Phainopepla. (Bendire.)
Range.--Northwestern Mexico, north to southwestern New Mexico, and
Lower California.
[Illustration: 412.]
=412. Southern Flicker= (_Colaptes auratus_). Smaller than No. 412a,
W. 5.6.
Range.--Southeastern United States north to South Carolina.
=412a. Northern Flicker= (_C. a. luteus_). L. 13; W. 6.4. Crown bluish
gray; throat pinkish brown; a scarlet nape-band; lining of wings and
tail yellow. _Ad._ [Male]. With black patches on the sides of the
throat. _Ad._ [Female]. Without black throat patches. _Notes._ A loud,
emphatic _keé-yer_; a low chuckle when taking flight; a _weéchew_
repeated and used only when two or more birds are together; and a
mellow _cûh-cûh-cûh-cûh_, repeated, doubtless a song.
Range.--Eastern North America west to the Rocky Mountains and Alaska;
rare on the Pacific coast; apparently hybridizing with No. 413 at the
western border of its range.
[Illustration: 413.]
=413. Red-shafted Flicker= (_Colaptes cafer collaris_). L. 13. No red
nape band; crown brownish; throat bluish gray; lining of wings and
tail reddish. _Ad._ [Male]. Patches at side of throat red. _Ad._
[Female]. No red throat patches. _Notes._ Resemble those of No. 412.
Range.--Western United States, except northwest coast region; east to
the Rocky Mountain region; apparently hybridizing with No. 412 at the
eastern border of its range.
=413a. Northwestern Flicker= (_C. c. saturatior_). Similar to No. 413,
but much darker throughout, back vinous-brown.
Range.--Pacific coast region; breeds from Oregon north to southern
Alaska; winters south to northwest California.
[Illustration: 414.]
=414. Gilded Flicker= (_Colaptes chrysoides_). L. 12; W. 5.7. Crown
cinnamon; under surface of wings and tail yellow. _Ad._ [Male]. No red
band on nape; throat bluish gray, its sides with a red patch. _Ad._
[Female]. No red on sides of throat. _Notes._ Resemble those of No.
412. (Bendire.)
Range.--"Central and southern Arizona from Lat. 34° to southern
Sonora, and Lower California south of Lat. 30°." (A.O.U.)
=414a. Brown Flicker= (_C. c. brunnescens_). Similar to No. 414, but
slightly smaller; upperparts darker. (Anthony).
Range.--Lower California north of Lat. 30°.
=415. Guadalupe Flicker= (_Colaptes rufipileus_). Similar to No. 413,
but bill 1.6 or more; more slender, wing averaging less than 6.2;
crown cinnamon-brown; rump vinaceous-white. (Ridgw.)
Range.--Guadalupe Island, Lower California.
Order XVI. GOATSUCKERS, SWIFTS, AND HUMMINGBIRDS.
MACROCHIRES.
Family 1. GOATSUCKERS. Caprimulgidæ. 6 species, 6 subspecies.
Family 2. SWIFTS. Micropodidæ. 4 species.
Family 3. HUMMINGBIRDS. Trochilidæ. 17 species.
The Goatsuckers are birds of the dusk and early morning. They live
chiefly on insects which they capture on the wing, their enormous
mouths being especially well adapted to this kind of hunting. Our
species build no nest but lay their two mottled eggs on the bare
ground or leaves. The young are hatched covered with down and can
follow their parents about long before they acquire the power of
flight. Goatsuckers are noted for their singular calls, most of the
species uttering loud, characteristic notes which, heard at night, are
especially effective.
Swifts are birds of world-wide distribution; about half the
seventy-five known species being found in America. They are
pre-eminently birds of the air with wings so well developed that few
birds can surpass them in power of flight, but with feet so weak and
small that many species cannot perch as do most birds, but, when
resting, cling to a vertical surface and use their tail to aid their
feet in supporting themselves. Their nests are often marvels of
architectural skill and constructive ability. The eggs, four to six in
number, are white.
Hummingbirds are found only in America where they range from Patagonia
to Alaska, but the larger part of the some five hundred known species
are found in the Andean region of Columbia and Ecuador. Only one
species is found east of the Mississippi, and nine of our sixteen
western species advance but little beyond our Mexican border.
Hummingbirds nests are the most exquisite of birds' homes. Their eggs,
so far as is known, number two, and are pure white. The young are born
naked and, in the case of our Ruby-throat, at least, spend about three
weeks in the nest.
The notes of some tropical Hummingbirds are sufficiently varied to be
classed as songs but our species utter only sharp squeaks and excited
chipperings.
Goatsuckers
[Illustration: 416.]
=416. Chuck-will's-widow= (_Antrostomus carolinensis_). L. 12. Mouth
bristles with fine, hair-like branches near their base. _Ad._ [Male].
End half of outer tail-feathers white, _rusty, and black on outer
webs_; chin chiefly _rusty_; throat-patch buffy. _Ad._ [Female]. No
white in tail. _Notes._ A loudly whistled _chuck-will's-widow_,
repeated many times.
Range.--South Atlantic and Gulf States; breeds north to Virginia and
Illinois; west to Kansas and central Texas; winters from southern
Florida southward.
[Illustration: 417.]
=417. Whip-poor-will= (Antrostomus vociferus). L. 9.7. Mouth bristles
_without_ branches. _Ad._ [Male]. Three outer tail-feathers _broadly_
tipped with white; white on inner vane of outer feather 1.4 or more
wide; throat patch white; chin chiefly black. _Ad._ [Female]. Three
outer tail-feathers narrowly tipped with rusty buff; throat patch
rusty buff. _Notes._ A rapid, vigorous, whistled _whip-poor-will_,
repeated many times.
Range.--Eastern North America, west to the Plains; breeds from Gulf
States north to New Brunswick and Manitoba; winters from Gulf States
southward.
=417a. Stephens Whip-poor-will= (_A. v. macromystax_). Similar to
No. 417, but slightly larger, W. 6.5; mouth bristles much longer;
male with throat-patch rusty; white on inner web of outer feather
_less_ than 1.3 wide.
Range.--"Arizona, New Mexico, and southwestern Texas, south over
mountains bordering tablelands of Mexico to Guatemala." (Bailey.)
[Illustration: 418.]
=418. Poor-will= (_Phalænoptilus nuttallii_). L. 7.7. Primaries
_rusty_ barred with black. _Ad._ [Male]. Three outer tail-feathers
_evenly_ tipped with white; a _large_ white throat patch; plumage
above suggesting in color the wings of certain moths. _Ad._ [Female].
Similar, but tail-tips buffy. _Notes._ Variously rendered _poor-will_,
_cow-day_, _pearl-rob-it_, _puir-whee-er_.
Range.--Western United States; breeds from Kansas, Nebraska, and
Dakota west to eastern slope of Sierra Nevadas: north to Montana and
British Columbia; winters from Mexican border southward.
=418a. Frosted Poor-will= (_P. n. nitidus_). Similar to No. 418, but
paler, the upperparts especially whiter, more _frosty_.
Range.--"Texas to Arizona and from western Kansas south to northern
Mexico." (Bailey.) Lower California.
=418b. California Poor-will= (_P. n. californicus_). Similar to No.
418, but darker.
Range.--Breeds on coast of California, north to Butte County; winters
from southern California southward.
[Illustration: 419.]
=419. Merrill Parauque= (_Nyctidromus albicollis merrilli_). L. 12;
T. 6.2. Outer tail-feather without white. Two color phases, one gray,
one rusty. _Ad._ [Male]. Outer tail-feather black with sometimes a
little rusty, next feather white on inner web, third feather white
except at base. _Ad._ [Female]. Outer tail-feathers brownish with
broken rusty bars; next two with white at tip. _Notes._ A vigorous
_ker-whee-you_ repeated and sometimes running into a _whit-whit-whit_,
_ker-whee-you_.
Range.--Mexico north to southern Texas; winters chiefly south of Rio
Grande.
[Illustration: 420.]
=420. Nighthawk= (_Chordeiles virginianus_). L. 10; W. 7.8. Primaries
blackish with a white bar and no rusty spots; darkest of our
Nighthawks. _Ad._ [Male]. Above black with white and buff markings;
throat and band near end of tail white. _Ad._ [Female]. Throat rusty,
no white band in tail. _Notes._ A nasal _peent_; and in the breeding
season, a booming sound produced by diving from a height earthward.
Range.--Eastern United States, chiefly, breeds from Florida to
Labrador, west and northwest to northern California, British Columbia,
and Alaska; winters south of United States.
=420a. Western Nighthawk= (_C. v. henryi_). Similar to No. 420, but
markings above rusty and more numerous; belly washed with rusty.
Range.--Western United States, east to the Plains, wintering south of
United States; exact distribution unknown.
=420b. Florida Nighthawk= (_C. v. chapmani_). Similar to No. 420, but
smaller (L. 8.6; W. 7.1;) and paler; white and buff markings above
larger and more numerous.
Range.--Florida, west along Gulf Coast to eastern Texas; south in
winter to South America.
=420c. Sennett Nighthawk= (_C. v. sennetti_). Similar to No. 420b, but
still paler, white and buff prevailing on back and scapulars; palest
of our Nighthawks.
Range.--Great Plains north to Saskatchewan; winters south of the
United States.
[Illustration: 421.]
=421. Texan Nighthawk= (_Chordeiles acutipennis texensis_). Wing
quills _with_ rusty spots; outer primary shorter than one next to it;
belly conspicuously washed with rusty buff. _Ad._ [Male]. Throat-patch
and band near end of tail white. _Ad._ [Female]. No white band in
tail. _Notes._ A mewing call and a tapping accompanied by a humming
sound. (Merrill.)
Range.--Central America; breeding north to southern Texas, southern
New Mexico, southern Utah, southern Nevada, and Lat. 38° in
California; winters south of United States.
Swifts
[Illustration: 422.]
=422. Black Swift= (_Cypseloides niger borealis_). L. 7; W. 6.5. Tail
without spines, slightly forked. _Ads._ Sooty black, paler below; a
black spot before the eye; forehead whitish. _Notes._ Generally
silent. (Bendire.)
Range.--Breeds from Central America north, in mountains of western
United States, to British Columbia; east to Colorado; winters south of
United States; more common in Pacific coast states.
[Illustration: 423.]
=423. Chimney Swift= (_Chætura pelagica_). L. 5.4; W. 4.9. Tail with
protruding spines. _Ads._ Above sooty, rump and underparts paler;
throat whitish. _Notes._ A rolling twitter.
Range.--Eastern North America, west to the Plains; breeds from Florida
to Labrador and Manitoba; winters south of United States, to Central
America.
[Illustration: 424.]
=424. Vaux Swift= (_Chætura vauxii_). L. 4.5; W. 4.4. _Ads._ Similar
to No. 423, but smaller and somewhat browner. _Notes._ Resemble those
of No. 423, but are less frequently uttered. (Bendire.)
Range.--Western United States; breeds on Pacific coast, locally, north
to British Columbia; east casually to Montana and Arizona; winters
south of United States to Central America.
[Illustration: 425.]
=425. White-throated Swift= (_Aëronautes melanoleucus_). L. 6.5. Tail
forked, without spines. _Ads._ Above sooty brownish black; breast,
middle of belly and flank patches white. _Notes._ A sharp, metallic
twitter.
Range.--Western United States; east to western Nebraska and Black
Hills; breeds in Rocky Mountains north to Montana; on Pacific coast
north to Lat. 38°; winters south of United States to Central America.
Hummingbirds
[Illustration: 426.]
=426. Rivoli Hummingbird= (_Eugenes fulgens_). L. 5.1. A small white
spot behind eye. _Ad._ [Male]. Crown purple, throat bright green, back
bronzy green; tail somewhat more bronzy. _Ad._ [Female]. Above bronzy
green, all but central tail-feathers with blackish ends and narrow
grayish tips; below grayish, all but throat feathers _green
centrally_. _Yng._ [Male]. Throat with more or less green, belly and
above more bronzy than in [Female].
Range.--Nicaragua, north in mountains to mountains of southeastern
Arizona, and southwest New Mexico; winters south of United States.
[Illustration: 429.]
=429. Black-chinned Hummingbird= (_Trochilus alexandri_). L. 3.5; W.
1.7. _Ad._ [Male]. Chin and upper throat black, lower throat amethyst;
tail forked, feathers pointed. _Ad._ [Female]. Throat grayish white;
_chin buffy_; tail feathers more rounded, three outer ones tipped with
white. _Yng._ [Male]. Similar [Female], but throat with dusky spots.
Range.--Western United States; breeds from San Antonio, Texas, New
Mexico, Arizona, and California north to Montana and British Columbia;
rare on Pacific coast north of southern California; winters south of
United States.
[Illustration: 430.]
=430. Costa Hummingbird= (_Calypte costæ_). L. 3.1. No rusty in
plumage. _Ad._ [Male]. Crown, throat and lengthened neck-feathers
amethyst, back dull green. _Ad._ [Female]. Below grayish white; above
grayish green; outer tail-feathers _gray_ at base, then black and at
tip white. _Yng._ [Male]. Similar to [Female], but throat usually with
some amethyst spots; tip of outer tail-feather grayish.
Range.--Northwestern Mexico; breeds north throughout Lower California,
to southern California, northern Nevada, southwestern Utah, and
southwestern New Mexico; winters from Mexican border southward.
[Illustration: 437.]
=437. Lucifer Hummingbird= (_Calothorax lucifer_). L. 3.6; B. .8. _Ad._
[Male]. Throat purplish pink, feathers at its side much lengthened;
tail feathers very narrow, the outer ones less than .05 in. wide on
end half. _Ad._ [Female]. Below nearly uniform _rusty buff_, above
bronzy green; tail-feathers white-tipped.
Range.--"From western Texas and southern Arizona south to the city of
Mexico and Puebla." (Bailey.)
[Illustration: 440.]
=440. Xantus Hummingbird= (_Basilinna xantusi_). L. 3.6. A white
streak behind eye. _Ad._ [Male]. Chin, forehead and cheeks _black_;
throat green; tail rusty brown. _Ad._ [Female]. Below uniform rusty,
above green; outer tail-feathers rusty brown.
Range.--Lower California, north to Lat. 29°; most common in Cape
Region.
[Illustration: 427.]
=427. Blue-throated Hummingbird= (_CÅligena clemenciæ_). L. 5.2. A
white _stripe_ behind, and a smaller one before eye. _Ad._ [Male].
Throat blue; belly grayish; back green; tail blue-black, outer
feathers broadly white tipped. _Ad._ [Female]. Similar but throat
dusky gray.
Range.--Southern Mexico north. In mountains to mountains of
southwestern New Mexico and southern Arizona; winters south of United
States.
[Illustration: 438.]
=438. Reiffer Hummingbird= (_Amazilis tzacatl_). L. 4.1. _Ads._ Above,
_throat_ and _breast_ shining green; belly _grayish_; tail square,
rusty brown, _narrowly_ margined with coppery. _Yng._ Similar but more
rusty above.
Range.--Northern South America; north, rarely, to Lower Rio Grande
Valley, Texas.
[Illustration: 439.]
=439. Buff-bellied Hummingbird= (_Amazilis cerviniventris
chalconota_). Similar to No. 438, but belly _rusty gray_, tail forked
and _broadly_ margined with coppery green.
Range.--Central America, north, in spring, to Lower Rio Grande Valley,
Texas.
[Illustration: 440.1]
=440.1. White-eared Hummingbird= (_Basilinna leucotis_). L. 3.7. A
white line behind eye. _Ad._ [Male]. Chin, forehead and cheeks _blue_,
throat and breast green, tail blackish bronzy green. _Ad._ [Female].
Crown rusty, back bronzy green, below gray spotted with green; outer
tail-feathers tipped with gray. _Yng._ [Male]. Similar.
Range.--Nicaragua north, in spring, through mountains to southern
Arizona.
[Illustration: 441.]
=441. Broad-billed Hummingbird= (_Iache latirostris_). L. 4. _Ad._
[Male]. Above green; below darker; throat purplish blue; tail darker.
_Ad._ [Female]. Below gray; outer tail-feathers green at base, then
bluish black tipped with gray. _Yng._ [Male]. Similar to _Ad._
[Female], but tail blue black with faint gray tips; throat with
metallic green feathers.
Range.--Southern Mexico; breeds north through mountains to southern
Arizona and southwestern New Mexico.
[Illustration: 428.]
=428. Ruby-throated Hummingbird= (_Trochilus colubris_). L. 3.5;
W. 1.5. _Ad._ [Male]. Throat ruby, chin blackish; tail forked,
the feathers pointed. _Ad._ [Female]. Throat grayish, tail-feathers
rounded, three outer ones tipped with white. _Yng._ [Male]. Like
[Female] but throat with dusky spots. (See next page)
Range.--Eastern North America, west to about Long. 100°; breeds from
Florida and eastern Mexico, north to Labrador and Hudson Bay region;
winters from southern Florida to Central America.
[Illustration: 431.]
=431. Anna Hummingbird= (_Calypte annæ_). L. 3.6. _Ad._ [Male].
_Crown_ and throat glittering purplish pink; feathers at sides of
throat much lengthened. _Ad._ [Female]. Above green; below grayish
washed with green; throat usually with pink feathers; tail with a
narrow white tip. _Yng._ Similar but browner above.
Range.--Western United States, from northern Lower California north to
northern California; east to southern Arizona; south in winter to
Mexico; recorded from Guadalupe Island.
[Illustration: 432.]
=432. Broad-tailed Hummingbird= (_Selasphorus platycercus_). L. 4.
_Ad._ [Male]. Outer primary very narrow, end sharp; crown green,
throat _pink_; tail green above, purplish below without white tips.
_Ad._ [Female]. Outer tail-feathers rusty at base, then black with a
broad white tip; middle feathers _entirely_ green; above bronzy green;
throat feathers with dusky centers; sides rusty.
Range.--Rocky Mountains: west, rarely to eastern California; north to
southern Wyoming and Idaho; winters south of United States.
[Illustration: 433.]
=433. Rufous Hummingbird= (_Selasphorus rufus_), L. 3.6. _Ad._ [Male].
Next to middle pair of tail-feathers _notched_ near tip of inner web;
back _reddish brown_ sometimes washed with green. _Ad._ [Female].
Sides _rusty_, back green, throat spotted with green and sometimes
ruby, outer tail-feathers rusty at base, then black and a white tip,
the feather _more_ than .12 wide; middle tail-feathers green at base,
end black. _Yng._ [Male]. Similar to [Female] but _all_ tail-feathers
rusty at base.
Range.--Western United States; breeds from the higher mountains of
southern California and Arizona, north to Lat. 61° in Alaska; during
migrations east to Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, and western
Texas; winters in southern Mexico.
[Illustration: 434.]
=434. Allen Hummingbird= (_Selasphorus alleni_). L. 3.6. _Ad._ [Male].
Crown and _back green_, and tail rusty tipped with dusky, no notch in
tail-feathers; in other respects like No. 433. _Ad._ [Female] _and
Yng._ [Male]. Like the same of No. 433, but outer tail-feather less
than .12 in. wide.
Range.--Pacific coast, from Monterey, California, north to British
Columbia; migrates south through Arizona, and southern California to
Mexico.
=435. Morcom Hummingbird= (_Atthis morcomi_). L. 2.9. _Ad._ [Female].
Above bronzy green; middle tail-feathers bronzy green tinged with
rusty on basal half; rest of tail-feathers rusty brown, then green,
then black and tipped with white; below white, sides rusty, throat
spotted with bronze-green. (Ridgw.) Male unknown.
Range.--Huachuca Mountains, southern Arizona, (known from one
specimen.)
[Illustration: 436.]
=436. Calliope Hummingbird= (_Stellula calliope_). L. 3. _Ad._ [Male].
Throat purplish pink, white at base _showing through_; above green.
_Ad._ [Female]. Sides rusty, throat with green spots, above green,
outer tail-feathers gray at base, then black, then white _in nearly
equal amounts_. _Yng._ [Male]. Similar to [Female].
Range.--Mountains of western United States; breeds north to Montana,
Idaho, and British Columbia; west to eastern Oregon and eastern
California; winters, south of United States; rare on Pacific coast of
United States.
Order XVII. PERCHING BIRDS.
PASSERES.
Family 1. FLYCATCHERS. Tyrannidæ. 32 species, 7 subspecies.
Family 2. LARKS. Alaudidæ. 1 species, 13 subspecies.
Family 3. CROWS AND JAYS. Corvidæ. 21 species, 14 subspecies.
Family 4. BLACKBIRDS, ORIOLES, ETC. Icteridæ. 18 species,
14 subspecies.
Family 5. FINCHES, SPARROWS, ETC. Fringillidæ. 87 species,
92 subspecies.
Family 6. TANAGERS. Tanagridæ. 4 species, 1 subspecies.
Family 7. SWALLOWS. Hirundinidæ. 9 species, 2 subspecies.
Family 8. WAXWINGS. Ampelidæ. 3 species.
Family 9. SHRIKES. Laniidæ. 2 species, 3 subspecies.
Family 10. VIREOS. Vireonidæ. 13 species, 10 subspecies.
Family 11. WARBLERS. Mniotiltidæ. 55 species, 18 subspecies.
Family 12. WAGTAILS. Motacillidæ. 3 species.
Family 13. DIPPERS. Cinclidæ. 1 species.
Family 14. WRENS, THRASHERS, ETC. Troglodytidæ. 26 species,
24 subspecies.
Family 15. CREEPERS. Certhiidæ. 1 species, 4 subspecies.
Family 16. NUTHATCHES AND TITS. Paridæ. 21 species, 20 subspecies.
Family 17. KINGLETS, GNATCATCHERS, ETC. Sylviidæ. 7 species,
3 subspecies.
Family 18. THRUSHES, BLUEBIRDS, ETC. Turdidæ. 13 species,
14 subspecies.
The North American members of the Order PASSERES are placed in two
Suborders, the _Clamatores_, or so-called Songless Perching Birds,
which includes all the Flycatchers, and the Suborder _Oscines_, or
Singing Perching Birds, which includes all our remaining Perching
Birds. While the Flycatchers are therefore technically classed as
songless birds, it does not follow that they have no songs. Sing they
do, but because of the less developed condition of their
voice-producing organ, they cannot give utterance to the longer and
more musical songs of the Oscines, which are supplied with a better
musical instrument.
The Flycatchers, (Family Tyrannidæ) number somewhat over three hundred
and fifty species, and are found only in America, where they are most
abundant in the tropics. Feeding almost exclusively on insects, those
species which visit the United States are of necessity migratory, not
more than half a dozen of the thirty species which nest with us,
remaining in the United States during the winter, and these are found
only on our southern borders.
Flycatchers as a rule, capture their prey on the wing. When perching,
their pose is usually erect and hawk-like. They often raise their
crown feathers, which in many species are somewhat lengthened, a habit
giving them a certain big-headed appearance.
Flycatchers are most useful birds. The food of the Kingbird, for
example, a species which is erroneously believed to destroy honey
bees, has been found to consist of 90 per cent. insects, mostly
injurious species, while only fourteen out of two hundred and
eighty-one stomachs contained the remains of honey bees; forty of the
fifty bees found being drones.
The true Larks, (Family _Alaudidæ_) are chiefly Old World birds, the
Skylark being the best known member of the Family. In America we have
only the Horned or Shore Larks, one species of which shows so much
climatic variation in color throughout its wide range, that no less
than thirteen subspecies or geographical races of it are recognized in
the United States.
The Horned Lark is a bird of the plains and prairies and is less
common in the Atlantic States than westward. Like the Skylark it sings
in the air, but its vocal powers are limited and not to be compared
with those of its famous relative.
The Crows and Jays, (Family _Corvidæ_) number about two hundred
species of which some twenty-five inhabit the western hemisphere. To
this family belong the Raven, Rook, Magpie and Jackdaw, all birds of
marked intelligence; and our Crows and Jays are fully worthy of being
classed with these widely known and distinguished members of their
family.
The Crows and Jays, by varying their food with the season, are rarely
at loss for supplies of one kind or another and most species are
represented throughout their ranges at all times of the year. In the
more northern parts of their homes, however, some of these birds are
migratory, and Crows, as is well known, gather in great flocks during
the winter, returning each night to a roost frequented, in some
instances, by two or three hundred thousand Crows.
While the Crows and Jays are technically 'Song Birds' their voices are
far from musical. Nevertheless they possess much range of expression
and several species learn to enunciate words with more or less ease.
The Starlings, (Family _Sturnidæ_) are Old World birds represented in
America only by the European Starling which was introduced into
Central Park, New York City, in 1890 and is now common in the
surrounding country.
The Blackbirds, Orioles, and Meadowlarks, (Family _Icteridæ_) number
about one hundred and fifty species and are found only in the New
World. The Blackbirds are most numerous in North America, where,
migrating in vast armies and often living in large colonies, they
become among the most characteristic and conspicuous of our birds.
The Orioles are most numerous in the tropics, where some thirty
species are known. Apparently all of them are remarkable as nest
builders, the large Cassiques, nearly related, great yellow and black
birds, weaving pouches three and four feet long, several dozen of
which, all occupied, may be seen swinging from the branches of a
single tree.
The Finches, Sparrows, Grosbeaks, etc., (Family _Fringillidæ_) number
nearly six hundred species, a greater number than is contained in any
other family of birds. They are distributed throughout the world,
except in the Australian region, some ninety odd species inhabiting
North America.
Varying widely in color, the Fringillidæ all agree in possessing
stout, conical bills, which are of service to them in crushing the
seeds on which they feed so largely.
The streaked, brownish Sparrows, often so difficult of identification,
are usually inhabitants of plains, fields, or marshes, where they are
rendered inconspicuous by their dull colors. The more gayly attired
Grosbeaks, Buntings, Cardinals etc., frequent trees or bushy growths,
where their plumage either harmonizes with their surroundings or where
they have the protection afforded by the vegetation.
Most of the members of this family are good singers, some of them
indeed being noted for their powers of song. They are less migratory
than insect-eating birds and some species are with us at all seasons.
Their abundance, musical gifts, and constant presence render them,
from the field student's point of view, highly important members of
the great class Aves.
From an economic standpoint the Fringillidæ are no less deserving of
our esteem. Some species are of incalculable value as destroyers of
the seeds of noxious weeds. Fifteen hundred seeds have been found in
the stomach of one Snowflake or Snowbunting, and it has been estimated
by Professor Beal, of the Biological Survey of the United States
Department of Agriculture, that during the winter season, in the
single State of Iowa, where his studies were made, Tree Sparrows
devour no less than 875 _tons_ of weed seeds, chiefly of the ragweed.
The Tanagers, (Family _Tanagridæ_) are found only in the New World,
where they are most numerously represented in the tropics. As a family
they are remarkable for the brilliancy of their colors; the common,
but mistaken idea that most tropical birds are brightly clad being in
no small part due to the abundance of Tanagers and beauty of their
plumage.
Only five of the some three hundred and fifty known species reach the
United States and these are migratory, coming to us in the spring and
returning to the tropics in the fall. Tanagers, as a rule, are not
possessed of much vocal ability, our species ranking high in their
family as songsters, the notes of many species being far less musical.
Like most gaily costumed birds the plumages of many Tanagers undergo
striking changes in color with age and season. The male of our Scarlet
Tanager, for example, is olive-green with black wing-coverts during
his first winter, the scarlet plumage not being acquired until the
following spring. It is worn, however, only during the nesting season
after which the less conspicuous olive-green dress is again acquired,
the wings and tail, however, remaining black.
Swallows, (Family _Hirundinidæ_) are of world-wide distribution, and
as might be expected in birds possessing such remarkable powers of
flight, many of the species have unusually extended ranges. Our Barn
Swallow, for example, is found throughout North America in summer, and
in the winter it migrates as far south as southern Brazil.
Birds of the air, the aërial habits of Swallows are reflected in their
long wings and small, weak feet; while their small bills and broad,
widely opening mouths indicate their manner of feeding.
In spite of their poor equipment of tools, Swallows take high rank as
nest builders, and it is interesting to observe that although the
birds are structurally much alike, their nests often differ widely in
character. Compare for instance, the mud-made dwellings of the Barn
and Cliff Swallows with the tunneled hole of the Bank Swallow and one
realizes how little the character of a bird's home may depend on the
structure of it's builder.
The food of Swallows, remarks Professor Beal, "consists of many small
species of beetles which are much on the wing, many species of diptera
(mosquitoes and their allies), with large quantities of flying ants
and a few insects of similar kinds. Most of them are either injurious
or annoying, and the numbers destroyed by Swallows are not only beyond
calculation, but almost beyond imagination."
The true Waxwings, (Family _Ampelidæ_) number only three species with
representatives in the northern parts of both hemispheres. Their
notes, as a rule are limited to a few unmusical calls, which, with our
Cedar Waxwing, are usually uttered when the bird is about to fly.
Waxwings are found in small flocks during the greater part of the year
and roam about the country as though they were quite as much at home
in one place as in another, provided food be plenty. Small fruits,
chiefly wild ones, constitute their usual fare, but they also feed on
insects, the injurious elm beetle being among their victims.
The Shrikes, (Family _Laniidæ_) are represented in America by only two
species, the remaining two hundred or more members of this family
being found in the Old World. Shrikes are noted for their singular
habit of impaling their prey on thorns or similarly sharp-pointed
growths, or occasionally they may hang it in the crotch of a limb.
This proceeding enables them to tear it to pieces more readily, for it
will be observed that while Shrikes have a hawk-like bill, their feet
are comparatively weak and sparrow-like and evidently of no assistance
to them in dissecting their food.
Our Northern Shrike, or Butcherbird, feeds chiefly on small birds and
mice, while the southern species, or Loggerhead, is a great destroyer
of grasshoppers and he also eats lizards and small snakes.
The Vireos, (Family _Vireonidæ_) number fifty species, all American.
They search the foliage carefully for leaf-eating insects and their
eggs, and examine the crevices in the bark for eggs of the injurious
wood-boring insects. They are therefore unusually beneficial birds.
Bearing a general resemblance in size and color to many of the
Warblers, Vireos are sometimes confused with members of that family.
They are, however, as a rule, more deliberate in their motions and not
such active flutterers as are many of the Warblers. They are also more
musical, all the Vireos having characteristic songs, which if not
always highly musical, are generally noticeable, pronounced and
unmistakable.
The nests of all our Vireos are pendant, deeply cup-shaped structures
usually hung between the forks of a crotch, to the arms of which they
are most skilfully woven.
The Warblers, (Family _Mniotiltidæ_) like the Vireos are distinctly
American birds, indeed they may be called characteristic North
American birds since most of the one hundred odd species are found
north of Mexico. Between thirty and forty species of these active,
beautiful little creatures may be found in the course of a year at a
single locality in the Eastern States and they therefore constitute an
exceedingly important element in our bird-life. Most of them come in
May at the height of the spring migration; when the woods often swarm
with them as they flit from limb to limb in pursuit of their insect
food. The larger number of them pass onward to their northern homes
and in September they return to us in increased numbers.
The beauty of their plumage, the briefness but regularity of their
visits, the rarity of certain species, combine to make the Warblers
especially attractive to the field student and their charms are
heightened by the difficulty with which many of them are identified.
Study them as we may there are still species which have escaped us.
By far the larger number of Warblers may be described as flutterers
that feed agilely about the terminal branches, (genera _Dendroica_ and
_Helminthophila_); others are true flycatchers, so far as feeding
habit is concerned, (genera _Setophaga_ and _Wilsonia_,) while others
still feed in the undergrowth or on the ground, (genera _Geothlypis_
and _Seiurus_). Insects constitute almost their entire fare and they
are among our most beneficial birds.
Most of the Wagtails (Family _Motacillidæ_), are inhabitants of the
Old World, only three of the sixty odd species being found in this
country. Our Pipit or Titlark is our best known, most widely
distributed species.
Like other members of its family it has the habit of wagging or
tipping its tail both when walking (for it should be noted that these
birds are ground-inhabiting and walkers) and at rest.
The Dippers (Family _Cinclidæ_) though numbering only twelve species
are distributed throughout the larger part of the world from the Andes
of South America to the mountains of Alaska, Europe, Asia and Africa.
Everywhere they are haunters of streams, usually dashing mountain
torrents, over and _under_ which they seem equally at home. Darting
into the rushing waters they fly beneath the surface or feed on the
bottom with perfect ease, their thick, dense plumage evidently forming
a water-proof covering. Their nests are great balls of moss often
placed so near some boiling cascade as to receive frequent showers of
spray. The opening, however, is at the side, and the eggs and young
are well protected by an effective roof.
The Wrens, Thrashers, and Mockingbirds, (Family _Troglodytidæ_) form
two well defined subfamilies. The Wrens, (Subfamily _Troglodytinæ_)
number about one hundred and fifty species all but a dozen of which
are confined to America. The Thrashers and Mockingbirds, (Subfamily
_Miminæ_) number some fifty species, all of which are confined to
America.
As their dull, neutral colors would lead us to suppose, both Wrens and
Thrashers are inhabitants of the lower growth rather than of the
tree-tops, and while they may seek an elevated perch whence to deliver
their song, their food is secured and their time consequently largely
passed near or on the ground.
Few families of birds contain so many noted musicians, nearly every
member of this family being a singer of more than usual ability.
The Creepers, (Family _Certhiidæ_) number twelve species, only one of
which is found in America. This, however has a wide range and,
presenting more or less climatic variation in color, is recognized
under several subspecific names. Its habits, nevertheless, are much
the same everywhere. It climbs the trees of the mountains of Mexico or
of California with the same ceaseless energy it shows in Maine.
The sharply-pointed, stiffened tail-feathers of the Creeper are of
evident use to it as it ascends trees and pauses here and there to
pick out an insect's egg from the bark. The same type of tail feather
is shown by Woodpeckers, an excellent illustration of similar
structure accompanying similar habits in birds not at all closely
related.
The Nuthatches and Titmice, (Family _Paridæ_), like the Wrens and
Thrashers, belong in two well marked Subfamilies; The Nuthatches,
(Subfamily _Sittinæ_) number about twenty species, only four of which
inhabit America; the Titmice, (Subfamily _Parinæ_) number some
seventy-five species, of which thirteen are American.
Nuthatches are tree-creepers, but climbing up or down with equal ease,
their tail is not employed as a prop, and consequently shows no
special development of pointed or stiffened feathers. Their toes,
however, are long, and their nails large and strong, evidently giving
them a firm grip on the bark of trees.
The Chickadees are generally resident birds and, as a rule, whatever
species we find in a given locality are apt to be there throughout the
year. We therefore become better acquainted with some of these lairds
than with others which are with us only a short season. This is
especially true of our eastern Black-capped Chickadee, which comes
familiarly about our homes in winter to partake of the feast of nuts
and suet which we spread for him at that season.
Feeding largely on the eggs or larvæ of insects particularly injurious
to trees, the Nuthatches and Titmice are of great value to man.
The Kinglets, Gnatcatchers, and Old World Warblers, (Family
_Sylviidæ_) number about one hundred and twenty-five species, which
are divided among the following well-defined subfamilies: The
Kinglets, (Subfamily _Regulinæ_) seven species, three of which are
American; the Gnatcatchers, (Subfamily _Polioptilinæ_) some fifteen
species, all American; the Old World Warblers, (Subfamily _Sylviinæ_)
about one hundred species, all Old World except one which inhabits the
Bering Sea coast of Alaska.
The Kinglets are small, olive green birds which may be mistaken for
Warblers but, aside from structural differences not evident in the
field, they may be known by their smaller size, greater tameness, and
habit of nervously flitting their wings at frequent intervals. One of
our species, the Ruby-crown, possesses a remarkably loud, clear, and
musical song, a surprising performance for so tiny a songster.
Kinglets build large nests of moss and feathers and lay as many as ten
eggs.
The Gnatcatchers are small, slender, grayish birds which once well
seen will not be confused with other species. The Gnatcatchers, like
the Kinglets, are architects of more than usual ability, building a
nest beautifully covered with lichens. The Thrushes, (Family
_Turdidæ_) are variously classified by different ornithologists, but
under the ruling of the American Ornithologists' Union they are
grouped in the same family with the Bluebird, Solitaires, and
Stonechats. This family numbers about three hundred species, of which
about one-half are true Thrushes (Subfamily _Turdinæ_). The members of
this subfamily are, as a rule, fine singers, many of them being among
the best known song birds, and from a musical point of view the group,
as a whole, is usually given the first place among birds. If, however,
all the fifteen known species of Solitaires sing as well as the four
species it has been my privilege to hear, I am assured that no one
would dispute their claim to the highest rank which can be awarded
singing birds.
In the succeeding pages, the five hundred and fifty odd species and
subspecies included in the preceding families of the Order Passeres
are grouped according to some obvious color character in order to
facilitate their identification in life. A satisfactory arrangement of
this kind is out of the question. Lines sharply separating the groups
proposed do not exist and some species appear to fit in one section as
well as in another. Nevertheless, it is hoped that in most instances,
the system will be found to serve the purpose intended. Under its
ruling our Perching Birds are grouped as follows:
1. With red markings.
2. With blue markings.
3. With orange or yellow markings.
4. With reddish brown or chestnut markings, chiefly in the form of
patches or uniformly colored areas.
5. Brownish, generally streaked birds.
6. Dull, inconspicuously colored birds, without prominent markings.
7. Gray, black, or black and white birds.
While the first object of the bird student is to learn to name birds I
would again urge him to acquaint himself with at least the arrangement
of the Orders and Families of our birds and their leading structural
characters. (see page 2.)
Having identified a bird, its family may always be determined by referring
to its number in the systematic list of birds at the end of the
book; and the more important characters of its Order and Family will
be found in the synopsis of Orders and Families beginning on page 9.
Perching Birds Marked With Red
[Illustration: 607.]
=607. Louisiana Tanager= (_Piranga ludoviciana_). L. 7.5. _Ad._
[Male]. Yellow; back, wings, and tail black, head more or less red.
_Ad._ [Female]. Above olive-green, head rarely red-tinged; below dusky
greenish yellow; wings and tail brownish edged with greenish, two
yellowish white wing-bars. _Yng._ [Male]. Like [Female], but head and
rump greener, underparts yellower. _Notes._ Call, _clit-tuck_; song,
resembles that of No. 608.
Range.--Western United States from the Plains to the Pacific; breeds
from Arizona to British Columbia; winters in Mexico and Central
America.
[Illustration: 608.]
=608. Scarlet Tanager= (_Piranga erythromelas_). L. 7.4. _Ad._ [Male].
Scarlet; wings and tail black. _Ad._ [Female]. Olive-green, yellower
below, wings and tail blackish brown, no wing-bars. _Yng._ [Male].
Like [Female], but brighter, wing-coverts black. _Ad._ [Male],
_Winter_. Like Yng. [Female], but wings and tail black. _Notes._ Call,
_chip-churr_; song, a rather forced whistle, suggesting a Robin's
song, but less musical, _Look-up_, _way-up_, _look-at-me_, _tree-top_;
repeated with pauses.
Range.--Eastern United States, west to the Plains: breeds from
Virginia and southern Illinois north to New Brunswick and Manitoba;
winters in Central and South America.
[Illustration: 609.]
=609. Hepatic Tanager= (_Piranga hepatica_). L. 7.8. Bill large. _Ad._
[Male]. Vermilion, back grayish; tail dull red. _Ad._ [Female]. _No
wing-bars_; above _grayish_ olive; crown and tail greener; below dusky
yellow. _Yng._ [Male]. Like [Female]. and variously intermediate
between it and ad. [Male]. _Notes._ Call, _clut-tuck_; song, like that
of No. 608, but somewhat more robin-like.
Range.--From Guatemala north in spring to New Mexico and Arizona;
winters in Mexico and Central America.
[Illustration: 610.]
=610. Summer Tanager= (_Piranga rubra_). L. 7.5; W. 3.8. _Ad._ [Male].
Rosy red. _Ad._ [Female]. 9. Olive-yellow above, dusky saffron below.
_Yng._ [Male]. Variously intermediate between Ad. [Male] and [Female].
_Notes._ Call, _chicky-tucky-tuck_; song, resembles in form that of
No. 608 but is more musical and less forced.
Range.--Eastern United States, west to the Plains; breeds from Florida
and western Texas north to southern New Jersey, southern Illinois, and
Kansas; winters in Central and South America.
=610a. Cooper Tanager= (_P. r. cooperi_). Similar to No. 610, but
larger; W. 4; bill more swollen, colors paler.
Range.--"Breeds from southwestern Texas to the Colorado Valley,
California, and from Arizona and New Mexico to northwestern Mexico;
south in winter to western Mexico; casually to Colorado."
[Illustration: 593.]
=593. Cardinal= (_Cardinalis cardinalis_). L. 9; W. 3.7; T. 4.1. _Ad._
[Male]. Forehead with a well-defined black band; feathers of back
(except in worn plumage) tipped with _olive-brown_ or _olive-gray_.
_Ad._ [Female]. Above olive-brown; crest, wings and tail dull red
edged with olive-brown; throat and region at base of bill gray; breast
buffy, sometimes tinged with red; belly whiter. _Notes._ Call, a
sharp, insignificant _tsip_; song, a rich, sympathetic whistle,
_whe-e-e-you_, _whe-e-e_, _hurry-hurry-hurry_, _quick-quick-quick_,
and other notes.
Range.--Eastern United States; resident from northern Florida and
eastern Texas north to southern New York and Iowa.
=593a. Arizona Cardinal= (_C. c. superbus_). Largest of our Cardinals,
L. 9.5; W. 4; T. 4.9. _Ad._ [Male]. Paler, more rosy, than No. 593;
margins to back feathers usually gray; black on forehead usually
separated by base of culmen. _Ad._ [Female]. Gray above like No. 593c,
but breast richer, much as in No. 593d; gray of throat more restricted
and often confined to the chin.
Range.--Southern Arizona and northern Sonora, Mexico.
=593b. Saint Lucas Cardinal= (_C. c. igneus_). Similar to No. 593a,
but smaller; W. 3.6; T. 4; [Male] with even less, sometimes almost no
black on forehead; [Female] paler; gray on chin and about base of bill
less defined.
Range.--Southern Lower California.
=593c. Gray-tailed Cardinal= (_C. c. canicaudus_). W. 3.7. _Ad._
[Male]. Red bright as in No. 593d, but black on forehead narrower,
usually separated by base of culmen. _Ad._ [Female]. Grayer than
[Female] of No. 593, the edgings of wings and tail usually gray
_without_ an olive tinge.
Range.--Texas, except western and northeastern parts, and northeastern
Mexico.
=593d. Florida Cardinal= (_C. c. floridanus_). Smaller than No. 593,
W. 3.4; [Male] averaging deeper red; [Female] darker and richer in
color, particularly on breast.
Range.--Southern half of Florida.
[Illustration: 594.]
=594. Arizona Pyrrhuloxia= (_Pyrrhuloxia sinuata_). L. 9; W. 3.6;
T. 4.1. _Ad._ [Male]. Gray; in fresh plumage washed with brownish;
crest, wings and tail externally dull red; under wing-coverts, center
of breast and of belly, throat, and region about base of bill, rosy
red. _Ad._ [Female]. Usually little or no red about bill or on
underparts. _Notes._ Call, several flat, thin notes; song, a clear,
straight whistle. (Bailey.)
Range.--Northwestern Mexico, north to western Texas, southwestern
New Mexico, and Arizona.
=594a. Texas Pyrrhuloxia= (_P. s. texana_). Similar to No. 594, but
bill larger; underparts averaging slightly grayer; red before eyes
averaging duskier.
=594b. Saint Lucas Pyrrhuloxia= (_P. s. peninsulæ_). Similar in color
to No. 594, but decidedly smaller, with the bill larger; W. 3.4;
T. 3.7. (Ridgw.)
Range.--Cape Region of Lower California.
[Illustration: 515.]
=515. Pine Grosbeak= (_Pinicola enucleator leucura_). L. 8.5; W. 4.6.
_Ad._ [Male]. Rosy red in varying amounts; belly gray; wings, tail and
center of back feathers blackish brown; two white wing-bars. _Ad._
[Female]. Gray, head and rump greenish; breast tinged with greenish.
_Yng._ [Male]. Like [Female], but with head and rump reddish. _Notes._
Song, sweet; in winter strong and cheery; in spring tender and
plaintive. (Chamberlain.)
Range.--Northeastern North America; breeds from New Brunswick and
northern New England northward; winters south, irregularly, to
southern New England, Ohio, and Manitoba, and casually to District of
Columbia and Kansas.
=515a. Rocky Mountain Pine Grosbeak= (_P. e. montana_). Similar to
No. 515b, but decidedly larger, W. 4.8, and coloration slightly
darker; the adult male with the red of a darker, more carmine hue.
(Ridgw.)
Range.--"Rocky Mountains of United States, from Montana and Idaho
to New Mexico." (Ridgway.)
=515b. California Pine Grosbeak= (_P. e. californica_). Similar to
No. 515, but [Male] with red much brighter; feathers of back plain
ashy gray without darker centers; [Female] with little if any greenish
on rump.
Range.--Higher parts of "Central Sierra Nevada, north to Placer County
and south to Fresno County, California." (Grinnell.)
=515c. Alaskan Pine Grosbeak= (_P. e. alascensis_). Similar to
No. 515, but decidedly larger with smaller or shorter bill and paler
coloration, both sexes having the gray parts of the plumage distinctly
lighter, more ashy. (Ridgw.)
Range.--"Northwestern North America except Pacific coast, breeding in
interior of Alaska; south, in winter, to eastern British Columbia,
Montana (Bitterroot Valley), etc." (Ridgway.)
=515d. Kadiak Pine Grosbeak= (_P. e. flammula_). Similar to No. 515,
but with much larger, relatively longer and more strongly hooked bill;
wings and tail grayish brown instead of dull blackish.
Range.--"Kadiak Island and south on the coast to Sitka, Alaska."
(Ridgway.)
[Illustration: 521.]
=521. American Crossbill= (_Loxia curvirostra minor_). L. 6.1; W. 3.4;
B. .66. Tips of mandibles crossed. _Ad._ [Male]. Red, more or less
suffused with greenish or yellow. _Ad._ [Female]. Olive-green, rump
and underparts yellower. _Yng._ Resemble Ad. [Female]. _Notes._ Calls,
when feeding, a conversational twittering; louder and more pronounced
when flying; song, sweet, varied and musical, but of small volume.
Range.--Northern North America, chiefly eastward; breeds from northern
New England (in Alleghanies from Georgia) north and west to Alaska;
winters south irregularly to Virginia and Nevada; casually to South
Carolina and Louisiana.
=521a. Mexican Crossbill= (_L. c. stricklandi_). Similar to No. 521,
but larger; W. 4; B. .78.
Range.--"Mountains of Wyoming and Colorado, west to the Sierra Nevada,
and south through New Mexico, Arizona and the tablelands of Mexico to
Guatemala." (A.O.U.)
[Illustration: 522.]
=522. White-winged Crossbill= (_Loxia leucoptera_). L. 6. Tips of
mandibles crossed. _Ad._ [Male]. Rose-pink; middle of back black;
wings with _two white bars_. _Ad._ [Female]. Olive-green and dusky;
rump and underparts yellower; _wings with two white bars_.
_Yng._ Like Ad. [Female]. _Notes._ Resemble those of No. 521.
Range.--Northern North America; breeds from northern New England,
northern New York and northern Michigan northward; winters south
irregularly to Virginia, Illinois, British Columbia, and Nevada.
[Illustration: 595.]
=595. Rose-breasted Grosbeak= (_Zamelodia ludoviciana_). L. 8. _Ad._
[Male]. Black; rump, belly, tips of inner vanes of outer tail-feathers
and patch in wing white; under wing-coverts and breast rose. _Ad._
[Female]. Under wing-coverts saffron; above streaked brown and black;
below whitish streaked with blackish; a _white line over eye_; two
white wing-bars. _Yng._ [Male]. Resembles [Female], but under
wing-coverts _rose_; breast more or less rose-tinged. _Notes._ Call, a
sharp, steely _peek_; song, a rich, fluent, joyous carol.
Range.--Eastern United States, west to the Plains; breeds from
northern New Jersey, northern Ohio, and northern Indiana (and south in
Alleghanies to North Carolina), north to Nova Scotia and Manitoba;
winters in Central and South America.
=517. Purple Finch= (_Carpodacus purpureus_). L. 6.2; W. 3.2. Bill
swollen and rounded; nostrils large, partially covered by projecting,
grayish, bristly feathers; tail slightly forked. _Ad._ [Male]. Dull
rose, head and rump brightest; back brownish; lower belly white. _Ad._
[Female]. Above grayish brown, slightly edged with whitish and
brownish ashy; below white streaked with dark brownish; a more or less
distinct whitish stripe over the eye. _Yng._ Resemble Ad. [Female].
_Notes._ Call, _creak, creak_, and a querulous whistle; song, a sweet,
rapidly flowing warble. (See page 175.)
Range.--Eastern North America, west to the Plains; breeds from
northern New Jersey, the mountains of Pennsylvania, and northern
Illinois northward; winters from the northern States to the Gulf of
Mexico.
=517a. California Purple Finch= (_C. p. californicus_). Similar to No.
517, but [Male] duller and darker; [Female] _decidedly_ olive greenish
above. (See page 175.)
Range.--Pacific coast region; breeds in the mountains of California;
west of the Sierra north to British Columbia; winters from central
Oregon to southern Arizona.
[Illustration: 517.]
[Illustration: 518.]
=518. Cassin Purple Finch= (_Carpodacus cassini_). L. 6.5. _Ad._
[Male]. Similar to Ad. [Male] of No. 517 and No. 517a, but back much
blacker, streaks more sharply defined; crown as bright but appearing
_like a cap_; below much paler. _Ad._ [Female]. Similar to Ad.
[Female] of No. 517a, but larger and more sharply streaked with black,
both above and below. _Notes._ Resemble those of No. 517.
Range.--Western United States, east to the eastern base of the
Rockies, west to the Pacific; breeds in the mountains from New Mexico
north to British Columbia.
[Illustration: 519.]
=519. House Finch= (_Carpodacus mexicanus frontalis_). L. 6.1; W. 3.1.
_Ad._ [Male]. Throat, breast, _forehead_, _line over eye_, and rump,
bright rose-red; back grayish brown tinged with red; belly white,
streaked with brownish. _Ad._ [Female]. Above brownish gray obscurely
streaked with brownish, _no olive_ tint; below white streaked with
brownish. _Ad._ [Male] _in Winter_. Red areas dull purplish pink
tipped with grayish. _Yng._ Resemble Ad. [Female]. _Notes._ Call,
nasal, in chorus, chattering; song, a musical cheery, varied warble,
reminding one of that of No. 517, but recognizably different.
Range.--Western United States, east to the Plains, west to the
Pacific, and from northern Mexico north to southern Wyoming and
Oregon.
=519b. St. Lucas House Finch= (_C. m. ruberrimus_). Similar to No.
519, but smaller, W. 2.8; red more extended, always showing in males
on under tail-coverts.
Range.--Southern Lower California.
=519c. San Clemente House Finch= (_C. m. clementis_). Similar to
No. 519, but wing and tail averaging shorter, the bill decidedly,
and feet slightly larger; coloration somewhat darker. W. 3; B. .48.
(Ridgw.)
Range.--Santa Barbara Island, California; Todos Santos Island,
Lower California.
=520. Guadalupe House Finch= (_Carpodacus amplus_). Similar to
No. 519, but red deeper; back dark brown without red suffusion.
Range.--Guadalupe Island, Lower California.
=520.1 San Benito House Finch= (_Carpodacus mcgregori_). Similar to
No. 519, but much larger with relatively shorter wings and tail;
above much grayer and more distinctly streaked; red areas paler,
more flesh-colored, often dull yellow; W. 3.2; T. 2.5; B. .5. (Ridgw.)
Range.--San Benito Island, Lower California.
[Illustration: 527.]
=527. Greenland Redpoll= (_Acanthis hornemannii_). L. 6.1; W. 3.3.
A red crown-patch. _Ad._ [Male]. Rump, lower breast, sides and belly
_white_, generally _unstreaked_; breast and rump sometimes faintly
tinged with pink. In winter. Throat, breast, and above washed with
buff. _Ad._ [Female]. Similar to [Male], but no pink on breast or
rump, sides sometimes lightly streaked.
Range.--Breeds in Greenland; winters south to Labrador.
=527a. Hoary Redpoll= (_A. h. exilipes_). Similar to No. 527 but
smaller and darker; rump still _white_, but with sides more apt to
be streaked; L. 5; W. 3; T. 2.3; B. .3.
Range.--Breeds in Arctic regions; in America, winters south
irregularly to Massachusetts, Ontario, northern Illinois, and
Michigan.
[Illustration: 528.]
=528. Redpoll= (_Acanthis linaria_). L. 5.3; W. 2.8; T. 2.3. B. .36.
Crown-cap red. _Ad._ [Male]. Above blackish brown edged with yellowish
brown and some whitish; rump _heavily_ streaked with blackish edged
with whitish and tinged with rose; breast rose; sides heavily
streaked. _Ad._ [Female]. Similar, but no pink on rump or breast.
_Yng._ [Male]. Like female. _Notes._ Call like that of Goldfinch or
Siskin and _chit_; song like that of American Goldfinch but distinct.
(Minot.)
Range.--Breeds in northern parts of northern hemisphere; in America,
winters south to northern United States, irregularly to Virginia,
Alabama, Kansas, Colorado, and northern California.
=528a. HolbÅll Redpoll= (_A. l. holbÅllii_). Similar to No. 528,
but larger, the bill longer; W. 3.2; T. 2.3; B. .38.
Range.--Breeds in northern parts of northern hemisphere; in America,
winters south, casually to northern United States, (Quebec, Ontario,
and Massachusetts.)
=528b. Greater Redpoll= (_A. l. rostrata_). Similar to No. 528,
but larger, above darker; L. 5.5; W. 3.2; T. 2.5; B. .35; depth
at base, .28.
Range.--"Southern Greenland in summer, migrating south in winter,
through Labrador to (sparingly) the northern border of the United
States, (New England, lower Hudson Valley, northern Illinois, etc.),
and west to Manitoba." (Ridgway.)
[Illustration: 749.]
=749. Ruby-crowned Kinglet= (_Regulus calendula_). L. 4.4.
A conspicuous whitish eye-ring. _Ad._ [Male]. A more or less
concealed vermilion crown-patch; back olive-green; underparts soiled
whitish more or less tinged with buffy; two white wing-bars.
_Ad._ [Female] _and Yng._ Similar, but no crown-patch. _Notes._ Call,
a wren-like _cack_; song, a surprisingly loud, rich, musical, varied,
flute-like whistle.
Range.--North America; breeds from the northern border of the United
States northward and south in the Rocky Mountains to Arizona and on
the Sierra Nevada of California; winters from South Carolina and
Oregon southward to Central America.
=749a. Sitkan Kinglet= (_R. c. grinnelli_). Similar to No. 749,
but more olive-green above, more buffy below.
Range.--Pacific coast; breeds In southern Alaska; winters southward
to California.
=750. Dusky Kinglet= (_Regulus obscurus_). Similar to No. 749,
but above sooty olive. _Ad._ [Male]. With crown-patch pinkish or
purplish vermilion-red. (Ridgw.) (See page 176.)
Range.--Guadalupe Island, Lower California.
--=European Goldfinch= (_Carduelis carduelis_). L. 5.50. Feathers at
base of bill red; crown and neck-stripe black; back brownish; wings
with a yellow band; inner webs of tail-feathers tipped with white;
below white tinged with brownish. _Notes._ Call, _twit_; song,
"sweet and varied." (See page 176.)
Range.--Introduced in this country near Hoboken, N. J., in 1878;
now not uncommon near New York City.
[Illustration: 443.]
=443. Scissor-tailed Flycatcher= (_Muscivora forficata_). L. 14.5.
_Ad._ [Male]. Above gray, back washed with red or yellow; crown-patch
red. _Ad._ [Female]. Similar, but tail shorter, red less bright, back
grayer. _Notes._ Loud, harsh, chattering notes uttered on the wing.
Range.--Central America and Mexico; breeds through Texas north to
southern Kansas and western Louisiana, and winters south to Central
America: accidental in Florida and as far north as Connecticut and
Hudson Bay.
[Illustration: 471.]
=471. Vermilion Flycatcher= (_Pyrocephalus rubineus mexicanus_).
L. 6. _Ad._ [Male]. Crown and underparts red; back grayish brown.
_Ad._ [Female]. Above brownish, below white, breast streaked with
dusky, belly red or yellow. _Yng._ [Male]. Similar to [Female] but
spotted with red below and on crown. _Notes._ A shrill _zi-bréé_,
_zi-bréé_, uttered while the bird hovers twenty or thirty feet up
in the air. (Bendire.)
Range.--Central America and Mexico, breeding north to southern Texas,
New Mexico, Arizona, southwestern Utah (rarely); "winter visitant to
southern California." (Grinnell.)
[Illustration: 688.]
=688. Painted Redstart= (_Setophaga picta_). L. 5.4.
_Ads._ Black; center of breast and belly deep red, patch
in wings and outer tail-feathers white.
Range--Mexican Plateau north to southwest New Mexico and Arizona.
[Illustration: 690.]
=690. Red-faced Warbler= (_Cardellina rubrifrons_).
L. 5.2. _Ads._ Forehead, face, throat and sides of neck
red, crown and ear-coverts black, nape band and rump
whitish; back gray; no white in wings or tail. _Notes._
A prolonged, very clear, whistled song. (Scott.)
Range.--From Guatemala north over the Mexican Plateau to southern
Arizona and western New Mexico.
[Illustration: 498.]
=498. Red-winged Blackbird= (_Agelaius phÅniceus_). L. [Male], 9.5;
W. 4.7; B. .88; depth at base, .5. _Ad._ [Male]. Black, in winter more
or less tipped with rusty; lesser wing-coverts scarlet; median
wing-coverts buff, tips in summer whitish. _Ad._ [Female]. Above
brownish black, widely margined with buffy and rusty; below whitish
heavily streaked with black; throat tinged with orange or yellow;
lesser wing-coverts tinged with red. _Yng._ [Male]. Similar to _Ad._
[Male], but heavily margined with rusty above and less so below;
lesser wing-coverts duller and narrowly edged with black. _Notes._
Call, _chût_, _chûck_, a reedy _cack_; song, a chorus song, a liquid
_kong-quÄr-rÄÄ_; alarm note a shrill _chee-e-e-e-e_. The notes of this
species are subject to much variation with locality, but I find it
impossible to express on paper differences perfectly apparent when
heard.
Range.--Eastern North America; breeds from Gulf of Mexico north to
New Brunswick and Manitoba; winters from Virginia and southern
Illinois southward.
=498a. Sonoran Red-wing= (_A. p. sonoriensis_). Similar to No. 498,
but larger, bill more slender; [Female] paler, streaking below
browner. W. [Female], 4.8; B. .95; depth at base .5.
Range.--Lower Colorado Valley in California and Arizona, southern
Arizona and south over coast plain of Sonora; Cape St. Lucas.
=498b. Bahaman Red-wing= (_A. p. bryanti_). Similar to No. 498,
but bill slightly longer, the female streaked below with brownish
instead of black.
Range.--Bahamas and southern Florida.
=498c. Florida Red-wing= (_A. p. floridanus_). Similar to No. 498,
but smaller, the bill longer and more slender; [Male], W. 4.2;
B. .9; depth at base .4.
Range.--Florida, except extreme southern portion; west along Gulf
coast to Texas.
=498d. Thick-billed Red-wing= (_A. p. fortis_). Similar to No. 498,
but larger, bill shorter and proportionately thicker. W. 5; B. .8;
depth at base .5.
Range.--Breeds on Mackenzie River, Athabasca, and other interior
districts of British America; during migrations Great Plains, from
Rockies to Minnesota, Iowa, western Illinois, northern Kentucky, and
southwest to western Texas and Arizona. (Ridgway.)
=498e. San Diego Red-wing= (_A. p. neutralis_). Similar to No. 498a,
but slightly smaller, the [Female] with streaks below wider. W. 4.7;
B. .95; depth at base .5.
Range.--Great Basin region from southern British Columbia south to
Mexico, western Texas, to southern California and northern Lower
California; in winter as far east as Brownsville, Texas. (Ridgway.)
=498f. Northwestern Red-wing= (_A. p. caurinum_). Similar to No. 498,
but slightly larger, bill somewhat longer and more slender, the [Male]
with median wing-coverts deeper buff, the [Female] much darker,
streaks below wider, darkest [Female] of group. W. 4.8; B. .9;
depth at base .45.
Range.--Pacific coast from northern California to British Columbia;
south in winter to southern California.
[Illustration: 500.]
[Illustration: 499.]
=499. Bicolored Blackbird= (_Agelaius gubernator californicus_).
_Ad._ [Male]. Similar to No. 498, but median wing-coverts darker
and broadly tipped with black, concealing as a rule, their brownish
bases. _Ad._ [Female]. Very different from [Female] of No. 498; above
and below blackish slightly edged with rusty. _Notes._ Similar in
character to those of No. 498, but with easily recognizable differences.
(See page 178.)
Range.--Pacific coast; breeds from northern Lower California
northward, west of Sierra Nevada and Cascade ranges, to Washington;
migratory at north part of range.
=500. Tricolored Blackbird= (_Agelaius tricolor_). _Ad._ [Male].
Similar to No. 498, but glossier, lesser wing-coverts darker, median
wing-coverts _white_; in winter black more or less edged with grayish
brown; median wing-coverts dingy. _Ad._ [Female]. No rusty; above
blackish edged with grayish; below black bordered with whitish.
_Notes._ "Said to be quite different" from those of No. 498.
(Bendire.) (See page 178.)
Range.--Northern Lower California north to southern Oregon; local
in valleys of interior.
[Illustration: 523.]
=523. Aleutian Leucosticte= (_Leucosticte griseonucha_). Like
No. 524a, but much darker, breast chestnut-chocolate; larger, W. 4.4.
Range.--Islands of Bering Sea (resident); in winter, Shumagin Islands,
lower portion of Alaska Peninsula and Kadiak Island.
[Illustration: 524.]
=524. Gray-crowned Leucosticte= (_Leucosticte tephrocotis_). L. 6.7;
W. 4.1. _Ad._ [Male]. Reddish brown more or less tipped with grayish;
rump, upper tail-coverts, lesser wing-coverts, outer edges of
primaries, and lower belly tipped with _pink_; forecrown black;
hindhead gray; cheeks _down to blackish throat brown_. _Ad._ [Female].
Similar but duller. _Yng._ Nearly uniform brownish; margins of
primaries showing some pink. _Notes._ A quick alarm note, _qui_,
_qui_. (Silloway.)
Range.--Western United States; breeds in higher parts of Sierra Nevada
of California, from Mt. Shasta south to Mt. Whitney, and on White
Mountains (Grinnell); north in Rocky Mountains to British Columbia;
in winter east to Manitoba, Colorado, and Nebraska.
[Illustration: 524a.]
=524a. Hepburn Leucosticte= (_L. t. littoralis_). Similar to No. 524,
but cheeks _gray_ like hindhead; throat often grayish.
Range.--Higher mountains of Washington and British Columbia; north to
Alaska; winters south to Colorado and, on Pacific Coast, as far north
as Kadiak Island.
[Illustration: 525.]
=525. Black Leucosticte= (_Leucosticte atrata_). Similar to No. 524,
but brown replaced by brownish black in _Ad._ [Male], or dusky slate
brownish in _Ad._ [Female] and _Yng._
Range.--Breeds on higher mountains of Idaho and Wyoming; winters south
to Colorado and Utah.
[Illustration: 526.]
=526. Brown-capped Leucosticte= (_Leucosticte australis_). Resembles
No. 524, but little or no gray on hindhead, the black of forehead
passing gradually into brown of nape and back.
Range.--Breeds in mountains of Colorado at about 12000 feet altitude,
winters at lower altitudes and south to New Mexico.
Perching Birds Marked With Blue
[Illustration: 599.]
=599. Lazuli Bunting= (_Cyanospiza amÅna_). L. 5.5. _Ad._ [Male].
Two white wing-bars; breast cinnamon, throat and upperparts light
blue; back blacker. In winter more or less tipped with rusty. _Ad._
[Female]. Middle wing-coverts _tipped_ with _whitish_; above grayish
brown with generally a blue tinge, strongest on rump and lesser
wing-coverts; below whitish, breast buff. _Yng._ Like [Female], but
browner, no blue. _Notes._ Suggest those of the Indigo Bunting.
Range.--Western United States, east to western Kansas; breeds north to
Montana and British Columbia; winters in Mexico.
[Illustration: 600.]
=600. Varied Bunting= (_Cyanospiza versicolor_). L. 5.5. _Ad._ [Male].
Reddish purple, crown and rump blue, nape red. _Ad._ [Female]. Above
brownish gray; below whitish washed with buff; a slight tinge of blue
on rump, wings and tail. Much like [Female] of No. 598, but less brown
above and no streaks below. _Yng._ Resemble [Female].
Range.--Mexico; breeding north to southern Texas and southern Arizona;
winters south of United States.
=600a. Beautiful Bunting= (_C. v. pulchra_). Similar to No. 600, but
slightly smaller, rump more purple, throat with less red.
Range.--Southern Lower California.
[Illustration: 601.]
=601. Painted Bunting; Nonpareil= (_Cyanospiza ciris_). L. 5.4.
_Ad._ [Male]. Below red, rump duller, back green, head dark blue.
_Ad._ [Female]. _Bright_, shining olive-green above; greenish yellow
below. _Yng._ [Male]. Like [Female]; second year variously intermediate
between Ad. [Male] and [Female]. _Notes._ Resemble those of the Indigo
Bunting but possess less volume.
Range.--Southern United States; breeds north to North Carolina,
southern Illinois, and Kansas, and west to southern Arizona; winters
in Mexico and Central America.
[Illustration: 654.]
=654. Black-throated Blue Warbler= (_Dendroica cærulescens_). L. 5.2.
A white patch or spot at base of primaries. _Ad._ [Male]. Throat and
sides black; belly white; above dark grayish blue; outer tail-feathers
with white. _Ad._ [Female]. Grayish olive-green; below yellowish
white; a narrow white line over eye; white wing-patch small, sometimes
barely showing above coverts; tail with a bluish tinge. _Yng._ [Male].
Like _Ad._ [Female], but greenish above; black areas smaller and
tipped with whitish. _Notes._ Call, a sharp, characteristic _chip_;
song, usually, _zwee-zwee-zwee_ in an ascending scale.
Range.--Eastern North America; breeds from northern Connecticut,
mountains of Pennsylvania, southern Michigan, and northern Minnesota,
north to Labrador and Hudson Bay region; winters in Central and South
America.
=654a. Cairns Warbler= (_D. c. cairnsi_). Similar to No. 654, but
[Male] darker, the back with more or less black; [Female] darker and
duller.
Range.--Breeds in higher portions of southern Alleghanies; winters
south of United States.
[Illustration: 658.]
=658. Cerulean Warbler= (_Dendroica cerulea_). L. 5. _Ad._ [Male].
A gray-blue breast band; above bright gray-blue streaked with black;
wing-bars and spots in tail white. _Ad._ [Female] and _Yng._ [Male].
Above blue-gray washed with greenish, below yellowish white; a whitish
line over eye. _Notes._ Call, a warbler _lisp_ and _tchip_ of the
Myrtle Warbler; song resembling that of Parula Warbler. (Brewster.)
(See page 180.)
Range.--Mississippi Valley, breeding north to Minnesota and east to
Cayuga County, New York, Maryland, and West Virginia; generally rare
east of Alleghanies; migrates south through Texas and winters in
Central and South America.
[Illustration: 597.]
=597. Blue Grosbeak= (_Guiraca cærulea_). L. 7; W. 3.4. _Ad._ [Male].
Deep, dark blue, back blacker and sometimes with brownish edgings;
lesser wing-coverts broadly, greater wing-coverts narrowly tipped with
chestnut. In winter more or less tipped with brownish above and below.
_Ad._ [Female]. Above grayish brown, deepest on head; below grayish
white washed with buffy; wing-bars buff. Some specimens show more or
less blue, particularly about head. _Yng._ [Male]. Like [Female], but
browner. _Notes._ Call, a strong, harsh, _ptchick_; song, a beautiful
but feeble warble, somewhat like that of Purple Finch and with a
slight resemblance to that of Rose-breasted Grosbeak. (Ridgw.)
Range.--Eastern United States; breeds from the Gulf north to Maryland
and southern Illinois; winters south of United States into Mexico and
Central America; casually north as far as Maine and Quebec.
=597a. Western Blue Grosbeak= (_G. c. lazula_). Similar to No. 597,
but larger, W. 3.6; male brighter blue; back blacker; tips of
wing-coverts paler, those of greater coverts usually decidedly paler
than those of lesser coverts and averaging wider than those of No.
597. Female averaging paler, less brown.
Range.--Western United States; breeds from Mexico north to Kansas,
southern Nebraska, Colorado, and northern California; winters in
Mexico and Central America.
[Illustration: 598.]
=598. Indigo Bunting= (_Cyanospiza cyanea_). L. 5.4. No white
wing-bars. _Ad._ [Male]. Deep blue, darkest on head. In winter brown,
paler below, more or less mixed with blue. _Ad._ [Female]. Above
brown; below whitish washed with brown with a _suggestion of streaks_;
lesser wing-coverts and margins of tail-feathers usually tinged with
blue. _Yng._ Similar to [Female] but below more streaked; browner, and
generally without blue tinge. _Notes._ Call, a sharp _pit_; song, a
tinkling, unsympathetic, rapid warble, _July, July, summer-summer's
here_; _morning, noontide, evening, list to me_.
Range.--Eastern United States, west to the Plains, casually to
Colorado; breeds north to Nova Scotia and Manitoba; winters in Central
America.
[Illustration: 766.]
=766. Bluebird= (_Sialia sialis_). L. 7. _Ad._ [Male]. Above,
including wings and tail, bright blue; throat and breast rusty brown,
belly whitish. _Ad._ [Female]. Above grayer, below paler. In winter
specimens of both sexes have upperparts tipped with rusty. _Notes._
Call, _tur-wee, tur-wee_; song, a rich and sweet but short warble.
Range.--Eastern United States; breeds from the Gulf States to Nova
Scotia and Manitoba; winters from southern New England and southern
Illinois southward.
=766a. Azure Bluebird= (_S. s. azurea_). Similar to No. 766, but
breast paler, upperparts less deep, more cerulean.
Range.--Mountains of eastern Mexico north to southern Arizona.
=767. Western Bluebird= (_Sialia mexicana occidentalis_). L. 7.
_Ad._ [Male]. Above bright blue, foreback with more or less rust-brown,
but rarely wholly chestnut; _throat blue_, breast rust-brown, belly
bluish gray. _Ad._ [Female]. Above grayish blue; rust on foreback
faintly indicated; throat bluish gray, breast paler than in [Male].
_Notes._ Call, suggests that of No. 766, but is louder and wilder.
Range.--Pacific coast region from northern Lower California north to
British Columbia, east to western Nevada and casually, during
migrations, to New Mexico. (Ridgway.)
[Illustration: 767a.]
=767a. Chestnut-backed Bluebird= (_S. m. bairdi_). Similar to No. 767,
but foreback _wholly_ rust-brown.
Range.--Rocky Mountain region from Wyoming south into Mexico.
=767b. San Pedro Bluebird= (_S. m. anabelæ_). Rust-brown of back and
breast greatly reduced in extent, usually wholly wanting or barely
indicated on back, and divided into two patches on breast by backward
extension of blue of throat; W. 4.2. (Ridgw.)
Range.--San Pedro Martir Mountains, Lower California.
[Illustration: 768.]
=768. Mountain Bluebird= (_Sialia arctica_). L. 7.5. _Ad._ [Male].
Above beautiful cerulean blue, throat and breast paler, belly whitish.
Winter specimens are more or less tipped with brownish. _Ad._
[Female]. Above brownish gray, rump blue, throat and breast grayish
buff; belly whitish. _Notes._ Call, suggests that of No. 766, but in
fall is merely a feeble chirp. (Ridgw.)
Range.--Western United States, except Pacific coast; breeds from the
Sierra Nevada east to the Plains and from New Mexico north to the
Great Slave Lake region; winters from the Mexico boundary states south
into Mexico.
[Illustration: 477.]
=477. Blue Jay= (_Cyanocitta cristata_). L. 11.7. _Ads._ Above
gray-blue, breast and sides washed with _grayish_; white tip to outer
tail-feather rarely less than one inch long. _Notes._ Varied; commonly
a loud harsh _jay jay_; often whistling calls and imitations of the
notes of other birds, particularly of common Hawks.
Range.--Eastern North America, west to the Plains; breeds from Georgia
and northern Texas north to Labrador and Hudson Bay region; resident,
except at northern part of range.
=477a. Florida Blue Jay= (_C. c. florincola_). Similar to No. 477, but
smaller, L. 10; blue above with a purplish tinge; greater wing-coverts
more narrowly barred with black and tipped with white.
Range.--Florida and Gulf Coast to southeastern Texas.
[Illustration: 482.]
=482. Arizona Jay= (_Aphelocoma sieberii arizonæ_). L. 13; W. 6.3;
T. 5.8. _Ads._ Above grayish blue, head, wings and tail brighter than
back; below unstreaked, gray breast tinged with bluish; belly whiter.
_Notes._ Noisy, harsh, and far-reaching. (Bendire.)
Range.--Northern Mexico, north to southern New Mexico and Arizona.
=482a. Couch Jay= (_A. s. couchi_). Similar to No. 482, but smaller;
W. 5.8; T. 5.3; bluer above, throat whiter.
Range.--"Eastern Mexico, extending to western Texas in the Chisos
Mountains." (Bailey.)
[Illustration: 492.]
=492. Pinon Jay= (_Cyanocephalus cyanocephalus_). L. 11; T. 4.8.
_Ads._ Above nearly uniform grayish blue, head slightly darker; below
slightly paler, throat streaked with white. _Notes._ Variable, some as
harsh as those of No. 491, others like gabble of Magpie; others like
Jays' common call a shrill, querulous, _peeh, peeh_; when on ground
maintain a constant chatter. (Bendire.)
Range.--Western North America, from New Mexico and Lower California
north to southern British Columbia; east to Rockies, west to Sierra
Nevada and Cascade Ranges.
[Illustration: 479.]
=479. Florida Jay= (_Aphelocoma cyanea_). L. 11.5. _Ads._ foreback
clay-color or pale brownish gray; head, nape, wings, tail, sides of
throat and faint breast-streaks blue; a grayish line over eye; throat
gray; belly dingier; forehead usually hoary. _Notes._ Harsh and
unmusical calls.
Range.--Florida; confined mostly to coast of the middle portions of
the peninsula.
[Illustration: 480.]
=480. Woodhouse Jay= (_Aphelocoma woodhousei_). L. 12; W. 5. _Ads._
Back _grayish or brownish blue_, usually not sharply defined from
nape; crown, nape, wings and tail blue; throat _gray_; belly dingier;
breast streaked with blue; _under tail-coverts blue_; a _narrow white_
line over eye. Resembles No. 479, but is larger, back bluer, forehead
not hoary; line over eye sharper.
Range.--Western United States (chiefly Great Basin region), from
northern Mexico north to southeastern Oregon and southern Wyoming;
east to western Texas and Colorado; west to California, east of the
Sierras.
[Illustration: 480.1.]
=480.1. Blue-eared Jay= (_Aphelocoma cyanotis_). Resembling No. 480,
but larger; W. 5. 5; under tail-coverts _white_; back slaty-gray
tinged with blue; white line over eye less evident.
Range.--"Mexican tableland north casually to Sutton County, Texas."
(Bailey.)
_480.2. Texan Jay_ (_Aphelocoma texana_). Similar to No. 480.1, but
white line over eye more distinct, below paler and browner gray, lower
throat and chest with obsolete grayish streaks instead of blue
streaks. Differs from No. 480 in having pure white under tail coverts
and in other respects. (Ridgw.)
Range.--"Southeastern Texas, from Concho and Kerr Counties west to the
Davis Mountains." (Bailey.)
[Illustration: 481.]
=481. California Jay= (_Aphelocoma californica_). Similar to No. 480,
but back _brown_; usually sharply defined from nape; blue areas
brighter, throat and belly whiter; breast less streaked with blue.
_Notes._ Varied, usual call a harsh, metallic squawking.
Range.--Pacific coast from northern Lower California, north to
southern Washington, east, in California, to the Sierra Nevada.
=481a. Xantus Jay= (_A. c. hypoleuca_). Similar to No. 481, but blue
areas somewhat lighter, underparts decidedly whiter.
Range.--Lower California, north to Lat. 28°.
=481b. Belding Jay= (_A. c. obscura_). Similar to No. 481, but darker
and with smaller feet; W. 4.7. (Anthony.)
Range.--San Pedro Martir Mountains, Lower California.
[Illustration: 481.1.]
=481.1. Santa Cruz Jay= (_Aphelocoma insularis_). Similar to No. 481,
but larger; W. 5.6; blue areas much deeper, back much darker, grayish
sooty tinged with blue.
Range.--Santa Cruz Island, California.
[Illustration: 478.]
=478. Steller Jay= (_Cyanocitta stelleri_). L. 13. _Ads._ Crest, back
and upper breast sooty brown; rump and belly dark, (Antwerp) blue;
forehead more or less streaked with blue. _Notes._ Varied, usual call
a loud, harsh squawking; the bird is a mimic and also a whistler.
Range.--Pacific coast from Monterey, California, north to near Cook
Inlet, Alaska, including Vancouver Island.
=478a. Blue-fronted Jay= (_C. s. frontalis_). Similar to No. 478, but
back paler, grayer, rump and belly turquoise, forehead with more blue
which sometimes extends to the crest.
Range.--"Southern coast ranges and Sierra Nevada of California and
western Nevada, from Fort Crook south to northern Lower California."
(A.O.U.)
=478b. Long-crested Jay= (_C. s. diademata_). Similar to No. 478, but
paler, grayer above, blue turquoise, as in No. 478a; crest longer, the
forehead with pale, _bluish white_ streaks; a white spot over the eye.
Range.--"Southern Rocky Mountains; north to southern Wyoming; west to
Uintah Mountains, in eastern Utah, and the higher ranges of
northwestern Arizona; south to New Mexico." (Bendire.)
=478c. Black-headed Jay= (_C. s. annectens_). Between No. 478 and
No. 478b. Forehead streaks, and spot over eye much as in latter;
color of body dark as in former.
Range.--Northern Rocky Mountain region from northern Utah and southern
Wyoming north to Alberta and British Columbia.
=478d. Queen Charlotte Jay= (_C. s. carlottæ_). Similar to No. 478,
but darker, sooty slate above, blue deeper.
Range.--Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia.
[Illustration: 483.]
=483. Green Jay= (_Xanthoura luxuosa glaucescens_). L. 11. _Ads._
Crown and patches at side of throat blue; back, wings, and central
tail-feathers green; outer tail-feathers yellow; throat black, breast
and belly greenish yellow. _Notes._ Noisy and harsh often suggesting
certain of the Blue Jay's calls.
Range.--Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas, and south into northeastern
Mexico.
Perching Birds with Yellow or Orange
[Illustration: 503.]
=503. Audubon Oriole= (_Icterus audubonii_). L. 9.5. _Ads._ Head,
breast, wings and tail black; belly yellow; back greenish yellow.
_Yng._ Greenish yellow below; olive-green above. _Notes._ See No. 507.
Range.--Mexico north to the Lower Rio Grande; casually as far as San
Antonio, Texas; resident.
[Illustration: 504.]
=504. Scott Oriole= (_Icterus parisorum_). L. 8; B. .95; _Ad._ [Male].
Lesser wing-coverts, base of tail, rump and belly yellow; rest of
plumage black. _Ad._ [Female]. Yellowish below, olive-green above, two
white wing-bars. _Yng._ [Male]. Like female, but throat black.
_Notes._ See No. 507.
Range.--Mexican tableland, migrating north to western Texas, northern
New Mexico, southern Nevada and southeastern California; winters in
Mexico.
[Illustration: 505.]
=505. Hooded Oriole= (_Icterus cucullatus sennetti_). L. 8; B. .75.
_Ad._ [Male]. _Orange_; forehead, face, throat, foreback, wings and
tail black; lesser wing-coverts and tips to greater ones white. _Ad._
[Female]. Yellowish below, brownish olive-green above, two white
wing-bars. _Yng._ [Male]. Like [Female], but throat black. _Notes._
See No. 507.
Range.--Mexico; migrating north to the Lower Rio Grande; winters in
Mexico.
=505a. Arizona Hooded Oriole= (_I. c. nelsoni_). Similar to No. 505,
but head, rump, etc. yellow instead of orange.
Range.--Northwestern Mexico and Lower California, migrating north to
southwestern New Mexico, Arizona, and southern California, west of
Sierra Nevada; winters in Mexico.
[Illustration: 507.]
=507. Baltimore Oriole= (_Icterus galbula_). L. 7.5. _Ad._ [Male].
Throat, whole head, foreback, wings and middle tail-feathers black;
breast, belly, rump, lesser wing-coverts and ends of outer
tail-feathers orange; wing-coverts and tertials margined with white.
_Ad._ [Female]. Head and foreback olive-yellow spotted with black;
rump and tail brownish yellow; below dull yellow, throat generally
blackish. _Notes._ The notes of all the orange and black Orioles known
to me are mellow, musical, querulous whistles generally given in
detached fragments, all much alike in character but distinguishable
when one becomes familiar with them.
Range.--Eastern North America west to the Rocky Mountains; breeds from
Florida and eastern Texas north to New Brunswick and the Saskatchewan;
winters in Central and South America.
[Illustration: 508.]
=508. Bullock Oriole= (_Icterus bullocki_). L. 7.5. _Ad._ [Male].
_Cheeks_, most of underparts, forehead and line over eye orange; rump
and outer tail-feathers yellower; center of throat, crown, foreback
and middle tail-feathers black; a large white wing-patch. _Ad._
[Female]. Above olive grayish brown; below yellowish, belly whiter;
tail olive-yellow; wings blackish, median coverts tipped, greater
coverts externally margined with white; chin sometimes blackish.
_Yng._ [Male]. Like [Female], but center of throat and lores black.
_Notes._ See No. 507.
Range.--Western North America, from Mexico north to Assiniboia and
British Columbia; east to western Texas; west to the Pacific; winters
in Mexico.
[Illustration: 637.]
=637. Prothonotary Warbler= (_Protonotaria citrea_). L. 5.5.
Tail-feathers with large white areas. _Ad._ [Male]. Whole head and
underparts orange-yellow; back greenish yellow; rump gray. _Ad._
[Female]. Crown greenish like back; yellow paler; belly whitish;
less white in tail. _Notes._ Call, a sharp, metallic _chink_; song,
a "high pitched, penetrating and startling" "_peet_, _tsweet_,
_tsweet_, _tsweet_, _tsweet_, _tsweet_." (Jones.)
Range.--Eastern North America; breeds from the Gulf States north to
Virginia, Ohio, and southern Minnesota; winters in the tropics.
[Illustration: 651.]
=651. Olive Warbler= (_Dendroica olivacea_). L. 5.2. _Ad._ [Male].
Head and breast orange brown, a black band through the eye; back
olive-gray; belly grayish; wing-bars white; outer tail-feathers
largely white. _Ad._ [Female]. Above olive-gray, head yellower;
eye-band dusky; breast yellow; belly white. _Notes._ Song, a liquid
_quirt quirt_, _quirt_, in a descending scale. (Price.)
Range.--Highlands of Guatemala and Mexico north to mountains of
Arizona and New Mexico.
[Illustration: 662.]
=662. Blackburnian Warbler= (_Dendroica blackburniæ_). L. 5.2. _Ad._
[Male]. Throat, line over eye, center of crown, and sides of neck
bright orange; back black with a few whitish streaks; wing-bars
broadly white; tail-spots white. _Ad._ [Female]. Yellow areas paler;
above grayish streaked with blackish. _Yng. and Ad. in Winter._
Similar to Ad. [Male], but throat paler, back browner; wing with two
distinct bars. _Notes._ Song, _wee-see-wee-see, tsee-tsee_, _tsee_,
_tsee-tsee_, _tsee_, _tsee_, in an ascending scale, the last shrill
and fine.
Range.--Eastern North America; breeds from northern New England (and
in Berkshire and Worcester counties, Massachusetts), and northern
Minnesota, north to Labrador and Hudson Bay region, (and south in
Alleghanies to South Carolina); winters in tropics.
[Illustration: 687.]
=687. Redstart= (_Setophaga ruticilla_). L. 5.4. _Ad._ [Male]. Black;
sides of breast, band in wings and in tail rich salmon. _Ad._
[Female]. Sides of breast, band in wings and in tail dull yellow; back
olive-brown, crown gray; below whitish. _Yng._ [Male]. Intermediate
between adults. _Notes._ Song, _ching_, _ching_, _chee_; _ser-wee_,
_swee_, _swe-e-e_.
Range.--North America; rare on the Pacific coast; breeds from North
Carolina, and Kansas north to Labrador and Alaska; winters in the West
Indies, Central and South America.
[Illustration: 748.]
=748. Golden-crowned Kinglet= (_Regulus satrapa_). L. 4.1. _Ad._
[Male]. Crown orange and yellow bordered by black; a whitish line over
eye; back grayish olive-green; below soiled whitish. A blackish band
in wing bordered basally by yellowish white. _Ad._ [Female]. No orange
in crown, its whole center yellow. _Notes._ Call, a fine, high
_ti-ti_; song, five or six fine, shrill high-pitched notes ending in a
short, rapid, rather explosive warble, "_tzee_, _tzee_, _tzee_,
_tzee_, _ti_, _ti_, _ter_, _ti-ti-ti_."
Range.--North America; breeds from northern United States northward,
and southward along the Rockies into Mexico and in the Alleghanies to
North Carolina; winters from about its southern breeding limit to the
Gulf States and Mexico.
=748a. Western Golden-crowned Kinglet= (_R. s. olivaceus_). Similar to
No. 748, but upperparts brighter olive-green; underparts with a
brownish tinge.
Range.--Pacific coast region; breeds from the higher Sierra Nevada of
California north to southern Alaska.
[Illustration: 666.]
=666. Golden-cheeked Warbler= (_Dendroica chrysoparia_). L. 5. _Ad._
[Male]. Throat, crown and _back_ black; cheeks and spot in forehead
yellow; a narrow black line through eye; wing-bars and tail-patches
white. _Ad._ [Female]. Above olive green with _black streaks_; cheeks
duller than in [Male], eye-streak dusky; throat yellow, breast
blackish; belly _white_. _Notes._ Song, _tser_, _weasy-weasy_, _twea_,
resembling song of No. 667. (Nehrling.)
Range.--Western central and southern Texas and south through eastern
Mexico to highlands of Guatemala. (Ridgway.)
[Illustration: 667.]
=667. Black-throated Green Warbler= (_Dendroica virens_). L. 5.
_Ad._ [Male]. Throat and breast black; cheeks greenish yellow; back
olive-green; wing-bars and tail patches white. _Ad._ [Female] and
_Yng._ [Male]. Similar, but throat yellowish; black breast tipped with
yellowish; _belly tinged with yellow_; back _without_ black _streaks_.
_Yng._ [Female]. Throat and breast yellowish white, little or no
black. _Notes._ Song, a droning _zÄÄ_, _zÄÄ_, _zÄ-ÄÄ'_, _zÄÄ_.
Range.--Eastern North America; breeds from Connecticut and northern
Illinois north to Nova Scotia and Hudson Bay, and south in Alleghanies
to South Carolina; winters in Central America.
[Illustration: 668.]
=668. Townsend Warbler= (Dendroica townsendi). L. 5.1. _Ad._ [Male].
A black eye-patch bordered by yellow stripes; crown and throat black;
back olive-green spotted with black; wing-bars and tail-patches white.
_Ad._ [Female]. Eye-patch olive; throat yellow, indistinctly blackish;
crown and back olive-green, with few black streaks. _Yng._ Similar,
but yellower. _Notes._ Song, _de-de_, _de-de_, _de_, like that of
No. 667. (Merrill.)
Range.--Western North America; breeds from mountains of southern
California north to Alaska, east to western Colorado; in migrations to
western Texas; winters in Mexico.
[Illustration: 669.]
=669. Hermit Warbler= (_Dendroica occidentalis_). L. 5.1. Underparts
_without_ streaks. _Ad._ [Male]. Crown and cheeks yellow; throat
black; back gray spotted with black; wing-bars and tail-patches
white. _Ad._ [Female]. Crown less yellow; throat yellowish; back
olive-gray, usually without spots. _Yng._ [Female]. Similar, but
yellower. _Yng._ [Male]. Throat dusky; forehead and cheeks yellow;
back olive-green with concealed black spots. Much like Yng of
No. 667, but forehead yellower, no streaks below. _Notes._ Song,
_zeegle-zeegle-zeegle-zeek_. (Barlow.)
Range.--Western United States; breeds in high mountains from British
Columbia to California, and from Pacific Coast district of United
States to Rocky Mountains; migrates to Lower California, Mexico, and
Guatemala. (Bailey.)
[Illustration: 684.]
=684. Hooded Warbler= (_Wilsonia mitrata_). L. 5.7. Outer tail-feather
with white patches. _Ad._ [Male]. Forehead and cheeks yellow; hindhead
extending to breast and throat black; belly yellow; back olive-green.
_Ad._ [Female]. Throat yellow, hindhead olive-green usually with
black. _Notes._ Call, a sharp _cheep_; song, a gracefully whistled
_you must come to the woods, or you wont see me_.
Range.--Eastern United States; breeds north to southern Connecticut,
central western New York, and southern Michigan; winters in Central
America.
[Illustration: 531.]
=531. Lawrence Goldfinch= (_Astragalinus lawrencei_). L. 4.7. _Ad._
[Male]. Crown, throat and front of cheeks black; body _gray_, breast,
rump, wings and, to a less degree, back with yellow; outer tail
feathers with large white spots near the end. _Ad._ [Female]. Similar,
but no black, back browner and without yellow. _Notes._ Suggesting
those of the Goldfinch, but weaker.
Range--California, west of the Sierra; breeds from northern Lower
California north to Chico, California; winters to Arizona and New
Mexico.
[Illustration: 642.]
=642. Golden-winged Warbler= (_Helminthophila chrysoptera_). L. 5.
_Ad._ [Male]. Crown yellow, wing-bars broadly yellow; above bluish
gray; below grayish white; throat-patch and eye-stripe black. _Ad._
[Female]. Crown duller; throat-patch and eye-stripe gray. _Notes._
Song, a lazy _zee-zee-zee-zee_ all on same note.
Range.--Eastern United States; breeds from northern New Jersey and
northern Indiana north to Vermont, southern Ontario, and Michigan, and
south along Alleghanies to South Carolina; winters in Central America.
[Illustration: 678.]
=678. Connecticut Warbler= (_Geothlypis agilis_). L. 5.5. Eye-ring
white; no white in wings or tail. _Ad._ [Male]. Crown and cheeks
bluish slate; throat and breast paler, the latter with no black; above
olive-green; below yellow, sides greenish. _Ad._ [Female] _and Yng._
Throat and breast olive _brown_; belly yellow; back brownish
olive-green; crown browner. _Notes._ Call, a sharp _peek_; song,
suggesting that of Maryland Yellow-throat and also that of Oven-bird,
_free-chapple_, _free-chapple_, _free-chapple_, _whoit_. (Seton.)
Range.--Eastern North America, north to Maine and Manitoba; known to
breed only in Manitoba; winters in northern South America.
[Illustration: 679.]
=679. Mourning Warbler= (_Geothlypis philadelphia_). L. 5.4. No white
in wings or tail. _Ad._ [Male]. No white eye-ring; crown and cheeks
bluish slate; throat blackish; breast black more or less veiled by
slaty; belly yellow; back olive-green. _Ad._ [Female]. Head slaty;
throat and breast _grayish_; an inconspicuous white eye-ring. _Yng._
Similar, but browner above; throat more yellow. _Notes._ Song, clear
and whistled, _tee te-o te-o te-o we-se_, the last couplet accented
and much higher pitched. (Jones.)
Range.--Eastern North America; breeds from northern New England,
northern New York and eastern Nebraska north to Nova Scotia and
Manitoba, and south along the Alleghanies to West Virginia; winters in
Central and South America.
[Illustration: 680.]
=680. Macgillivray Warbler= (_Geothlypis tolmiei_),
L. 5.4. _Ads._ Similar to No. 679, but with an incomplete
white eye-ring showing above and below eye.
Range.--Western North America from the Rocky Mountains to the
Pacific; breeds from western Texas and mountains of southern California
north to British Columbia; in migrations ranges east to Nebraska
and middle Texas; winters in Mexico and Central America.
[Illustration: 656.]
=656. Audubon Warbler= (_Dendroica auduboni_). L. 5.6. Crown, sides of
breast, rump, and _throat_ usually with yellow. _Ad._ [Male]. Throat
bright yellow; breast black; back blue-gray streaked with black;
wing-bars broadly white; outer tail-feathers with white. _Ad._
[Female]. Similar to male, but breast grayish; yellow less bright;
less white in wings. [Male], _Winter_. Like same plumage of No. 655,
but throat, yellowish; more white in tail. [Female], _Winter_.
Similar, but less yellow, throat sometimes without yellow, when like
No. 655, but white on four or five outer tail-feathers instead of on
two or three.
Range.--Western United States; breeding in higher mountains from
southern California and New Mexico north to British Columbia; winters
south into Mexico.
=656a. Black-fronted Warbler= (_D. a. nigrifrons_). Similar to No.
656, but _Ad._ [Male]. with forehead, sides of crown, and ears black;
back black, narrowly margined with bluish gray. _In winter._ Bluish
gray, not brownish above. Ad. [Female] darker, more heavily streaked
with black above. (Ridgw.)
Range.--Mountains of northern Mexico north to southern Arizona.
[Illustration: 657.]
=657. Magnolia Warbler= (_Dendroica maculosa_). L. 5.1. Rump yellow;
seen from below a white band across middle of tail. _Ad._ [Male].
Crown ashy, back black; wing-coverts broadly white; below yellow
streaked with black. _Ad._ [Female]. Duller; fewer black stripes
below; wing-bars separated, narrow. _Yng. and Ad in winter._ Crown and
sides of head brownish ashy, back olive-green; below yellow, sides
occasionally streaked. _Notes._ Song, a loud, clear whistle,
_chee-to_, _chee-to_, _chee-tee-ee_, uttered rapidly and with a
falling inflection, (Langille.)
Range.--Eastern North America, west in migrations, to the Rockies;
breeds from northern New England, northern Michigan (and south along
the Alleghanies to Pennsylvania), north to Quebec and Hudson Bay
region; winters in Central America.
[Illustration: 663.]
=663. Yellow-throated Warbler= (_Dendroica dominica_). L. 5.2. _Ads._
Throat and _line from bill to eye_ yellow; cheeks and forehead black;
back bluish gray; two broad white wing-bars; tail-patches white.
_Notes._ Song, loud, ringing and ventriloquial; suggesting that of
Indigo Bunting but shorter.
Range.--Southeastern United States; breeds from Florida north to
Virginia and winters from Florida south into West Indies.
=663a. Sycamore Warbler= (_D. d. albilora_). Similar to No. 663, but
bill smaller, line from eye to bill white or with but traces of
yellow.
Range.--Mississippi Valley; breeds from Texas north to Kansas,
southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and West Virginia; winters in
Mexico and Central America.
[Illustration: 664.]
=664. Grace Warbler= (_Dendroica graciæ_). L. 5. _Ad._ [Male]. Throat
and line over eye yellow; cheeks gray; above gray, crown and back with
black streaks; wing-bars and tail-patches white. _Ad._ [Female].
Similar, but duller, back sometimes brownish.
Range.--Northwestern Mexico, north to New Mexico, southwestern
Colorado, and Arizona.
=686. Canadian Warbler= (_Wilsonia canadensis_). L. 5.6. No white in
wings or tail. _Ad._ [Male]. A necklace of black spots on breast; back
gray; belly yellow; forehead black. _Ad._ [Female] _and Yng._ [Male].
Black areas smaller. _Yng._ [Female]. Slightly yellowish above;
necklace slightly indicated by dusky spots. _Notes._ Song, _tu-tu_,
_tswe_, _tu_, _tu_, longer or shorter and suggesting in style of
utterance both the Yellow Warbler and Goldfinch. (Jones.) (See page
190.)
Range.--Eastern North America; breeds from Massachusetts, central New
York, and northern Michigan north to Labrador and Manitoba, and south
along the Alleghanies to North Carolina; winters in Central and South
America.
[Illustration: 640.]
=640. Bachman Warbler= (_Helminthophila bachmanii_). L. 4.2. Outer
tail-feathers usually with a white patch more or less distinct. _Ad._
[Male]. Breast-patch and crown-band black; forehead, chin and belly
yellow; back olive-green, hindhead grayish. _Ad._ [Female]. Above
grayish olive-green, head grayer; below dingy grayish with a yellow
tinge. _Notes._ Song, when migrating, resembles that of Parula
Warbler, (Brewster); when breeding, that of Worm-eating Warbler, Junco
or Chippy. (Widmann).
Range.--Southeastern United States, west to Louisiana, north to
Virginia and southern Indiana; rare on Atlantic coast; known to breed
only in Missouri; winters south of United States.
[Illustration: 641.]
=641. Blue-winged Warbler= (_Helminthophila pinus_). L. 4.8. _Ad._
[Male]. Crown and underparts yellow; back olive-green; a black stripe
through eye; two whitish wing-bars; outer tail-feathers with white
patches. _Ad._ [Female]. Similar, less yellow on head, duller below.
_Notes._ Song, a wheezy, _swee-chee_, the first inhaled, the second
exhaled; also, later, _wÄÄ_, _chi-chi-chi-chi_, _chÅ«r_, _chÄÄ-chÅ«r_.
Range.--Eastern United States; breeds north to southern Connecticut
and Minnesota, occasionally wanders to Massachusetts; winters south
of United States.
[Illustration: 670.]
=670. Kirtland Warbler= (_Dendroica kirtlandi_). L. 5.7. _Ad._ [Male].
Above bluish gray streaked with black; below pale yellow, sides
streaked with black; wing-bars grayish; tail-patches white. _Ad._
[Female]. Similar, but browner. _Notes._ Song, said to resemble that
of Maryland Yellow-throat and also that of Yellow-throated Warbler.
Range.--Eastern United States; has been found from April to October
in United States as follows: in Florida, South Carolina, Virginia,
Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Minnesota, Michigan, and Ontario,
in all some twenty odd specimens; found breeding in summer of 1903 in
Oscoda County, Michigan; winters in Bahamas where some fifty specimens
have been taken.
[Illustration: 671.]
=671. Pine Warbler= (_Dendroica vigorsii_). L. 5.5. _Ad._ [Male].
Throat and breast greenish yellow; above bright yellowish green;
wing-bars and tail-patches white. _Ad._ [Female]. Similar, but breast
duller, back browner. _Yng._ [Male]. Similar to Ad. [Male], but
browner. _Yng._ [Female]. Below buffy white, breast slightly or not
all yellowish; back olive-brown. _Notes._ Song, suggesting a Chipping
Sparrow's but more musical.
Range.--Eastern North America; breeds from Gulf States north to New
Brunswick, Minnesota, and Manitoba; winters from Virginia and southern
Illinois to Gulf States.
=696. Siberian Yellow Wagtail= (_Budytes flavus leucostriatus_).
L. 6.5. _Ad._ [Male]. Crown bluish slate, a white line over eye; back
olive-green; below yellow; wing-bars yellowish; outer tail-feathers
largely white. _Ad._ [Female]. Similar, but duller, head and wing-bars
browner. _Notes._ Call, a sharp, _plé-plé-ple_; song, a low, clear,
medley of jingling notes uttered on the wing. (Nelson.)
(See page 191.)
Range.--China, Eastern Siberia, and Bering Sea portion of eastern
Alaska.
[Illustration: 529.]
=529. American Goldfinch= (_Astragalinus tristis_). L. 5.1; W. 2.8.
_Ad._ [Male]. Yellow, cap, wings and tail black; wing-coverts,
secondaries and inner margins of tail-feathers tipped with white.
_Ad._ [Female], Above grayish olive-brown; below buffy whitish; throat
yellowish; wings and tail duller than in male; white tips to tail not
distinct. _Yng._ [Male] _and Ad._ [Male] _in winter_. Similar to
[Female] but wings and tail black; white markings grayer than in
summer. _Notes._ Calls, when perching, _hear me_, _hear me_, _dearie_,
soft and sweet, when flying, _per-chic'-o-ree_; _per-chic'-o-ree_;
song, sweet, rapid, varied and canary-like.
Range.--Eastern North America west to the Rockies; breeds from
Virginia and Missouri north to Labrador and Manitoba; winters from
northern United States to the Gulf States.
=529a. Western Goldfinch= (_A. t. pallidus_). Similar to No. 529, but
larger, W. 3.05. _Ad._ [Male], _in summer_, similar in color to No.
529. [Female] and [Male], _in winter_. Much paler, the white areas
greater in extent.
Range.--Rocky Mountain region from northern Mexico north to British
Columbia.
=529b. California Goldfinch= (_A. t. salicamans_). Similar to No. 529,
but wings and tail shorter and color darker. _Ad._ [Male] _in summer_.
With back always (?) tinged with pale olive-green; in winter darker
than No. 529, but with white areas as large as in 529a. (Ridgw.)
Range.--California, west of the Sierra, south to Lower California,
north to Washington.
[Illustration: 530.]
=530. Arkansas Goldfinch= (_Astragalinus psaltria_). L. 4.1. _Ad._
[Male]. Cap, wings, and tail black, most of primaries and tail white
basally; back and cheeks olive-green, often marked with black; below
yellow _Ad._ [Female]. No black cap; above olive-green; below dull
yellowish; wings and tail brownish black, former with white much
reduced, latter with little or no white. _Yng._ Resemble female.
_Notes._ Call, _se-e-e-ep_; song, sweet, varied and musical.
Range.--Western United States, from the Plains to the Pacific; breeds
from northern Lower California and western Texas, north to Colorado,
southern Idaho, and Oregon; winters from the southern part of its
breeding range southward.
=530b. Mexican Goldfinch= (_A. p. mexicanus_). Resembles No. 530,
but _cheeks and entire upperparts black_; [Female] as in No. 530.
Range.--Mexico, north to southern Texas.
[Illustration: 685.]
=685. Wilson Warbler= (_Wilsonia pusilla_). L. 5. No white in plumage.
_Ad._ [Male]. Crown shining black; forehead, cheeks and underparts
yellow; back olive-green. _Ad._ [Female]. Similar, but crown-patch
often smaller, sometimes absent. _Yng._ [Female]. Crown-patch absent.
_Notes._ Song, _'tsh-'tsk-'tsh-'tshea_. (Nuttall.) Suggests that of
Redstart or Yellow Warbler. (Minot.)
Range.--Eastern North America; breeds from Nova Scotia, northeastern
Maine, and Ontario north to Labrador and Hudson Bay region; winters in
Mexico and Central America; "occasional during migration in Colorado...
and other parts of the Rocky Mountain district" (Ridgw.)
(See page 192.)
=685a. Pileolated Warbler= (_W. p. pileolata_). Similar to No. 685,
but yellow deeper, olive brighter.
Range.--Western North America; breeding throughout the Rocky Mountain
district from western Texas in higher mountains, northward to Alaska,
coast and interior; westward to eastern Oregon and Queen Charlotte
Islands; in migrations over all of western North America and east to
Minnesota; in winter south to Central America. (Ridgw.) (See page
192.)
=685b. Golden Pileolated Warbler= (_W. p. chryseola_). Similar to
No. 685a, but still brighter, richer yellow; forehead nearly orange;
back brighter green.
Range.--Pacific coast; breeds from southern California north to
British Columbia; in migration east to eastern Oregon; south to
Chihuahua and Lower California. (Ridgw.) (See page 192.)
[Illustration: 677.]
=677. Kentucky Warbler= (_Geothlypis formosa_). L. 5.6. No white in
plumage. _Ad._ [Male]. Cheeks and crown black the latter tipped with
ashy; back olive-green; a yellow line over eye; below bright yellow.
_Ad._ [Female]. Similar, but less black in crown and on cheeks; yellow
duller. _Notes._ Song, a _loud musical_ whistle, _turdle_, _turdle_,
_turdle_, suggesting notes of Carolina Wren.
Range.--Eastern United States; breeds from Gulf States north to lower
Hudson Valley, southern Michigan and eastern Nebraska; winters in
Central and northern South America.
[Illustration: 681.]
=681. Maryland Yellow-throat= (_Geothlypis trichas_). L. 5.2; W. 2.1.
_Ad._ [Male]. Forehead and cheeks black, bordered behind by ashy; back
olive-green; throat and breast yellow, belly whitish washed with
yellow, sides brownish. _Ad._ [Female]. No black mask; above dull
olive-green, forehead brownish; throat and breast more or less washed
with yellow, belly whitish, sides brownish. _Yng._ [Male]. Similar to
Ad. [Male], but browner; breast yellow; cheeks and forehead with more
or less half-concealed black. _Notes._ Calls, _pit_, _chit_, or
_chack_; song, variable, often _wichity_, _wichity_, _wichity_.
Range.--"Atlantic Coast district of United States; breeding in
Virginia, District of Columbia, Maryland and southern Pennsylvania
(Carlisle), probably also in Delaware and southern New Jersey and in
upland portions of Carolinas and Georgia; ... south in winter to
Bahamas ..." (Ridgw.)
=681a. Western Yellow-throat= (_G. t. occidentalis_). Similar to
No. 681d, but yellow below richer, border of mask whiter and broader.
Range.--Arid western United States; east to western portions of Great
Plains, north to Montana and eastern Washington (?); west to southern
California: breeding southward to northern Chihuahua and northern
Lower California; southward in winter to western Mexico and Cape St.
Lucas. (Ridgw.)
=681b. Florida Yellow-throat= (_G. t. ignota_). Similar to No. 681d,
but yellow below more extended and deeper, sides browner; black mask
wider; upperparts, especially hindhead, browner.
Range.--South Atlantic and Gulf Coast districts of United States from
southeastern Virginia to Florida and westward along Gulf lowlands to
eastern Texas; winters from at least coast of South Carolina
southward; also in Cuba. (Ridgw.)
=681c. Pacific Yellow-throat= (_G. t. arizela_). Similar to No. 681a,
but bill smaller, wings and tail shorter, color duller, whitish margin
of mask narrower, yellow usually less orange; W. 2.2; T. 2.1. (Ridgw.)
Range.--"Pacific Coast district, from British Columbia southward;
breeding southward to Los Angeles County, California, and eastward to
Fort Klamath, Oregon; during migration to Cape St. Lucas." (Ridgw.)
=681d. Northern Yellow-throat= (_G. t. brachidactyla_). Similar to
No. 681, but averaging larger; W. 2.2. _Ad._ [Male]. More yellow
below, more olive-green above. _Ad._ [Female]. Usually with yellow
below brighter and more extended. (Ridgw.)
Range.--Northeastern United States from northern New Jersey to
Newfoundland; west to northern Ontario and eastern Dakota, and south
through Mississippi Valley to upland districts of the Gulf States and
east central Texas; in winter Bahamas, Mexico, and Central America.
(Ridgw.)
=681e. Salt Marsh Yellow-throat= (_G. t. sinuosa_). Similar to
No. 681c, but much smaller and slightly darker, especially on sides
and flanks; W. 2.1. (Ridgw.)
Range.--Salt Marshes of San Francisco Bay, California.
[Illustration: 682.]
=682. Belding Yellow-throat= (_Geothlypis beldingi_). L. 5.7. _Ad._
[Male]. Black mask crossing head diagonally bordered behind by yellow;
rest of plumage much as in No. 681a. _Ad._ [Female]. Similar to [Male]
of No. 681, but larger.
Range.--Lower California.
[Illustration: 682.1.]
=682.1. Rio Grande Yellow-throat= (_Geothlypis poliocephala_). L. 5.7.
_Ads._ Lores and forehead black, crown gray, back olive-green;
underparts yellow.
Range.--Lower Rio Grande Valley in Texas and southward into Mexico.
[Illustration: 645.]
=645. Nashville Warbler= (_Helminthophila rubricapilla_). L. 4.8.
No wing-bars; no white in tail. _Ad._ [Male]. A chocolate crown-patch;
rest of head and cheeks bluish gray; a white eye-ring; back
olive-green; below bright yellow. _Ad._ [Female]. Similar, but
little or no chocolate in crown; yellow duller. _Yng._ Head
brownish; underparts washed with brownish, particularly on throat
and flanks. _Notes._ Song, _ke-tsee-ke-tsee-ke-tsee-chip-ee_,
_chip-ee-chip-ee-chip_, first half like Black and White Warbler's,
second half like Chipping Sparrow's. (Langille.)
Range.--Eastern North America; breeds from southern New York,
Connecticut, and northern Illinois, north to Labrador and Hudson Bay
region; winters south of United States.
=645a. Calaveras Warbler= (_H. r. gutturalis_). Similar to No. 645,
but rump brighter; underparts richer yellow.
Range.--Western United States; breeds on high mountains, from the
Sierra Nevada to British Columbia, east to eastern Oregon, northern
Idaho; south in migration to Lower California and Mexico; southeast to
Texas. (Ridgw.)
[Illustration: 648.]
=648. Parula Warbler= (_Compsothlypis americana_). L. 4.5; W. 2.3.
_Ad._ [Male]. Above grayish blue, a _yellowish patch in the back_;
breast yellow washed with chestnut and with an indistinct blackish
band; belly, wing-bars, spot near tip of outer tail-feathers white.
_Ad._ [Female]. Paler, breast without black, sometimes no chestnut.
_Notes._ A short, little, guttural, lisping trill.
Range.--Breeds in south Atlantic and Gulf states east of Texas north
near the Atlantic coast to the District of Columbia and Mount Carmel,
Illinois (Brewst.); winters from Gulf States southward.
=648a. Northern Parula Warbler= (_C. a. usneæ_). Similar to No. 648,
but bill averaging slightly smaller, the wing longer, 2.4; black
breast-band averaging wider; the chestnut wash stronger.
Range.--Breeds in New England, New York and west along the northern
tier of states, north into Maritime Provinces and Canada; winters from
Gulf states southward.
=649. Sennett Warbler= (_Compsothlypis nigrilora_). L. 4.5. Similar
to No. 648, but yellow below reaching to belly; breast without black
and with only a slight brownish wash; lores and ear-coverts black.
_Notes._ Song probably resembles that of No. 648.
Range.--Lower Rio Grande Valley south into eastern Mexico.
[Illustration: 746.]
=746. Verdin= (_Auriparus flaviceps_). L. 4.2; W. 2.2; T. 1.9. _Ad._
[Male]. Head and throat yellow; forehead usually with some concealed
orange-brown; lesser wing-coverts reddish chestnut; back brownish
gray; belly whitish. _Ad._ [Male]. Similar, but less yellow.
Range.--Southern border of the United States and northern Mexico from
southern Texas to southern California; north to southwestern Utah and
southern Nevada.
=746a. Baird Verdin= (_A. f. lamprocephalus_). Similar to No. 746, but
tail shorter; wing somewhat shorter; yellow of head brighter; W. 2.0;
T. 1.6. (Oberholser.)
Range.--Lower California.
[Illustration: 650.]
=650. Cape May Warbler= (_Dendroica tigrina_). L. 5.1. _Ad._ [Male].
Ear-coverts and wash on throat chestnut; crown blackish; back
olive-green with black spots; below yellow streaked with black;
wing-coverts broadly white; outer tail-feathers with white. _Ad._
[Female] _and Yng._ [Male]. Duller; crown like back; no chestnut.
_Yng._ [Female]. Above olive-gray; below whitish faintly tinged with
yellow; wing-bars, narrow. _Notes._ Song, a wiry "_a-wit_, _a wit_,
_a-wit_, _a-wit_", repeated. (Butler.)
Range.--Eastern North America; breeds from northern New England,
rarely, and Manitoba north to Hudson Bay region; winters south of
United States.
[Illustration: 652.]
=652. Yellow Warbler= (_Dendroica æstiva_). L. 5.1. Inner vanes of
tail-feathers yellow. _Ad._ [Male]. Crown _yellow_, back bright
yellowish green; below yellow thickly streaked with reddish brown.
_Ad._ [Female]. _and Yng._ [Male]. Duller above, crown like back;
below much paler, few or no streaks. _Yng._ [Female]. Similar to last
but still duller. _Notes._ Song, a rather loud _wee-chee_, _chee_,
_chee_, _cher-wee_, variable in form but recognizable in tone.
Range.--North America, except Alaska, Pacific coast from Vancouver
north, and southwestern United States (western Texas to Arizona).
(Ridgw.); breeds throughout most of its range, and winters in Central
and South America.
=652a. Sonora Yellow Warbler= (_D. æ. sonorana_). Similar to No. 652,
but [Male] much yellower, less green above, the crown and rump bright
yellow; below brighter yellow, reddish brown streaks narrower, fewer
sometimes almost wanting. _Ad._ [Female]. Similar to Ad. [Male] of No.
652, but grayer above and whiter below.
Range--Northern Mexico; breeding north to western Texas and southern
Arizona; winters south of United States.
=652b. Alaskan Yellow Warbler= (_D. æ. rubiginosa_). Similar to
No. 652, but [Male] darker above, the crown of about the same color
as back; [Female] duller.
Range.--Breeds on Pacific coast from Vancouver northward and in
Alaska; winters south of United States.
[Illustration: 653.]
=653. Mangrove Warbler= (_Dendroica bryanti castaneiceps_). L. 5.
Inner vanes of tail-feathers yellow. _Ad._ [Male]. Whole head reddish
chestnut; back olive-green; below yellow lightly streaked with reddish
brown. _Ad._ [Female]. Olive-green above; yellow below.
Range.--Cape Region of Lower California and Pacific coast of Central
America and Mexico.
[Illustration: 672.]
=672. Palm Warbler= (_Dendroica palmarum_). L. 5.2. No white
wing-bars; tail patches white. _Ads._ Crown dark chestnut; line over
eye, throat, and breast yellow; breast and sides with reddish brown
streaks; _belly_ much paler, often _grayish_ washed with yellow; back
olive-brown; rump brighter. _Ad. in Winter and Yng._ No crown-patch;
above grayish olive-brown indistinctly streaked; rump yellowish; below
grayish white washed with yellow and streaked with brownish; _under
tail coverts bright yellow_. _Notes._ Call, a recognizable _chip_;
song, a short, simple trill.
Range--Eastern North America; breeds in interior of British America
west of Hudson Bay; migrates south through Mississippi Valley and
rarely north Atlantic States; winters in Florida and West Indies.
[Illustration: 673.]
=672a. Yellow Palm Warbler= (_D. p. hypochrysea_). Similar to No. 672,
but underparts _entirely_ bright yellow; upperparts yellower. Winter
specimens are whiter below but are still conspicuously yellow.
Range.--Eastern United States; breeds from Nova Scotia northward, east
of Hudson Bay; migrates through Atlantic States and winters in Florida
and west to Louisiana.
=673. * Prairie Warbler= (_Dendroica discolor_). L. 4.7. Wing-bars
yellowish; tail-patches white. _Ad._ [Male]. Above bright olive-green
with reddish chestnut spots in the back; below yellow, sides with
black streaks. _Ad._ [Female]. Similar, but usually duller; chestnut
spots smaller, sometimes absent. _Yng._ Similar to [Female] Ad., but
browner. _Notes._ Song, a high, thin _zee_, _zee_, _zee_, _zee_,
_zee-e_, _zee_, the next to last highest. (See page 196.)
Range.--Eastern United States; breeds from Florida to Massachusetts,
southern Ontario, and southern Michigan; winters from southern Florida
into the West Indies.
[Illustration: Lawrence Warbler.]
=Lawrence Warbler= (_Helminthophila lawrencei_). Resembles No. 641,
but has a black breast patch and a broad black stripe through the eye
as in No. 642. It is believed to be a hybrid between the two. Some
15 specimens are known. Its notes are said to resemble those of both
No. 642 and No. 641.
[Illustration: Brewster Warbler.]
=Brewster Warbler= (_Helminthophila leucobronchialis_). Resembles
No. 642 above, but is white usually tinged with yellow below, this
type being connected with No. 641, by specimens showing more green
above and yellow below. Hybridism and dichromatism are believed to
account for these birds of which somewhat over a hundred specimens
are known, chiefly from the lower Hudson and Connecticut Valleys.
Some songs resemble those of No. 642, others those of 641.
[Illustration: 644.]
=644. Virginia Warbler= (Helminthophila virginiæ). L. 4.5. No white in
wings or tail. _Ad._ [Male]. Above gray, crown-patch chocolate; upper
tail-coverts yellowish; below whitish, breast-patch and under
tail-coverts yellow. _Ad._ [Female]. Similar, but less (sometimes no)
chocolate in crown and yellow on tail-coverts; duller below. _Yng._ No
crown patch; below washed with buff, little or no yellow on breast.
_Notes._ Very musical, with a song of remarkable fullness for so small
a bird. (Aitken.)
Range.--Rocky Mountain region from Nevada and Colorado (rarely
Wyoming) south into Mexico.
[Illustration: 655.]
=655. Myrtle Warbler= (_Dendroica coronata_). L. 5.6. Crown, sides of
breast and rump yellow. _Ad._ [Male]. Above blue-gray streaked with
black; throat white, breast largely black; two white wing-bars; outer
tail-feathers with white. _Ad._ [Female]. Browner above, less black on
breast. [Male] _in winter_. Above brown, back indistinctly streaked
with black; below whitish, breast and sides streaked with black.
_Yng._ [Female]. Similar, but less yellow on crown and sides.
_Notes._ Call, a characteristic _tchip_; song, a trill.
Range.--Eastern North America, west in migrations, to the Rockies;
breeds from northern New England and northern Minnesota north to
Labrador and Alaska; winters from Massachusetts and Kansas south into
West Indies and Central America.
[Illustration: 659.]
=659. Chestnut-sided Warbler= (_Dendroica pensylvanica_). L. 5. _Ad._
[Male]. Sides chestnut, crown yellow; back streaked black and greenish
yellow; cheek-patch and sides of throat black. _Ad._ [Female]. Crown
duller; chestnut and black reduced. _Yng._ Above bright yellow-green,
back with or without black spots; below grayish white, sides sometimes
with traces of chestnut; wing-bars yellowish white. _Notes._ Song,
resembles that of Yellow Warbler. (See page 197.)
Range.--Eastern North America; breeds from northern New Jersey and
Central Illinois north to Newfoundland and Manitoba (and south in the
Alleghanies to South Carolina); winters in Central America.
[Illustration: 604.]
=604. Dickcissel= (_Spiza americana_). L. 6.2. _Ad._ [Male]. Breast,
bend of wing, line over eye and at side of throat yellow; throat-patch
black; lesser wing-coverts reddish chestnut; no white in tail. _Ad._
[Female]. Less yellow and chestnut, no black on throat. _Notes._ Song,
an earnest, but unmusical _dick_, _dick_, _che-che-che_, _che_.
Range.--Middle United States east of the Rockies, west of Alleghanies,
breeds from Alabama and Texas to Minnesota; casual in Atlantic States;
winters in Central and northern South America.
[Illustration: 618.]
=618. Bohemian Waxwing= (_Ampelis garrulus_). L. 8. Crested. _Ads._
Brownish gray; under tail-coverts, forecrown and sides of throat
chestnut-rufous; _throat_ and eye-stripe black; wing-quills and
primary coverts tipped with white or yellow; secondaries usually with
red tips; tail tipped with yellow.
Range.--Northern parts of northern hemisphere; breeds in far north;
winters south irregularly to northern United States, casually to
Pennsylvania, Illinois, Kansas, and northern California.
[Illustration: 619.]
=619. Cedar Waxwing= (_Ampelis cedrorum_). L. 7. Crested. _Ads._
Grayish brown; belly _yellowish_; under tail-coverts white; no white
tips on wing-quills; secondaries with red tips; tail tipped with
yellow and rarely with red tips. _Notes._ A fine, lisping note; a
string of notes usually uttered when taking flight.
Range.--North America: breeds from Virginia and the highlands of South
Carolina, Kansas, and Oregon, north to Labrador and southern Alaska
(?); winters from northern United States to Central America.
[Illustration: 628.]
=628. Yellow-throated Vireo= (_Vireo flavifrons_). L. 5.5. _Ads._
Throat and breast _bright_ yellow, belly white; above _bright_
olive-green, rump gray; two white wing-bars. _Notes._ Call, a scolding
_cack_; song like Red-eye's but richer, more deliberate, _see me_;
_I'm here_; _where are you_? in varying forms; also a mellow trill.
Range.--Eastern United States; breeds from Florida and Texas to
Newfoundland and Manitoba; winters in tropics.
[Illustration: 683.]
=683. Yellow-breasted Chat= (_Icteria virens_). L. 7.5; T. 3.07.
_Ads._ Throat and breast bright yellow; lower belly white; above
olive-green; line over eye and at side of throat white. _Notes._ Call,
a gasping, mewing _keè-yuck_ and _chut_, _chut_; song, of whistles,
caws and chucks, sometimes uttered in flight.
Range.--Eastern United States; breeds from northeastern Mexico (but
not in Florida?) north to South Dakota, southern Minnesota, and
Massachusetts (locally); winters in Mexico and Central America.
=683a. Long-tailed Chat= (_I. v. longicauda_). Similar to No. 683,
but grayer above; tail slightly longer.
Range.--Western United States, east to Plains; breeds from Mexico
north to North Dakota and British Columbia; winters in Mexico.
[Illustration: 497.]
=497. Yellow-headed Blackbird= (_Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus_).
L. 10. _Ad._ [Male]. Black; head and breast orange yellow; outer
wing-coverts white, black tipped. _Ad._ [Female]. Brownish, line over
eye, throat and breast dull yellow, lower breast streaked with white;
ear-coverts rusty. _Notes._ Call, a hoarse _chuck_; song, a variety of
hoarse grunting, guttural whistles; usually uttered with apparent
great effort and bodily contortion. The young utter a rolling,
whistling call.
Range.--Western North America, east to Kansas, northern Illinois, and
northwestern Indiana; west to the Pacific coast ranges; breeds locally
from Texas (?), New Mexico, Arizona, and Southern California north to
the Hudson Bay region, and southern British Columbia; winters from
southwestern Louisiana, and California southward.
[Illustration: 501.]
=501. Meadowlark= (_Sturnella magna_). L. 10.7; W. 4.8. _Ads._ Above
black varied with chestnut and buff; below yellow, a black
breast-crescent; bars on middle tail-feathers _fused_ along shaft,
yellow of throat _not_ spreading on to its sides. _Notes._ Calls, a
nasal note and a rolling twitter; song, a high fife like whistle of
rarely more than eight or ten notes; without gurgles or grace notes.
Range.--Eastern North America west to about Long. 100°, north to New
Brunswick and Minnesota; winters from Massachusetts and Illinois
southward.
=501a. Texas Meadowlark= (_S. m. hoopesi_). Similar to No. 501b, but
yellow not spreading on to sides of the throat. _Notes._ Resemble in
character those of No. 501.
Range.--Not well determined; known from Corpus Christi, Texas, west
along Mexican boundary to southern Arizona and northern Sonora,
Mexico.
=501b. Western Meadowlark= (_S. m. neglecta_). Similar to No. 501,
but bars on middle tail-feathers usually distinct, _not_ confluent
along shaft; yellow of throat spreading on to its sides; general
color paler. _Notes._ Calls, a liquid _chûck_ and a wooden, rolling
_b-r-r-r-r-r-r-r_; song, rich, musical, flute-like with intricate
gurgles and grace notes; wholly unlike that of No. 501.
=501c. Florida Meadowlark= (_S. m. argutula_). Similar to No. 591,
but smaller and darker; W. 4.4.
Range.--Florida and Gulf coast to Louisiana.
[Illustration: 514.]
=514. Evening Grosbeak= (_Hesperiphona vespertina_).
L. 8. _Ad._ [Male]. Brownish yellow; wings, tail, and crown black;
exposed part of tertials white. _Ad._ [Female]. Dingy brownish gray,
more or less tinged with yellowish; throat and belly whitish;
_tail-coverts_ and tail-feathers, on inner web, tipped with white.
_Notes._ Call, loud; song, short, but melodious, resembling that of
Robin or Black-headed Grosbeak. (Cooper.)
Range.--Rocky Mountain region of British America, south, in winter,
to the upper Mississippi Valley, rarely to Ohio and casually through
New York to New England.
=514a. Western Evening Grosbeak= (_H. v. montana_). [Male] not
distinguishable from [Female] of No. 514; [Female] more buffy,
especially below.
Range.--Mountains of western United States from New Mexico north
to British Columbia.
EASTERN HORNED LARKS.
[Illustration: 474.]
=474[A]. Horned Lark= (_Otocoris alpestris_). L. 7.7, W. [Male], 4.3;
[Female], 4.1. Hind toe-nail much the longest. _Ad._ [Male], _winter_.
Throat and line over eye distinctly _yellow_; black feathers over eye
lengthened, forming when raised little tufts; breast-patch, sides of
throat, line over eye and forecrown black, more or less tipped,
especially on head, with yellowish or brownish; back brownish
indistinctly streaked with blackish; nape, wing and tail-coverts
pinkish brown; belly white, lower breast dusky, sides pinkish brown;
tail mostly black, outer margin of outer feathers white. [Male],
_summer_. Yellow areas whiter; black areas more distinct; back pinker.
_Ad._ [Female], _winter_. Similar to [Male], but throat and line over
eye less yellow; black areas smaller; back more distinctly streaked.
[Female], _summer_. More distinctly streaked above. _Notes._ Call, a
_tseep_, _tseep_; song, an unmusical, twittering warble sung during
soaring flight.
[A] Fourteen subspecies of this wide-ranging, variable
form are now recognized in America, north of Mexico. Many of
them are too closely related to be distinguished even by
detailed descriptions. When breeding, they may be identified,
in life, by a knowledge of the area which each form alone
inhabits at this season. But during their migrations, and in
winter, when several forms may be associated, it is usually not
possible to identify them in the field. The reader is referred
to admirable monographs of this group by J. Dwight, Jr. (The
Auk, vii, 1890, pp. 138-150), and H. C. Oberholser (Proc. U. S.
Nat. Mus., xxiv, 1902, pp. 801-884).
Range.--Eastern North America; breeds in Labrador and region east of
Hudson Bay; winters south to South Carolina (chiefly on coast) and in
the Mississippi Valley to Illinois.
[Illustration: 474b.]
=474b. Prairie Horned Lark= (_O. a. praticola_). W. [Male] 4;
[Female], 3.8. Line over eye _white_. Similar to No. 474, but smaller,
line over eye and forehead generally white, the throat often white and
never so yellow as in winter specimens of No. 474.
Range.--Breeds in the Mississippi Valley, south to southern Illinois
and Missouri west to eastern Nebraska and Assiniboia; east through
northwestern Pennsylvania and central New York to western and northern
New England; north to Quebec and Ontario; winters south to South
Carolina, Kentucky, and Texas.
=474d. Texan Horned Lark= (_O. a. giraudi_). W. [Male] 3.9; [Female],
3.6. Similar to No. 474b, but somewhat smaller and paler; throat,
forehead and line over eye yellow; _breast, in males, generally tinged
with yellow_.
Range.--Coast of Texas from Galveston to the Rio Grande.
NORTHERN HORNED LARKS.
=474a. Pallid Horned Lark= (_O. a. arcticola_). W. [Male], 4.4;
[Female], 4.2. Largest of our Horned Larks; _no yellow_ in plumage;
throat, forehead and line over eye white; back brown with grayish
edgings.
Range.--"In summer, Alaska (chiefly in the interior) with the Valley
of the Upper Yukon River; in winter south to Oregon, Utah, and
Montana." (Oberholser.)
=474k. Hoyt Horned Lark= (_O. a. hoyti_). W. [Male], 4.4; [Female],
4.2. Throat tinged with yellow; line over eye white; back darker, pink
areas richer than in 474a. An intermediate form between Nos. 474 and
474a.
Range.--"In summer, British America from the west shore of Hudson Bay
to the Valley of the Mackenzie River, north to the Arctic Coast, south
to Lake Athabasca; in winter, southward to Nevada, Utah, Kansas, and
Michigan, casually to Ohio and New York (Long Island)." (Oberholser.)
WESTERN HORNED LARKS.
[Illustration: 474c.]
=474c. Desert Horned Lark= (_O. a. leucolæma_). W. [Male], 4.1;
[Female], 3.8. Forehead and line over eye very slightly, often not at
all, tinged with yellow; throat yellow; back brown edged with pinkish
gray; resembles No. 474b, but is paler and less distinctly streaked
above.
Range.--"In summer, western United States from central Dakota, western
Kansas and western Nebraska to Idaho and Nevada, north on the eastern
side of the Rocky Mountains to Alberta; in winter, south to Texas,
Chihuahua, Sonora, and southeastern California." (Oberholser.)
=474e. California Horned Lark= (_O. a. actia_). W. [Male], 3.9;
[Female], 3.6. [Male], _summer_. Back of head and nape, spreading on
to sides of breast, pinkish cinnamon; back distinctly streaked with
brownish black; throat always, forehead and line over eye usually
tinged with yellow. [Male], _winter_. Less distinctly streaked above;
cinnamon areas paler and with grayish tips; black areas more or less
tipped with yellowish. [Female], _summer_. Crown and back uniformly
streaked with blackish margined with pinkish gray. [Female], _winter_.
Less distinctly streaked; black areas tipped with whitish.
Range.--Northern Lower California north, west of the Sierra, to Marin
and San Joaquin Counties, California.
[Illustration: 474f.]
=474f. Ruddy Horned Lark= (_O. a. rubea_). Similar to No. 472e, but
nape region, sides of breast, etc., much deeper in color, deeper than
in any other of our Horned Larks; back less distinctly streaked with
blackish and more ruddy in tone, _not_ sharply defined from nape;
yellow areas richer in color.
Range.--Sacramento County, California.
[Illustration: 474g.]
=474g. Streaked Horned Lark= (_O. a. strigata_). Cinnamon areas less
extensive but nearly as deeply colored as in No. 474f; back
_distinctly and widely_ streaked with blackish; forehead, line over
eye, throat and _breast_ washed with yellow.
Range--"In summer, the states of Oregon and Washington west of the
Cascade Mountains; in winter, to eastern Oregon and Washington, south
to northern California." (Oberholser.)
=474h. Scorched Horned Lark= (_O. a. adusta_). W. [Male], 4; [Female],
3.8. Nearest to No. 474l, but the male differs in being nearly uniform
pinkish brown above, back with only a few indistinct brownish streaks;
color deeper, browner, more ruddy.
Range.--"In summer, the central part of extreme southern Arizona; in
winter, northern Sonora and Chihuahua, Mexico." (Oberholser.)
=474i. Dusky Horned Lark= (_O. a. merrilli_). W. [Male], 4; [Female],
3.8. Similar to No. 474b, but somewhat darker above, the line over the
eye usually tinged with yellow.
Range.--"In summer, northwestern United States, and southern British
Columbia, from northeastern California and northwestern Nevada,
northward through Oregon and Washington east of the Cascade Mountains
to British Columbia and extreme northern Idaho; in winter, south to
central California." (Oberholser.)
=474j. Sonoran Horned Lark= (_O. a. pallida_). W. [Male], 3.8;
[Female], 3.6. Nape very pale pinkish; back pale grayish brown edged
with grayish; forehead, line over eye, and throat tinged with
yellowish. Resembles No. 474l, but is still paler.
Range,--"Region immediately adjacent to the head of the Gulf of
California, Mexico." (Oberholser.)
=474l. Montezuma Horned Lark= (_O. a. occidentalis_). W. [Male], 4;
[Female], 3.8. No distinct blackish streaks above; back pale brownish
edged with pinkish gray; throat yellow, forehead and line over eye
tinged with yellow. Similar to No. 474h, but paler, less ruddy above;
differs from No. 474c in being browner and less streaked above.
Range.--"In summer, central New Mexico, west to central Arizona; in
winter, south to northern Sonora and Chihuahua, Mexico and southeast
Texas." (Oberholser.)
=474m. Island Horned Lark= (_O. a. insularis_). Similar to No. 474g,
but slightly darker above, breast usually _without_ a yellow tinge.
Range.--Santa Barbara Islands, California.
[Illustration: 446.]
=446. Couch Kingbird= (_Tyrannus melancholicus couchii_). L. 9.5.
_Ads._ Throat _white_, breast and belly yellow, tail _dark brown_;
crown gray with an orange patch, back grayish green; _Yng._ Similar,
but no crown-patch.
Range.--Guatemala, north in spring as far as Lower Rio Grande, Texas.
[Illustration: 447.]
=447. Arkansas Kingbird= (_Tyrannus verticalis_). L. 9. _Ads._ Throat
_light gray_ spreading over breast to yellow belly; tail _black_,
outer margin of outer feather _wholly white_; above resembling No.
446. _Yng._ With no crown-patch. _Notes._ Squeaky, rattling, rolling
notes; a noisy bird.
Range.--Western United States; breeds east to about Long. 100°, north
to Assiniboia, southern Alberta, southern British Columbia, west to
the Pacific; winters south of United States; to Central America.
[Illustration: 448.]
=448. Cassin Kingbird= (_Tyrannus vociferans_). L. 9. _Ads._ Throat
and breast _dark gray_, belly yellow; tail black, outer web of outer
feather not wholly white; above as in No. 447. _Yng._ With no
crown-patch. _Notes._ Less noisy than No. 447. (Bendire.)
Range.--Western United States, northwestern Mexico and north through
Rockies, from western Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, to southern
Wyoming; in California north to San Benito County; winters south of
United States to Central America.
[Illustration: 449.]
=449. Derby Flycatcher= (_Pitangus derbianus_). L. 11. _Ads._ Back
brown, wings and tail externally rusty; a yellow crown-patch;
forehead, line over eye and across nape white; throat white, below
yellow. _Notes._ _Kiskadee_, repeated. (Richmond.)
Range.--Northern South America; breeds north as far as
Lower Rio Grande, Texas.
[Illustration: 451.]
=451. Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher= (_Myiodynastes luteiventris_). L. 8.
Below sulphur streaked with black; tail largely rusty brown; a yellow
crown-patch; inner wing feathers widely margined with whitish; back
grayish brown streaked with dusky. _Yng._ With no crown-patch.
_Notes._ A screech, like squeaking of a wagon wheel, and a single
note. (Poling.)
Range.--Central America; breeds north as far as southern Arizona.
=452. Crested Flycatcher= (_Myiarchus crinitus_). L. 9. Inner webs of
all but middle tail-feathers rust-brown. _Ads._ Throat and breast
gray, belly _bright_ sulphur; back grayish _olive-green_; greenest
above and yellowest below of our larger _Myiarchi_. _Notes._ Loud,
chuckling, grating whistles.
Range.--Eastern North America; west to the Plains; breeds from Florida
and Texas north to New Brunswick and Manitoba; winters from southern
Florida south to northern South America.
[Illustration: 453.]
=453. Mexican Crested Flycatcher= (_Myiarchus mexicanus_). L. 9.2;
W. 4. Inner webs of all but middle tail-feathers rust brown. _Ads._
Throat and breast gray, belly sulphur, both paler than No. 452; back
grayish brown, with little or no green tinge. _Notes._ Resemble those
of No. 452. (Merrill.)
Range.--Central America; breeds north as far as Lower Rio Grande,
Texas.
[Illustration: 453a.]
=453a. Arizona Crested Flycatcher= (_M. m. magister_). Similar to
No. 453, but larger, L. 9.4, W. 4.2, and averaging slightly paler.
Range.--"Western Mexico; north to southern Arizona and southwest
New Mexico; south in winter to Tehuantepec, Mexico."
[Illustration: 454.]
=454. Ash-throated Flycatcher= (_Myiarchus cinerascens_). L. 8.; W. 4.
Inner webs of all but middle tail-feathers rust-brown, outer pair
dusky at tip of inner web. _Ads._ Throat and breast pale grayish
white, belly white tinged with yellow, above grayish brown, outer web
of outer tail-feather whitish. Palest below of our _Myiarchi_.
_Notes._ A rather resonant but wooden _chūck-pr-r-r-r_.
Range.--Western United States: breeds from western Texas and Lower
California north to Colorado and Oregon; winters in southern Mexico
and Central America.
[Illustration: 454a.]
=454a. Nutting Flycatcher= (_M. c. nuttingi_). Similar to No. 454,
but smaller, W. 3.6, outer margin of outer tail-feather not whitish,
tip of its inner web rusty, not dusky.
Range.--Breeds in southern Arizona and western Mexico; winters in
Central America.
=454b. Lower California Flycatcher= (_M. c. pertinax_). Similar to
No. 454a, but bill larger and stouter; above grayer; below less
yellow. (Brewster.)
Range.--Lower California.
=455a. Olivaceous Flycatcher= (Myiarchus lawrencei olivascens). L. 7.
_Ads._ Inner webs of tail-feathers like outer webs; tail-feathers
margined with rusty; breast and belly as in No. 452; crown brownish,
back grayish olive-green. _Notes._ A short mournful _peeur_.
Range.--Breeds from western Mexico north to southern Arizona;
winters south to southern Mexico; casual in Colorado.
Perching Birds Marked With Chestnut or Reddish Brown
[Illustration: 587.]
=587. Towhee; Chewink= (_Pipilo erythrophthalmus_). L. 8. Three outer
tail-feathers with white; iris red. _Ad._ [Male]. Above and breast
black; sides reddish chestnut; belly white. _Ad._ [Female]. Above and
breast brown. Call, _chewink_ or _towheé_; song, a loud, not over
musical _sweet bird sin-n-ng_, and a tremulous refrain _I'll try_.
Range.--Eastern North America, west to the Plains; breeds from Georgia
and Louisiana north to Maine, Ontario, and Manitoba; winters from
Virginia and southern Illinois to Florida and eastern Texas.
=587a. White-eyed Towhee= (_P. e. alleni_). Similar to No. 587, but
iris whitish; only two outer tail-feathers with white tips, or if on
third, a mere spot. _Notes._ Call, _towhee_, much sharper than that of
No. 587.
Range.--Florida, north along coast to South Carolina.
=588. Arctic Towhee= (_Pipilo maculatus arcticus_). L. 8.7. _Ad._
[Male]. White tip of outer tail-feather more than 1.3 long; scapulars
and back marked with white; back black more or less tipped with
brownish. _Ad._ [Female]. Breast and back grayish brown; fewer white
markings than in [Male]. _Notes._ Call, a Catbird-like _mew_; song,
suggesting that of No. 587, but shorter, more wooden, less musical.
Range.--Great Plains; breeding from southern Montana and western North
Dakota, north to Saskatchewan; winters south and west to Colorado,
Utah, New Mexico, and Texas; east to eastern Kansas.
[Illustration: 588a.]
=588a. Spurred Towhee= (_P. m. megalonyx_). Similar to No. 588, but
blacker above, no brownish edgings on front of back; white markings on
back less numerous; white tip to outer tail-feather _less_ than 1.3
long.
Range.--Rocky Mountain region and west to the Pacific; breeds from
Mexico to British Columbia; migratory in the northern part of range.
=588b. Oregon Towhee= (_P. m. oregonus_). Similar to No. 588a, but
darker; practically no brownish edgings on back of male; sides much
deeper; white markings much reduced, the white tip to outer
tail-feather less than 1. long; sides much deeper.
Range.--Pacific coast from San Francisco to British Columbia; winters
south to southern California.
=588c. San Clemente Towhee= (_P. m. clementæ_). Similar to No. 588a,
but adult male with black duller or grayer; female lighter brown.
(Ridgw.)
Range.--"San Clemente, Santa Cruz, Santa Rosa, and Santa Catalina
Islands," southern California. (Grinnell.)
=288d. San Diego Towhee= (_P. m. atratus_). Similar to No. 588a,
but decidedly darker, with white markings of wings, tail, etc.,
more restricted; rump deep black.
Range.--The southern coast district of southern California, south
into Lower California. (Ridgw.)
=588e. Mountain Towhee= (_P. m. magnirostris_). Similar to No. 588,
but bill much larger, rufous below paler, above browner and tinged
with olive. (Brewster.)
Range.--Cape Region of Lower California.
=589. Guadalupe Towhee= (_Pipilo consobrinus_). Similar to No. 588b
in restriction of white markings, but wings and tail much shorter,
W. 3.1; T. 3.2, hind claw much larger; _Ad._ [Male] sooty rather
than black. (Ridgw.)
Range.--Guadalupe Island, Lower California.
[Illustration: 457.]
=457. Say PhÅbe= (_Sayornis saya_). L. 7.5. _Ads._ Breast rusty gray
changing to rusty on belly; above gray with a brown tinge; tail
_black_. _Notes._ A plaintive _phee-eur_; a short, plaintive,
twittering warble. (Bendire.)
Range.--Western North America, east to about Long. 100°: breeds from
southwestern Texas, southern California, north to the Yukon, Alaska;
winters in Mexico; accidental in Wisconsin, Illinois, and
Massachusetts.
[Illustration: 591.]
=591. Canon Towhee= (_Pipilo fuscus mesoleucus_). L. 9.; W. 3.7.
_Ads._ Crown cinnamon-brown; back brownish gray; throat buffy bordered
by blackish spots; lower belly and under tail-coverts cinnamon.
_Notes._ Calls, a loud, metallic _chip_ repeated four times; in flight
a robin-like _screep-eep-eep_.
Range.--Northern Mexico north to western Texas, Arkansas Valley,
Colorado, and Arizona; resident.
=591a. St. Lucas Towhee= (_P. f. albigula_). W. 3.3. Similar to
No. 591, but smaller; abdomen whiter, without cinnamon.
Range.--Southern Lower California.
=591b. California Towhee= (_P. f. crissalis_) W. 3.9. Similar to
No. 591, but much browner above; throat and under tail-coverts
rusty brown; breast brownish gray; scarcely lighter on the belly.
Range.--California, west of the Sierra.
=591c. Anthony Towhee= (_P. f. senicula_). W. 3.7. Similar to
No. 591b, but smaller and grayer, the abdomen whiter.
Range.--Northern Lower California north to southern California.
[Illustration: 592.]
=592. Abert Towhee= (_Pipilo aberti_). L. 9. _Ads._ No crown-cap;
lores and chin blackish; below pinkish cinnamon; above grayish brown.
_Notes._ Call, a loud, clear, sharp _chirp_. Song, resembling that of
the Spurred Towhee group. (B. B. and R.)
Range.--Southern California, Arizona, and northwestern New Mexico,
north to southern Nevada and southwestern Utah.
[Illustration: 506.]
=506. Orchard Oriole= (_Icterus spurius_) L. 7.3. _Ad._ [Male]. Black:
breast, belly, rump, and lesser wing-coverts chestnut. _Ad._ [Female].
Above olive-green, below greenish-yellow; two white wing-bars. _Yng.
Male._ First fall like [Female]; first spring like [Male], but throat
black. _Notes._ Song much richer and more finished than that of the
orange and black Orioles; the difference is indescribable but easily
recognizable.
Range.--Eastern North America, west to the Plains; breeds from Florida
and Texas north to Massachusetts, Ontario, Michigan, and North Dakota;
winters in Central America and northern South America.
[Illustration: 592.1.]
=592.1. Green-tailed Townee= (_Oreospiza chlorura_). L. 7. _Ads._
Center and sides of breast grayish, middle of throat and abdomen
white; above olive-green more or less washed with grayish; crown
reddish chestnut. _Notes._ Call, a high, thin kitten-like mew; song,
musical, suggesting that of the Thick-billed Sparrow.
Range.--Mountains of western United States, from more eastern Rockies
to Coast Range in California; north to central Montana, Idaho, and
eastern Washington; south, at least in winter, into Mexico. (Ridgw.)
[Illustration: 643.]
=643. Lucy Warbler= (_Helminthophila luciæ_). L. 4.2. _Ad._ [Male].
Above gray; crown-patch and upper tail-coverts chocolate; below
whitish. _Ad._ [Female]. Chocolate areas smaller. _Yng._ No chocolate
in crown; upper tail-coverts cinnamon.
Range.--Northwestern Mexico; breeding north to Arizona and
southwestern Utah.
[Illustration: 660.]
=660. Bay-breasted Warbler= (_Dendroica castanea_). L. 5.6. _Ad._
[Male]. Throat, sides and crown rich chestnut; cheeks black; sides of
neck buff; back black and gray; wing-bars and tail-spots white. _Ad._
[Female]. Less chestnut; cheeks grayish. _Yng. and Ad. in Winter._
Above olive-green streaked with black; below _buffy_ white, the flanks
usually with a trace of chestnut. _Notes._ Song, a very soft warble,
_tse-chee_, repeated five times, too liquid to admit of exact
spelling. (Langille.)
Range.--Eastern North America; breeds from northern New England and
northern Michigan north to Labrador and Hudson Bay region; winters in
Central and northern South America.
[Illustration: 596.]
=596. Black-headed Grosbeak= (_Zamelodia melanocephala_). L. 8.1.
_Ad._ [Male]. Black; neck-ring, rump, back-streaks and underparts
bright cinnamon; center of belly and under wing-coverts yellow; patch
in wing, wing-bars and tips of inner vanes of outer tail-feathers
white. In winter tipped with brown above and on breast below with
black spots. _Ad._ [Female]. Under wing-coverts yellow as in [Male];
above as in No. 595; below less streaked, breast buff. _Yng._ [Male].
Like [Female] but breast deeper buff; few streaks below; sides of
crown blacker. _Notes._ Call and song like those of the Rose-breasted
Grosbeak, but the latter more fluent.
Range.--Western United States, east to the Plains; breeds from Mexico
north to Dakota and British Columbia; winters south of United States
into Mexico.
[Illustration: 761.]
_761. American Robin_ (_Merula migratoria_). L. 10; W. 4.9; T. 3.8.
Outer tail-feathers with white tips. _Ad._ [Male]. Breast and belly
rich rust-brown; above dark slaty, head and spots in back black. _Ad._
[Female]. Similar but paler below, little or no black above. _Winter._
Underparts margined with whitish; black above more or less concealed
by ashy. _Notes._ Calls, varied and characteristic; song, a loud,
hearty, _cheer-up cheerily_, _cheerily_, _cheerily_, repeated and
varied.
Range.--Eastern North America, west to the Rockies, northwest to
Alaska; breeding south to Virginia and, in the mountains, Georgia;
winters from northern States southward.
=761a. Western Robin= (_M. m. propinqua_). Similar to No. 761, but
no white tips to tail-feathers. _Ad._ [Male]. Without black spots
in back.
Range.--Western United States, from the eastern base of the Rocky
Mountains west to the Pacific; breeds from the southern end of the
Mexican tableland north to British Columbia; winters from Oregon and
southern Colorado southward.
=761b. Southern Robin= (_M. m. achrustera_). Similar to No. 761, but
smaller and in general much lighter and duller; W. 4.7; T. 3.5.
(Batchelder.)
Range.--Carolinas and Georgia, except mountainous districts, lowlands
of Virginia.
[Illustration: 762.]
=762. St. Lucas Robin= (_Merula confinis_). Resembling No. 761 in plan
of coloration but everywhere much paler; breast and belly buff; no
black in head.
Range.--Cape Region of Lower California.
[Illustration: 763.]
=763. Varied Thrush= (_Ixoreus nævius_). L. 10; W. 4.7. _Ad._ [Male].
Below rust-brown, belly whiter, a broad black breast-band; above
slaty, line behind eye and bars in wing rusty; outer tail-feathers
with white tips. In winter washed with brownish above; breast band
with rusty. _Ad._ [Female]. Paler below, breast-band faintly
indicated; above washed with brownish. _Notes._ Song, a weird vibrant,
long-drawn whistle repeated on different notes.
Range.--Pacific coast from higher mountains of northern California
north to Alaska; south in winter along the coast.
=763a. Pale Varied Thrush= (_I. n. meruloides_). Similar to No. 763,
but wing longer, 5.1; [Female] paler and grayer. (Grinnell.)
Range.--- Interior of British Columbia north to north Alaska; south in
winter, through interior, to southern California.
Perching Birds Chiefly Dull Colored
[Illustration: 456.]
=456. PhÅbe= (_Sayornis phÅbe_). L. 7. _Ads._ Above grayish olive,
crown _blackish_; outer web of outer tail-feather _whitish_; below
white tinged with yellow, sides of breast grayish; bill _black_.
_Yng._ Greener above, yellower below. _Notes._ _Pewit-phÅbe_,
_pewit-phÅbe_; call, _pee_, _pee_, rarely a flight song.
Range.--Eastern North America, west to the Rockies; breeds from South
Carolina and western Texas north to Newfoundland and Manitoba; winters
from North Carolina and northern Texas south to Cuba and Mexico.
[Illustration: 459.]
=459. Olive-sided Flycatcher= (_Nuttalornis borealis_). L. 7.4. _Ads._
Throat and middle of belly white with a yellow tinge; sides and most
of breast grayish; above brownish gray with an olive-tinge, crown
darker, the feathers lengthened. _Notes._ _Hip-hip_ or _quilp-quilp_,
less often a loud, emphatic _whip-péw-hip_. (Head.)
Range.--North America; breeds from Massachusetts (rarely), northern
New York, and Minnesota, northward to Alaska, south through the
Rockies and Coast Range to Mexico; winters in Central and South
America.
[Illustration: 460.]
=460. Coues Flycatcher= (_Contopus pertinax pallidiventris_). L. 7.7.
_Ads._ Below nearly uniform gray, belly paler; above gray, crown
slightly darker, the feathers lengthened. _Notes._ A plaintive musical
four or five noted whistle with regular intervals and a singularly
human-like quality.
Range.--Western Mexico, north to central Arizona; winters south
of United States.
[Illustration: 461.]
=461. Wood Pewee= (_Contopus virens_). L. 6.5; W. 3.3. _Ads._ Above
dark olive, crown blacker; below dusky grayish, throat whitish, belly
yellowish; lower mandible yellowish. _Yng._ Greener above, yellower
below. _Notes._ _Pee-a-wee_, _peer_ and _pee_; all plaintive and
musical.
Range.--Eastern North America, west to about Long. 100°; breeds from
Florida and Texas north to New Brunswick and Manitoba; winters in
Central America.
[Illustration: 462.]
=462. Western Wood Pewee= (_Contopus richardsonii_). Similar to
No. 461, but above with usually no greenish tinge; below less
yellow; under mandible brownish. _Notes._ A nasal, rather
emphatic _pÄÄ-a_.
Range.--Western United States, east to about Long. 100°; breeds from
western Texas and Lower California north to Manitoba, Alberta, and
British Columbia; winters in Mexico and Central America.
=462a. Large-billed Wood Pewee= (_C. r. peninsulæ_). Similar to
No. 462, but smaller, W. 3.3; the bill larger, length from
nostril .42, width at nostril, .31; upperparts grayer. (Brewster.)
Range.--Cape Region of Lower California.
[Illustration: 466.]
=466. Traill Flycatcher= (_Empidonax traillii_). Similar to No. 466a,
but upperparts browner with little if any real greenish tinge; bill
averaging narrower.
Range.--Western United States; breeds from western Texas and southern
California north to Alaska and Great Slave Lake, east to Kansas,
Missouri and Illinois; winters in the tropics.
=466a. Alder Flycatcher= (_E. t. alnorum_). L. 6.1; W. 2.8. _Ads._
Lower mandible horn color; below white, breast grayish; breast and
sides faintly washed with yellow; above _brownish_ olive-green;
wing-bars usually buffy. Like No. 467, but larger. _Notes._ _PÄp_ of
alarm, and an explosive _ÄÄ-zÄÄ-e-ûp_ with stress on the rasping
_zÄÄ_. (Dwight.)
Range.--Eastern United States, west to Michigan; breeds from northern
New Jersey (locally) north to New Brunswick; winters in the tropics.
[Illustration: 467.]
=467. Least Flycatcher= (_Empidonax minimus_). 5.4; W. 2.5. _Ads._
Similar in color to No. 466a, but smaller, tail slightly forked.
_Yng._ Wing-bars more buffy. _Notes._ a vigorous _chebec_, _chebec_;
rarely a flight song, "_chebec_, _tooral-ooral_."
Range.--Eastern North America, west to western Texas and eastern
Colorado; breeds from Pennsylvania (North Carolina, in the Alleghanies)
north to New Brunswick and Great Slave Lake; winters in Central
America.
[Illustration: 468.]
=468. Hammond Flycatcher= (_Empidonax hammondi_). L. 5.5. _Ads._ Bill
smallest of our _Empidonaces, lower_ mandible _brown_; _throat_ and
breast grayish, breast and belly slightly washed with sulphur; above
grayish with a slight olive tint. Like No. 467, but bill smaller,
lower mandible browner, throat grayer.
Range.--Western North America; breeds from the mountains of New Mexico,
Arizona, and southern Athabasca, east to Colorado, winters in Mexico.
[Illustration: 469.]
=469. Wright Flycatcher= (_Empidonax wrightii_). Similar to No. 468,
but underparts whiter; bill much longer, longest and narrowest of our
_Empidonaces_; lower mandible whitish at base, brownish at tip; outer
web of outer tail-feather white.
Range.--Western United States, east to eastern slope of Rockies; breeds
from mountains of New Mexico, Arizona, and southern California north
to Montana and southern Oregon; winters in Mexico.
[Illustration: 469.1.]
=469.1. Gray Flycatcher= (_Empidonax griseus_). L. 6. _Ads._ Above
gray with a _slight_ brownish tinge; below grayish white with little
or no yellow. Grayest of our _Empidonaces_.
Range.--Western Mexico and Lower California north to southern
California and Arizona, (Fort Verde.)
[Illustration: 463.]
=463. Yellow-bellied Flycatcher= (_Empidonax flaviventris_). L. 5.6.
_Ads._ Below distinctly greenish yellow, belly brighter; above
_bright_ olive-green. _Yng._ Brighter, wing-bars buffy. _Notes._
_PsÄ-Äk'_ in one harsh explosive syllable; a plaintive
_chÅ«-Ä-é-p_. (Dwight.)
Range.--Eastern North America, west to the Plains; breeds from
northern New England (south in Alleghanies to Pennsylvania), northern
New York, and Minnesota, north to Labrador and Northwest Territories;
winters in Central America.
[Illustration: 464.]
=464. Western Flycatcher= (_Empidonax difficilis_). Similar to
No. 463, but brighter yellow below, breast washed with brownish
instead of greenish; above yellower. _Notes._ A soft low note, and
a wailing _pee-eu_. (C. A. Allen.)
Range.--Western North America; east to about Long. 100°; breeds from
Mexican border north to southern Alaska; winters in Mexico and Central
America.
=464.1. St. Lucas Flycatcher= (_Empidonax cineritius_). Most like
No. 464, but much duller; scarcely a tinge of green above; no decided
yellow below except on throat and abdomen. (Brewster.)
Range.--Lower California, from Cape Region north, rarely, to southern
California.
=464.2. Santa Barbara Flycatcher= (_Empidonax insulicola_). Similar to
No. 464, but above darker and browner; below paler. (Oberholser.)
Range.--Santa Barbara Islands, California.
[Illustration: 465.]
=465. Green-crested Flycatcher= (Empidonax virescens). L. 5.7. _Ads._
Throat and belly _white_, breast grayish; sides, breast and sometimes
belly, washed with sulphur; back olive-green, a tint lighter than in
No. 463; lower mandible _whitish_; wing-bars buffy. _Notes._ _Spee_ or
_peet_ and _pee-e-yuk'_.
Range.--Eastern United States, west to the Plains; breeds from the
Gulf States to southern Connecticut and Manitoba; winters in Central
America.
[Illustration: 646.]
=646. Orange-crowned Warbler= (_Helminthophila celata_). L. 5.
No white in wings or tail. _Ad._ [Male]. Above olive-green more or
less washed with grayish; a concealed, reddish orange crown-patch;
below dusky yellowish green. _Ad._ [Female]. Similar, but grayer,
crown-patch smaller or wanting. _Yng._ Like [Female], but no
crown-patch. _Notes._ Song full and strong, not very high pitched and
ending abruptly on a rising scale, _chee_, _chee_, _chee_, _chw'_,
_chw'_. (Jones.)
Range.--Interior of North America, breeding from Manitoba and
mountains of New Mexico to Alaska; winters in Gulf States and
southward; rare in Atlantic states north of South Carolina.
=646a. Lutescent Warbler= (_H. c. lutescens_). Similar to No. 646,
but greener above, yellower below; underparts distinctly yellow with
a dusky wash.
Range.--Pacific coast; breeding in mountains from southern California
to Kenai Peninsula, Alaska; winters from California south into Mexico;
east to Colorado in migrations.
=646b. Dusky Warbler= (_H. c. sordida_). Similar to No. 646a, but
decidedly darker, bill and feet larger, wing shorter and tail longer.
(Ridgw.)
Range.--Breeds in Santa Barbara Islands, California; later occurs
on adjoining mainland.
[Illustration: 472.]
=472. Beardless Flycatcher= (_Ornithion imberbe_). L. 4.5; W. 2.10.
_Ads._ Bill small, narrow, upper mandible decidedly curved; above gray
tinged with olive, below grayish white with a yellow tinge.
Range.--Central America; north in spring to Lower Rio Grande Texas.
=472a. Ridgway Flycatcher= (_O. i. ridgwayi_). Similar to No. 472,
but larger, W. 2.2; grayer, little if any sulphur tinge on underparts.
(Ridgw.) _Notes._ Call, a shrill _piér_ repeated; song, from the
tree-tops, _yoop_, _yoop_, _yoopeédeedledee_. (Stephens.)
Range.--Southern border of Mexican tableland north in spring to
southern Arizona.
[Illustration: 616.]
=616. Bank Swallow= (_Riparia riparia_). L. 5.2. _Ads._ Below white,
a broad grayish brown band across the breast; above grayish brown.
_Yng._ Similar, but brown areas more or less tipped with rusty.
Range.--Northern hemisphere: in America, breeds from northern New
Jersey, Kansas, and southern California, north to Labrador, and
Alaska; winters south to Brazil.
[Illustration: 617.]
=617. Rough-winged Swallow= (_Stelgidopteryx serripennis_). L. 5.5.
_Ads._ Above grayish brown; below grayish white, whiter on belly;
barbs on outer vane of outer primary recurved. _Yng._ Plumage more or
less tipped with rusty.
Range.--United States; breeds from Mexico north to Massachusetts,
Manitoba, and British Columbia; winters in Central America.
[Illustration: 623.]
=623. Black-whiskered Vireo= (_Vireo calidris barbatulus_). L. 6.
_Ads._ _A dusky streak on either side of the throat_, crown slate
_without_ a black border; back olive-green; below white, lower belly,
under tail-and under wing-coverts yellowish; no wing-bars. _Notes._
Resemble those of No. 624 but song more emphatic and hesitating.
Range.--Breeds in Cuba, Bahamas and southern Florida; winters in
Central America.
[Illustration: 624.]
=624. Red-eyed Vireo= (_Vireo olivaceus_). L. 6.2. _Ads._ Crown slate,
on either side a narrow black border; a white line over eye; above
olive-green; below white; under wing-coverts sulphur; no wing-bars; no
dusky streaks on throat. _Notes._ Call, a petulant, complaining
_whang_; song, a broken, rambling recitative "you see it--you know
it--do you hear me?--do you believe it?"
Range.--Eastern United States, west to the Rockies and British
Columbia, east of Cascades; breeds from the Gulf States to Labrador,
Manitoba, and British Columbia; winters in Central and South America.
[Illustration: 632.]
=632. Hutton Vireo= (_Vireo huttoni_). L. 4.6. _Ads._ Underparts dusky
grayish white with a faint yellow tinge; above dusky olive-green;
lores and eye-ring grayish, not conspicuous; two white wing-bars.
_Notes._ A piping whistle like the call of a young bird, _peé-yer_,
_peé-yer_; and a hoarse whistle _oh-my'_, _oh-my'_, _oh-my'_.
Range.--California, west of Sierra; resident.
=632a. Stephen Vireo= (_V. h. stephensi_). Similar to No. 622, but
grayer above, whiter below, wing-bars broader.
Range.--Mexican boundary from western Texas to southeastern
California.
=632c. Anthony Vireo= (_V. h. obscurus_). Similar to No. 632,
but darker, and averaging slightly smaller.
Range.--"Pacific coast, from Oregon to southern British Columbia;
south in winter to California." (A.O.U.)
[Illustration: 647.]
=647. Tennessee Warbler= (_Helminthophila peregrina_). L. 5.
No wing-bars; little or no white in tail. _Ad._ [Male]. Head bluish
gray; a whitish line over eye; back olive-green; below grayish white.
_Ad._ [Female]. Gray of head with more or less olive-green; stripe
over eye and underparts yellower. _Yng._ Similar to [Female], but
entirely bright olive-green above; yellower below. _Notes._ Song
scarcely distinguishable from that of the Chipping Sparrow, but first
two syllables _twip_ instead of _chip_. (Jones.)
Range:--Eastern North America, west in migrations to the Rocky
Mountains; breeds from New Brunswick, northern New England, northern
New York, and Minnesota, north to Quebec and Alaska; winters in
Central and northern South America.
[Illustration: 747.]
=747. Kennicott Willow Warbler= (_Phyllopseustes borealis_). L. 5.
_Ads._ Above olive-green; below white tinged with yellowish, sides
greenish; a whitish line over eye; a narrow whitish wing-bar; no white
in tail. _Notes._ Call, a monotonous _dzit_; song, resembles trill of
Redpoll. (Seebohm.)
Range.--Asia, east to western Alaska.
[Illustration: 625.]
=625. Yellow-green Vireo= (_Vireo flavoviridis_). L. 6.4. Resembling
No. 624, but greener above, the sides heavily washed with greenish
yellow.
Range.--Northern South America, north to the Lower Rio Grande.
[Illustration: 626.]
_626. Philadelphia Vireo_ (_Vireo philadelphicus_). L. 4.8. _Ads._ No
distinct crown-cap; above olive-green; below yellowish; a whitish line
over eye; no wing-bars. _Notes._ Resemble those of the Red-eyed Vireo
but generally higher pitched; also a very abrupt, double-syllabled
utterance with a rising inflection which comes in with the song at
irregular intervals. (Brewster.)
Range.--Eastern North America; breeds from Maine, New Hampshire and
Manitoba northward; winters in the tropics.
[Illustration: 627.]
=627. Warbling Vireo= (_Vireo gilvus_). L. 5.4; W. 2.8. _Ads._ Above
grayish olive-green, crown slightly grayer but without distinct cap as
in No. 624; a whitish line over eye but no black line above it; below
white, the sides washed with yellowish; no wing-bars. _Notes._ Call,
resembles that of the Red-eyed Vireo; song; a rich, firm, unbroken
warble with an alto undertone.
Range.--Eastern United States, west to the Plains; breeds from Gulf
States north to Hudson Bay region; winters in Mexico.
=627a. Western Warbling Vireo= (_V. g. swainsoni_). Similar to
No. 627, but averaging smaller, W. 2.6, the bill more slender;
upperparts, particularly crown, grayer.
Range.--Western United States, east to the Rockies; breeds from
Mexico to British Columbia; winters in Mexico.
[Illustration: 631.]
=631. White-eyed Vireo= (_Vireo noveboracensis_). L. 5; W. 2.4.;
B. .4. _Ads._ Eye-ring and lores yellow; iris white; above
olive-green more or less washed with grayish; Below white, sides
yellowish; two whitish wing-bars. _Notes._ Calls, varied, often harsh
and scolding; song, an emphatic whistle _who are you, eh_? or _what's
that you say?_, and a low medley often including imitations of the notes
of other birds.
Range.--Eastern United States; breeds from Florida and Texas north to
New Hampshire and Minnesota; winters from Florida to Central America.
=631a. Key West Vireo= (_V. n. maynardi_). Similar to No. 631, but
bill heavier, sides averaging less yellow.
Range.--Southern Florida; resident.
=621b. Bermuda White-eyed Vireo= (_V. n. bermudianus_). Similar to
No. 631, but wing shorter, 2.30; no yellow on sides. (Bangs and
Bradlee.)
Range.--Resident in Bermudas.
=631c. Small White-eyed Vireo= (_V. n. micrus_). Smaller than No. 631,
W. 2.2; averaging grayer above; sides with less yellow.
Range.--Northeastern Mexico, north to southeastern Texas.
[Illustration: 629.]
=629. Blue-headed Vireo= (_Vireo solitarius_). L. 5.5; W. 2.9; B. .4.
_Ads._ Lores and eye-ring white; crown and cheeks bluish slate-color;
back olive-green; below white, sides washed with greenish yellow; two
whitish wing-bars. _Notes._ Resembling in form those of Red-eyed or
Yellow-throated Vireos but more varied, sometimes a continuous warble;
a musical chatter, like that of the Yellow-throated and a trilled
whistle. (Torrey.)
Range.--Eastern North America; breeds from Connecticut (and south
along Alleghanies) north to New Brunswick and Manitoba; winters from
Florida to Central America.
=629a. Cassin Vireo= (_V. s. cassini_). Like No. 629, but back washed
with the color of the head; white on breast and throat less pure.
Range.--"Breeds from British Columbia and Idaho south along Pacific
coast region and Nevada to Lower California; migrates to Arizona, New
Mexico; and northern Mexico." (Bailey.)
=629b. Plumbeous Vireo= (_V. s. plumbeus_). Above wholly
plumbeous-gray with scarcely, if any, olive tinge, below white, the
sides gray _faintly_ tinged with greenish yellow; size of No. 629c.
Range.--Rocky Mountain region; breeds from northern Mexico north to
southwestern Dakota and Wyoming; winters south to southern Mexico.
=629c. Mountain Solitary Vireo= (_V. s. alticola_). Larger than
No. 629, W. 3.15, B. .46; head darker, its color extending over most
of the back.
Range.--Breeds in Alleghanies from North Carolina to Georgia; winters
in Florida.
=629d. St. Lucas Solitary Vireo= (_V. s. lucasanus_). Smaller than
No. 629a, but bill longer and stouter, sides and flanks much yellower;
young without brownish below, and resembling young of No. 629.
Range.--Cape Region of Lower California.
[Illustration: 633.]
=633. Bell Vireo= (_Vireo bellii_). L. 5. Above olive-green, crown
grayer; lores and eye-ring white; two inconspicuous whitish wing-bars;
below white, sides tinged with yellowish. Most like No. 627, but back
greener, no white line _back_ of eye. _Notes._ Resemble those of the
White-eyed Vireo, but less harsh, song less emphatic. (Goss.)
Range.--Interior states from Illinois west to Plains; breeds from
Texas to Minnesota; winters in Mexico.
=633.1. Least Vireo= (_Vireo pusillus_). L. 4.8. _Ads._ Above gray,
slightly tinged with greenish toward rump; below white, sides with
little if any greenish tinge; one inconspicuous whitish wing-bar;
lores and eye-ring inconspicuously grayish.
Range.--Northwestern Mexico and northern Lower California; breeds
north to Arizona and middle California.
[Illustration: 634.]
=634. Gray Vireo= (_Vireo vicinior_). L. 5.5. Above slaty gray; below
white tinged with grayish; one inconspicuous wing-bar; lores and
eye-ring gray; bill short. _Notes._ Song may be compared with the
finest efforts of the Blue-headed Vireo with the added charm and
mellowness of the song of the Yellow-throated Vireo. (Henshaw.)
Range.--Northern Mexico, north to western Texas, southeastern
California, and southern Nevada; winters in Mexico.
[Illustration: 749.]
=749. Ruby-crowned Kinglet= (_Regulus calendula_). L. 4.4. A
conspicuous whitish eye-ring. _Ad._ [Male]. A more or less concealed
crown-patch; back olive-green; underparts soiled whitish more or less
tinged with buffy; two white wing-bars. _Ad._ [Female] and _Yng._
(Here figured.) Similar, but no crown-patch.
Range.--North America; breeds from the northern border of the United
States northward, and south in the Rocky Mountains to Arizona, and in
the Sierra Nevada of California; winters from south Carolina and
Oregon southward to Central America.
=749a. Sitkan Kinglet= (_R. c. grinnelli_). Similar to No. 749,
but more olive-green above; more buffy below.
Range.--Pacific coast; breeds in southern Alaska; winters southward
to California.
[Illustration: 470a.]
=470a. Buff-breasted Flycatcher= (_Empidonax fulvifrons pygmæus_).
L. 4.7. _Ads._ Below rusty buff; above grayish brown.
Range.--Western Mexico; north in spring to southwestern New Mexico
and Arizona.
[Illustration: 586.]
=586. Texas Sparrow= (_Arremonops rufivirgata_). L. 6.5. _Ads._ Above
olive-green, sides of crown brownish, its center grayish; below
whitish; bend of wing _yellow_. _Notes._ Song resembles that of the
Chipping Sparrow but with somewhat of the sweetness and modulation of
that of the Yellow Warbler.
Range.--Eastern Mexico, north to southeastern Texas; casually to
Louisiana.
[Illustration: 638.]
=638. Swainson Warbler= (_Helinaia swainsonii_). L. 5. Bill large;
no white in wings or tail. _Ads._ Crown brown, back, wings and tail
olive-brown; a whitish line over eye; below whitish tinged with
yellow. _Notes._ Song, "a series of clear, ringing whistles, the first
four uttered rather slowly and in the same key, the remaining five or
six given more rapidly and in an evenly descending scale." (Brewster.)
Range.--Southeastern United States; breeds from Gulf States north to
southeastern Virginia, southern Indiana and southern Missouri.
[Illustration: 639.]
=639. Worm-eating Warbler= (_Helmitheros vermivorus_). L. 5.5. Bill
large; no white in wings or tail _Ads._ Crown black with three buff
stripes; back, wings and tail olive-green; below buffy white deeper on
breast. _Yng._ Buff everywhere richer. _Notes._ Call, a sharp _chip_;
song, resembles that of Chipping Sparrow but is somewhat weaker.
Range.--Eastern United States; breeds north to southern Connecticut,
southern Illinois and southern Wisconsin; winters south of United
States.
[Illustration: 742.]
=742. Pallid Wren-tit= (_Chamæa fasciata_). L. 6.7; T. 5.4. Outer
tail-feathers shortest. _Ads._ Above brownish gray; below buffy
obscurely streaked with gray. _Notes._ Song wooden and unmusical,
beginning deliberately and ending in a roll, _chick_: _chick_;
_chick_, _chick-chick-chick-chick-chick-chick_.
Range.--"Interior of California, including the western slope of the
Sierra Nevada, from the head of the Sacramento Valley south to
northern Lower California." (A.O.U.)
[Illustration: 742a.]
=742a. Coast Wren-tit= (_C. f. phæa_). Similar to No. 742, but much
browner above and deeper more pink below; sides as dark as back.
Range.--Pacific Coast from Monterey County, California, north to
southern Oregon.
=707. Curve-billed Thrasher= (_Toxostoma curvirostre_). L. 11.2.
_Ads._ Above brownish gray; below mottled with brownish gray; lower
belly buffy; four outer pairs of tail-feathers _tipped with white_;
two narrow white wing-bars. _Notes._ Call, a sharp, _whit-whit_; one
of the most silent of song Thrushes. (Merrill.) Song, remarkably
melodious and attractive. (Couch.)
Range.--Mexican boundary region of Texas and New Mexico south over
the Mexico tableland to Oaxaca.
[Illustration: 707a.]
=707a. Palmer Thrasher= (_T. c. palmeri_). Similar to No. 707, but
wing-bars less evident; outer tail-feathers _without_ white tips.
Range.--"Southern Arizona, from about fifty miles northwest of
Phoenix, south to Guaymas, Sonora." (A.O.U.)
[Illustration: 708.]
=708. Bendire Thrasher= (_Toxostoma bendirei_). L. 10.2. _Ads._ Above
brownish ashy; below soiled whitish washed with buffy and lightly
spotted with dusky, chiefly on breast; outer tail-feathers narrowly
tipped with whitish. _Notes._ Call, _tirup_, _tirup_, _tirup_.
(Brown.)
Range.--Desert regions of southern Arizona south into Sonora, Mexico;
west rarely to southeastern California; resident except at extreme
northern limit of its range.
[Illustration: 709.]
=709. St. Lucas Thrasher= (_Toxostoma cinereum_). L. 10. _Ads._ Above
grayish brown; below white with numerous wedge-shaped spots; outer
tail-feathers tipped with white.
Range.--Southern Lower California.
=709a. Mearns Thrasher= (_T. c. mearnsi_). Differs from No. 709 in
much darker upperparts, more rusty flanks and crissum, much larger and
more intensely black spots on lower parts and less curved bill.
(Anthony.)
Range.--Northern Lower California, south to about Lat. 30° 30'.
[Illustration: 710.]
=710. Californian Thrasher= (_Toxostoma redivivum_). L. 12. _Ads._
Above grayish brown; belly distinctly buff; breast grayish, throat
whitish, washed with buff; no white in wings or tail. _Notes._ Song
suggesting both that of the Brown Thrasher and the Mockingbird.
Range.--California west of the Sierra Nevada, north of about Lat. 35°;
south into Lower California.
=710a. Pasadena Thrasher= (_T. r. pasadenense_). Similar to No. 710,
but grayer above; belly paler, throat whiter.
Range.--Southern California.
[Illustration: 711.]
=711. Leconte Thrasher= (_Toxostoma lecontei_). L. 10.5. _Ads._ Above
brownish ashy, below creamy white, under tail-coverts buff. _Notes._
Call, a sharply reiterated _whit_ or _quit_; song, remarkable for its
loud rich tone; can be heard distinctly for more than a mile.
(Mearns.) Call, low and musical, _hueé-e_, whistled through the teeth.
(Stephens.)
Range.--"Desert region of southern California, Nevada, and extreme
southwestern Utah, from Benton, Cal. (Lat. 38°), southeastward through
Arizona to Sonora (Lat. 30°). Local in San Joaquin Valley." (A.O.U.)
=711a. Desert Thrasher= (_T. l. arenicola_). Differing from No. 711 in
having upperparts darker and grayer, tail blacker, and breast gray.
(Anthony.)
Range.--Northern Lower California. (Rosalia Bay.)
[Illustration: 712.]
=712. Crissal Thrasher= (_Toxostoma crissalis_). L. 12. _Ads._ Under
tail-coverts reddish _chestnut_; upperparts brownish gray; underparts
ashy, chin white. _Notes._ No loud call note; song of remarkable scope
and sweetness. (Mearns.)
Range.--"Southwestern United States, from western Texas to the
Colorado Desert, California, and northern Lower California; north to
Charleston Mountains, Nevada, and St. George, Utah." (A.O.U.)
Perching Birds Chiefly Brown or Streaked
[Illustration: 538.]
[Illustration: 538. Winter.]
=538. Chestnut-collared Longspur= (_Calcarius ornatus_). L. 6.2. Hind
toe-nail as long as toe; all but middle pair of tail-feathers (and
sometimes these) with white, _two_ outer pairs white _to the tip_.
_Ad._ [Male]. Throat and cheeks buff; breast and belly black; crown
black, nape chestnut; lesser wing-coverts black tipped with white.
_Ad._ [Female]. Above grayish brown streaked with black; below pale
buff. [Male] _in winter_. Like summer [Male] but black and chestnut
areas more or less tipped with grayish brown. _Notes._ Song, short,
shrill, but very sweet, often uttered on the wing. (Allen.)
Range.--Great Plains: breeds from central Kansas and eastern Colorado
north to the Saskatchewan; winters from eastern Colorado and Nebraska
south into Mexico.
[Illustration: 539.]
[Illustration: 539. Winter.]
=539. McCown Longspur= (_Rhynchophanes mccownii_). L. 6. Hind toe-nail
as long as toe; all but middle pair of tail-feathers with white, the
outer _one_ white _to the tip_, the others tipped with black; lesser
wing-coverts _chestnut_. _Ad._ [Male]. Throat and belly white, breast
and crown black; back grayish brown streaked with black. _Ad._
[Female]. Below white washed with brownish; above grayish brown
streaked with black. [Male] _in winter_. Like [Female] but a partly
concealed black breast patch; tail with more white. _Notes._ Call, a
_chip_ at each stroke of the wing; song, of soft, twittering, pleasing
notes. (Goss.) "A twittering, hurried chant, suggestive of the Horned
Lark's performance, but terminating in decreasing power." (Silloway.)
Range.--Great Plains; breeds from northwestern Kansas to Montana and
the Saskatchewan; winters from eastern Colorado and Kansas south into
Mexico.
[Illustration: 552.]
=552. Lark Sparrow= (_Chondestes grammacus_). L. 6.2; _Ads._ Sides of
the crown and ear-coverts chestnut; all but middle tail-feathers
tipped with white; back broadly streaked with black; sides of throat
and spot on breast black. _Notes._ Song, loud and musical suggesting
both a Song Sparrow's and a Canary's.
Range.--Interior of North America from the Plains east to Illinois;
casually east of the Alleghanies; breeds from Texas to Manitoba;
winters south into Mexico.
=552a. Western Lark Sparrow= (_C. g. strigatus_). Similar to No. 552,
but streaks on upperparts generally narrower.
Range.--Western United States from the Plains to Pacific; breeds from
Mexico to Manitoba and British Columbia; winters south to Central
America.
[Illustration: 536.]
[Illustration: 536. Winter.]
=536. Lapland Longspur= (_Calcarius lapponicus_). L. 6.2 Hind toe-nail
as long as or longer than toe; two outer tail-feathers with white _at
the end_. _Ad._ [Male], _summer_. Nape chestnut; crown, cheeks, throat
and upper-breast black; back black margined with _rusty brown_. _Ad._
[Female], summer. Crown and back black margined with rusty; nape
brighter; below whitish; breast feathers dusky at base; sides streaked
with blackish. _Winter_, [Male]. Black areas and nape veiled with
whitish or buffy tips; [Female], like [Female] in summer.
Range.--Breeds in northern Europe and northeast North America south to
northern Labrador; in America, winters south, irregularly, to South
Carolina, Kentucky, Kansas, Texas; west to Manitoba. (Ridgw.)
=536a. Alaskan Longspur= (_C. l. alascensis_). Similar to No. 536, but
margins to back feathers much paler, brownish gray or buffy; nape in
winter more buffy. _Notes._ Song, uttered on wing as bird with
up-stretched wings floats downward, sweet, liquid, tinkling, of same
general character as that of Bobolink, but shorter, less powerful.
(Nelson.)
Range.--Breeds in Alaska, Aleutian and Pribilof Islands east to Fort
Simpson; winters south to eastern Oregon, Colorado, and western
Kansas. (Ridgw.)
[Illustration: 553.]
=553. Harris Sparrow= (_Zonotrichia querula_). L. 7.5. _Ads. summer._
Throat and crown black; nape chestnut, cheeks brownish; two white
wing-bars. _Ads. winter._ Throat mottled with white, crown tipped with
grayish. _Notes._ A queer, chuckling note; song of pleasing, plaintive
whistling notes in musical tone like those of No. 558, but delivered
in a different song. (Cooke.)
Range.--Interior of North America; from Illinois west to the Dakotas;
in summer, the region west of Hudson Bay (exact breeding range
unknown); south in winter to Texas (and Mexico?); accidental in
British Columbia, Oregon and California.
[Illustration: 565.]
=565. Black-chinned Sparrow= (_Spizella atrogularis_). L. 5.7. Below
slaty gray. _Ad._ [Male]. Throat and front of face _black_; rest of
head and underparts slaty gray, the belly whitish; back reddish brown
narrowly streaked with black. _Ad._ [Female], Throat with little or no
black; crown washed with brownish. _Yng._ Similar to Ad. [Female], but
never with black on throat; crown more heavily washed with brownish.
_Notes._ Song said to resemble that of No. 563. (Bailey.)
Range.--Mexico and southwestern United States; breeds from southern
New Mexico and southern California southward; winters south into
Mexico and southern Lower California.
[Illustration: English Sparrow.]
=--English Sparrow= (_Passer domesticus_). L. 6.3. _Ad._ [Male].
Throat and upper breast black; crown _slate_; band behind eye and on
nape chestnut. _Ad._ [Female]. Below dirty white; crown and rump dingy
grayish brown; back streaked with black and rusty brown; a buffy
stripe behind eye. _Yng._ [Male]. Similar to Ad. but throat and head
tipped with brownish gray. _Notes._ Harsh and discordant.
Range.--Introduced into America from Europe in 1851 and later dates;
now distributed throughout the greater part of the United States.
[Illustration: 537.]
[Illustration: 537 Winter.]
=537. Smith Longspur= (_Calcarius pictus_). L. 6.6. Hind toe-nail as
long as toe; _two_ outer tail-feathers mostly white. _Ad._ [Male].
_Throat_, _breast_ and belly buff; nape buff; crown and cheeks black;
ear-coverts and line over eye white; lesser wing-coverts black
margined with white. _Ad._ [Female]. Above brownish black margined
with buff and rusty brown; below pale buff, sides of breast and flanks
streaked with brown. [Male] _in winter_. Like [Female] but lesser
wing-coverts black and white. _Notes._ Call constantly _chirrup_ as
they fly. (Goss.)
Range.--Middle western United States; breeds in northern British.
America; winters south over the plains and prairies to Texas; east to
Illinois.
[Illustration: 579.]
=579. Rufous-winged Sparrow= (_Aimophila carpalis_). L. 5.7. Outer
tail-feathers shortest. _Ads._ Lesser wing-coverts bright reddish
brown; crown reddish brown or chestnut margined with gray; back
streaked with black and margined with _grayish brown_; below whitish;
_two_ black streaks from either side of the base of the lower
mandible. _Notes._ Call, _zib_, _zib_, _zib_. (Bendire.)
Range.--Southern Arizona, north to Tucson and Camp Lowell and south
through Sonora to northern Sinaloa. (Ridgw.)
[Illustration: 580.]
=580. Rufous-crowned Sparrow= (_Aimophila ruficeps_). L. 4; T. 2.6. No
yellow at bend of wing; outer tail-feathers shortest. _Ads._ Above
reddish brown margined with buffy gray (no black streaks); below,
including middle of belly, brownish; sides of throat with black lines.
_Notes._ Song, very sweet, resembling that of Lazuli Bunting, but
distinguishable. (C. A. Allen.)
Range.--Northern Lower California north to Marin County and Sacramento
Valley, California; local.
[Illustration: 580a.]
=580a. Scott Sparrow= (_A. r. scottii_). Similar to No. 580, but above
brighter reddish brown, the margins to the feathers grayer, the
underparts much paler, the breast grayish, the throat and middle of
the belly whitish.
Range.--Northwestern portion of Mexican plateau and adjacent portions
of Arizona, New Mexico and western Texas (El Paso Co.) (Ridgw.)
=580b. Rook Sparrow= (_A. r. eremÅca_). L. 6. _Ads._ Crown reddish
chestnut, back olive-brown margined with gray. Similar to No. 580a,
but back of a different color from crown, the grayish margins wider.
Range.--Limestone Hill districts of middle Texas, from Kinney and
Maverick counties on the Rio Grande, northeastward to Cook County and
westward at least to Tom Green County; south in winter to Mexico.
(Ridgw.)
=580c. Laguna Sparrow= (_A. r. sororia_). Similar to No. 580a, but
bill somewhat stouter, reddish brown above averaging brighter and
wider.
Range.--Southern Lower California.
[Illustration: 540.]
=540. Vesper Sparrow= (_PoÅcetes gramineus_). L. 6.1. Outer
tail-feather mostly white; hind toe-nail not longer than toe; _lesser_
wing-coverts reddish brown. _Ads._ Above grayish brown streaked with
black and chestnut; below whitish, breast and sides streaked with
black and chestnut. _Notes._ Call, _chip_. Song, loud and musical
_Look-look_, _see-see_, _me-me-me-me-me-me-sing_, followed by a
confusion of notes.
Range.--Eastern North America; breeds from Virginia, Illinois and
Missouri north to New Brunswick and Manitoba; winters from Virginia
and southern Illinois to the Gulf of Mexico.
=540a. Western Vesper Sparrow= (_P. g. confinis_). Similar to No. 540,
but paler, less black above; bill somewhat more slender.
Range.--Western United States from the Plains to the Sierra; breeds
from Arizona and New Mexico north to the Saskatchewan and British
Columbia; winters south into Mexico.
=540b. Oregon Vesper Sparrow= (_P. g. affinis_). Similar to No. 540a,
but smaller, W. 3; bill still more slender; plumage browner, more
buffy; browner even than No. 540, the underparts, including belly,
suffused with buff.
Range.--Pacific coast; breeds in western Oregon (and north?); winters
southwest of the Sierra to San Diego, California.
[Illustration: 575.]
=575. Pine-woods Sparrow= (_Peucæa æstivalis_). L. 5.8; T. 2.5. Bend
of the wing yellow; outer tail-feathers much shorter than the middle
pair. _Ads._ Above reddish chestnut, _head_ and back streaked with
black and margined with gray; below whitish, breast faintly tinged
with buff. _Notes._ Song, exceedingly sweet and plaintive.
Range.--Florida and southern Georgia; winters in southern Florida.
=575a. Bachman Sparrow= (_T. æ. bachmanii_). Similar to No. 575, but
above brighter reddish chestnut, black speaks fewer and usually
confined to back; breast and sides deeper buff.
Range.--Lower Mississippi Valley, west to southern Indiana and
southern Illinois, east to Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina,
and Virginia (rarely); west to Concho County, Texas; winters south in
Atlantic States, to southern Florida.
[Illustration: 576.]
=576. Botteri Sparrow= (_Peucæa botteri_). L. 6; T. 2.8. Bend of wing
yellow; outer tail-feathers shortest. _Ads_. Above bright rusty brown
(about the color of a Field Sparrow), head and back streaked with
black and margined with gray; below buffy, the center of the belly
whitish. _Notes._ Song, begins with a faint trill followed by a
succession of disjointed syllables, _cha_, _cheewee_, _wee_, _wee_,
_wee_, _wir_. (Henshaw.)
Range.--Entire plateau of Mexico north to Lower Rio Grande Valley in
Texas and southern Arizona. (Ridgw.)
[Illustration: 578.]
=578. Cassin Sparrow= (_Peucæa cassini_). L. 6; T. 2.8. Bend of wing
yellow, outer tail-feathers shortest, their ends with distinct
_grayish_ patches. _Ads._ Above _gray_ streaked with _dull_ reddish
brown and _spotted_ or _barred_ with black; below grayish white.
_Notes._ Song, lengthened and pleasing, usually sung on wing.
Range.--Texas and southern Kansas west to southern Nevada and Arizona
south into Mexico.
[Illustration: 559.]
=559. Tree Sparrow= (_Spizella monticola_). L. 6.3. A black spot in
the center of the breast. _Ads._ Cap reddish brown, no black on head;
two white wing-bars, back streaked black, reddish brown and buff;
below whitish; upper mandible black, lower yellowish. _Notes._ Call,
a musical, tinkling, _too-lay-it_, song, "a loud, clear and powerful
chant."
Range.--Eastern North America, west to the Plains; breeds in Labrador
and region west of Hudson Bay; winters south to South Carolina,
Tennessee and Indian Territory.
=559a. Western Tree Sparrow= (_S. m. ochracea_). Similar to No. 559,
but back with much less reddish brown, largely brownish buff streaked
with black.
Range.--Western North America east to the Plains; breeds in Alaska;
winters south to Mexican border.
[Illustration: 560.]
=560. Chipping Sparrow= (_Spizella socialis_). L. 5.3. _Ads._ Crown
reddish chestnut, forehead _blackish_; a black line from eye to nape;
back streaked with black, _reddish brown_ and grayish brown; wing-bars
not conspicuous; below grayish white; bill largely black. _Yng._ Crown
like back; cheeks brownish. _Notes._ Call, _chip_; song, an unmusical
_chippy_, _chippy_, _chippy_, repeated.
Range.--Eastern North America, west to the Plains; breeds from Gulf
States to Newfoundland and Great Slave Lake; winters in the Gulf
States and Mexico.
=560a. Western Chipping Sparrow= (_S. s. arizonæ_). Similar to
No. 560, but much grayer above; back with little or no reddish brown.
Range.--Western North America; breeds from Mexican border states to
Alaska; winters from California and Mexican border states to southern
Mexico.
[Illustration: 563.]
=563. Field Sparrow= (_Spizella pusilla_). L. 5.6; T. 2.5. Bill
entirely pinkish brown. _Ads._ Crown _reddish_ brown, a gray line over
the eye, a reddish brown stripe from behind it to nape; back _reddish_
brown streaked with black; below whitish, _no_ streaks, breast washed
with buffy; two white wing-bars. _Notes._ Call, _chip_; song, a
musical whistle, _cher-weé_, _cher-weé-cher-weé_, _cheé-o_,
_dee-e-e-e-e_; with many variations but usually ending in a trill.
Range.--Eastern North America; breeds from South Carolina, Alabama and
central Texas north to Quebec and Manitoba; winters from Virginia and
Illinois to Gulf States.
=563a. Western Field Sparrow= (_S. p. arenacea_). Similar to No. 563,
but much paler above; crown largely grayish; back with but little
reddish brown, breast with little or no buff; tail longer, 2.7.
Range.--Great Plains of interior; breeds from Nebraska and South
Dakota to eastern Montana; winters south to northeastern Mexico;
casually to Louisiana. (Ridgw.)
[Illustration: 584.]
=584. Swamp Sparrow= (_Melospiza georgiana_). L. 5.8. _Ads._ Forehead
black with a gray median line; crown bright chestnut; below grayish
white; _sides brownish_, nape gray; back grayish, black, and buff.
Yng. Crown streaked chestnut and black; gray line over the eye
sometimes tinged with yellow; other parts deeper in color. _Notes._
Call, a sharp _cheep_; song, a simple _tweet-tweet-tweet_, etc., all
on one note.
Range.--Eastern North America, west to the Plains; breeds from New
Jersey, Pennsylvania, and northern Illinois, north to Labrador and
Manitoba; winters from Kansas, southern Illinois, and Massachusetts to
Gulf States.
=542. Sandwich Sparrow= (_Passerculus sandwichensis_). L. 5.7; W. 2.9
A yellow line from the bill passing _over_ the eye; bend of wing
usually tinged with yellow. _Ads._ Above streaked with black, chestnut
and brownish gray; below white, (buffy in fall and winter), breast and
sides streaked with black, the streaks narrowly margined with
chestnut. _Notes._ Doubtless resemble those of No. 542a.
Range.--Northwest coast; breeds in western Alaska; winters south
to northern California.
[Illustration: 542a.]
=542a. Savannah Sparrow= (_P. s. savanna_). Similar to No. 542, but
smaller, W. 2.7; yellow line over eye shorter and less pronounced;
bill smaller. _Notes._ Call a sharp _tsip_, frequently uttered; song,
a weak, musical little trill following a grasshopperlike introduction,
_tsip_, _tsip_, _tsip_, _sÄ-e-e-s'r-r-r_. (Dwight.)
Range.--Eastern North America, west to the Plains; breeds from
northern New Jersey (rarely), eastern Long Island, and Missouri north
to Labrador and western Hudson Bay; winters from Virginia and southern
Illinois to Cuba and Mexico.
=542b. Western Savannah Sparrow= (_P. s. alaudinus_). Similar to No.
542a, but bill more slender, color averaging paler, the yellow line
not passing _over_ the eye, less evident before it and often wholly
wanting.
Range.--Western North America from the Plains west to the Sierra;
breeds from Mexico City north to Alaska; winters from southern
California southward.
=542c. Bryant Marsh Sparrow= (_P. s. bryanti_). Similar to No. 542b,
but smaller, W. 2.6; colors much darker, streaks below heavier; yellow
over eye more pronounced. A darker bird even than No. 542a, but with
the bill slender as in No. 542b.
Range.--Resident in salt marshes about San Francisco and Monterey Bay;
winters south to San Pedro (Grinnell); casually to Mexico City.
(Ridgw.)
[Illustration: 543.]
=543. Belding Sparrow= (_Passerculus beldingi_). L. 5; W. 2.5.
_Ads._ Similar to No. 542c, but somewhat smaller, above darker and
with a slight olive caste; underparts more heavily streaked.
Range.--Pacific Coast; salt marshes from Todos Santos Island, Lower
California, north to Santa Barbara.
[Illustration: 544.]
=544. Large-billed Sparrow= (_Passerculus rostratus_). L. 5.5; W. 2.6.
Bill stout, upper mandible _curved_; no yellow before eye or on bend
of wing. _Ads._ Above grayish brown marked with brown and blackish but
_without_ well-defined streaks; below white, breast and sides streaked
with grayish brown, the streaked feathers centrally blackish.
Range.--Coast of southern California north to Santa Barbara; winters
south to Cape St. Lucas and northwestern Mexico.
=544a. St. Lucas Sparrow= (_P. r. guttatus_). Similar to No. 544, but
smaller, W. 2.5; bill more slender; upperparts brownish gray with an
_olive tint_ and streaked with darker; similar to No. 544c, but
smaller, upperparts more olive and more widely, but less sharply
streaked.
Range.--Cape Region of Lower California in winter; breeding range
unknown.
=544b. Lagoon Sparrow= (_P. r. halophilus_). Similar to No. 544a, but
larger, W. 2.7, and darker; streaks on chest with little if any brown
edging; differing from No. 543, in more uniform coloration of
upperparts, in less narrow and decidedly blackish streaks on chest,
etc.
Range.--Salt marshes, Abreojos Point, Lower California.
=544c. San Benito Sparrow= (_P. r. sanctorum_). Similar to No. 544,
but bill more slender; above grayer (brownish _gray_) distinctly
streaked with blackish, the streaks margined with brown; below
streaked with _black_, the streaks narrowly margined with brownish.
Range.--Breeds on San Benito Island, Lower California; in winter to
Cape Region of Lower California.
[Illustration: 545.]
=545. Baird Sparrow= (_Coturniculus bairdii_). L. 5.7. Tail-feathers
pointed, middle ones shortest. _Ads._ Crown yellowish brown, streaked
with black; back black margined with chestnut and grayish; below
whitish, breast and sides streaked with black. In fall and winter,
colors richer. _Notes._ Song, "_trick-e-trik-eeeee-chiky-le-roit_,
with a peculiar tinkling utterance."
Range.--Great Plains; breeds from western Minnesota, North Dakota,
eastern Montana, north to Manitoba and Assiniboia; winters south to
Texas, Arizona and New Mexico. (Ridgw.)
[Illustration: 546.]
=546. Grasshopper Sparrow= (_Coturniculus savannarum passerinus_).
L. 5.3. Line before eye orange; bend of wing yellow; tail-feathers
pointed. _Ads._ Crown black with a buffy central stripe; nape
_chestnut and gray_; back black, chestnut buff and gray; below buffy,
unstreaked, belly whiter. _Notes._ Call, a sharp _chip_; song, a weak,
insect-like _pit-tuck_, _zee-e-e-e-e-e-e_.
Range.--Eastern North America, west to the Plains; breeds from the
Gulf States to Massachusetts, Vermont, and Minnesota; winters from
North Carolina to Cuba and Mexico.
=546a. Western Grasshopper Sparrow= (_C. s. bimaculatus_). Similar to
No. 546, but paler below and with less black and more chestnut above.
Range.--Western United States from the Plains to the Pacific; breeds
from Mexican border states north to Montana and British Columbia;
winters south into Mexico.
=546b. Florida Grasshopper Sparrow= (_C. s. floridanus_). Similar to
No. 546, but smaller, W. 3; darker above, paler below; sides of crown
almost solid black; chestnut above largely replaced by black.
Range.--Kissimmee Prairies, Florida.
[Illustration: 547.]
=547. Henslow Sparrow= (_Ammodramus henslowii_). L. 5. Bend of wing
yellow; tail-feathers pointed, the outer ones much the shortest.
_Ads._ Crown and nape pale _olive-green_ streaked with blackish; back
bright reddish brown streaked with black and gray; below white; breast
and sides washed with buff and streaked with black. _Notes._ Call,
_tee-wick_; song, _sis-r-r-rit-srit-srit_. (Jouy.)
Range.--Eastern North America; breeds locally, from Virginia and
Missouri, north to New Hampshire, southern Ontario and Minnesota;
winters from Virginia and Missouri south to the Gulf of Mexico.
=547a. Western Henslow Sparrow= (_A. h. occidentalis_). Similar to
No. 547, but paler, in summer little or no buff below.
Range.--Central western states; breeding, so far as known, in South
Dakota; in winter south to Texas.
[Illustration: 548.]
=548. Leconte Sparrow= (_Ammodramus lecontei_), L. 5. No yellow on
wing; tail-feathers pointed, outer ones much the shortest. _Ads._
Broad line over eye, throat, breast and sides rich buff; nape chestnut
and gray; back black narrowly margined with chestnut and, at the
sides, broadly with buff; sides streaked; breast rarely with a few
streaks. _Notes._ Call, a thin, sharp, _tweet_, and a long-drawn
_bizz_; song, a tiny, husky, _reese_, _reese_. (Seton.)
Range.--"Great Plains and more western prairies; breeding from Dakota,
Minnesota, etc., to Manitoba, migrating south and east, in winter,
through Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, etc., to South Carolina and Gulf
States from Florida to Texas." (Ridgw.)
[Illustration: 533.]
=533. Pine Finch= (_Spinus pinus_). L. 5. Bill sharply pointed; a tuft
of bristly feathers over the nostril; tail slightly forked. _Ads._
Base of tail, of inner wing-feathers and outer edges of primaries
yellow; above brownish; below whitish streaked with black. _Notes._
Call, a metallic note; song, tinkling and musical often sung on the
wing as with No. 529, the song of which it resembles.
Range.--North America; breeds from northern boundary states to Alaska;
in the Alleghanies south to North Carolina; and in the Rockies and
Sierra south to Mexico; winters from the northern states to Gulf
states and Lower California.
[Illustration: 541.]
=541. Ipswich Sparrow= (_Passerculus princeps_). L. 6.2. _Ads._ Above
_pale_ brownish gray streaked with brown; below white, breast and
sides streaked with _brownish_; spot above eye and bend of wing often
pale sulphur yellow. _Notes._ Resemble those of No. 542a.
Range.--Breeds on Sable Island, Nova Scotia, winters south along
coast, regularly to Virginia, rarely to Georgia.
[Illustration: 549.]
=549. Sharp-tailed Sparrow= (_Ammodramus caudacutus_). L. 5.8.
Tail-feathers sharply pointed, outer ones shortest. _Ads._ Below
white, breast and sides washed with buff and distinctly _streaked with
black_; nape olive-green; cheeks orange-buff; ear-coverts gray; crown
olive-chocolate with a blue-gray central line; back olive, buff, black
and gray. _Notes._ Call, _chip_; song, an unmusical, short, "husky,"
"gasping" effort, uttered from a perch or on fluttering wings above
the reeds.
Range.--Atlantic coast; breeds from South Carolina to New Hampshire;
winters from North Carolina to Florida.
[Illustration: 549.1.]
=549.1. Nelson Sparrow= (_Ammodramus nelsoni_). L. 5.5. Tail-feathers
pointed, outer ones shortest. _Ads._ Similar to No. 549, but breast
and sides much deeper buff, the former with few or no streaks;
upperparts more richly colored. _Notes._ Resemble those of No. 549.
Range.--Breeds in interior from northern Illinois to Manitoba and
South Dakota; migrates east to New York and winters south to South
Carolina and Texas; accidental in California.
=549.1a. Acadian Sharp-tailed Sparrow= (_A. n. subvirgatus_). Similar
to No. 549.1, but breast and sides paler, the former lightly but
distinctly streaked with grayish; upperparts less richly colored.
Range.--Atlantic coast; breeds in marshes of eastern Maine, southern
New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island; winters south to South
Carolina.
[Illustration: 550.]
=550. Seaside Sparrow= (_Ammodramus maritimus_). L. 6: W. 2.5.
Tail-feathers pointed, the outer ones shortest; spot before eye and
bend of wing yellow. _Ads._ Above olive-green and gray (no black);
below white, breast and sides grayish and, in first plumage, streaked
with buff. _Notes._ Similar in character to those of No. 549.
Range.--Atlantic coast; breeds in salt marshes from North Carolina to
southern Massachusetts; winters from Virginia to Georgia.
=550a. Scott Seaside Sparrow= (_A. m. peninsulæ_). Similar to No. 550,
but smaller, W. 2.3; above black margined by olive-brown and
olive-green; below whitish, breast and sides heavily streaked with
blackish.
Range.--Atlantic coast from northeastern Florida to South Carolina;
Gulf Coast of Florida.
=550b. Texas Seaside Sparrow= (_A. m. sennetti_). Similar to No. 550,
but greener above; the feathers of head and back usually, those of
nape always, with black centres.
Range.--Coast of Texas.
[Illustration: 550c.]
=550c. Fisher Seaside Sparrow= (_A. m. fisheri_). Similar to No. 550a,
but darker above, the breast and sides heavily washed with rusty buff
and streaked with black.
Range.--Coast of Louisiana, south in winter, at least as far as Corpus
Christi, Texas; casual on Gulf coast of Florida.
=550d. Macgillivray Seaside Sparrow= (_A. m. macgillivraii_). Similar
to No. 550c, but above grayer, less black, breast and flanks but
faintly washed with buff and streaked with dusky grayish. Grayer above
than No. 550a, and less heavily streaked below.
Range.--Local on coast of South Carolina.
[Illustration: 551.]
=551. Dusky Seaside Sparrow= (_Ammodramus nigrescens_). L. 5.9. Above
_black_ lightly margined with gray; below white heavily streaked with
black; spot before eye and bend of wing yellow. _Notes._ Similar in
character to those of No. 550.
Range.--Marshes at head of Indian River, Florida, from Banana River
to Haulover Canal.
[Illustration: 583.]
=583. Lincoln Sparrow= (_Melospiza lincolnii_). L. 5.7. _Ads._ _A
broad buff band across the breast_; center of crown with a _gray_
stripe, its sides striped chestnut and black; back grayish brown
streaked with black and chestnut, below streaked with black except on
middle of white belly. _Notes._ Call, a sharp _chirp_; song, suggests
bubbling, guttural notes of House Wren combined with rippling music of
the Purple Finch. (Dwight.) (See, also, Brewster, Bird-Lore II, P.
111.)
Range.--North America; breeds from northern New York, northern
Illinois and higher parts of Rockies and Sierra north to Alaska;
winters from southern Illinois and southern California into Mexico;
rare east of Alleghanies.
=583a. Forbush Sparrow= (_M. l. striata_). Similar to No. 583, but
browner above, crown-stripe and line over eye more brown than gray.
Range.--Pacific coast from British Columbia to California; breeding
range unknown.
[Illustration: 554.]
=554. White-crowned Sparrow= (_Zonotrichia leucophrys_). L. 6.9. No
yellow before eye. _Ads._ White stripe over eye _not_ reaching to
bill; lores black; breast gray, throat but little paler; back _gray_
streaked with brown, rump browner, _Yng._ Black crown-stripes replaced
by chestnut, the white ones by buff; back much browner, no gray.
_Notes._ Call, a sharp _chip_; song, a plaintive, musical whistle
usually of five or six notes, the first two longest.
Range.--North America; breeds from northern New England and (in the
higher Rockies and Sierra) New Mexico, Arizona, and California north
to Labrador and Hudson Bay region; winters from southern United States
into Mexico.
[Illustration: 554a.]
=554a. Intermediate Sparrow= (_Z. l. gambeli_). Similar to No. 544,
but the lores wholly gray or whitish, the white line over the eye
reaching the bill.
Range.--Western North America; breeds from Montana and eastern Oregon
northeast of Coast Mountains, to lower Mackenzie and northern Alaska:
winters from southern United States into Mexico; casual in migrations
east to Mississippi River States.
=554b. Nuttall Sparrow= (_Z. l. nuttalli_). Similar to No. 554a, but
smaller, L. 6.5, margins to feathers of back browner, underparts
browner, bend of wing yellow.
Range.--"Pacific coast district, breeding from Monterey, California,
to Mt. Simpson, British Columbia, south in winter to San Pedro Martir
Mountains, Lower California." (Ridgw.)
[Illustration: 557.]
=557. Golden-crowned Sparrow= (_Zonotrichia coronata_). L. 7.2. _Ad._
[Male]. Center of crown yellow, its sides black; below grayish white,
sides brownish; back brown streaked with black; two white wing-bars;
bend of wing yellow. _Ad._ [Female]. Crown like back; its front tinged
with yellow; breast washed with brownish.
Range.--Pacific coast; breeds in Alaska; winters from Oregon south to
northern Lower California.
[Illustration: 558.]
=558. White-throated Sparrow= (_Zonotrichia albicollis_). L. 6.7.
A yellow mark before the eye and on bend of wing. _Ads._ Crown black,
a narrow white stripe through its center and bounded by white _behind_
the eye; throat white sharply defined from _gray_ breast; back
_reddish brown_ streaked with black. _Yng._ Less yellow before eye,
crown browner, its stripe gray; throat grayer, sometimes like breast.
_Notes._ Call, a low _tseep_, and sharp _chink_; song, a musical,
clearly whistled _sow-wheat peverly_, _peverly_, _peverly_; or
_peabody_, _peabody_, _peabody_.
Range.--Eastern North America, west to the Plains, casually to the
Pacific; breeds from Massachusetts (locally); northern New York,
northern Michigan, and eastern Montana, north to Labrador and West
Hudson Bay region; winters from Massachusetts (rarely) and Illinois
south to the Gulf.
[Illustration: 561.]
=561. Clay-colored Sparrow= (_Spizella pallida_). L. 5.4. No reddish
brown. _Ads._ Above grayish _brown_ streaked with black; sides of
crown _largely-black_, a grayish line through its center; sides of
head _brownish_; below white. _Notes._ Song, three notes, and a slight
trill. (Coues.)
Range.--Interior of North America, from Illinois to the Rockies;
breeds from eastern Colorado, and northwestern Illinois north to
Saskatchewan; winters from southern Texas into Mexico.
[Illustration: 562.]
=562. Brewer Sparrow= (_Spizella breweri_). L. 5.4. _No_ reddish
brown. _Ads._ Back and _crown_ brownish _gray_, uniformly and narrowly
streaked with black; sides of head _grayish_; below white. Grayer
than No. 561, the sides of the crown _not_ largely black. _Notes._
Call, _chip_; song, a reedy warble resembling in tone that of a
Long-billed Marsh Wren.
Range.--Western United States, from the Rockies to central California;
breeds from Mexican border States north to British Columbia; winters
from southern California south into Mexico.
[Illustration: 574.]
=574. Bell Sparrow= (_Amphispiza belli_). L. 6.1; W. 2.7. _Ads._ Sides
of throat with black streaks; center of breast with black spots; above
grayish _brown_, usually _without_ distinct streaks, no white in tail.
Range.--Pacific coast, from northern Lower California northwest of
Sierras, to Warren county, California; resident.
=574a. Sage Sparrow= (_A. b. nevadensis_). Similar to No. 574, but
larger, W. 3.1; back brownish gray, usually finely but distinctly
streaked with black; less black at sides of throat, usually a white
stripe _over_ the eye. _Notes._ Call, a chipping twitter; song,
feeble, but sweet and sad. (B. B. & R.)
Range.--Great Basin region; breeds from New Mexico, Arizona, and
southeastern California north to Idaho and eastern Oregon; winters
south to western Texas and southern California.
=574b. Gray Sage Sparrow= (_A. b. cinerea_). Similar to No. 574, but
paler above, throat-stripes narrower, more interrupted, breast-spot
smaller, both stripes and spot dull grayish instead of blackish.
(Ridgw.)
Range.--Lower California.
[Illustration: 564.]
=564. Worthen Sparrow= (_Spizella wortheni_). Resembles No. 563a,
but sides of head plain gray, no brownish streak behind eye; tail
shorter, 2.5.
Range.--Southern New Mexico (Silver City), southward over eastern
border of Mexican plateau to southern Puebla; breeding from Tamaulipas
northward. (Ridgw.)
EASTERN SONG SPARROW GROUP.
[Illustration: 581.]
=581. Song Sparrow= (_Melospiza cinerea melodia_). L. 6.2. _Ads._
Above reddish brown and gray with black streaks; tail with a decided
rufous tinge; black streaks below conspicuously margined with reddish
brown, those of center of breast forming a patch. _Notes._ Call, a
characteristic _chimp_ or _trink_; song, too variable in form to admit
of brief description but unmistakable in tone throughout the whole
group.
Range.--Eastern North America west to the Plains; breeds from Virginia
and northern Illinois north to Quebec and Manitoba; winters from
southern Illinois and Massachusetts to Gulf States.
=581b. Mountain Song Sparrow= (_M. c. montana_). Similar to No. 581,
but grayer; reddish brown not so bright; bill smaller.
Range.--Rocky Mountain district of United States west to, and
including Sierra Nevada in California; north to eastern Oregon,
southern Idaho, and southern Montana; south in winter to western Texas
and northern Mexico. (Ridgw.)
=581k. Merrill Song Sparrow= (_M. c. merrilli_). Similar to No. 581b,
but slightly darker and more uniform above, with grayish edgings to
interscapulars and scapulars less strongly contrasted with the darker
mesial streaks, the latter usually with more brown than black.
(Ridgw.)
Range.--Breeds from northern California (Shasta County) in mountains
and through Oregon and Washington east of Cascade Mountains, to
northwestern Idaho; winters south into Mexico. (Ridgw.)
=581j. Dakota Song Sparrow= (_M. c. juddi_). Similar to No. 581, but
above paler, especially line over eye and sides of neck; white below
clearer; interscapulars with black center broader, reddish brown
portions narrower; dark markings on breast restricted and more sharply
defined. (Bishop.)
Range.--"Turtle Mountains and vicinity, North Dakota." (A.O.U.)
DESERT SONG SPARROWS.
[Illustration: 581a.]
=581a. Desert Song Sparrow= (_Melospiza cinerea fallax_). W. 2.5.
Above reddish brown and gray; below white with _reddish brown_
streaks; usually _no black_ in plumage.
Range.--Lower Sonoran district of southwest Arizona, southern Nevada,
southeast California and northwest Lower California and Sonora.
(Ridgw.)
=581g. Brown Song Sparrow= (_M. c. rivularis_). Similar to No. 581a,
but larger, W. 2.7, with longer, more slender and more compressed
bill; still less strongly contrasted markings, and duller, less
rufescent colors. (Ridgw.)
Range.--Mountain districts of southern Lower California. (Ridgw.)
CALIFORNIA SONG SPARROWS.
[Illustration: 581c.]
=581c. Heermann Song Sparrow= (_Melospiza cinerea heermanni_). L. 6.5;
W. 2.5. _Ads._ Above _chestnut_ olive-gray with usually distinct black
streaks; tail _without_ a decided rufous tinge; black streaks below
not conspicuously bordered by rufous.
Range.--Central valleys of California including lower levels of
Sacramento and San Joaquin basins. (Ridgw.)
[Illustration: 581f.]
CALIFORNIA SONG SPARROWS.
=581m. San Diego Sparrow= (_M. c. cooperi_). Similar to No. 581c, but
slightly smaller, W. 2.4, much lighter and grayer.
Range.--Southern coast district of California north to Monterey Bay,
east to Ft. Tejon, San Bernardino, etc., and north Pacific coast
district of Lower California south to San Quentin Bay. (Ridgw.)
=581d. Samuels Song Sparrow= (_M. c. samuelis_). Similar to No. 581c,
but smaller, W. 2.4, bill more slender.
Range.--Coast slope of central California (except salt marshes of San
Francisco Bay), from Santa Cruz County to Humboldt County, north, at
least in winter, to Humboldt Bay. (Ridgw.)
=581l. Alameda Song Sparrow= (_M. c. pusillula_). Similar to No. 581a,
but smaller, W. 2.3, less rusty, underparts more heavily streaked,
usually more or less suffused with _yellowish_.
Range.--Salt marshes of San Francisco Bay, California. (Ridgw.)
=581i. San Clemente Song Sparrow= (_M. c. clementæ_). Similar to
No. 581m, but larger and grayer.
Range.--San Clemente, San Miguel, and Santa Rosa Islands, Santa
Barbara Group, California; Coronados Islands, Lower California.
(Ridgw.)
=581h. Santa Barbara Song Sparrow= (_M. c. graminea_). Similar to No.
581i, but much smaller, W. 2.4.
Range.--Santa Barbara Islands, California mainland in winter.
NORTHWEST COAST SONG SPARROWS.
=581e. Rusty Song Sparrow= (_M. c. morphna_). W. 2.7. _Ads._ Above
without clear gray and _not_ distinctly streaked; prevailing color
dark reddish brown; below _heavily_ streaked with same.
Range.--Northwest coast region, Oregon to British Columbia; south in
winter to southern California.
=581f. Sooty Song Sparrow= (_M. c. rufina_). Similar to No. 581e,
but larger, W. 2.9, more sooty above and below, underparts more
heavily streaked.
Range.--Pacific coast region from British Columbia north to southern
Alaska.
=581n. Yukutat Song Sparrow= (_M. c. caurina_). Similar to No. 581f,
bill longer and more slender, color grayer.
Range.--Coast of Mt. St. Elias district of Alaska, from Yakutat Bay
to Lituya Bay.
=581o. Kenai Song Sparrow= (_M. c. kenaiensis_). Similar to No. 582,
but smaller, W. 3, plumage darker, more sooty, less rufous.
Range.--Coast of Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, from east side of Cook Inlet
to Prince William Sound. (Ridgw.)
=581.1. Kadiak Island Song Sparrow= (_M. c. insignis_). Similar to
No. 581o, but larger, W. 3.2, bill longer, color grayer.
Range.--Kadiak Island and opposite coast of Alaska. (Ridgw.)
[Illustration: 582.]
=582. Aleutian Song Sparrow= (_Melospiza cinerea_). Similar to No.
581.1, but larger and grayer; largest and grayest bird of group;
L. 8; W. 3.4.
Range.--"Western portion of Alaska Peninsula (Stepovak Bay, opposite
Shumagin Islands), Shumagin Islands, and Aleutian Islands, from
Unalaska to Atka, Adak, and Attu." (Ridgw.)
[Illustration: 585.]
=585. Fox Sparrow= (_Passerella iliaca_). L. 7.2. Back _streaked_,
gray and reddish brown; tail and spots below bright reddish brown.
_Notes._ Call, a weak _tseep_; song, loud, sweet, varied, ringing and
joyous.
Range.--Eastern North America; breeds from Magdalen Islands and
Manitoba, northwest to Alaska; winters from Virginia to the Gulf
States.
[Illustration: 585a.]
=585a. Shumagin Fox Sparrow= (_P. i. unalaschensis_). Back _not_
distinctly streaked, much paler than No. 585; spots below grayish
brown; palest of present group.
Range.--Alaska, Shumagin Islands, and Alaskan Peninsula to Cook Inlet.
=--Kadiak Fox Sparrow= (_P. i. insularis_). Similar to No. 585a, but
browner above and below; tail nearly same as back; breast spots
larger.
Range.--"Kadiak Island, Alaska, in summer; in winter south along the
coast slope to southern California." (Ridgw.)
=--Sooty Fox Sparrow= (_P. i. fuliginosa_). _Ads._ Above, including
wings and tail, uniform brownish umber, _unstreaked_; below heavily
spotted with same.
Range.--Coast of British Columbia and northwest Washington;
south in winter to San Francisco, California. (Ridgw.)
=--Townsend Fox Sparrow= (_P. i. townsendi_). Similar to _fuliginosa_
but more rufous.
Range.--Southern Alaska north to Cross Sound; south in winter to
northern California. (Ridgw.)
=--Yakutat Fox Sparrow= (_P. i. annectens_). Similar to _townsendi_
but less rufous; very near _fuliginosa_, but not quite so deeply
colored.
Range.--Coast of Alaska, from Cross Sound to Prince William Sound
(to Cook Inlet?); in winter, south to California. (Ridgw.)
=585b. Thick-billed Sparrow= (_P. i. megarhyncha_). L. 7.3; W. 3.3;
depth of B. at base, .4. _Ads._ Above and spots below _gray_; wings
and tail light brown; bill large. _Notes._ Song, resembles that of
No. 585, but is recognizably different.
Range.--Breeding in the Sierra Nevada (both slopes) from Mt. Shasta
southward; in winter beyond Sierras as far as Los Angeles County,
California. (Ridgw.)
[Illustration: 585c.]
=585c. Slate-colored Sparrow= (_P. i. schistacea_). Similar to No.
585b, but smaller, bill smaller; W. 3.2; depth of B. at base, .35.
Range.--Rocky Mountain district of United States and British Columbia;
breeds from more eastern ranges of Colorado west to White Mountains in
southeastern Colorado, mountains of northeastern California and
eastern Oregon; north to interior of British Columbia; in migrations,
New Mexico, Arizona, western slopes of Sierra Nevada, western Kansas.
(Ridgw.)
=585d. Stephens Sparrow= (_P. i. stephensi_). Similar in coloration to
No. 585b, but larger, the bill conspicuously so; W. 3.4; depth of
B. at base .6. (Ridgw.)
Range.--Breeding on San Bernardino and San Jacinto Mountains; southern
California. (Ridgw.)
[Illustration: 674.]
=674. Oven-bird= (_Seiurus aurocapillus_). L. 6.1. _Ads._ No
wing-bars; no white in tail; above brownish olive-green; crown
orange-brown bordered by black; below white streaked with black.
_Notes._ Call, a weak _cheep_; song, a crescendo _teacher_ repeated
about five times; also a wild, ecstatic flight song.
Range.--Eastern North America, west to the Rockies; breeds from
Virginia and Kansas north to Labrador and northwest to Alaska;
winters from Florida south to West Indies and Central America. (Said
to breed in Bahamas.)
[Illustration: 675.]
=675. Water-Thrush= (_Seiurus noveboracensis_). L. 6; W. 3. A whitish
line over eye; above olive; below pale _sulphur yellow_ heavily
streaked with blackish; _throat spotted_; no wing-bars or
tail-patches. _Notes._ Call, a sharp _chink_; song, a high-pitched,
liquid whistle, _sweet_, _sweet_, _sweet_, _chu-chu-wee chu_. (Jones.)
Also a flight song.
Range.--Eastern North America; breeds from northern New England and
northern Illinois, north to Newfoundland and Hudson Bay, and south
along the Alleghanies to West Virginia; winters from Florida to
northern South America.
=675a. Grinnell Water-Thrush= (_S. n. notabilis_). Similar to No. 675,
but larger, W. 3.1; upperparts darker, less olive; underparts less
yellow.
Range.--Western North America; breeds from Minnesota, western
Nebraska, and probably more northern Rocky Mountain district of United
States, north to Alaska; winters from southern United States
southward; in migration east to Mississippi valley, rarely to Atlantic
States from New Jersey southward.
[Illustration: 676.]
=676. Louisiana Water-Thrush= (_Seiurus motacilla_). L. 6.2. _Ads._
A _white_ line over eye; above grayish olive; below _buffy_ white;
breast and sides streaked; _no_ spots on throat; no wing-bars or
tail-patches. _Notes._ Call, a sharp, metallic _chink_; song, a sudden
outburst of loud wild, ringing notes; also a flight song.
Range.--Eastern United States; breeds from Gulf States to Connecticut,
lower Hudson Valley, and Minnesota; winters in tropics.
[Illustration: 697.]
=697. American Pipit: Titlark= (_Anthus pensilvanicus_). L. 6.4. Hind
toe-nail much the longest. _Ads._ Outer tail-feather largely white;
next one only tipped with white; upperparts grayish brown indistinctly
streaked; underparts rich buff, breast and _sides_ streaked with
blackish. _Yng. and Ads. in Winter._ Less gray above, paler below.
_Notes._ Call, a soft _dee-dee_ usually uttered in flight; a flight
song.
Range.--North America breeding in Arctic regions and in the higher
parts of the Rockies from Colorado northward (also on Mt. Shasta?);
winters from southern California, Nevada and Gulf States south through
Mexico to Central America.
[Illustration: 700.]
=700. Sprague Pipit= (_Anthus spraguei_). L. 6.2. Hind toe-nail much
lengthened; two outer tail-feathers _largely_ white. _Ads._ Above
streaked with buff and blackish brown; below white tinged with buff;
breast streaked. In winter, similar, but less brown above, less buff
below. _Notes._ Song, uttered on the wing when several hundred feet
above the earth, sweet and far reaching, resembling at beginning song
of Skylark.
Range.--"Interior plains of North America, breeding from plains of the
Yellowstone northward to Saskatchewan district and from the Red River
westward (probably to the Rocky Mountains); south in winter on the
tablelands of Mexico to Puebla; accidental in South Carolina."
[Illustration: 702.]
=702. Sage Thrasher= (_Oroscoptes montanus_). L. 8.7. _Ads._ Above
brownish gray; below whitish heavily streaked with blackish; outer
tail-feathers _tipped_ with white. _Notes._ Call, a low chuck; song,
deficient in power but possessing sweetness, vivacity and variety;
resembling song of Ruby-crowned Kinglet. (Ridgway.)
Range.--"Western United States from western South Dakota, western
Nebraska and eastern Colorado, north to Montana, west to the Cascades
and Sierra Nevada, south into northern Mexico and Lower California."
(A.O.U.)
[Illustration: 705.]
=705. Brown Thrasher= (_Toxostoma rufum_). L. 11.5; W. 4.1; B. .95.
_Ads._ Above, wings and tail rufous or rusty brown; below white
heavily streaked with blackish; two white wing-bars. _Notes._ Calls, a
sharp kissing note and a clearly whistled _wheéu_; song, loud,
musical, varied, finished and rich in tone.
Range.--Eastern North America; breeds from the Gulf States north to
Maine and Manitoba; winters from Virginia and the lower Mississippi
Valley southward.
=706. Sennett Thrasher= (_Toxostoma longirostre sennetti_). L. 11.5;
W. 4; B. 1.1. _Ads._ Similar to No. 705, but wing shorter, bill
longer, upperparts less bright, streaks below blacker. _Notes._
Resemble those of No. 705, but song even finer.
Range.--Southeastern Texas from Corpus Christi south into
northeastern Mexico.
[Illustration: 713.]
=713? Texan Cactus Wren= (_Heleodytes brunneicapillus couesi_).
L. 8.5. Largest of our Wrens. _Ads._ Above brown, head darker,
back streaked with white; below, _including chin_, heavily marked
with black. _Notes._ A loud, harsh _cack-cack-cack-cack_.
Range.--"Rio Grande region of Texas and adjoining Mexican states,
west to the eastern Desert Tract, south over the Mexican tableland."
(Mearns.)
=713a. Bryant Cactus Wren= (_H. b. bryanti_). Differs from No. 713b,
in heavier spotting below, and in perfectly barred tail and slight
wash of rufous on belly and flanks. (Anthony.)
Range.--"Northern Lower California and southern California, west of
the Coast Range." (Mearns.)
=713b. St. Lucas Cactus Wren= (_H. b. affinis_). Resembling No. 713c,
but all the tail-feathers, except middle pair, barred with white for
their whole length; flanks white or very pale buff, with large rounded
or tear-shaped spots. (Ridgw.)
Range.--Southern Lower California.
=713c? Desert Cactus Wren= (_H. b. anthonyi_). Similar to No. 713, but
paler above; chin _without_ spots.
Range.--Interior deserts of the southwestern United States, south into
Mexico and northeastern Lower California. (Mearns.)
[Illustration: 755.]
=755. Wood Thrush= (_Hylocichla mustelina_). L. 8.2. _Ads._ Above
bright cinnamon, _brightest on head_; below white with _large_,
_rounded_ black spots. _Notes._ Calls, a sharp _pit-pit_, a liquid
_quirt_, and a soft _tut-tut-tut_; song, both flute-like and
bell-like; sung with frequent pauses and low notes.
Range.--Eastern United States; breeds from Virginia and Kansas to
Vermont, Quebec, and Minnesota; winters in Central America.
[Illustration: 715.]
=715. Rock Wren= (_Salpinctes obsoletus_). L. 5.7. _Ads._ Rump rusty;
tail tipped and _outer_ feathers barred with pale rusty; above grayish
brown lightly speckled with blackish; below, including belly, whitish;
breast obscurely streaked with brownish. _Notes._ Calls, Wren-like;
song, sweet, varied and Mockingbird-like.
Range.--"Western United States, from the western border of the Plains
to the Pacific, north to Dakota, Montana, and British Columbia; south
on the tablelands of Mexico and Guatemala to Salvador; breeds
throughout its range, and is resident from about the southern, border
of the United States southward." (A.O.U.)
=716. Guadalupe Rock Wren= (_Salpinctes guadeloupensis_). Resembling
No. 715, but darker and browner, with chest, etc., more distinctly
speckled; wings and tail shorter; bill and tarsi longer; W. 2.6; T.
2.2. (Ridgw.)
Range.--Guadalupe Island, Lower California.
[Illustration: 717.]
=717. White-throated Wren= (_Catherpes mexicanus albifrons_). L. 6;
W. 2.7. _Ads._ _Belly_, rump, and _all_ tail-feathers rusty; tail
barred with black; throat white; back rusty brown.
Range.--Lower Rio Grande Valley in Texas and southward into
northeastern Mexico.
=717a. Canon Wren= (_C. m. conspersus_). Similar to No. 717, but
smaller, W. 2.3; tail-bars narrower. _Notes._ Call, a "ringing
_dink_;" song, a series of about seven, loud, ringing whistles uttered
in a regularly descending scale.
Range.--"Great Basin and Rocky Mountain region, from the Sierra Nevada
and Cascades eastward to southern Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado and western
Texas: south on the tableland of Mexico to Aguas Calientes; breeds
nearly throughout its range; resident in southern parts of its United
States distribution." (A.O.U.)
=717b. Dotted Canon Wren= (_C. m. punctulatus_). Similar to No. 717a,
but darker; more nearly resembling No. 717 in colors, but smaller in
size.
Range.--Pacific coast from Lower California north to Oregon; resident.
[Illustration: 718.]
=718. Carolina Wren= (_Thryothorus ludovicianus_). L. 5.5; W. 2.3;
B. .6. _Ads._ Above bright rust-brown; below washed with same, throat
and line over eye white. _Notes._ Calls, Wren-like; song, a great
variety of loud, musical whistles, _whee-udel_, _whee-udel_, _whee-udel_
or _tea-kettle_, _tea-kettle_, _tea-kettle_, etc.
Range--Eastern United States; breeds from the Gulf States north to the
lower Hudson Valley (and casually Massachusetts), northern Illinois,
and southern Iowa; resident.
=718a. Florida Wren= (_T. l. miamensis_). Similar to No. 718, but
darker above, more deeply colored below; larger, W. 2.4; B. .7.
Range.--Florida, from Pasco and Brevard counties southward.
=718b. Lomita Wren= (_T. l. lomitensis_). Similar to No. 718, but
browner, less rufous above, rump with more white spots; below paler,
the flanks usually barred.
Range.--Southeastern Texas.
[Illustration: 719.]
=719. Bewick Wren= (_Thryomanes bewickii_). L. 5; W. 2.2; T. 2.1.
_Ads._ Above rich, dark cinnamon-brown, tail grayer; below grayish
white; all but middle pair of tail-feathers _black_, outer ones
barred, others tipped with grayish. _Notes._ Call, "a soft, low,
_plit_;" song, strongly suggesting that of Song Sparrow.
Range.--Mississippi Valley west to the Plains, north to Lat. 40°, east
to Alleghanies and locally to Atlantic States from southern New Jersey
to Georgia.
=719a. Vigors Wren= (_T. b. spilurus_). Similar to No. 719, but
smaller, W. 2; upperparts less cinnamon or reddish.
Range.--California, west of Sierra Nevada and south to Santa Cruz
Island. (Bailey.)
=719b. Baird Wren= (_T. b. leucogaster_). Similar to No. 719c,
but upperparts grayer.
Range.--"Western Texas to southeastern California, and from southern
Nevada Utah, and Colorado south over tablelands of Mexico to
Zacatecas." (Bailey.)
=719c. Texas Bewick Wren= (_T. b. cryptus_). Similar to No. 719, but
grayer, brown of upperparts not so rich; slightly larger, W. 2.3.
Range.--"Texas, except the extreme western corner, states of Nuevo
Leon and Tamaulipas, in Mexico, with probably Kansas, Indian Territory
and Oklahoma; migratory north of Texas." (Oberholser.)
=719d. Southwest Bewick Wren= (_T. b. charienturus_). Similar to
No. 719b but flanks and upper surface darker, eye-stripe rather
broader, under tail-coverts more heavily barred, wing shorter, 2.
(Oberholser.)
Range.--Coast region of southern California, north to about Pasadena,
south to Lat. 28°, Lower California, Santa Catalina Island; resident.
(Oberholser.)
=729e. Northwest Bewick Wren= (_T. b. calophonus_). Similar to
No. 719a, but bill larger, upper surface usually rather deeper and
richer brown, flanks somewhat more rufescent; W. 2.1; B. .6.
(Oberholser.)
Range.--Pacific slope from Oregon north to southern Vancouver Island,
valley of the Fraser River, and slightly farther along the mainland
coast; probably resident. (Oberholser.)
=719.1. San Clemente Wren= (_Thryomanes leucophrys_) Similar to
No. 719d, but flanks and upperparts rather grayer and paler, bill
longer, under tail-coverts less heavily barred. (Oberholser.)
Range.--San Clemente Island, California.
=720. Guadalupe Wren= (_Thryomanes brevicauda_). L. 4.5; W. 1.9.
_Ads._ Resembling No. 719a, but rump with few or no concealed white
spots; tail dull grayish brown, narrowly and indistinctly barred with
dusky, two or three outer feathers with brownish gray tips. (Ridgw.)
Range.--Guadalupe Island, Lower California.
[Illustration: 721.]
=721. House Wren= (_Troglodytes aëdon_). L. 4.7; T. 1.7. _Ads._ Above
cinnamon brown, sometimes obscurely barred; tail the same, _all_ the
feathers barred; below grayish with a brownish wash, lower belly and
flanks usually more or less barred. _Notes._ Call, a scolding
_krrring_; song, a bubbling, rippling, irrepressible little melody.
Range.--Eastern North America; breeds north to Maine, Montreal, and
Manitoba; winters from South Carolina and the Lower Mississippi Valley
southward into Mexico.
=721a. Parkman Wren= (_T. a. parkmanii_). Similar to No. 721, but less
cinnamon above; intermediate in color between No. 721 and No. 721b.
Range.--Pacific coast; breeds from southern California north to
British Columbia; winters from southern California southward.
=721b. Western House Wren= (_T. a. aztecus_). Similar to No. 721, but
much grayer above and paler below; back more frequently barred.
Range.--Western United States from the Sierra Nevada east to the
Mississippi Valley; winters south into Lower California and Mexico.
[Illustration: 722.]
=722. Winter Wren= (_Olbiorchilus hiemalis_). L. 4; T. 1.2. _Ads._
Above cinnamon, much brighter than in No. 721; below pale cinnamon,
sides and belly heavily barred with blackish. _Notes._ Call,
_chimp-chimp_, resembling call of Song Sparrow; song, tinkling,
rippling, full of trills, runs and grace notes. (Bailey.)
Range.--Eastern North America; breeds from northern New England and
northern New York northward, and southward along the Alleghanies to
North Carolina; winters from Massachusetts and Illinois to Florida.
=722a. Western Winter Wren= (_O. h. pacificus_). Similar to No. 722,
but much deeper colored both above and below, and more heavily barred.
Range.--Breeds on the Pacific coast from southern California north to
Alaska; east to Idaho; winters south into Mexico.
=722b. Kadiak Winter Wren= (_O. h. helleri_). Slightly larger and
paler than No. 722a. (Osgood.)
Range.--Kadiak Island, Alaska.
=723. Alaskan Wren= (_Olbiorchilus alascensis_). Resembling No. 722a,
but paler and larger, W. 2.1, B. .6.
Range--Breeds on Kadiak Island, Alaska; winter range unknown.
=723.1. Aleutian Wren= (_Olbiorchilus meligerus_). Similar to No. 723,
but darker, less reddish; rump and upper tail-coverts more evidently
barred; bars on belly heavier. (Oberholser.)
Range.--"Westernmost part of the Aleutian group, Alaska."
(Oberholser.)
=724. Short-billed Marsh Wren= (_Cistothorus stellaris_). L. 4;
T. 1.4; B. .4. _Ads._ _Crown_ and back streaked with whitish;
breast-band, sides and under tail-coverts rusty; wing-coverts tipped
with whitish. _Notes._ Call, like sound produced by striking two
pebbles together; song, _chap--chap--chap-chap_, _chap-chap-chap
p-p-rrr_. (Seton.) (See next page.)
Range.--Eastern North America, ranging west to Utah; breeds from the
Gulf States north to Massachusetts and Manitoba; winters from the Gulf
States southward.
[Illustration: 724.]
[Illustration: 725.]
=725. Long-billed Marsh Wren= (_Telmatodytes palustris_). L. 5.2;
T. 1.6; B. .5. _Ads._ Crown and foreback largely black, the latter
with white streaks; a white stripe over eye; rump cinnamon; below
white, sides washed with cinnamon; outer tail-feathers _black_,
broadly barred with pale cinnamon. _Notes._ Call, scolding, a
characteristic Wren-like _cacking_; song, a reedy, guttural, bubbling
trill often sung in flight.
Range.--Eastern North America west to the Rocky Mountains; breeds from
the Gulf States north to Massachusetts and Manitoba; winters locally
from Massachusetts, south into Mexico.
=725a. Tule Wren= (_T. p. paludicola_). Similar to No. 725, but upper
tail-coverts barred, middle tail-feathers more distinctly and broadly
barred; underparts usually browner.
Range.--Pacific coast; breeds from southern California to British
Columbia: winters from Washington to Guatemala.
=725b. Worthington Marsh Wren= (_T. p. griseus_). Similar to No. 725,
but with less black above; upperparts, sides and flanks pale grayish;
dark markings of under tail-coverts, flanks, sides and breast, faint,
confused and inconspicuous, sometimes practically wanting. (Brewster.)
Range.--Coast of South Carolina and Georgia.
=725c. Interior Tule Wren= (_T. p. plesius_). Similar to No. 725a,
but paler.
Range.--"Western United States, except the Pacific coast; north to
British Columbia and Alberta, east to the Rocky Mountains and Texas,
south into Mexico." (Oberholser.)
[Illustration: 725.1.]
=725.1. Marian Marsh Wren= (_Telmatodytes marianæ_). Similar to
No. 725, but upperparts darker; sides and flanks of about same color
as rump; under tail-coverts and sometimes breast barred or spotted
with black.
Range.--Gulf coast of Florida.
[Illustration: 726.]
=726. Brown Creeper= (_Certhia familiaris americana_). L. 5.6; B. .63.
Tail-feathers stiffened and pointed. _Ads._ Rump _rusty_; a _buffy
white_ band in the wing; back and crown streaked with whitish, black
and rusty; below white. _Notes._ Call, a faint, high, thin _tseep_;
song, "an exquisitely pure, tender song of four notes." (Brewster.)
Range.--Eastern North America: breeds from Maine and Minnesota
(casually Missouri) northward; winters from about the southern
breeding limits to the Gulf States.
=726a. Mexican Creeper= (_C. f. albescens_). Similar to No. 726, but
rump rich rusty brown, back black, crown _black_ streaked with white,
band in wing white.
Range.--Mexican plateau region north to southern Arizona.
=726b. Rocky Mountain Creeper= (_C. f. montana_). Similar to No. 726,
but bill longer, .7; band in wing averaging whiter.
Range.--Rocky Mountains from New Mexico and Arizona northward
to Alaska.
=726c. Californian Creeper= (_C. f. occidentalis_). Similar to
No. 726, but much rustier; prevailing color of upperparts yellowish
rusty.
Range.--Pacific coast; breeds from Santa Cruz Mountains, California,
northward to Alaska.
=726d. Sierra Creeper= (_C. f. zelotes_). Similar to No. 726c, but
colors more dusky and less rufescent; similar to No. 726b, but much
darker; light centers of feathers on head and back much reduced.
(Osgood.)
Range.--"Southern Cascade Mountains of Oregon and Sierra Nevada of
California." (Osgood.)
[Illustration: 756.]
=756. Wilson Thrush; Veery= (_Hylocichla fuscescens_). L. 7.5. _Ads._
Above, wings and tail, _uniform_ cinnamon brown; below white, sides
grayish, breast and throat buff rather faintly marked with triangular
spots the color of the back. _Notes._ Call, a clearly whistled
_wheé-you_ and a softer _too-whee_; song, a weird, _spiral_ of blended
alto and soprano tones largely on one note.
Range.--Eastern North America; breeds from northern New Jersey, the
mountains of Pennsylvania, and northern Illinois north to Newfoundland
and Manitoba; winters in Central America.
=756a. Willow Thrush= (_H. f. salicicola_). Similar to No. 756, but
more olive above.
Range.--Rocky Mountains north to British Columbia, east to Dakota;
in migration, casually to Illinois and South Carolina; winters as
far south as southern Brazil.
[Illustration: 759.]
=759. Alaskan Hermit Thrush= (_Hylocichla guttata_), L. 6.5. W. 3.5;
tail _rufous_, _much_ brighter than back. _Ads._ Eye-ring whitish, not
deep buff; back olive-brown; breast tinged with buff and heavily
spotted with large, wedge-shaped marks.
Range.--Breeds in northwest coast region from British Columbia to
Alaska; in winter south to Mexico.
=759a. Audubon Hermit Thrush= (_H. g. auduboni_). Similar to No. 759,
but larger, W. 4; back grayer, tail paler, flanks less heavily washed
with gray.
Range.--Rocky Mountain region of United States south to Guatemala.
[Illustration: 759b.]
=759b. Hermit Thrush= (_H. g. pallasii_). Similar to No. 759, but back
and sides browner. _Notes._ Call, a low _chuck_; song, highly musical
and probably exceeding in spiritual quality that of any of our birds.
Range.--Eastern North America; breeds from Michigan, Alleghanies in
Pennsylvania, Catskills, higher mountains of Massachusetts (rarely at
sea level), north to Labrador; winters from New Jersey to Gulf States.
=759c. Dwarf Hermit Thrush= (_H. g. nana_). Similar to No. 759, but
smaller, W. 3.2, back slightly browner.
Range.--Pacific coast; breeds from Washington south through Sierra
Nevadas; east, in migrations, to Nevada and Arizona; south to Lower
California and western Mexico. (A.O.U.)
[Illustration: 757.]
=757. Gray-cheeked Thrush= (_Hylocichla aliciæ_). L. 7.5; W. 4. _Ads._
Tail and back the _same_ color, olive without brownish tinge; eye-ring
and lores _whitish_, cheeks and breast only _slightly_ tinged with
buff, breast with wedge-shaped spots. _Notes._ Doubtless like those of
No. 757a.
Range.--Breeds in Labrador and west to Alaska: migrates through
eastern North America and winters in Central America.
=757a. Bicknell Thrush= (_H. a. bicknelli_). Similar to No. 757, but
smaller, L. 7; W. 3.5. _Notes._ Calls, _pheu_ like that of Veery; a
low _cluck_ like that of Hermit Thrush, and rarely, a pip or _peenk_
like that of Olive-backed Thrush; song, like that of Veery but more
interrupted. (Brewster.)
Range.--Breeds in the high parts of the Catskills and north to White
Mountains and Nova Scotia; winters in tropics.
[Illustration: 758.]
=758. Russet-backed Thrush= (_Hylocichla ustulata_). L. 7.2; W. 4.
Tail _not_ decidedly more rufous than back. _Ads._ Eye-ring, cheeks,
sides of neck and breast _distinctly buffy_; breast with wedge-shaped
spots; back and _flanks_ olive-brown; tail slightly browner. The most
deeply colored bird of the _ustulata_ group.
Range.--Pacific coast; breeds from Oregon to Alaska; winters south
to Guatemala.
[Illustration: 758a.]
=758a. Olive-backed Thrush= (_H. u. swainsonii_). Similar to No. 758,
but back, tail, and flanks without brownish or rufescent tinge.
_Notes._ Call, a liquid _puit_; song, suggesting both that of Hermit
Thrush and the Veery.
Range.--Eastern North America; breeds in Alleghanies from Pennsylvania
and the Catskills, north to New Brunswick and Manitoba; winters in
Central and South America.
=758b. California Olive-backed Thrush= (_H. u. Ådica_). Differs from
758 and 758a, in more rufescent coloration on the flanks; sides and
upper surface usually paler than No. 758. (Oberholser.)
Range.--California, except north coast; north in interior to southern
Oregon; south, in winter to Arizona and southern Mexico. (Oberholser.)
=758c. Alma Thrush= (_H. u. almæ_). Similar to No. 758a, but back and
flanks grayer. The palest bird of the _ustulata_ group.
Range.--Alaska, except Yukon Basin, south in Rocky Mountain region,
and west to Utah and eastern Nevada. (A.O.U.)
Perching Birds Chiefly Gray, Black, or Black and White
GRAY-HEADED JUNCOS.
=566. White-winged Junco= (_Junco aikeni_). L. 6.5; W. 3.30. _Ads._
Resembling No. 567, but larger, paler, wings generally with two white
bars; _three_ outer tail-feathers mostly or entirely white; fourth
partly white.
Range.--Breeds in Wyoming and western North Dakota; winters in
Colorado, western Kansas, casually to Indiana and Wisconsin. (Ridgw.)
[Illustration: 567.]
=567. Slate-colored Junco= (_Junco hyemalis_). L. 6.2. W. 3. _Ad._
[Male], _summer_. Head and back gray, the crown sometimes slightly
darker, the feathers usually more or less tipped with brownish; breast
and sides _gray_; belly white; third outer tail-feather with white.
_Ad._ [Female], _summer_. Similar, but brown wash stronger. _Ads.,
winter._ Brown tips to feathers longer, sides sometimes brownish.
_Notes._ Calls, a sharp, kissing note and a rapid _chew-chew-chew_,
song, a simple, twittering trill.
Range.--Eastern North America, breeds from northern New England,
northern New York, and northern Minnesota north to Labrador and
northwest to Alaska; and southward along the Alleghanies to
Pennsylvania; winters south to the Gulf States.
=567e. Carolina Junco= (_J. h. carolinensis_). Similar to No. 567, but
slightly larger, W. 3.2, the upperparts and breast uniform slate-gray
_without_ a brownish wash the bill horn color.
Range.--Alleghanies from Virginia to Georgia.
[Illustration: 568.]
=568. Pink-sided Junco= (_Junco mearnsi_). L. 6.2. _Ad._ [Male],
_summer_. Sides _broadly_ brownish pink, center of belly white; breast
pale slate-gray, crown darker, back washed with brownish. _Ad._
[Female] in _summer_. Similar to the [Male], but with less pink on
sides, the crown washed with gray. _Ads. winter._ Similar to summer
Ads., but with more brownish.
Range.--Breeds in southern Idaho and south-central Montana; winters
south through Wyoming and Colorado to northern Mexico.
=567.1 Montana Junco= (_Junco montanus_). Similar to No. 568, but with
less pink on the sides, the throat and breast darker slate.
Range.--Breeding from northwestern Montana and northern Idaho north to
northwest Territory and Alberta; in winter south to Mexico, east more
or less irregularly to the Mississippi, Massachusetts, and Maryland.
(Ridgw.)
[Illustration: 571.]
=571. Baird Junco= (_Junco bairdi_). Back and sides rusty cinnamon,
head gray, throat and breast grayish white, belly white.
Range.--Cape Region of Lower California.
[Illustration: 572.]
=572. Guadalupe Junco= (_Junco insularis_). Similar to mearnsi but
smaller, W. 2.7, bill longer, head and breast darker.
Range.--Guadalupe Island, Lower California.
=571.1. Townsend Junco= (_Junco townsendi_). Similar to No. 567.1, but
with the back grayer, the brownish wash much reduced.
Range.--San Pedro Martir Mountains, northern Lower California.
GRAY-HEADED, BROWN-BACKED JUNCOS.
[Illustration: 569.]
=569. Gray-headed Junco= (_Junco caniceps_). L. 6.5; W. 3.2; T. 2.9.
_Ads._ Head, breast and _sides_ gray; back reddish brown; _no_ reddish
brown on wings; three outer tail-feathers with white; _upper_ and
lower mandibles pinkish.
Range.--Breeds in mountains of southern Wyoming, Colorado, Utah,
Nevada, and northern New Mexico. (Ridgw.)
=570. Arizona Junco= (_Junco phæonotus palliatus_). L. 6.5; W. 3.2;
T. 2.9. _Ads._ Head gray; underparts _grayish white_; back, and to a
greater or less extent, _wing-coverts_ and _tertials_, reddish brown;
three outer tail-feathers with white; iris _yellow_; upper mandible
blackish, lower _yellowish_. _Notes._ Calls, resemble those of No.
567; song suggests that of Song Sparrow.
Range.--Breeds in mountains of southern Arizona and southward.
[Illustration: 570a.]
=570a. Red-backed Junco= (_Junco dorsalis_) L. 6.7; W. 3.3; T. 3.
_Ads._ Head gray; underparts _grayish white_; back reddish brown;
_no_ reddish brown on wings; three outer tail-feathers with white;
upper mandible blackish, lower _flesh-color_; iris "brown."
Range.--Breeds on high mountains of New Mexico and central Arizona;
winters south to northern Mexico and western Texas.
BLACK-HEADED JUNCOS.
[Illustration: 567a.]
=567a. Oregon Junco= (_Junco oreganus_). L. 6.2; W. 3. _Ad._ [Male],
_summer_. Head, neck, throat and breast black sharply defined from the
mahogany brown back, third outer tail-feather with little or no white;
sides washed with pinkish brown. _Ad._ [Female], _summer_. Head and
breast grayer, back paler. _Ads. winter._ Back deeper, the head and
neck more or less tipped with brown, the breast with gray, these areas
less sharply defined from the back and belly.
Range.--Pacific coast; breeds from northern British Columbia to
Alaska; winters south to California.
=--Shufeldt Junco= (_J. o. shufeldti_). Similar to No. 567a, but
larger, W. 3.1, brown of back less intense.
Range.--Pacific coast; breeds from Oregon north to British Columbia
(and eastward in humid regions to Montana?); winters south to northern
Mexico.
=567b. Coues Junco= (_J. o. connectens_). Similar to _shufeldti_, but
back paler, brownish gray, breast grayer, sides with less pinkish
brown, head and breast still sharply defined from adjacent areas.
Range.--Breeds in the interior of British Columbia and probably in
arid districts southward (breeding areas not definitely known);
winters southward doubtless to Mexican boundary.
[Illustration: 567c.]
=567c. Thurber Junco= (_J. o. thurberi_). Similar to No. 567, but back
much paler, a bright pinkish brown; head and breast black as in
No. 567.
Range.--Breeds in mountains from southern Oregon south to southern
California; east to western Nevada.
=567d. Point Pinos Junco= (_J. o. pinosus_). Similar to No. 567c, but
throat and breast slate-color.
Range.--Santa Cruz district of California; breeds from King Mountain,
south at least to Point Sur, County; wanders eastward in winter into
Santa Clara and San Benito Valleys. (Grinnell.)
=733. Plain Titmouse= (_Bæolophus inornatus_). L. 5.5. _Ads._ Head
crested; above grayish _brown_; below grayish _white_, belly white,
sides often buffy. _Notes._ Similar to those of the Tufted Titmouse,
but weaker and less varied. (Ridgw.)
Range.--California, west of the Sierra; north to Oregon.
[Illustration: 733a.]
=733a. Gray Titmouse= (_B. i. griseus_). Similar to No. 733, but above
_gray_, below whitish _gray_, no buff on sides.
Range.--Southwestern United States: from southeastern California and
Nevada to Colorado and New Mexico.
=733b. Ashy Titmouse= (_B. i. cineraceus_). Similar to No. 733a, but
underparts grayish _white_, not whitish _gray_.
Range.--Cape Region of Lower California.
=743. Bush-Tit= (_Psaltriparus minimus_). L, 4.2; T. 2.1. _Ads._ Crown
_sooty_ brown; back grayish brown; below brownish white, sides darker.
Range.--Pacific coast from northern California to Washington.
[Illustration: 743a.]
=743a. California Bush-Tit= (_P. m. californicus_). Similar to No.
743, but crown much lighter, brighter brown, quite different from the
brownish gray back; underparts paler. _Notes._ When feeding, a faint
_tsit_, _tsit_, _tsit_, _tsit_, when moving about, _tsit_, _tsit_,
_tsit_, _sre-e-e-e_; _tsit_, sre-e-e-e; when a bird is separated from
its companions, same as last but uttered more hurriedly; alarm note, a
greatly intensified _tsit''_; _tsit'_; _tsit'_; _tsit'_: in
presence of Hawk or Owl a shrill, quavering trill, _sre-e-e-e-e-e_.
(Grinnell.)
Range.--California, except the north coast region.
=743b. Grinda Bush-Tit= (_P. m. grindæ_). Similar to No. 743, but back
bluish ash-gray. (Ridgw.)
Range.--Cape Region of Lower California.
[Illustration: 744.]
=744. Lead-colored Bush-Tit= (_Psaltriparus plumbeus_). L. 4.5. _Ads._
_Crown_ and back bluish gray, sides of head brownish; below dingy
white with a buffy tint on belly.
Range.--Western United States from eastern Oregon and eastern
California east to Wyoming, Colorado, and western Texas.
=744.1. Santa Rita Bush-Tit= (_Psaltriparus santaritæ_). Similar to
No. 744, but smaller, sides of head paler, male with a more or less
distinct blackish line along sides of head as in female of No. 745.
(Ridgw.) (Now considered the same as 745.)
Range.--Santa Rita Mountains, southern Arizona.
[Illustration: 745.]
=745. Lloyd Bush-Tit= (_Psaltriparus lloydi_). L. 4.2. _Ad._ [Male].
Sides of head shining black, crown blue-gray, back browner; chin
blackish, underparts whitish, the belly and sides buffy. _Ad._
[Female]. Sides of head brownish, ear-coverts bordered above by a
narrow black line; no black on chin. _Yng._ Similar to [Female], but
no black in head.
Range.--"Mountains of western Texas, between the Pecos and Rio Grande
Rivers" (Sennett), south into Mexico.
[Illustration: 731.]
=731. Tufted Titmouse= (_Bæolophus bicolor_). L. 6. _Ads._ Head
crested; forehead _black_; above gray; below whitish, sides rusty.
_Notes._ A clearly whistled _péto_, _péto_, and a hoarse _de-de-de_.
Range.--Eastern United States; resident from the Gulf States north to
northern New Jersey and southern Iowa; straying somewhat further north
in summer after breeding.
=731a. Texan Tufted Titmouse= (_B. b. texensis_). Similar to No. 731,
but forehead rusty, upperparts paler.
Range.--Southeastern Texas.
[Illustration: 732.]
=732. Black-crested Titmouse= (_Bæolophus atricristatus_). L. 6.1.
_Ads._ Head with a _black_ crest; forehead white or tinged with rusty;
back gray; below whitish, sides rusty. _Notes._ An abbreviation of the
call of No. 731, _pete-pete-pete-pete_. (Bailey.)
Range.--"From southeastern Texas west to El Paso, south to eastern
Mexico." (Bailey.)
=751. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher= (_Polioptila cærulea_). L. 4.5; T. 2.
Outer tail-feathers with white, white tip of next to outer one at
least 1.00 long. _Ad._ [Male]. Above bluish gray, forehead narrowly
black; below grayish white. _Ad._ [Female]. Similar, but lighter gray;
no black on forehead. _Notes._ Call, a twanging _ting_; song, sweet
and varied but of small volume.
Range.--Eastern United States, west to Colorado; breeds from the Gulf
States north to southern New Jersey, and Ontario; wanders casually as
far north as Maine and Minnesota; winters from the Gulf States
southward.
=751a. Western Gnatcatcher= (_P. c. obscura_). Similar to No.. 751,
but slightly grayer above; white tip to next to outer tail-feather
_less_ than 1.00 long.
Range.--Western United States from western Texas west to California
and Lower California.
[Illustration: 752.]
=752. Plumbeous Gnatcatcher= (_Polioptila plumbea_). L. 4.4. Outer web
of outer tail-feather _wholly_ white, inner web black except at tip.
_Ad._ [Male]. Crown shining black, back blue-gray; underparts grayish
white. _Ad._ [Female] _and Yng_. [Male]. Similar, but no black on
head. Yng. [Female]. Back and sides with a brownish wash. _Notes._
Call, a faint mew; song, "a harsh ditty of five notes, something like
a Wren's song with notes like those of a Swallow." (Cooper.)
Range.--Mexican boundary region, from western Texas to southeastern
California and Lower California.
=753. Black-tailed Gnatcatcher= (_Polioptila californica_). L. 4.5;
T. 2.1. Similar to No. 752, but outer vane of outer tail-feather
_black_ margined with white; back darker, underparts much grayer,
flanks brownish.
Range.--Pacific coast region of southern California and northern
Lower California.
[Illustration: 734.]
=734. Bridled Titmouse= (_Bæolophus wollweberi_). L. 5.2. _Ads._ Head
crested, black and gray; throat black; hind neck with a white band
bounded by black; back olive-gray; below whitish. _Notes._
Chickadee-like but fainter. (Henshaw.)
Range.--Tableland of Mexico north to western Texas and southern
Arizona.
[Illustration: 738.]
=738. Mountain Chickadee= (_Parus gambeli_). L. 5.5. _Ads._ A white
line over the eye and a black through it; back gray; belly whitish.
_Notes._ A hoarse, _dee-dee-dee_, a two or three-noted _phe-be_
whistle exactly like that of the Chickadee and an exceedingly sweet
three-noted whistle of regular intervals, _d_, _c_, _a_.
Range.--"Mountainous portions of the western United States from the
eastern base of the Rocky Mountains to the Sierra Nevada, north to
British Columbia, Idaho, etc., and south to northern Lower
California." (A.O.U.)
[Illustration: 740.]
=740. Hudsonian Chickadee= (_Parus hudsonicus_). L. 5.2; W. 2.6.
_Ads._ Crown hair-brown, back a more yellow brown; sides of head and
neck grayish white; throat black, belly white, sides rusty. _Notes._
_Tscha-dee-dee-dee-dee_; the _dee-dee_ notes repeated with almost
incessant volubility. (Brewer.)
Range.--British America, from the west side of Hudson Bay
northwestward to the Lower Yukon.
=740a. Kowak Chickadee= (_P. h. stoneyi_). Similar to No. 740, but
larger, W. 2.7. above grayer, crown much paler.
Range.--Kowak River region, Alaska.
=740b. Columbian Chickadee= (_P. h. columbianus_). Similar to No. 740,
but grayer above, crown slaty-drab.
Range.--Rocky Mountains from Montana northward; Kenai Peninsula,
Alaska.
=--Canadian Chickadee= (_P. h. littoralis_). Similar to No. 740, but
smaller, W. 2.5, crown duller brown.
Range.--British America east and south of Hudson Bay; northern
New York, northern New England, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia.
=739. Alaskan Chickadee= (_Parus cinctus alascensis_). L. 5.2. _Ads._
Crown _brown_, back _brighter_; sides of head and neck _pure white_;
throat blackish; belly whitish, sides buffy.
Range.--"Northern Alaska and eastern Siberia." (A.O.U.)
[Illustration: 741.]
=741. Chestnut-backed Chickadee= (_Parus rufescens_). L. 4.6. _Ads._
Back and sides rusty chestnut, crown sooty brown, throat black.
_Notes._ A lisping _the-the-the-te-te_. (Kobbe.)
Range.--Pacific coast from Oregon to southern Alaska.
=741a. California Chickadee= (_P. r. neglectus_). Similar to No. 741,
but with only a tinge of rusty on flanks.
Range.--"Coast of California from Monterey County northward."
(A.O.U.)
=741b. Barlow Chickadee= (_P. r. barlowi_). Similar to No. 741a,
but with no rusty on flanks.
Range.--Vicinity of Monterey, California.
[Illustration: 735.]
=735. Black-capped Chickadee= (_Parus atricapillus_). L. 5.2; T. 2.5.
_Ads._ Cap and throat black; back gray with a brownish tinge; outer
margins of wing-coverts _grayish white_; flanks, cream buff. _Notes._
_Chickadee-dee_, liquid gurgles and chuckling notes and a sweet,
clearly whistled, _phe-be_ or _phe-be-e_.
Range.--Eastern North America; breeds from southern Illinois and
Pennsylvania north to Labrador, and south along Alleghanies to North
Carolina; migrates a short distance below its southern breeding
limits.
=735a. Long-tailed Chickadee= (_P. a. septentrionalis_). Similar to
No. 735, but tail longer, 2.7, flanks paler, white edgings broader.
Range.--Rocky Mountain region north to British Columbia; east
to Manitoba and the Plains.
=735b. Oregon Chickadee= (_P. a. occidentalis_). Similar to No. 735,
but much darker; flanks grayish.
Range.--Pacific coast from northern California to Sitka.
[Illustration: 736.]
=736. Carolina Chickadee= (_Parus carolinensis_). Similar to No. 735,
but smaller, L. 4.6; T. 2., the greater wing-coverts _not_ margined
with whitish. _Notes._ Whistle "_tswee-dee_, _twsee-dee_."
Range.--Southeastern United States north to middle New Jersey, and
southern Illinois; resident from southern New Jersey southward.
=736.a Plumbeous Chickadee= (_P. c. agilis_). Similar to No. 736,
but paler above, whiter below.
Range.--"Eastern and central Texas (Bee, Victoria, Cook, and Concho
Counties, etc.") (A.O.U.)
[Illustration: 737.]
=737. Mexican Chickadee= (_Parus sclateri_). Similar to No. 735, but
sides broadly gray like back, black more extended. _Notes._ A rapid,
vigorous double-noted whistle repeated three times, wholly unlike that
of the Chickadee.
Range.--Mountainous portions of the Mexican tableland north to
southern Arizona.
[Illustration: 630.]
=630. Black-capped Vireo= (_Vireo atricapillus_). L. 4.5. _Ad._
[Male]. Crown and cheeks shining black; lores and eye-ring white; back
olive-green; below white, sides tinged with greenish yellow; two
whitish wing-bars. _Ad._ [Female]. Similar, but black of head duller.
_Yng._ "Top and sides of head dull grayish brown; lores, orbital ring
and lower parts dull buffy white or pale buffy." (Ridgw.) _Notes._ "Of
the general character of the White-eye or _bellii_ type." (Bailey.)
Range.--Breeds in central and western Texas; north to southern Kansas;
winters in southern Mexico.
[Illustration: 727.]
=727. White-breasted Nuthatch= (_Sitta carolinensis_). L. 6. _Ad._
[Male]. Crown and foreback _bluish_ black; sides of head and neck
grayish white; tertials with _distinct_ black marks rounded at end.
_Ad._ [Female]. Similar but black of head and shoulders washed with
gray. _Notes._ Call, a nasal _yank-yank_ and conversational notes;
song, a tenor, _ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha_, all on the same note.
Range.--Eastern North America west to the Rocky Mountains, breeds from
the Gulf States to Minnesota and New Brunswick; resident.
=727a. Slender-billed Nuthatch= (_S. c. aculeata_). Similar to
No. 727, but head usually greenish black; black of tertials less deep
and one next to inner one usually pointed at end.
Range.--Western North America west of the Rockies: breeds from Lower
California north to British Columbia; resident.
=727b. Florida White-breasted Nuthatch= (_S. c. atkinsi_). Similar to
No. 727, but somewhat smaller, wing-coverts and tertials not tipped
with grayish; [Female] with head black as in [Male].
Range.--Florida and north along the coast to South Carolina.
=727c. Rocky Mountain Nuthatch= (_S. c. nelsoni_). Similar to
No. 727a, but larger, W. 3.7, with somewhat more white in tail and
more rusty on flanks and lower belly.
Range.--Wooded mountains of northern Chihuahua and Sonora, Arizona,
New Mexico, Colorado, and northward. (Mearns.)
=727d. St. Lucas Nuthatch= (_S. c. lagunæ_). Similar to No. 727a, but
with the wings and tail shorter, the black tips of the outer
tail-feathers more restricted; W. 3.2; T. 1.7. (Brewster.)
Range.--Higher mountains south of La Paz, Lower California.
(Brewster.)
[Illustration: 728.]
=728. Red-breasted Nuthatch= (_Sitta canadensis_). L. 4.6. _Ad._
[Male]. A stripe through the eye and crown, black; line _over_ eye
white; underparts rusty. _Ad._ [Female]. Similar, but crown gray like
back, line through the eye blackish, paler below. _Notes._ A fine,
thin, nasal, penny-trumpet like, drawled _yna-yna_.
Range.--North America, breeding from the northern portions of the
northern tier of States northward, and southward in the Alleghanies to
Virginia, in the Rocky Mountains to Colorado, and in the Sierra Nevada
in California; winters irregularly southward to the Gulf States and
Arizona.
[Illustration: 729.]
=729. Brown-headed Nuthatch= (_Sitta pusilla_). L. 4.3. _Ads._ Crown
brown; a white patch on nape; back bluish gray; below grayish white,
sometimes tinged with buff. _Yng._ Crown whitish. _Notes._ A
conversational, twittering _tnee-tnee_.
Range.--South Atlantic and Gulf States north to Delaware, accidentally
to New York and casually to Missouri.
[Illustration: 730.]
=730. Pygmy Nuthatch= (_Sitta pygmæa_). L. 4.3. _Ads._ Crown grayish
olive; a whitish patch on nape; a dark brown line through eye; below
white tinged with buff. _Yng._ Crown gray like back. _Notes._ A
metallic, clinking clittick, clittick.,
Range.--Western North America, east to the Rocky Mountains; breeds
from Mexico to British Columbia.
=730a. White-naped Nuthatch= (_S. p. leuconucha_). Similar to No. 730,
but bill larger, crown grayer, back less bluish gray, nape patch more
conspicuous, underparts white with scarcely more than a trace of
buffy. (Ridgw.)
Range.--Lower California.
[Illustration: 444.]
=444. Kingbird= (_Tyrannus tyrannus_). L. 8.5. Tail tipped with white.
_Ads._ Above slaty, crown blacker with an orange patch. _Yng._
Similar, but no crown-patch. _Notes._ An unmusical, steely chatter.
"A soft and very pleasing song," heard only in the early morning.
(O. T. Miller.)
Range.--North America, breeds from Florida north to New Brunswick and
Manitoba, and from eastern Texas northwest to Utah, Nevada, northeast
California and western British Columbia; winters south of United
States, to Central and South America.
[Illustration: 445.]
=445. Gray Kingbird= (_Tyrannus dominicensis_). L. 9. _Ads._ No white
tip on tail; an orange crown-patch; under wing-coverts sulphur;
ear-coverts black; above gray; below white. _Notes._ A loud,
chattering, _pitÃrri_, _pitÃrri_.
Range.--West Indies, breeding north through Florida along the coast to
South Carolina; winters in Lesser Antilles, Mexico, and Central
America.
[Illustration: 701.]
=701. American Dipper; Water Ouzel= (_Cinclus mexicanus_). L. 8.
_Ads._ Slaty gray, head and neck browner. In winter more or less
tipped with whitish. _Notes._ Song, remarkably sweet and lively, in
modulation resembling somewhat that of Brown Thrasher, but less
powerful though sweeter in effect. (Ridgway.) Call, a sharp, pebbly
_cack-cack-cack_.
Range.--"The mountainous parts of central and western North America,
from the Yukon Valley and Unalaska to Guatemala; east in the United
States, to the eastern base of the Rocky mountains. Apparently
resident throughout its range." (A.O.U.)
[Illustration: 704.]
=704. Catbird= (_Galeoscoptes carolinensis_). L. 8.9. _Ads._ Slaty
gray, cap and tail black, under tail-coverts reddish chestnut.
_Notes._ Call, a whining, nasal _tchay_; song, rich, musical, and
varied.
Range.--North America; west to British Columbia and rarely Pacific
coast states; breeds from the Gulf States north to New Brunswick and
the Saskatchewan; winters from Gulf States southward.
[Illustration: 754.]
=754. Townsend Solitaire= (_Myadestes townsendii_). L. 8.5. _Ads._
Brownish gray; eye-ring, tips of outer tail-feathers, a narrow
wing-bar white; wing with a buff band showing in flight. _Notes._
Song, a rich, flowing, Grosbeak-like warbling, sung with great vigor
and freedom and often for comparatively long periods.
Range.--"Western United States, from the Plains westward to the
Pacific coast, north to British Columbia and south in winter to the
southern border of Arizona and northern Lower California; breeds from
the mountains of New Mexico, southern Arizona, and central California
northward."
[Illustration: 621.]
=621. Northern Shrike= (_Lanius borealis_). L. 10.2. Lores grayish.
_Ads._ Above bluish gray; tail black, outer feathers tipped with
white; below white, usually with wavy bars. _Yng._ Above washed with
brown; below more distinctly and more heavily barred _Notes._ Song,
not unlike that of the Brown Thrasher but more disconnected, less
loud.
Range.--North America; breeds from Labrador to Alaska; winters south,
irregularly, to Virginia, Kansas, Arizona, and California.
[Illustration: 622.]
=622. Loggerhead Shrike= (_Lanius ludovicianus_). 9. Lores black.
_Ads._ Underparts white _without_ bars; above bluish gray; rump and
upper tail-coverts little if any paler; tail black, outer feathers
tipped with white. _Yng._ Underparts, head, and rump more or less
narrowly barred. _Notes._ Call, harsh and discordant; song, a series
of guttural gurgles, squeaky whistles.
Range.--Eastern United States; breeds from Florida to Virginia; In
Mississippi Valley, northeast to western Pennsylvania, central and
northern New York, Massachusetts, western New Hampshire, Maine, and
British Columbia; migrates down Atlantic States, as well as
Mississippi Valley, and winters in southern States.
=622a. White-rumped Shrike= (_L. l. excubitorides_). Similar to No.
622, but paler above, rump and upper tail-coverts whiter; bill less
deep.
Range.--"Western North America, from eastern border of the Plains to
the Pacific, except coast of California, and from Manitoba and the
Plains of the Saskatchewan south over tablelands of Mexico."
=622b. California Shrike= (_L. l. gambeli_). Similar to No. 622, but
rump paler, breast usually with indistinct wavy bars and tinged with
brownish.
Range.--Pacific coast, from Lower California to British Columbia.
=622c. Island Shrike= (_L. l. anthonyi_). Similar to No. 622b, but
darker and smaller, W. 3.7.
Range.--Santa Barbara Islands, California.
[Illustration: 703.]
=703. Mockingbird= (_Mimus polyglottos_). L. 10.5. _Ads._ Above ashy
gray; below soiled whitish; outer tail-feathers with white;
wing-coverts narrowly tipped with white; primaries white basally.
_Notes._ Call, a harsh, kissing note; song indescribable.
Range.--Southeastern United States and Bahamas, west to northeastern
Texas; breeds north to southern New Jersey (rarely Massachusetts), and
southern Illinois; winters from Virginia and lower Mississippi Valley
southward.
=703a. Western Mockingbird= (_M. p. leucopterus_). Similar to No. 703,
but with a very slight brownish tinge below and white areas in wing
averaging larger.
Range.--Southwestern United States and northern Mexico from Indian
Territory and eastern Texas west to California.
[Illustration: 765.]
=765. Wheatear= (_Saxicola Ånanthe_). L. 6; W. 3.7. _Ad._ [Male].
Back gray, upper tail-coverts and base of tail white; below white more
or less washed with buff. _Ad._ [Female]. Browner above and below, no
black through eye. _Ads. in winter and Yng._ Similar to [Female], but
cinnamon brown above, cinnamon below.
Range.--Asia; migrating in summer to Alaska.
=765a. Greenland Wheatear= (_S. Å. leucorhoa_). Similar to No. 765,
but larger, W. 4.
Range.--Western Europe; breeds in Greenland and on adjoining mainland;
rarely south to St. Lawrence; casually to Louisiana.
[Illustration: 573.]
=573. Black-throated Sparrow= (_Amphispiza bilineata_). L. 5.3._ Ads._
Throat, upper breast, and front of face black; a white stripe over eye
and another at the side of the throat; above grayish brown unstreaked;
outer web of outer tail-feather white, except at tip; at least half
an inch of tip of inner web white. _Notes._ Song, simple but sweet,
three ascending and three descending notes.
Range.--Middle and eastern Texas (except along coast?), north to
Oklahoma and western Kansas; winters from central Texas south into
northeastern Mexico.
=573a. Desert Sparrow= (_A. b. deserticola_). Similar to No. 573, but
above grayer, the white tip to outer tail-feather _less_ than half an
inch long.
Range.--Western United States and northern Mexico, from western Texas
to southeastern California; breeds north to southern Colorado, and
western Nevada; winters south into Mexico.
[Illustration: 602.]
=602. Morellet Seed-eater= (_Sporophila morelleti_). L. 4.6. _Ad._
[Male]. Entire upperparts, cheeks, tail, wings and breast-band black;
bases of wing-feathers, tips to coverts and underparts, except
breast-band, whitish. _Ad._ [Female]. Above grayish brown, below
uniform buffy. _Yng._ [Male]. Variously intermediate between Ad.
[Male] and Ad. [Female]. At least two years evidently required to
reach mature plumage.
Range.--Eastern Mexico, north to southeastern Texas.
[Illustration: 636.]
=636. Black and White Warbler= (_Mniotilta varia_). L. 5.3. _Ad._
[Male]. Above streaked black and white; throat black or white; belly
white; sides streaked black and white. _Ad._ [Female]. Less black;
whiter below; throat always white. _Notes._ Song, a thin, wiry,
_see-see-see-see_.
Range.--Eastern North America; breeds from Virginia, Louisiana, and
northern Texas, north to Hudson Bay region; winters from Gulf States
south to northern South America; accidental in California.
[Illustration: 661.]
=661. Black-poll Warbler= (_Dendroica striata_). L. 5.6. _Ad._ [Male].
Crown black, cheeks white; back streaked, gray and black; below white
streaked with black; wing-bars and tail-spots white. _Ad._ [Female].
No black cap; above olive-green streaked with black. _Yng. and Ad. in
winter._ Above olive-green lightly streaked with black; below
_yellowish_ white; breast obscurely streaked. _Notes._ Song, a
slender, wiry _tree-tree-tree-tree-tree-tree-tree-tree_, rapidly
uttered. (Langille.)
Range.--Eastern North America, west to the Rockies; breeds from
northern New England, northern New York, northern Michigan, and
Colorado, north to Labrador and Alaska; winters in West Indies and
northern South America.
[Illustration: 665.]
=665. Black-throated Gray Warbler= (_Dendroica nigrescens_). L. 5.
_Ad._ [Male]. Crown, cheeks and throat black, a white stripe at sides
of throat, a yellow line before eye; back gray streaked with black;
wing-bars and tail-patches white. _Ad._ [Female]. Similar, but crown
not always wholly black. _Yng._ Above washed with brownish, black
areas tipped with white. _Notes._ Song, _zee-ee-zee-ee_, _ze_, _ze_,
_ze_, with the quality of the song of _Dendroica virens_ or
_D. cærulescens_.
Range.--Western United States; breeds in mountains from Arizona and
northern Lower California, north to Colorado and Vancouver Island;
winters in Mexico.
[Illustration: 611.]
=611. Purple Martin= (_Progne subis_). L. 7.8. _Ad._ [Male]. Shining
blue-black, all feathers with dusky bases. _Ad._ [Female]. Above dull
blue-black; breast grayish edged with white; belly whitish. _Yng._
[Male]. Variously intermediate between [Female] and Ad. [Male].
Range.--North America, except Pacific coast; breeds north to
Newfoundland and the Saskatchewan; winters in tropics.
=611a. Western Martin= (_P. s. hesperia_). [Male] similar to [Male]
of No. 611; [Female] belly whiter; forehead grayish.
Range.--Pacific coast from northern Lower California to Washington
(and British Columbia?); winters in tropics.
=611.1. Cuban Martin= (_Progne cryptoleuca_). W. 5.50. _Ad._ [Male].
With feathers of ventral region basally marked with white. _Ad._
[Female] _and Yng_. [Male]. With breast and flanks sooty grayish
brown, belly _pure white_.
Range.--Cuba, north in spring to southern Florida.
[Illustration: 612.]
=612. Cliff Swallow= (_Petrochelidon lunifrons_). L. 5.5. _Ads._
Throat chestnut, forehead and rump cinnamon-buff; nape gray; crown and
back glossy blue-black, the back streaked with white. _Yng._ Throat
dusky, often mixed with chestnut; back blackish brown; rump
cinnamon-buff, forehead usually with same.
Range.--"North America, north to the limit of trees, breeding south to
the valleys of the Potomac and Ohio, southern Texas, southern Arizona,
and California; Central and South America in winter; not recorded from
Florida or West Indies." (A.O.U.)
=612.2. Mexican Cliff Swallow= (_Petrochelidon melanogastra_). Similar
to No. 612, but smaller, W. 4.1, forehead deeper, usually chestnut,
like throat, rump darker, more rusty.
Range.--Mexico, north to southern Arizona.
[Illustration: 613.]
=613. Barn Swallow= (_Hirundo erythrogastra_). L. [Male], 7.5;
[Female], 6.5. Tail deeply forked. _Ad._ [Male]. Above glossy
blue-black, forehead chestnut; throat and upper breast chestnut, belly
paler. _Ad._ [Female]. Forehead, and underparts paler; tail less
deeply forked. _Notes._ Song, a sweet, twittering, warbling song. (The
notes of all our Swallows, while simple, are diagnostic but difficult
of description.)
Range.--North America, north to Greenland and Alaska; breeds through
most of range; winters south to southern Brazil.
[Illustration: 614.]
=614. Tree Swallow= (_Iridoprocne bicolor_). L. 6. _Ads._ Above
steel-blue or steel-green; below white. _Yng._ Sooty gray above; white
below.
Range.--North America; breeds locally from Lat. 41° on Atlantic coast
and Lat. 38° on Pacific coast north to Labrador and Alaska; winters
from South Carolina and southern California to the tropics.
[Illustration: 615.]
=615. Northern Violet-Green Swallow= (_Tachycineta thalassina
lepida_). L. 5.2; W. 4.5. _Ad._ [Male]. Above bronze-green; upper
tail-coverts greener; an indistinct nape-ring; mark above eye, cheeks
and underparts white; flank-patches white, often showing from above.
_Ad._ [Female]. Much duller, the head browner, _Yng._ Above brownish
sooty with a greenish tinge; a whitish mark above and behind eye;
below white.
Range.--Western United States, from eastern base of Rockies to
Pacific; breeds from Mexico north to British Columbia; winters in
Mexico and Central America.
=615a. St. Lucas Swallow= (_T. t. brachyptera_). Similar to No. 615,
but wing shorter, [Male], 4.1, [Female], 4. (Brewster.)
Range.--Lower California.
[Illustration: 458.]
=458. Black PhÅbe= (_Sayornis nigricans_). L. 7.2. _Ads._ Breast and
head black, back grayer; outer web of outer tail-feather white; belly
black, under tail-coverts white _streaked with dusky_. _Notes._ A
liquid _hip_, a rising _kee-ree_, and a falling _kee-wray_. (Bailey.)
Range.--Mexico, except Yucatan and Pacific coast from Colima
northward, north into Texas, New Mexico, and southeastern Arizona.
=458a. Western Black PhÅbe= (_S. n. semiatra_). Similar to No. 458,
but under tail-coverts white without dusky streaks.
Range--Pacific coast of Mexico and United States, from Colima to
Oregon, including most of Arizona. (Nelson.)
[Illustration: 494.]
=494. Bobolink; Reed bird= (_Dolichonyx oryzivorus_). _Ad._ [Male],
_summer_. Black; nape buffy, lower back, scapulars and upper
tail-coverts white. _Ad._ [Female]. Above yellowish brown streaked
with buff, and black. below yellowish white, sides streaked with
black. _Winter plumage, Ads and Yng._ Like [Female] but yellower.
_Notes._ Song, an irrepressible bubbling outburst of "mad music" often
given on the wing; calls, a blackbird-like _chuck_ and a metallic, far
carrying, _chink_.
Range.--Eastern North America, west to Utah; breeds from northern New
Jersey, Illinois and Kansas, north to Nova Scotia, Manitoba, and
Montana; migrates south through Florida and West Indies, and winters
south of Amazon.
[Illustration: 534 Winter.]
[Illustration: 534 Summer.]
=534. Snowflake= (_Passerina nivalis_). L. 6.9. Hind toe-nail twice
as long as shortest toe-nail. _Ad._ [Male], _summer_. Head, rump,
secondaries, outer tail-feathers and below white; rest of plumage
largely black. _Ad._ [Female], _summer_. Similar, but crown blackish,
back edged with rusty or grayish. _Winter._ Above rusty and black,
below white, breast tinged with rusty. _Notes._ Calls, a clearly piped
whistle, and a peculiar _chirr_, often uttered when taking wing; song,
short, simple, but rather sweet. (Minot.)
Range.--Breeds in northern parts of northern hemisphere; in winter
south to northern states; irregularly to Georgia, southern Indiana,
Kansas, Colorado, and eastern Oregon.
=534a. Pribilof Snowflake= (_P. n. townsendi_). Similar to No. 534,
but larger, with relatively longer bill; [Male], W. 4.7; B. .5.
(Ridgw.).
Range.--Aleutian and Commander Islands, Pribilof Islands, Shumagin
Islands. (Ridgw.).
=535. McKay Snowflake= (_Passerina hyperborea_). L. 7.5; W. 4.6; B .4.
Similar to No. 534, but with more white. _Ad._ [Male], _summer_. Back
and scapulars entirely white. _Ad._ [Female], _summer_. Crown and
hindneck white. _Yng._ Not certainly distinguishable from Yng. of No.
534. (Ridgw.)
Range.--Breeds on Hall and St. Mathews Islands, Bering Sea; in winter
west coast of Alaska.
[Illustration: 605.]
=605. Lark Bunting= (_Calamospiza melanocorys_). L. 7.2. _Ad._ [Male].
Black, patch in wing white, outer tail-feathers tipped, tertials
margined with white. _Ad._ [Female]. Above grayish brown streaked with
blackish; below white conspicuously streaked with black; all but
central tail-feathers with white tips; broad wing-bars buff. _Yng._
[Male]. Variously intermediate between Ad. [Male] and [Female]. (See
page 251).
Range.--Western United States, chiefly east of Rockies; breeds from
western Kansas and eastern Colorado, north to western Minnesota and
Assiniboia; winters in Mexico; irregular west in migrations to Idaho
and southern California.
[Illustration: 484.]
=484. Canada Jay; Whiskey Jack= (_Perisoreus canadensis_). L. 11.5.
_Ads._ Black of hindhead reaching to back of eye; back, wings, and
tail gray, belly lighter, throat white; forehead buffy white.
_Notes._ _ca-ca-ca_ and a number of peculiar sounds impossible to
reproduce on paper. (Bendire.)
Range.--Eastern North America; Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, northern
New England, northern New York, northern Michigan; northern Minnesota,
north to Newfoundland and Hudson Bay region, west to the Rockies in
Alberta.
[Illustration: 484a.]
=484a. Rocky Mountain Jay= (_P. c. capitalis_). Similar to No. 484,
but head white, black of hindhead grayer and _not_ reaching to eye.
Range.--Rocky Mountain region from New Mexico and Arizona north to
Montana and Idaho.
=484b. Alaskan Jay= (_P. c. fumifrons_). Very near to No. 484, but
forehead averaging more yellowish.
Range.--Alaska; interior and west to Cook Inlet, north of southern
coast region.
=484c. Labrador Jay= (_P. c. nigricapillus_). Similar to No. 484, but
black of hindhead deeper and reaching forward as a well defined ring
around the eye; below browner.
Range.--Labrador.
[Illustration: 485.]
=485. Oregon Jay= (_Perisoreus obscurus_). Similar to No. 484, but
back feathers with _light shaft streaks_, forehead less white,
underparts nearly uniform white.
Range.--Pacific coast from northern California to southern British
Columbia.
=485a. Gray Jay= (_P. o. griseus_). Similar to No. 485, but larger and
grayer; back, etc., deep mouse gray, instead of brown; below grayish
white instead of brownish white. (Ridgw.)
Range.--British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, and northern California,
east of Coast and Cascade Ranges. (Ridgw.)
[Illustration: 491.]
=491. Clarke Nutcracker= (_Nucifraga columbiana_). L. 12. _Ads._ Gray;
wings and middle tail-feathers black, tips of secondaries and outer
tail-feathers white. _Notes._ A loud, harsh, _car-r-car-r_.
Range.--Mountains of western North America, from northern Lower
California, Arizona and New Mexico, north to northern Alaska: casually
east to Mississippi Valley.
[Illustration: 475.]
=475. American Magpie= (_Pica pica hudsonia_). L. 20. _Ads._ Bill
_black_; scapulars, belly and most of inner margins of primaries
white; wings glossy blue black, tail externally greenish; back and
breast velvety black. _Notes._ _Cack_, _cack_, also garrulous gabble
intermixed with whistling notes. (Bendire.)
Range.--Western North America, east to the Plains, west to Cascade and
Sierra Ranges; breeds from northern New Mexico and northern Arizona
north to Alaska strays farther east in winter.
=476. Yellow-billed Magpie= (_Pica nuttalli_). Similar to No. 475,
but bill and eye-space _yellow_; smaller, L. 18. _Notes._ A harsh,
rasping, _cac-cac-cac_; and a low, rich whistle, audible only at a
short distance.
Range.--California, west of Sierra Nevada, "north to Red Bluff and
south to Santa Paula." (Grinnell.)
[Illustration: 493.]
=493. Starling= (_Sturnus vulgaris_). L. 8.5; T. 2.5. _Ad. summer_,
Metallic green and purple spotted above with buffy; bill _yellow_.
_Ad. winter._ Similar, but above heavily spotted with brownish buff;
below heavily spotted with white; bill blackish. _Notes._ A
long-drawn, two-noted whistle, the second lower; and a chattering,
metallic call when in flocks.
Range.--Europe and northern Asia; accidental in Greenland; introduced
into New York City in 1890; now common, extending east to New Haven,
Connecticut, north to Ossining, New York, south to Staten Island and
Plainfield, New Jersey.
[Illustration: 495.]
=495. Cowbird= (_Molothrus ater_). L. 7.9; W. 4.2. _Ad._ [Male]. Head
and neck coffee-brown, body greenish black. _Ad._ [Female]. Brownish
gray, throat lighter. _Yng._ Like [Female]. _Notes._ A metallic
twitter, and by the male, a long-drawn, glassy _kluck-tse-e-e_; and
watery gurgling notes uttered with spread wings and tail.
Range.--United States: rare west of Rockies; breeds from Florida and
Texas north to New Brunswick and Little Slave Lake; west to eastern
Oregon, Nevada, and southeastern California; winters from southern New
Jersey, southern Illinois, Indian Territory, northern Texas, and
southeastern California, southward.
=495a. Dwarf Cowbird= (_M. a. obscurus_). Similar to No. 495,
but smaller, L. 7.5; W. 4.
Range.--Southwestern United States; from Gulf Coast of Texas west
along Mexican boundary to Arizona and Lower California; winters south
of United States.
[Illustration: 496.]
=496. Red-eyed Cowbird= (_Callothrus robustus_). L. 9. _Ad._ [Male].
Velvety bronze-black; wings and tail shining blue-black. _Ad._
[Female]. Dull black, wings and tail with slight greenish reflections.
Range.--Southern and eastern Mexico north, in spring, to Lower Rio
Grande, Texas.
[Illustration: 620.]
=620. Phainopepla= (_Phainopepla nitens_). L. 7.5. Crested. _Ad._
[Male]. Shining black; inner vanes of primaries largely white, showing
in flight. _Ad._ [Female]. Dark gray, tail blacker, wing-coverts and
quills narrowly margined with whitish. _Yng._ Like [Female]. _Notes._
Calls, commonest, like call of young Robin; male has also a scold, a
Meadowlark-like note and a harsh _ca-rack_ or _ca-racack_; song, a
jumble of flute-like tones and weak, squeaky notes. (Bailey.)
Range.--Mexico north to western Texas, southern Utah and southern
California; winters from Mexican border southward.
[Illustration: 509.]
=509. Rusty Blackbird= (_Scolecophagus carolinus_). L. 9.5. _Ad._
[Male]. Nearly uniform greenish black, sometimes with rusty edgings.
_Ad._ [Female]. Slaty gray, generally with some rusty edgings. Winter
plumage of both sexes similar to summer but widely tipped with rusty
above and yellowish rusty below. _Notes._ More musical than those of
other Blackbirds; calls, _tcback_ or _turalee_ repeated several times.
(Bendire.)
Range.--Eastern North America west to the Plains; breeds from New
Brunswick, northern New England, northern New York, and Manitoba,
north to Labrador and Alaska; winters from Virginia, southern
Illinois, and Kansas, southward.
[Illustration: 510.]
=510. Brewer Blackbird= (_Scolecophagus cyanocephalus_). L. 10. _Ad._
[Male]. Whole head violet-purple, rest of plumage bright greenish
black. _Ad._ [Female]. Grayish brown, throat paler, wings and tail
greenish black, no rusty. Winter plumage with light grayish brown
edgings to the feathers of the anterior part of the body.
_Notes._ _Chack_ and a loud, shrill whistle. (Bailey.)
Range.--Western North America from the Plains to the Pacific; breeds
from Texas and northern Lower California north to the Saskatchewan and
British Columbia; winters in the southern parts of its range; casually
east to Mississippi River states.
[Illustration: 511.]
=511. Purple Grackle= (_Quiscalus quiscula_). L. [Male], 12. _Ad._
[Male]. Head, purple, steel-green or steel-blue; back purple, brassy
green or greenish; the feathers _always_ with _iridescent_ bars.
_Notes._ _Tchak_ and a short unmusical call uttered with spread wings
and tail.
Range.--Eastern United States; breeds in lower Mississippi Valley and
east of Alleghanies, from Georgia to Massachusetts; winters from
Virginia southward through its breeding range.
=511a. Florida Grackle= (_Q. q. aglæus_). Similar to 511, but slightly
smaller, head always violet purple; back always bottle-green, with
iridescent bars.
Range.--Florida, north on the Atlantic coast to Virginia, west on the
Gulf Coast to Texas.
=511b. Bronzed Grackle = (_Q. q. æneus_). Head as in No. 511, back and
belly bronze, the feathers _wholly without_ iridescent bars.
Range.--Eastern United States west to the Rockies; breeds from
southern Texas to Great Slave Lake, east to Alleghanies, and, in New
York, east and northeast to Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Labrador;
winters chiefly in lower Mississippi valley; migrates in part east of
the Alleghanies.
[Illustration: 513.]
=513. Boat-tailed Grackle= (_Megaquiscalus major_). L. [Male], 16;
W. 7.5; T. 7. _Ad._ [Male]. Head and neck glossy purple; back and
belly glossy greenish blue. _Ad._ [Female]. Much smaller, T. 5.2;
above blackish brown; below soiled rusty buff. _Notes._ _Tchack_,
a variety of hoarse, rather forced whistles and a gurgling roll as
of a Coot pattering over the water.
Range.--Florida, north along the coast to Virginia; west along coast
to Texas.
=513a. Great-tailed Grackle= (_M. m. macrourus_). Similar to No. 513,
but larger, [Male], L. 18; T. 9. Foreback and breast, as well as head
and neck, purple, only rump and lower belly greenish blue; [Female]
blacker both above and below than [Male] of 513. _Notes._ _Tchack_,
and a greater variety of squeaky calls and hoarse whistles than are
uttered by No. 513.
Range.--Eastern Texas and south into Mexico.
[Illustration: 486.]
=486. American Raven= (_Corvus corax sinuatus_). L. 24; W. 16; B. 2.7.
_Ads._ Resembling No. 488, in color but glossier below and with the
feathers of throat narrow and lengthened; nape feathers gray at base.
_Notes._ A hoarse, croaking, _craack-craack_, sometimes a deep,
grunting _koeer-koeer_; a clucking, and a metallic _klunk_. (Bendire.)
Range.--Western North America, from Guatemala north to British
Columbia; east to the Rockies, west to Pacific.
=486a. Northern Raven= (_C. c. principalis_). Similar to No. 486, but
larger, L. 25; W. 17; B. 3.
Range.--Eastern North America, from mountains of northern Georgia and
coast of Maine, north to Greenland; west to the Rocky Mountains.
[Illustration: 487.]
=487. White-necked Raven= (_Corvus cryptoleucus_). L. 18.5. _Ads._
Blue-black; feathers of throat narrow and lengthened and with feathers
of neck all around, _white at the base_. _Notes._ _Kwank-kwank_, less
loud and penetrating than those of No. 486. (Bendire.)
Range.--Northern Mexico, north to western Kansas, eastern Colorado
(rarely), and southern California; east to western Texas.
[Illustration: 488.]
=488. American Crow= (_Corvus americanus_). L. 19.3; W. 12.1; B. 2.00.
Black with steel-blue or deep, purplish reflections; below duller,
neck feathers not lengthened. _Notes._ _Caw_, _caw_, with many
variations; song, _car-r-r-uck_, _oo-oo-oo-oo-ah_.
Range.--North America, north to Arctic Circle; winters from northern
United States southward; local in west.
=488a. Florida Crow= (_C. a. pascuus_). Similar to No. 488, but wings
and tail somewhat shorter, bill and feet slightly larger, W. 12;
T. 7.3; B. 2.1.
Range.--Florida.
=489. Northwest Crow= (_Corvus caurinus_). Similar to No. 488 in color
but smaller; L. 16; W. 11; B. 1.7.
Range.--Northwest coast, from Oregon to Kadiak Island, Alaska.
[Illustration: 490.]
=490. Fish Crow= (_Corvus ossifragus_). L. 16; W. 11; B. 1.5. _Ads._
Resemble No. 488, in color, but back feathers are uniform blue-black
_without_ dull margins; underparts are nearly as bright as upperparts.
_Notes._ A hoarse, nasal, reedy _car_ resembling the call of the young
of No. 488.
Range.--Atlantic coast north to Connecticut, (casually Massachusetts),
west along Gulf coast to Louisiana; resident, except at northern limit
of range.
SYSTEMATIC TABLE
Of the Birds of America north of Mexico, arranged according to the
American Ornithologists' Union's 'Check-List of North American Birds',
Third Edition 1910, and Supplement[B], July, 1912.
(_The presence of brackets, [ ], indicates that the species is an
accidental visitant_).
[B] The Auk, xxix, 1912, pp. 380-387.
[C] Note that trinomials are now employed for all the
races of a species including the first one described. Hence in
place of No. 13, Puffin, _Fratercula arctica_, we now have
No. 13, Puffin, _Fratercula arctica arctica_. (See pages 6 and
7 for an explanation of this method.)
[E] Note also that in accordance with a ruling of the
A.O.U., the apostrophe is used with the names of birds named
after individuals. Thus in place of No. 16, Cassin Auklet, we
have No. 16, Cassin's Auklet. These changes affect all similar
cases throughout the Color Key. After identifying a species,
therefore, the student should turn to its number in the
Systematic Table to learn whether any change has been made in
its name. All alterations other than those of mere nomenclature
are given beyond in Appendix I.
Order PYGOPODES. Diving Birds
Family COLYMBIDÃ. Grebes.
A.O.U.
No. COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME Page
1 Western Grebe Ãchmophorus occidentalis 44
2 HolbÅll's Grebe Colymbus holbÅlli 43
3 Horned Grebe " auritus 43
4 Eared Grebe " nigricollis californicus 43
5 Mexican Grebe " dominicus brachypterus 43
6 Pied-bill Grebe Podilymbus podiceps 43
Family GAVIIDÃ. Loons.
A.O.U.
No. COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME Page
7 Loon Gavia immer 44
8 Yellow-billed Loon " adamsi 44
9 Black-throated Loon " arctica 44
10 Pacific Loon " pacifica 44
11 Red-throated Loon " stellata 44
Family ALCIDÃ. Auks, Murres, and Puffins.
A.O.U.
No. COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME Page
12 Tufted Puffin Lunda cirrhata 45
13 Puffin Fratercula arctica arctica[C] 45
13_a_ Large-billed Puffin " " naumanni 45
14 Horned Puffin " corniculata 45
15 Rhinoceros Auklet Cerorhinca monocerata 45
16 Cassin's Auklet[E] Ptychoramphus aleuticus 46
17 Paroquet Auklet Phaleris psittacula 47
18 Crested Auklet Ãthia cristatella 47
19 Whiskered Auklet " pygmæa 47
20 Least Auklet " pusilla 47
21 Ancient Murrelet Synthliboramphus antiquus 47
23 Marbled Murrelet Brachyramphus marmoratus 46
24 Kittlitz's Murrelet " brevirostris 46
25 Xantus's Murrelet " hypoleucus 46
26 Craveri's Murrelet " craverii 46
27 Black Guillemot Cepphus grylle 48
28 Mandt's Guillemot " mandti 48
29 Pigeon Guillemot " columba 48
30 Murre Uria troile troile 48
30_a_ California Murre " " californica 48
31 Brunnich's Murre " lomvia lomvia 48
31_a_ Pallas's Murre " " arra 48
32 Razor-billed Auk Alca torda 48
33 Great Auk Plautus impennis 48
34 Dovekie Alle alle 46
Order LONGIPENNES. Long Winged Swimmers
Family STERCORARIIDÃ. Skuas and Jaegers
A.O.U.
No. COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME Page
35 Skua Megalestris skua 51
36 Pomarine Jaeger Stercorarius pomarinus 51
37 Parasitic Jaeger " parasiticus 51
38 Long-tailed Jaeger " longicaudus 51
Family LARIDÃ. Gulls and Terns
A.O.U.
No. COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME Page
39 Ivory Gull Pagophila alba 52
40 Kittiwake Rissa tridactyla tridactyla 52
40_a_ Pacific Kittiwake " " pollicaris 52
41 Red-legged Kittiwake Rissa brevirostris 52
42 Glaucous Gull Larus hyperboreus 53
43 Iceland Gull " leucopterus 53
44 Glaucous-winged Gull " glaucescens 53
45 Kumlien's Gull " kumlieni 53
46 Nelson's Gull " nelsoni 53
47 Great Black-backed Gull " marinus 54
48 Slaty-backed Gull " schistisagus 54
49 Western Gull " occidentalis 54
[50] Siberian Gull " affinis A.V.
51 Herring Gull " argentatus 55
[52] Vega Gull " vegæ A.V.
53 California Gull " californicus 55
54 Ring-billed Gull " delawarensis 52
55 Short-billed Gull " brachyrhynchus 52
[56] Mew Gull " canus A.V.
57 Heermann's Gull " heermanni 54
58 Laughing Gull " atricilla 56
59 Franklin's Gull " franklini 56
60 Bonaparte's Gull " philadelphia 56
[60.1] Little Gull " minutus A.V.
61 Ross's Gull Rhodostethia rosea 56
62 Sabine's Gull Xema sabini 56
63 Gull-billed Tern Gelochelidon nilotica 58
64 Caspian Tern Sterna caspia 57
65 Royal Tern " maxima 57
66 Elegant Tern " elegans 57
67 Cabot's Tern " sandvicensis acuflavida 57
[68] Trudeau's Tern " trudeaui A.V.
69 Forster's Tern " forsteri 59
70 Common Tern " hirundo 59
71 Arctic Tern " paradisæa 59
72 Roseate Tern " dougalli 59
73 Aleutian Tern " aleutica 58
74 Least Tern " antillarum 58
75 Sooty Tern " fuscata 60
[76] Bridled Tern " anætheta 58
77 Black Tern Hydrochelidon nigra surinamensis 60
[78] White-winged Black Tern " leucoptera A.V.
79 Noddy Anous stolidus 60
Family RYNCHOPIDÃ. Skimmers.
A.O.U.
No. COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME Page
80 Black Skimmer Rynchops nigra 60
Order TUBINARES. Tube-nosed Swimmers
Family DIOMEDEIDÃ. Albatrosses.
A.O.U.
No. COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME Page
81 Black-footed Albatross Diomedea nigripes 62
82 Short-tailed Albatross " albatrus 62
82.1 Laysan Albatross " immutabilis 62
[83] Yellow-nosed Albatross Thalassogeron culminatus 62
[84] Sooty Albatross PhÅbetria palpebrata 62
Family PROCELLARIIDÃ. Fulmars, Shearwaters, and Petrels.
A.O.U.
No. COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME Page
[85] Giant Fulmar Macronectes giganteus A.V.
86 Fulmar Fulmarus glacialis glacialis 63
86_b_ Pacific Fulmar " " glupischa 63
86.1 Rodger's Fulmar " rodgersi 63
87 Slender-billed Fulmar Priocella glacialoides 63
[102] Pintado Petrel Daption capense A.V.
88 Cory's Shearwater Puffinus borealis 64
89 Greater Shearwater " gravis 64
[90] Manx Shearwater " puffinus A.V.
91 Pink-footed Shearwater " creatopus 64
92 Audubon's Shearwater Puffinus lherminieri 64
[92.1] Allied Shearwater " assimilis A.V.
93 Black-vented Shearwater " opisthomelas 64
93.1 Townsend's Shearwater " auricularis 64
95 Sooty Shearwater " griseus 63
96 Slender-billed Shearwater " tenuirostris 64
96.1 Wedge-tailed Shearwater " cuneatus 63
[96.2] New Zealand Shearwater " bulleri A.V.
[97] Black-tailed Shearwater Priofinus cinereus A.V.
[98] Black-capped Petrel Ãstrelata hasitata 65
[99] Scaled Petrel " scalaris A.V.
100 Fisher's Petrel " fisheri A.V.
[101] Bulwer's Petrel Bulweria bulweri A.V.
103 Least Petrel Halocyptena microsoma 65
104 Stormy Petrel Thalassidroma pelagica 66
105 Forked-tailed Petrel Oceanodroma furcata 65
105.2 Kaeding's Petrel Oceanodroma kaedingi 65
106 Leach's Petrel " leucorhoa 66
106.1 Guadalupe Petrel " macrodactyla 66
[106.2] Hawaiian Petrel " castro A.V.
107 Black Petrel " melania 66
108 Ashy Petrel " homochroa 65
108.1 Socorro Petrel " socorroensis 66
109 Wilson's Petrel Oceanites oceanicus 66
[110] White-bellied Petrel Fregetta grallaria A.V.
[111] White-faced Petrel Pelagodroma marina A.V.
Order STEGANOPODES. Totipalmate Swimmers
Family PHAÃTHONTIDÃ. Tropic Birds.
A.O.U.
No. COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME Page
112 Yellow-billed Tropic-bird Phaëthon americanus 69
113 Red-billed Tropic-bird " æthereus 69
[113.1] Red-tailed Tropic-bird " rubricaudus A.V.
Family SULIDÃ. Gannets.
A.O.U.
No. COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME Page
[114] Blue-faced Booby Sula cyanops 70
114.1 Blue-footed Booby " nebouxi 70
115 Booby " leucogastra 70
115.1 Brewster's Booby " brewsteri 70
[116] Red-footed Booby " piscator 70
117 Gannet " bassana 69
Family ANHINGIDÃ. Darters.
A.O.U.
No. COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME Page
118 Water-Turkey Anhinga anhinga 73
Family PHALACROCORACIDÃ. Cormorants.
A.O.U.
No. COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME Page
119 Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo 70
120 Double-crested Cormorant " auritus auritus 71
120_a_ Florida Cormorant " " floridanus 71
120_b_ White-crested Cormorant " " cincinatus 71
120_c_ Farallon Cormorant " " albociliatus 71
121 Mexican Cormorant " vigua mexicanus 71
122 Brandt's Cormorant " penicillatus 72
123 Pelagic Cormorant " pelagicus pelagicus 72
123_a_ Violet-green Cormorant " " robustus 72
123_b_ Baird's Cormorant " " resplendens 72
124 Red-faced Cormorant " urile 72
Family PELECANIDÃ. Pelicans.
A.O.U.
No. COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME Page
125 White Pelican Pelecanus erythrorhynchos 73
126 Brown Pelican " occidentalis 73
127 California Brown Pelican " californicus 73
Family FREGATIDÃ. Man-o'-War Birds.
A.O.U.
No. COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME Page
128 Man-o'-war-bird Fregata aquila 73
Order ANSERES. Lamellirostral Swimmers
Family ANATIDÃ. Ducks, Geese, and Swans.
A.O.U.
No. COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME Page
129 American Merganser Mergus americanus 76
130 Red-breasted Merganser " serrator 76
131 Hooded Merganser Lophodytes cucullatus 76
[131.1] Smew Mergellus albellus A.V.
132 Mallard Anas platyrhynchos 76
133 Black Duck " rubripes 77
134 Florida Duck " fulvigula fulvigula 77
134_a_ Mottled Duck " " maculosa 77
135 Gadwall Chaulelasmus streperus 77
136 European Widgeon Mareca penelope 77
137 Baldpate " americana 77
[138] European Teal Nettion crecca A.V.
139 Green-winged Teal " carolinense 78
140 Blue-winged Teal Querquedula discors 78
141 Cinnamon Teal " cyanoptera 78
[141.1] Ruddy Sheldrake Casarca ferruginea A.V.
142 Shoveller Spatula clypeata 78
143 Pintail Dafila acuta 76
144 Wood Duck Aix sponsa 78
[145] Rufous-crested Duck Netta rufina A.V.
146 Redhead Marila americana 79
147 Canvas-back " valisineria 79
148 American Scaup Duck " marila 79
149 Lesser Scaup Duck " affinis 79
150 Ring-necked Duck " collaris 79
151 American Golden-eye Clangula clangula americana 80
152 Barrow's Golden-eye " islandica 80
153 Buffle-head Charitonetta albeola 80
154 Old-squaw Harelda hyemalis 81
155 Harlequin Duck Histrionicus histrionicus 81
156 Labrador Duck Camptorhynchus labradorius 81
157 Steller's Eider Polysticta stelleri 81
158 Spectacled Eider Arctonetta fischeri 82
159 Northern Eider Somateria mollissima borealis 82
160 American Eider " dresseri 82
161 Pacific Eider " v-nigra 82
162 King Eider " spectabilis 82
163 American Scoter Oidemia americana 83
[164] Velvet Scoter " fusca A.V.
165 White-winged Scoter " deglandi 83
166 Surf Scoter " perspicillata 83
167 Ruddy Duck Erismatura jamaicensis 80
[168] Masked Duck Nomonyx dominicus 80
169 Lesser Snow Goose Chen hyperboreus hyperboreus 84
169_a_ Greater Snow Goose " " nivalis 84
169.1 Blue Goose " cærulescens 85
170 Ross's Goose " rossi 84
[171] European White-fronted Goose Anser albifrons albifrons A.V.
171_a_ White-fronted Goose " " gambeli 85
[171.1] Bean Goose " fabalis A.V.
[171.2] Pink-footed Goose " brachyrhynchus A.V.
172 Canada Goose Branta canadensis canadensis 86
172_a_ Hutchins's Goose " " hutchinsi 86
172_b_ White-cheeked Goose " " occidentalis 86
172_c_ Cackling Goose " " minima 86
173_a_ Brant " bernicla glaucogastra 86
174 Black Brant " nigricans 86
[175] Barnacle Goose " leucopsis A.V.
176 Emperor Goose Philacte canagica 85
177 Black-bellied Tree-duck Dendrocygna autumnalis 83
178 Fulvous Tree-duck " bicolor 83
[179] Whooper Swan Olor cygnus A.V.
180 Whistling Swan " columbianus 84
181 Trumpeter Swan " buccinator 84
Order ODONTOGLOSSÃ. Lamellirostral Grallatores
Family PHOENICOPTERIDÃ. Flamingoes.
A.O.U.
No. COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME Page
182 Flamingo Phoenicopterus ruber 89
Order HERODIONES. Herons, Storks, Ibises, etc.
Family PLATALEIDÃ. Spoonbills.
A.O.U.
No. COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME Page
183 Roseate Spoonbill Ajaia ajaja 89
Family IBIDIDÃ. Ibises.
A.O.U.
No. COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME Page
184 White Ibis Guara alba 90
[185] Scarlet Ibis " rubra 89
186 Glossy Ibis Plegadis autumnalis 90
187 White-faced Glossy Ibis " guarauna 90
Family CICONDIIDÃ. Storks and Wood Ibises.
A.O.U.
No. COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME Page
188 Wood Ibis Mycteria americana 90
[189] Jabiru Jabiru mycteria A.V.
Family ARDEIDÃ. Herons, Bitterns, etc.
A.O.U.
No. COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME Page
190 American Bittern Botaurus lentiginosus 91
191 Least Bittern Ixobrychus exilis 91
191.1 Cory's Least Bittern " neoxenus 91
192 Great White Heron Ardea occidentalis 92
194 Great Blue Heron " herodias herodias 93
194_a_ Northwestern Coast Heron " " fannini 93
194_b_ Ward's Heron " " wardi 93
[195] European Heron " cinerea A.V.
196 American Egret Herodias egretta 92
197 Snowy Egret Egretta candidissima candidissima 92
197_a_ Brewster's Egret " " brewsteri 294
198 Reddish Egret Dichromanassa rufescens 94
199 Louisiana Heron Hydranassa tricolor ruficollis 94
200 Little Blue Heron Florida cærulea 94
201 Green Heron Butorides virescens virescens 94
201_a_ Frazar's Green Heron " " frazari 94
201_b_ Anthony's Green Heron " " anthonyi 94
202 Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax nævius 93
203 Yellow-crowned Night Heron Nyctanassa violacea 93
Order PALUDICOLÃ. Cranes, Rails, etc.
Family GRUIDÃ. Cranes.
A.O.U.
No. COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME Page
204 Whooping Crane Grus americana 96
205 Little Brown Crane " canadensis 96
206 Sandhill Crane " mexicana 96
Family ARAMIDÃ. Courlans.
A.O.U.
No. COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME Page
207 Limpkin Aramus vociferus 96
Family RALLIDÃ. Rails, Gallinules, and Coots.
A.O.U.
No. COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME Page
208 King Rail Rallus elegans 97
209 Belding's Rail " beldingi 97
210 California Clapper Rail " obsoletus 97
210.1 Light-footed Rail " levipes 294
211 Clapper Rail " crepitans crepitans 98
211_a_ Louisiana Clapper Rail " " saturatus 98
211_b_ Florida Clapper Rail " " scotti 98
211_c_ Wayne's Clapper Rail " " waynei 98
211.2 Caribbean Clapper Rail " longirostris caribæus 98
212 Virginia Rail " virginianus 97
[213] Spotted Crake Porzana porzana A.V.
214 Sora " carolina 98
215 Yellow Rail Coturnicops noveboracensis 97
216 Black Rail Creciscus jamaicensis 98
216.1 Farallon Rail " coturniculus 294
[217] Corn Crake Crex crex A.V.
218 Purple Gallinule Ionornis martinicus 99
219 Florida Gallinule Gallinula galeata 99
[220] European Coot Fulica atra A.V.
221 Coot " americana 99
Order LIMICOLÃ. Shore Birds.
Family PHALAROPODIDÃ. Phalaropes.
A.O.U.
No. COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME Page
222 Red Phalarope Phalaropus fulicarius 102
223 Northern Phalarope Lobipes lobatus 102
224 Wilson's Phalarope Steganopus tricolor 102
Family RECURVIROSTRIDÃ. Avocets and Stilts.
A.O.U.
No. COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME Page
225 Avocet Recurvirostra americana 103
226 Black-necked Stilt Himantopus mexicanus 105
Family SCOLOPACIDÃ. Snipes, Sandpipers, etc.
A.O.U.
No. COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME Page
[227] European Woodcock Scolopax rusticola A.V.
228 Woodcock Philohela minor 105
[229] European Snipe Gallinago gallinago A.V.
230 Wilson's Snipe " delicata 105
[230.1] Great Snipe " media A.V.
231 Dowitcher Macrorhamphus griseus griseus 106
232 Long-billed Dowitcher " " scolopaceus 106
233 Stilt Sandpiper Micropalama himantopus 106
234 Knot Tringa canutus 106
235 Purple Sandpiper Arquatella maritima maritima 107
235_a_ Aleutian Sandpiper " " couesi 107
235_b_ Pribilof Sandpiper " " ptilocnemis 108
238 Sharp-tailed Sandpiper Pisobia aurita 109
239 Pectoral Sandpiper " maculata 109
240 White-rumped Sandpiper " fuscicollis 109
241 Baird's Sandpiper " bairdi 109
242 Least Sandpiper " minutilla 109
[242.1] Long-toed Stint " damacensis A.V.
[243] Dunlin Pelidna alpina alpina A.V.
243_a_ Red-backed Sandpiper " " sakhalina 108
244 Curlew Sandpiper Erolia ferruginea 106
[245] Spoonbill Sandpiper Eurynorhynchus pygmæus A.V.
246 Semipalmated Sandpiper Ereunetes pusillus 108
247 Western Sandpiper " mauri 108
248 Sanderling Calidris leucophæa 108
249 Marbled Godwit Limosa fedoa 110
250 Pacific Godwit " lapponica baueri 110
251 Hudsonian Godwit " hæmastica 110
[252] Black-tailed Godwit " limosa A.V.
[253] Green-shank Glottis nebularia A.V.
[253.1] Red-shank Totanus totanus A.V.
254 Greater Yellow-legs " melanoleucus 111
255 Yellow-legs " flavipes 111
256 Solitary Sandpiper Helodromas solitarius solitarius 107
256_a_ Western Solitary Sandpiper " " cinnamomeus 107
[257] Green Sandpiper " ocrophus A.V.
258 Willet Catoptrophorus semipalmatus
semipalmatus 111
258_a_ Western Willet Catoptrophorus semipalmatus
inornatus 111
259 Wandering Tatler Heteractitis incanus 111
[260] Ruff Machetes pugnax A.V.
261 Upland Plover Bartramia longicauda 105
262 Buff-breasted Sandpiper Tryngites subruficollis 105
263 Spotted Sandpiper Actitis macularia 107
264 Long-billed Curlew Numenius americanus 103
265 Hudsonian Curlew Numenius hudsonicus 103
266 Eskimo Curlew " borealis 103
[267] Whimbrel " phæopus A.V.
268 Bristle-thighed Curlew " tahitiensis 295
Family CHARADRIIDÃ. Plovers.
A.O.U.
No. COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME Page
[269] Lapwing Vanellus vanellus A.V.
[269.1] Dotterel Eudromias morinellus A.V.
270 Black-bellied Plover Squatarola squatarola 110
[271] European Golden Plover Charadrius apricarius A.V.
272 Golden Plover " dominicus dominicus 110
272_a_ Pacific Golden Plover " " fulvus 110
273 Killdeer Oxyechus vociferus 112
274 Semipalmated Plover Ãgialitis semipalmata 112
275 Ringed Plover " hiaticula 112
[276] Little Ringed Plover " dubia A.V.
277 Piping Plover " meloda 112
278 Snowy Plover " nivosa 112
[279] Mongolian Plover " mongola A.V.
280 Wilson's Plover Ochthodromus wilsonius 112
281 Mountain Plover Podasocys montanus 105
Family APHRIZIDÃ. Surf Birds and Turnstones.
A.O.U.
No. COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME Page
282 Surf-bird Aphriza virgata 111
283 Turnstone Arenaria interpres interpres 102
283_a_ Ruddy Turnstone " " morinella 102
284 Black Turnstone " melanocephala 107
Family HÃMATOPODIDÃ. Oyster-Catchers.
A.O.U.
No. COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME Page
[285] European Oyster-catcher Hæmatopus ostralegus A.V.
286 Oyster-catcher " palliatus 104
286.1 Frazar's Oyster-catcher " frazari 104
287 Black Oyster-catcher " bachmani 104
Family JACANIDÃ. Jacanas.
A.O.U.
No. COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME Page
[288] Mexican Jacana Jacana spinosa 102
Order GALLINÃ. Gallinaceous Birds
Family ODONTOPHORIDÃ. Bob-whites, Quails, etc.
A.O.U.
No. COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME Page
289 Bob-white Colinus virginianus virginianus 115
289_a_ Florida Bob-white " " floridanus 115
289_b_ Texas Bob-white " " texanus 115
291 Masked Bob-white " ridgwayi 115
292 Mountain Quail Oreortyx picta picta 116
292_a_ Plumed Quail " " plumifera 116
292_b_ San Pedro Quail " " confinis 116
293 Scaled Quail Callipepla squamata squamata 116
293_a_ Chestnut-bellied Scaled Quail " " castanogastris 116
294 California Quail Lophortyx californica californica 116
294_a_ Valley Quail " " vallicola 116
295 Gambel's Quail " gambeli 116
296 Mearns's Quail Cyrtonyx montezumæ mearnsi 115
Family TETRAONIDÃ. Grouse, Partridges, etc.
A.O.U.
No. COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME Page
297 Dusky Grouse Dendragapus obscurus obscurus 117
297_a_ Sooty Grouse " " fuliginosus 117
297_b_ Richardson's Grouse " " richardsoni 117
297_c_ Sierra Grouse " " sierræ 295
298 Hudsonian Spruce Partridge Canachites canadensis canadensis 117
298_b_ Alaska Spruce Partridge " " osgoodi 117
298_c_ Canada Spruce Partridge " " canace 117
299 Franklin's Grouse " franklini 117
300 Ruffed Grouse Bonasa umbellus umbellus 118
300_a_ Canada Ruffed Grouse " " togata 118
300_b_ Gray Ruffed Grouse " " umbelloides 118
300_c_ Oregon Ruffed Grouse " " sabini 118
301 Willow Ptarmigan Lagopus lagopus lagopus 119
301_a_ Allen's Ptarmigan " " alleni 119
301_b_ Alexander's Ptarmigan " " alexandræ 295
301_c_ Ungava Ptarmigan " " ungavus 295
302 Rock Ptarmigan " rupestris rupestris 119
302_a_ Reinhardt's Ptarmigan " " reinhardi 119
302_b_ Nelson's Ptarmigan " " nelsoni 119
302_c_ Turner's Ptarmigan " " atkhensis 120
302_d_ Townsend's Ptarmigan " " townsendi 120
302_e_ Adak Ptarmigan " " chamberlaini 296
302_f_ Dixon's Ptarmigan " " dixoni 296
302.1 Evermann's Ptarmigan " evermanni 120
303 Welch's Ptarmigan " welchi 120
304 White-tailed Ptarmigan Lagopus leucurus leucurus 118
304_a_ Kenai White-tailed Ptarmigan " " peninsularis 118
305 Prairie Chicken Tympanuchus americanus americanus 121
305_a_ Attwater's Prairie Chicken " " attwateri 121
306 Heath Hen " cupido 121
307 Lesser Prairie Chicken " pallidicinctus 121
308 Sharp-tailed Grouse PediÅcetes phasianellus
phasianellus 121
308_a_ Columbian Sharp-tailed Grouse PediÅcetes phasianellus
columbianus 121
308_b_ Prairie Sharp-tailed Grouse " " campestris 121
309 Sage Hen Centrocercus urophasianus 122
Family MELEAGRIDÃ. Turkeys.
A.O.U.
No. COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME Page
310 Merriam's Turkey Meleagris gallopavo merriami 122
310_a_ Wild Turkey " " silvestris 122
310_b_ Florida Turkey " " osceola 122
310_c_ Rio Grande Turkey " " intermedia 122
Family CRACIDÃ. Curassows and Guans.
A.O.U.
No. COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME Page
311 Chachalaca Ortalis vetula mccalli 122
Order COLUMBÃ. Pigeons
Family COLUMBIDÃ. Pigeons.
A.O.U.
No. COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME Page
312 Band-tailed Pigeon Columba fasciata fasciata 124
312_a_ Viosca's Pigeon " " vioscæ 124
313 Red-billed Pigeon " flavirostris 124
314 White-crowned Pigeon " leucocephala 124
[314.1] Scaled Pigeon " squamosa A.V.
315 Passenger Pigeon Ectopistes migratorius 125
316 Mourning Dove Zenaidura macroura carolinensis 125
316_i_ Western Mourning Dove " " marginella 296
317 Zenaida Dove Zenaida zenaida 125
318 White-fronted Dove Leptotila fulviventris brachyptera 125
319 West Indian
White-winged Dove Melopelia asiatica asiatica 126
319_a_ White-winged Dove " " trudeaui 296
320 Ground Dove Chæmepelia passerina terrestris 126
320_a_ Mexican Ground Dove " " pallescens 126
320_b_ Bermuda Ground Dove " " bermudiana 126
321 Inca Dove Scardafella inca 126
[322] Key West Quail-dove Geotrygon chrysia 126
[322.1] Ruddy Quail-dove " montana 126
[323] Blue-headed Quail-dove StarnÅnas cyanocephala 126
Order RAPTORES. Birds of Prey.
Family CATHARTIDÃ. American Vultures.
A.O.U.
No. COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME Page
324 California Vulture Gymnogyps californianus 129
325 Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura septentrionalis 129
326 Black Vulture Catharista urubu 129
Family BUTEONIDÃ. Hawks, Eagles, Kites, etc.
A.O.U.
No. COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME Page
327 Swallow-tailed Kite Elanoides forficatus 130
328 White-tailed Kite Elanus leucurus 130
329 Mississippi Kite Ictinia mississippiensis 130
330 Everglade Kite Rostrhamus sociabilis 130
331 Marsh Hawk Circus hudsonius 130
332 Sharp-shinned Hawk Accipiter velox 131
333 Cooper's Hawk " cooperi 131
334 Goshawk " atricapillus atricapillus 131
334_a_ Western Goshawk " " striatulus 131
335 Harris's Hawk Parabuteo unicinctus harrisi 132
337 Red-tailed Hawk Buteo borealis borealis 132
337_a_ Krider's Hawk " " krideri 132
337_b_ Western Red-tail " " calurus 132
337_d_ Harlan's Hawk " " harlani 132
337_e_ Alaska Red-tail " " alascensis 296
339 Red-shouldered Hawk " lineatus lineatus 133
339_a_ Florida
Red-shouldered Hawk " " alleni 133
339_b_ Red-bellied Hawk " " elegans 133
340 Zone-tailed Hawk " abbreviatus 134
341 Sennett's
White-tailed Hawk " albicaudatus sennetti 135
342 Swainson's Hawk " swainsoni 133
343 Broad-winged Hawk " platypterus 133
344 Short-tailed Hawk " brachyurus 135
345 Mexican Black Hawk Urubitinga anthracina 134
346 Mexican Goshawk Asturina plagiata 131
347_a_ Rough-legged Hawk Archibuteo lagopus sancti-johannis 135
348 Ferruginous Rough-leg " ferrugineus 135
349 Golden Eagle Aquila chrysaëtos 136
[351] Gray Sea Eagle Haliæetus albicilla A.V.
352 Bald Eagle " leucocephalus leucocephalus 136
352_a_ Northern Bald Eagle " " alascanus 136
Family FALCONDIDÃ. Falcons, Caracaras, etc.
A.O.U.
No. COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME Page
353 White Gyrfalcon Falco islandus 136
354 Gray Gyrfalcon " rusticolus rusticolus 136
354_a_ Gyrfalcon " " gyrfalco 136
354_b_ Black Gyrfalcon " " obsoletus 137
355 Prairie Falcon " mexicanus 135
[356] Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus peregrinus A.V.
356_a_ Duck Hawk " " anatum 137
356_b_ Peale's Falcon " " pealei 137
357 Pigeon Hawk Falco columbarius columbarius 137
357_a_ Black Pigeon Hawk " " suckleyi 137
358 Richardson's Pigeon Hawk " " richardsoni 137
[358.1] Merlin " æsalon A.V.
359 Aplomado Falcon " fusco-cærulescens 137
[359.1] Kestrel " tinnunculus A.V.
360 Sparrow Hawk " sparverius sparverius 137
360_a_ Desert Sparrow Hawk " " phalæna 138
360_b_ San Lucas Sparrow Hawk " " peninsularis 138
360_c_ Little Sparrow Hawk " " paulus 296
[361] Cuban Sparrow Hawk " sparveroides A.V.
362 Audubon's Caracara Polyborus cheriway 134
363 Guadalupe Caracara " lutosus 134
Family PANDIONIDÃ. Ospreys.
A.O.U.
No. COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME Page
364 Osprey Pandion haliaëtus carolinensis 129
Family ALUCONDIDÃ. Barn Owls.
A.O.U.
No. COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME Page
365 Barn Owl Aluco pratincola 138
Family STRIGIDÃ. Horned Owls, etc.
A.O.U.
No. COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME Page
366 Long-eared Owl Asio wilsonianus 138
367 Short-eared Owl " flammeus 138
368 Barred Owl Strix varia varia 139
368_a_ Florida Barred Owl " " alleni 139
368_b_ Texas Barred Owl " " albogilva 139
369 Spotted Owl Strix occidentalis occidentalis 139
369_a_ Northern Spotted Owl " " caurina 139
370 Great Gray Owl Scotiaptex nebulosa nebulosa 139
[370_a_] Lapp Owl " " lapponica A.V.
371 Richardson's Owl Cryptoglaux funerea richardsoni 139
372 Saw-whet Owl " " acadica acadica 140
372_a_ Northwestern Saw-whet Owl " " scotæa 140
373 Screech Owl Otus asio asio 141
373_a_ Florida Screech Owl " " floridanus 141
373_b_ Texas Screech Owl " " mccalli 141
373_c_ California Screech Owl " " bendirei 141
373_d_ Kennicott's Screech Owl " " kennicotti 141
373_e_ Rocky Mountain Screech Owl " " maxwelliæ 141
373_f_ Mexican Screech Owl " " cineraceus 142
373_g_ Aiken's Screech Owl " " aikeni 142
373_h_ MacFarlane's Screech Owl " " macfarlanei 142
373_i_ Sahuaro Screech Owl " " gilmani 297
373.1 Spotted Screech Owl " " trichopsis 142
373.2 Xantus's Screech Owl " xantusi 142
374 Flammulated Screech Owl " flammeolus flammeolus 142
374_a_ Dwarf Screech Owl " " idahoensis 142
375 Great Horned Owl Bubo virginianus virginianus 143
375_a_ Western Horned Owl " " pallescens 143
375_b_ Arctic Horned Owl " " subarcticus 143
375_c_ Dusky Horned Owl " " saturatus 143
375_d_ Pacific Horned Owl " " pacificus 143
375_e_ Dwarf Horned Owl " " elachistus 143
375_f_ Labrador Horned Owl " " heterocnemis 297
375_g_ Saint Michael Horned Owl " " algistus 297
376 Snowy Owl Nyctea nyctea 143
[377] European Hawk Owl Surnia ulula ulula A.V.
377_a_ Hawk Owl " " caparoch 143
378 Burrowing Owl Speotyto cunicularia hypogæa 138
378_a_ Florida Burrowing Owl " " floridana 138
379 Rocky Mountain Pygmy Owl Glaucidium gnoma pinicola 140
379_a_ California Pygmy Owl " " californicum 140
379.1 Hoskins's Pygmy Owl " hoskinsi 140
380 Ferruginous Pygmy Owl " phalænoides 140
381 Elf Owl Micropallas whitneyi 140
Order PSITTACI. Parrots, Macaws, Paroquets, etc.
Family PSITTACIDÃ. Parrots and Paroquets.
A.O.U.
No. COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME Page
382 Carolina Paroquet Conuropsis carolinensis 145
382.1 Thick-billed Parrot Rhynchopsitta pachyrhyncha 145
Order COCCYGES. Cuckoos, etc.
Family CUCULIDÃ. Cuckoos, Anis, etc.
A.O.U.
No. COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME Page
[383] Ani Crotophaga ani 146
384 Groove-billed Ani " sulcirostris 146
385 Road-runner Geococcyx californianus 146
386 Mangrove Cuckoo Coccyzus minor minor 146
[386_a_] Maynard's Cuckoo " " maynardi 146
387 Yellow-billed Cuckoo " americanus americanus 146
387_a_ California Cuckoo " " occidentalis 146
388 Black-billed Cuckoo " erythrophthalmus 146
[388.1] Kamchatka Cuckoo Cuculus canorus telephonus A.V.
Family TROGONIDÃ. Trogons.
A.O.U.
No. COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME Page
389 Coppery-tailed Trogon Trogon ambiguus 147
Family ALCEDINIDÃ. Kingfishers.
A.O.U.
No. COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME Page
390 Belted Kingfisher Ceryle alcyon alcyon 147
390_a_ Northwestern Belted
Kingfisher. " " caurina 297
[390.1] Ringed Kingfisher " torquata A.V.
391 Texas Kingfisher " americana septentrionalis 147
Order PICI. Woodpeckers, Wrynecks, etc.
Family PICIDÃ. Woodpeckers.
A.O.U.
No. COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME Page
392 Ivory-billed Woodpecker Campephilus principalis 149
393 Hairy Woodpecker Dryobates villosus villosus 150
393_a_ Northern Hairy Woodpecker " " leucomelas 150
393_b_ Southern Hairy Woodpecker " " auduboni 150
393_c_ Harris's Woodpecker " " harrisi 150
393_d_ Cabanis's Woodpecker " " hyloscopus 150
393_e_ Rocky Mt. Hairy Woodpecker " " monticola 150
393_f_ Queen Charlotte Woodpecker " " picoideus 150
393_g_ Newfoundland Woodpecker " " terrænovæ 297
393_h_ White-breasted Woodpecker Dryobates villosus leucothorectis 297
394 Southern Downy Woodpecker " pubescens pubescens 150
394_a_ Gairdner's Woodpecker " " gairdneri 150
394_b_ Batchelder's Woodpecker " " homorus 150
394_c_ Downy Woodpecker " " medianus 150
394_d_ Nelson's Downy Woodpecker " " nelsoni 150
394_e_ Willow Woodpecker " " turati 151
395 Red-cockaded Woodpecker " borealis 151
396 Cactus Woodpecker " scalaris cactophilus 151
396_a_ San Lucas Woodpecker " " lucasanus 151
396_b_ San Fernando Woodpecker " " eremicus 297
397 Nuttall's Woodpecker " nuttalli 151
398 Arizona Woodpecker " arizonæ 141
399 White-headed Woodpecker Xenopicus albolarvatus 151
400 Arctic Three-toed Woodpecker Picoides arcticus 149
401 Amer. Three-toed Woodpecker " americanus americanus 149
401_a_ Alaska Three-toed Woodpecker " " fasciatus 149
401_b_ Alpine Three-toed Woodpecker " " dorsalis 149
402 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Sphyrapicus varius varius 152
402_a_ Red-naped Sapsucker " " nuchalis 152
403 Red-breasted Sapsucker " ruber ruber 152
403_a_ Northern Red-breasted Sapsucker " " notkensis 152
404 Williamson's Sapsucker " thyroideus 152
405 Pileated Woodpecker CeophlÅus pileatus pileatus 149
405_a_ Northern Pileated Woodpecker " " abieticola 149
406 Red-headed Woodpecker Melanerpes erythrocephalus 153
407 Ant-eating Woodpecker " formicivorus formicivorus 153
407_a_ Californian Woodpecker " " bairdi 153
407_b_ Narrow-fronted Woodpecker " " angustifrons 153
408 Lewis's Woodpecker Asyndesmus lewisi 152
409 Red-bellied Woodpecker Centurus carolinus 153
410 Golden-fronted Woodpecker " aurifrons 153
411 Gila Woodpecker " uropygialis 153
412 Southern Flicker Colaptes auratus auratus 154
412_a_ Northern Flicker " " luteus 154
413 Red-shafted Flicker " cafer collaris 154
413_a_ Northwestern Flicker " " saturatior 154
414 Gilded Flicker " chrysoides chrysoides 154
414_a_ San Fernando Flicker " " brunnescens 154
414_b_ Mearns's Gilded Flicker " " mearnsi 298
415 Guadalupe Flicker " rufipileus 154
Order MACROCHIRES. Goatsuckers, Swifts, etc.
Family CAPRIMULGIDÃ. Goatsuckers, etc.
A.O.U.
No. COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME Page
416 Chuck-will's-widow Antrostomus carolinensis 156
417 Whip-poor-will " vociferus vociferus 156
417_a_ Stephen's Whip-poor-will " " macromystax 156
418 Poor-will Phalænoptilus nuttalli nuttalli 156
418_a_ Frosted Poor-will " " nitidus 156
418_b_ Dusky Poor-will " " californicus 156
419 Merrill's Parauque Nyctidromus albicollis merrilli 157
420 Nighthawk Chordeiles virginianus virginianus 157
420_a_ Western Nighthawk " " henryi 157
420_b_ Florida Nighthawk " " chapmani 157
420_c_ Sennett's Nighthawk " " sennetti 157
421 Texas Nighthawk " acutipennis texensis 157
Family MICROPODIDÃ. Swifts.
A.O.U.
No. COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME Page
422 Black Swift Cypseloides niger borealis 158
423 Chimney Swift Chætura pelagica 158
424 Vaux's Swift " vauxi 158
425 White-throated Swift Aëronautes melanoleucus 158
Family TROCHILIDÃ. Hummingbirds.
A.O.U.
No. COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME Page
426 Rivoli's Hummingbird Eugenes fulgens 159
427 Blue-throated Hummingbird Cyanolæmus clemenciæ 160
428 Ruby-throated Hummingbird Archilochus colubris 160
429 Black-chinned Hummingbird " alexandri 159
430 Costa's Hummingbird Calypte costæ 159
431 Anna's Hummingbird " anna 161
432 Broad-tailed Hummingbird Selasphorus platycercus 161
433 Rufous Hummingbird " rufus 161
434 Allen's Hummingbird Selasphorus alleni 161
435 Morcom's Hummingbird Atthis morcomi 161
436 Calliope Hummingbird Stellula calliope 161
437 Lucifer Hummingbird Calothorax lucifer 159
438 Rieffer's Hummingbird Amizilis tzacatl 169
439 Buff-bellied Hummingbird " cerviniventris chalconota 160
439. 1 Salvin's Hummingbird Uranomitra salvini 298
440 Xantus's Hummingbird Basilinna xantusi 159
440. 1 White-eared Hummingbird " leucotis 160
441 Broad-billed Hummingbird Cynanthus latirostris 160
Order PASSERES. Perching Birds
Family COTINGIDÃ. Cotingas.
A.O.U.
No. COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME Page
[441.1] Xantus's Becard Platypsaris aglaiæ albiventris A.V.
Family TYRANNIDÃ. Tyrant Flycatchers.
A.O.U.
No. COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME Page
[442] Fork-tailed Flycatcher Muscivora tyrannus A.V.
443 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher " forficata 177
444 Kingbird Tyrannus tyrannus 247
445 Gray Kingbird " dominicensis 247
446 Couch's Kingbird " melancholicus couchi 202
447 Arkansas Kingbird " verticalis 202
448 Cassin's Kingbird " vociferans 202
449 Derby Flycatcher Pitangus sulphuratus derbianus 202
451 Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher Myiodynastes luteiventris 203
452 Crested Flycatcher Myiarchus crinitus 203
453 Arizona Crested Flycatcher " magister magister 203
453_a_ Mexican Crested Flycatcher " " nelsoni 203
454 Ash-throated Flycatcher " cinerascens cinerascens 203
454_b_ Lower California Flycatcher " " pertinax 203
455_a_ Olivaceous Flycatcher " lawrencei olivascens 203
456 PhÅbe Sayornis phÅbe 208
457 Say's PhÅbe " sayus 205
458 Black PhÅbe " nigricans 251
459 Olive-sided Flycatcher Nuttallornis borealis 208
460 Coues's Flycatcher Myiochanes pertinax pallidiventris 208
461 Wood Pewee " virens 208
462 Western Wood Pewee " richardsoni richardsoni 208
462_a_ Large-billed Wood Pewee " richardsoni peninsulæ 208
463 Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Empidonax flaviventris 211
464 Western Flycatcher " difficilis difficilis 210
464.1 San Lucas Flycatcher " " cineritius 210
465 Acadian Flycatcher " virescens 210
466 Traill's Flycatcher " trailli trailli 209
466_a_ Alder Flycatcher " " alnorum 209
467 Least Flycatcher " minimus 209
468 Hammond's Flycatcher " hammondi 209
469 Wright's Flycatcher " wrighti 209
469.1 Gray Flycatcher " griseus 209
470_a_ Buff-breasted Flycatcher " fulvifrons pygmæus 215
471 Vermilion Flycatcher Pyrocephalus rubinus mexicanus 177
472 Beardless Flycatcher Camptostoma imberbe 211
Family ALAUDIDÃ. Larks.
A.O.U.
No. COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME Page
[473] Skylark Alauda arvensis A.V.
474 Horned Lark Octocoris alpestris alpestris 200
474_a_ Pallid Horned Lark " " articola 200
474_b_ Prairie Horned Lark " " praticola 200
474_c_ Desert Horned Lark " " leucolæma 201
474_d_ Texas Horned Lark " " giraudi 200
474_e_ California Horned Lark " " actia 201
474_f_ Ruddy Horned Lark " " rubea 201
474_g_ Streaked Horned Lark " " strigata 201
474_h_ Scorched Horned Lark " " adusta 201
474_i_ Dusky Horned Lark " " merrilli 201
474_j_ Sonora Horned Lark " " pallida 201
474_k_ Hoyt's Horned Lark " " hoyti 200
474_l_ Montezuma Horned Lark " " occidentalis 201
474_m_ Island Horned Lark " " insularis 201
Family CORVIDÃ. Crows, Jays, Magpies, etc.
A.O.U.
No. COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME Page
475 Magpie Pica pica hudsonia 253
476 Yellow-billed Magpie " nuttalli 253
477 Blue Jay Cyanocitta cristata cristata 181
477_a_ Florida Blue Jay " " florincola 182
478 Steller's Jay " stelleri stelleri 185
478_a_ Blue-fronted Jay " " frontalis 182
478_b_ Long-crested Jay " " diademata 185
478_c_ Black-headed Jay " " annectens 185
478_d_ Queen Charlotte Jay " " carlottæ 185
478_e_ Coast Jay " " carbonacea 298
479 Florida Jay Aphelocoma cyanea 184
480 Woodhouse's Jay " woodhousei 184
480.1 Blue-eared Jay " cyanotis 184
480.2 Texas Jay " texana 184
481 California Jay " californica californica 184
481_a_ Xantus's Jay " " hypoleuca 184
481_b_ Belding's Jay " " obscura 184
481.1 Santa Cruz Jay " insularis 184
482 Arizona Jay " sieberi arizonæ 183
482_a_ Couch's Jay " " couchi 183
483 Green Jay Xanthoura luxuosa glaucescens 185
484 Canada Jay Perisoreus canadensis canadensis 252
484_a_ Rocky Mountain Jay " " capitalis 252
484_b_ Alaska Jay " " fumifrons 252
484_c_ Labrador Jay " " nigricapillus 252
485 Oregon Jay " " obscurus obscurus 252
485_a_ Gray Jay " " griseus 252
486 American Raven Corvus corax sinuatus 255
486_a_ Northern Raven " " principalis 255
487 White-necked Raven " cryptoleucus 255
488 American Crow " brachyrhynchos brachyrhynchos 255
488_a_ Florida Crow " brachyrhnchos pascuus 255
488_b_ Western Crow " " hesperis 304
489 Northwestern Crow " caurinus 255
490 Fish Crow " ossifragus 255
[490.1] Rook " frugilegus A.V.
[490.2] Hooded Crow " cornix A.V.
491 Clarke's Crow Nucifraga columbiana 252
492 Piñon Jay Cyanocephalus cyanocephalus 183
Family STURNIDÃ. Starlings.
A.O.U.
No. COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME Page
[493] Starling Sturnus vulgaris 253
Family ICTERIDÃ. Blackbirds, Orioles, etc.
A.O.U.
No. COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME Page
494 Bobolink Dolichonyx oryzivorus 251
495 Cowbird Molothrus ater ater 253
495_a_ Dwarf Cowbird " " obscurus 253
496 Red-eyed Cowbird Tangavius æneus involucratus 253
496_a_ Bronzed Cowbird " " æneus 304
497 Yellow-headed Blackbird Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus 199
498 Red-winged Blackbird Agelaius phÅniceus phÅniceus 178
498_a_ Sonora Red-wing " " sonoriensis 178
498_b_ Bahama Red-wing " " bryanti 178
498_c_ Florida Red-wing " " floridanus 178
498_d_ Thick-billed Red-wing " " fortis 178
498_e_ San Diego Red-wing " " neutralis 178
498_f_ Northwestern Red-wing " " caurinus 178
498_g_ Vera Cruz Red-wing " " richmondi 298
499 Bicolored Blackbird " gubernator californicus 179
500 Tricolored Blackbird " tricolor 179
501 Meadowlark Sturnella magna magna 199
501_a_ Rio Grande Meadowlark " " hoopesi 199
501_c_ Southern Meadowlark " " argutula 199
501.1 Western Meadowlark " neglecta 199
503 Audubon's Oriole Icterus melanocephalus auduboni 180
504 Scott's Oriole " parisorum 186
505 Sennett's Oriole " cucullatus sennetti 186
505_a_ Arizona Hooded Oriole " " nelsoni 186
506 Orchard Oriole " spurius 206
507 Baltimore Oriole " galbula 186
508 Bullock's Oriole " bullocki 186
509 Rusty Blackbird Euphagus carolinus 254
510 Brewer's Blackbird " cyanocephalus 254
511 Purple Grackle Quiscalus quiscula quiscula 254
511_a_ Florida Grackle " " aglæus 254
511_b_ Bronzed Grackle " " æneus 254
513 Boat-tailed Grackle Megaquiscalus major major 254
513_a_ Great-tailed Grackle " " macrourus 254
Family FRINGILLIDÃ. Finches, Sparrows, etc.
A.O.U.
No. COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME Page
514 Evening Grosbeak Hesperiphona vespertina vespertina 199
514_a_ Western Evening Grosbeak " " montana 199
515 Pine Grosbeak Pinicola enucleator leucura 171
515_a_ Rocky Mt. Pine Grosbeak " " montana 171
515_b_ California Pine Grosbeak " " californica 171
515_c_ Alaska Pine Grosbeak " " alascensis 171
515_d_ Kadiak Pine Grosbeak " " flammula 171
[516] Cassin's Bullfinch Pyrrhula cassini A.V.
517 Purple Finch Carpodacus purpureus purpureus 171
517_a_ California Purple Finch " " californicus 171
518 Cassin's Purple Finch " cassini 175
519 House Finch " mexicanus frontalis 175
519_b_ San Lucas House Finch " " ruberrimus 175
519_c_ San Clemente House Finch " " clementis 175
520 Guadalupe House Finch " amplus 175
520.1 McGregor's House Finch " mcgregori 175
521 American Crossbill Loxia curvirostra minor 173
521_a_ Mexican Crossbill " " stricklandi 173
522 White-winged Crossbill " leucoptera 171
523 Aleutian Rosy Finch Leucosticte griseonucha 179
524 Gray-crowned Rosy Finch " tephrocotis tephrocotis 179
524_a_ Hepburn's Rosy Finch " " littoralis 179
525 Black Rosy Finch " atrata 179
526 Brown-capped Rosy Finch " australis 179
527 Greenland Redpoll Acanthis hornemanni hornemanni 176
527_a_ Hoary Redpoll " " exilipes 176
528 Redpoll " linaria linaria 176
528_a_ HolbÅll's Redpoll " " holbÅlli 176
528_b_ Greater Redpoll " " rostrata 176
529 Goldfinch Astragalinus tristis tristis 192
529_a_ Pale Goldfinch " " pallidus 192
529_b_ Willow Goldfinch " " salicamans 192
530 Arkansas Goldfinch " psaltria psaltria 192
530_a_ Green-backed Goldfinch " " hesperophilus 299
531 Lawrence's Goldfinch " lawrencei 189
[532] Black-headed Goldfinch Spinus notatus A.V.
533 Pine Siskin " pinus pinus 225
534 Snow Bunting Plectrophenax nivalis nivalis 211
534_a_ Pribilof Snow Bunting " " townsendi 211
535 McKay's Snow Bunting " hyperboreus 211
536 Lapland Longspur Calcarius lapponicus lapponicus 219
536_a_ Alaska Longspur " " alascensis 219
537 Smith's Longspur " pictus 220
538 Chestnut-collared
Longspur " ornatus 218
539 McCown's Longspur Rhynchophanes mccowni 218
540 Vesper Sparrow PoÅcetes gramineus gramineus 221
540_a_ Western Vesper Sparrow " " confinis 221
540_b_ Oregon Vesper Sparrow " " affinis 221
541 Ipswich Sparrow Passerculus princeps 225
542 Aleutian Savannah
Sparrow " sandwichensis sandwichensis 223
542_a_ Savannah Sparrow " sandwichensis savanna 223
542_b_ Western Savannah Sparrow " " alaudinus 223
542_c_ Bryant's Sparrow " " bryanti 223
542_d_ Nevada Savannah Sparrow " " nevadensis 300
543 Belding's Sparrow " beldingi 223
544 Large-billed Sparrow " rostratus rostratus 223
544_a_ San Lucas Sparrow " " guttatus 223
544_c_ San Benito Sparrow " " sanctorum 224
545 Baird's Sparrow Ammodramus bairdi 224
546 Grasshopper Sparrow " savannarum australis 224
546_a_ Western Grasshopper
Sparrow Ammodramus savannarum bimaculatus 224
546_b_ Florida Grasshopper
Sparrow " " floridanus 224
547 Henslow's Sparrow Passerherbulus henslowi henslowi 224
547_a_ Western Henslow's
Sparrow " " occidentalis 224
548 Leconte's Sparrow " lecontei 225
549 Sharp-tailed Sparrow " caudacutus 225
549.1 Nelson's Sparrow " nelsoni nelsoni 225
549.1_a_ Acadian Sharp-tailed
Sparrow " " subvirgatus 225
550 Seaside Sparrow " maritimus maritimus 226
550_a_ Scott's Seaside Sparrow " " peninsulæ 226
550_b_ Texas Seaside Sparrow " " sennetti 226
550_c_ Fisher's Seaside Sparrow " " fisheri 226
550_d_ Macgillivray's Seaside
Sparrow " " macgillivraii 226
551 Dusky Seaside Sparrow " nigrescens 226
552 Lark Sparrow Chondestes grammacus grammacus 228
552_a_ Western Lark Sparrow " " strigatus 228
553 Harris's Sparrow Zonotrichia querula 229
554 White-crowned Sparrow " leucophrys leucophrys 227
554_a_ Gambel's Sparrow " " gambeli 227
554_b_ Nuttall's Sparrow " " nuttalli 227
557 Golden-crowned Sparrow " coronata 227
558 White-throated Sparrow " albicollis 227
559 Tree Sparrow Spizella monticola monticola 222
559_a_ Western Tree Sparrow " " ochracea 222
560 Chipping Sparrow " passerina passerina 222
560_a_ Western Chipping Sparrow " " arizonæ 222
561 Clay-colored Sparrow " pallida 228
562 Brewer's Sparrow " breweri 228
563 Field Sparrow " pusilla pusilla 222
563_a_ Western Field Sparrow " " arenacea 222
564 Worthen's Sparrow " wortheni 228
565 Black-chinned Sparrow " atrogularis 219
566 White-winged Junco Junco aikeni 240
567 Slate-Colored Junco " hyemalis hyemalis 240
567_a_ Oregon Junco " " oreganus 241
567_b_ Shufeldt's Junco " " connectens 241
567_c_ Thurber's Junco " " thurberi 241
567_d_ Point Pinos Junco " " pinosus 241
567_e_ Carolina Junco " " carolinensis 240
567_f_ Montana Junco " " montanus 240
567_g_ Pink-sided Junco Junco hyemalis mearnsi 240
567_h_ Ridgway's Junco " " annectens 303
567_i_ Townsend's Junco " " townsendi 240
570 Arizona Junco " phæonotus palliatus 241
570_a_ Red-backed Junco " " dorsalis 241
570_b_ Gray-headed Junco " " caniceps 241
571 Baird's Junco " bairdi 240
572 Guadalupe Junco " insularis 240
573 Black-throated Sparrow Amphispiza bilineata bilineata 249
573_a_ Desert Black-throated
Sparrow " " deserticola 249
574 Bell's Sparrow " belli 228
574.1 Sage Sparrow " nevadensis nevadensis 228
574.1_a_ Gray Sage Sparrow " " cinerea 228
574.1_b_ California Sage Sparro " " canescens 300
575 Pine-woods Sparrow Peucæa æstivalis 221
575_a_ Bachman's Sparrow " " bachmani 221
576 Botteri's Sparrow " botterii 221
578 Cassin's Sparrow " cassini 221
579 Rufous-winged Sparrow Aimophila carpalis 220
580 Rufous-crowned Sparrow " ruficeps ruficeps 220
580_a_ Scott's Sparrow " " scotti 220
580_b_ Rock Sparrow " " eremÅca 220
580_c_ Laguna Sparrow " " sororia 220
581 Song Sparrow Melospiza melodia melodia 229
581_a_ Desert Song Sparrow " " fallax 229
581_b_ Mountain Song Sparrow " " montana 229
581_c_ Heermann's Song Sparrow " " heermanni 229
581_d_ Samuel's Song Sparrow " " samuelis 230
581_e_ Rusty Song Sparrow " " morphna 230
581_f_ Sooty Song Sparrow " " rufina 230
581_g_ Brown's Song Sparrow " " rivularis 229
581_h_ Santa Barbara Song Sparrow " " graminea 230
581_i_ San Clemente Song Sparrow " " clementæ 230
581_j_ Dakota Song Sparrow " " juddi 229
581_k_ Merrill's Song Sparrow " " merrilli 229
581_l_ Alameda Song Sparrow " " pusillula 230
581_m_ San Diego Song Sparrow " " cooperi 230
581_n_ Yakutat Song Sparrow " " caurina 230
581_o_ Kenai Song Sparrow " " kenaiensis 230
581_p_ Mendocino Song Sparrow " " cleonensis 301
581_q_ Kadiak Song Sparrow " " insignis 230
581_r_ Aleutian Song Sparrow Melospiza melodia sanaka 230
581_s_ Suisun Song Sparrow " " maxillaris 300
583 Lincoln's Sparrow " lincolni lincolni 226
583_a_ Forbush's Sparrow " " striata 226
584 Swamp Sparrow " georgiana 222
585 Fox Sparrow Passerella iliaca iliaca 231
585_a_ Shumagin Sparrow " " unalaschcensis 231
585_b_ Thick-billed Sparrow " " megarhyncha 231
585_c_ Slate-colored Sparrow " " schistacea 231
585_d_ Stephen's Sparrow " " stephensi 231
585_e_ Sooty Fox Sparrow " " fuliginosa 301
585_f_ Kadiak Fox Sparrow " " insularis 301
586 Texas Sparrow Arremonops rufivirgatus 215
587 Towhee Pipilo erythrophthalmus
erythrophthalmus 204
587_a_ White-eyed Towhee " erythrophthalmus alleni 204
588 Arctic Towhee " maculatus arcticus 204
588_a_ Spurred Towhee " " montanus 204
588_b_ Oregon Towhee " " oregonus 204
588_c_ San Clemente Towhee " " clementæ 204
588_d_ San Diego Towhee " " megalonyx 204
588_e_ Large-billed Towhee " " magnirostris 204
589 Guadalupe Towhee " consobrinus 204
591 Cañon Towhee " fuscus mesoleucus 205
591_a_ San Lucas Towhee " " albigula 205
591.1 California Towhee " crissalis crissalis 205
591.1_a_ Anthony's Towhee " " senicula 205
592 Abert's Towhee " aberti 205
592.1 Green-tailed Towhee Oreospiza chlorura 206
593 Cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis cardinalis 177
593_a_ Arizona Cardinal " " superbus 172
593_b_ San Lucas Cardinal " " igneus 172
593_c_ Gray-tailed Cardinal " " canicaudus 172
593_d_ Florida Cardinal " " floridanus 172
594 Arizona Pyrrhuloxia Pyrrhuloxia sinuata sinuata 172
594_a_ Texas Pyrrhuloxia " " texana 172
594_b_ San Lucas Pyrrhuloxia " " peninsulæ 172
595 Rose-breasted Grosbeak Zamelodia ludoviciana 174
596 Black-headed Grosbeak " melanocephala 207
597 Blue Grosbeak Guiraca cærulea cærulea 181
597_a_ Western Blue Grosbeak Guiraca cærulea lazula 181
598 Indigo Bunting Passerina cyanea 181
599 Lazuli Bunting " amÅna 180
600 Varied Bunting " versicolor versicolor 180
600_a_ Beautiful Bunting " " pulchra 180
601 Painted Bunting " ciris 180
602 Sharpe's Seed-eater Sporophila morelleti sharpei 249
[603] Grassquit Tiaris bicolor A.V.
[603.1] Melodious Grassquit " canora A.V.
604 Dickcissel Spiza americana 198
605 Lark Bunting Calamospiza melanocorys 252
Family TANGARIDÃ. Tanagers.
A.O.U.
No. COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME Page
607 Western Tanager Piranga ludoviciana 171
608 Scarlet Tanager " erythromelas 171
609 Hepatic Tanager " hepatica 171
610 Summer Tanager " rubra rubra 171
610_a_ Cooper's Tanager " " cooperi 171
Family HIRUNDINIDÃ. Swallows.
A.O.U.
No. COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME Page
611 Purple Martin Progne subis subis 250
611_a_ Western Martin " " hesperia 250
611.1 Cuban Martin " cryptoleuca 250
611.2 Gray-breasted Martin " chalybea 304
612 Cliff Swallow Petrochelidon lunifrons lunifrons 250
612_a_ Lesser Cliff Swallow " " tachina 304
612_b_ Mexican Cliff Swallow " " melanogastra 250
[612.1] Cuban Cliff Swallow " fulva A.V.
613 Barn Swallow Hirundo erythrogastra 250
[613.1] European Swallow " rustica A.V.
614 Tree Swallow Iridoprocne bicolor 250
615 Northern Violet-green
Swallow Tachycineta thalassina lepida 250
615_a_ San Lucas Swallow " " brachyptera 250
[615.1] Bahama Swallow Callichelidon cyaneoviridis A.V.
[615.2] European Martin Chelidonaria urbica A.V.
616 Bank Swallow Riparia riparia A.V.
617 Rough-winged Swallow Stelgidopteryx serripennis 211
Family BOMBYCILLIDÃ Waxwings.
A.O.U.
No. COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME Page
618 Bohemian Waxwing Bombycilla garrula 198
619 Cedar Waxwing " cedrorum 198
Family PTILOGONATIDÃ. Silky Flycatchers.
A.O.U.
No. COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME Page
620 Phainopepla Phainopepla nitens 253
Family LANIIDÃ. Shrikes.
A.O.U.
No. COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME Page
621 Northern Shrike Lanius borealis 248
622 Loggerhead Shrike " ludovicianus ludovicianus 248
622_a_ White-rumped Shrike " " excubitorides 248
622_b_ California Shrike " " gambeli 248
622_c_ Island Shrike " " anthonyi 248
622_e_ Migrant Shrike " " migrans 304
Family VIREONIDÃ. Vireos.
A.O.U.
No. COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME Page
623 Black-whiskered Vireo Vireosylva calidris barbatula 212
624 Red-eyed Vireo " olivacea 212
[625] Yellow-green Vireo " flavoviridis 233
626 Philadelphia Vireo " philadelphica 213
627 Warbling Vireo " gilva gilva 213
627_a_ Western Warbling Vireo " " swainsoni 213
628 Yellow-throated Vireo Lanivireo flavifrons 198
629 Blue-headed Vireo " solitarius solitarius 213
629_a_ Cassin's Vireo " " cassini 213
629_b_ Plumbeous Vireo " " plumbeus 213
629_c_ Mountain Solitary Vireo " " alticola 213
629_d_ San Lucas Solitary Vireo " " lucasanus 213
630 Black-capped Vireo Vireo atricapillus 245
631 White-eyed Vireo " griseus griseus 213
631_a_ Key West Vireo " " griseus maynardi 213
631_b_ Bermuda Vireo " " bermudianus 213
631_c_ Small White-eyed Vireo " " micrus 213
632 Hutton's Vireo " huttoni huttoni 212
632_a_ Stephens's Vireo " " stephensi 212
632_c_ Anthony's Vireo " " obscurus 212
632_d_ Frazar's Vireo " " cognatus 299
633 Bell's Vireo " " belli belli 214
633_a_ Least Vireo " " pusillus 214
633_b_ Texas Vireo " " medius 299
634 Gray Vireo " vicinior 214
Family COEREBIDÃ. Honey Creepers.
A.O.U.
No. COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME Page
[635] Bahama Honey Creeper CÅreba bahamensis A.V.
Family MNIOTILTIDÃ. Wood Warblers.
A.O.U.
No. COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME Page
636 Black and White Warbler Mniotilta varia 249
637 Prothonotary Warbler Protonotaria citrea 187
638 Swainson's Warbler Helinaia swainsoni 215
639 Worm-eating Warbler Helmitheros vermivorus 215
640 Bachman's Warbler Vermivora bachmani 191
641 Blue-winged Warbler " pinus 191
642 Golden-winged Warbler " chrysoptera 189
643 Lucy's Warbler " luciæ 206
644 Virginia's Warbler " virginiæ 197
645 Nashville Warbler " rubricapilla
rubricapilla 195
645_a_ Calaveras Warbler " " gutturalis 195
646 Orange-crowned Warbler " celata celata 219
646_a_ Lutescent Warbler " " lutescens 210
646_b_ Dusky Warbler " " sordida 212
647 Tennessee Warbler " peregrina 212
648 Parula Warbler Compsothlypis americana americana 195
648_a_ Northern Parula Warbler " americana usneæ 195
649 Sennett's Warbler " pitiayumi nigrilora 195
651 Olive Warbler Peucedramus olivaceus 187
650 Cape May Warbler Dendroica tigrina 196
652 Yellow Warbler " æstiva æstiva 196
652_a_ Sonora Yellow Warbler Dendroica æstiva sonorana 196
652_b_ Alaska Yellow Warbler " " rubiginosa 196
652_c_ California Yellow Warbler " " brewsteri 299
653 Mangrove Warbler " bryanti castaneiceps 196
654 Black-throated Blue Warbler " cærulescens cærulescens 180
654_a_ Cairns's Warbler " " cairnsi 180
655 Myrtle Warbler " coronata 197
656 Audubon's Warbler " auduboni auduboni 190
656_a_ Black-fronted Warbler " " nigrifrons 190
657 Magnolia Warbler " magnolia 190
658 Cerulean Warbler " cerulea 181
659 Chestnut-sided Warbler " pensylvania 198
660 Bay-breasted Warbler " castanea 206
661 Black-poll Warbler " striata 249
662 Blackburnian Warbler " fusca 187
663 Yellow-throated Warbler " dominica dominica 190
663_a_ Sycamore Warbler " " albilora 190
664 Grace's Warbler Dendroica graciæ 190
665 Black-throated Gray Warbler " nigrescens 249
666 Golden-cheeked Warbler " chrysoparia 188
667 Black-throated Green Warbler " virens 188
668 Townsend's Warbler " townsendi 188
669 Hermit Warbler " occidentalis 188
670 Kirtland's Warbler " kirtlandi 191
671 Pine Warbler " vigorsi vigorsi 191
672 Palm Warbler " palmarum palmarum 196
672_a_ Yellow Palm Warbler " " hypochrysea 197
673 Prairie Warbler " discolor 197
674 Oven-bird Seiurus aurocapillus 232
675 Water-Thrush " noveboracensis
noveboracensis 232
675_a_ Grinnell's Water-Thrush " noveboracensis notabilis 232
676 Louisiana Water-Thrush " motacilla 232
677 Kentucky Warbler Oporornis formosus 193
678 Connecticut Warbler " agilis 189
679 Mourning Warbler " philadelphia 189
680 Macgillivray's Warbler " tolmiei 189
681 Maryland Yellow-throat Geothlypis trichas trichas 193
681_a_ Western Yellow-throat " " occidentalis 193
681_b_ Florida Yellow-throat " " ignota 194
681_c_ Pacific Yellow-throat " " arizela 194
681_e_ Salt Marsh Yellow-throat " " sinuosa 194
682 Belding's Yellow-throat " beldingi 194
682.1 Rio Grande Yellow-throat Chamæthlypis poliocephala 194
683 Yellow-breasted Chat Icteria virens virens 198
683_a_ Long-tailed Chat " " longicauda 198
684 Hooded Warbler Wilsonia citrina 188
685 Wilson's Warbler " pusilla pusilla 193
685_a_ Pileolated Warbler " " pileolata 193
685_b_ Golden Pileolated Warbler " " chryseola 193
686 Canadian Warbler " canadensis 191
687 American Redstart Setophaga ruticilla 187
688 Painted Redstart " picta 177
690 Red-faced Warbler Cardellina rubrifrons 177
Family MOTACILLIDÃ. Wagtails and Pipits.
A.O.U.
No. COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME Page
[694] White Wagtail Motacilla alba A.V.
[695] Swinhoe Wagtail " ocularis A.V.
696 Alaska Yellow Wagtail Budytes flavus alascensis 192
697 Pipit Anthus rubescens 232
[698] Meadow Pipit " pratensis A.V.
[699] Red-throated Pipit " cervinus A.V.
700 Sprague's Pipit " spraguei 232
Family CINCLIDÃ. Dippers.
A.O.U.
No. COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME Page
701 Dipper Cinclus mexicanus unicolor 247
Family MIMIDÃ. Thrashers, Mockingbirds, etc.
A.O.U.
No. COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME Page
702 Sage Thrasher Oreoscoptes montanus 233
703 Mockingbird Mimus polyglottos polyglottos 248
703_a_ Western Mockingbird " " leucopterus 248
704 Catbird Dumtella carolinensis 247
705 Brown Thrasher Toxostoma rufum 233
706 Sennett's Thrasher " longirostre sennetti 233
707 Curve-billed Thrasher " curvirostre curvirostre 216
707_a_ Palmer's Thrasher " " palmeri 216
708 Bendire's Thrasher " bendirei 216
709 San Lucas Thrasher " cinereum cinereum 216
709_a_ Mearns's Thrasher " " mearnsi 216
710 California Thrasher " " redivivum redivivum 217
711 Leconte's Thrasher " lecontei lecontei 217
711_a_ Desert Thrasher " " arenicola 217
712 Crissal Thrasher " crissale 217
Family TROGLODYTIDÃ. Wrens.
A.O.U.
No. COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME Page
713 Cactus Wren Heleodytes brunneicapillus couesi 233
713_a_ Bryant's Cactus Wren " " bryanti 233
713_b_ San Lucas Cactus Wren " " affinis 233
715 Rock Wren Salpinctes obsoletus obsoletus 234
715_a_ San Nicolas Rock Wren " " pulverius 301
716 Guadalupe Rock Wren " " guadeloupensis 234
717 White-throated Wren Catherpes mexicanus albifrons 234
717_a_ Cañon Wren " " conspersus 234
717_b_ Dotted Cañon Wren " " punctulatus 234
718 Carolina Wren Thryothorus ludovicianus ludovicianus 234
718_a_ Florida Wren " " miamensis 234
718_b_ Lomita Wren " " lomitensis 234
719 Bewick's Wren Thryomanes bewicki bewicki 235
719_a_ Vigor's Wren " spilurus 235
719_b_ Baird's Wren " " bairdi 235
719_c_ Texas Bewick's Wren " " cryptus 235
719_d_ San Diego Bewick's Wren " " charienturus 235
719_e_ Seattle Bewick's Wren " calophonus 235
719.1 San Clemente Wren " leucophrys 235
720 Guadalupe Wren " brevicauda 235
721 House Wren Troglodytes aëdon aëdon 236
721_a_ Western House Wren " " parkmani 236
722 Winter Wren Nannus hiemalis hiemalis 236
722_a_ Western Winter Wren " pacificus 236
722_b_ Kadiak Winter Wren " " helleri 236
723 Alaska Wren " alascensis 236
723.1 Aleutian Wren " meliger 236
724 Short-billed Marsh Wren Cistothorus stellaris 236
725 Long-billed Marsh Wren Telmatodytes palustris palustris 237
725 Tulé Wren " paludicola 237
725_b_ Worthington's Marsh Wren " " griseus 237
725_c_ Western Tule Wren " plesius 237
725_d_ Prairie Marsh Wren " iliacus 301
725_e_ Marian's Marsh Wren " " mariannæ 237
Family CERTHIIDÃ. Creepers.
A.O.U.
No. COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME Page
726 Brown Creeper Certhia familiaris americana 237
726_a_ Mexican Creeper " " albescens 237
726_b_ Rocky Mountain Creeper " " montana 237
726_c_ California Creeper " " occidentalis 237
726_d_ Sierra Creeper " " zelotes 237
Family SITTIDÃ. Nuthatches.
A.O.U.
No. COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME Page
727 White-breasted Nuthatch Sitta carolinensis carolinensis 246
727_a_ Slender-billed Nuthatch " " aculeata 246
727_b_ Florida White-breasted
Nuthatch " " atkinsi 246
727_c_ Rocky Mountain Nuthatch " " nelsoni 246
727_d_ San Lucas Nuthatch " " lagunæ 246
728 Red-breasted Nuthatch Sitta canadensis 246
729 Brown-headed Nuthatch " pusilla 246
730 Pygmy Nuthatch " pygmæa pygmæa 246
730_a_ White-naped Nuthatch " " leuconucha 247
Family PARIDÃ. Titmice.
A.O.U.
No. COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME Page
731 Tufted Titmouse Bæolophus bicolor 243
732 Black-crested Titmouse " atricristatus atricristatus 242
732_a_ Sennett's Titmouse " " sennetti 303
733 Plain Titmouse Bæolophus inornatus inornatus 242
733_a_ Gray Titmouse " " griseus 242
733_b_ Ashy Titmouse " " cineraceus 242
734 Bridled Titmouse " wollweberi 244
735 Chickadee Penthestes atricapillus atricapillus 245
735_a_ Long-tailed Chickadee " " septentrionalis 245
735_b_ Oregon Chickadee " " occidentalis 245
735_c_ Yukon Chickadee " " turneri 303
736 Carolina Chickadee " carolinensis carolinensis 245
736_a_ Plumbeous Chickadee " " agilis 245
736_b_ Florida Chickadee " " impiger 303
737 Mexican Chickadee " sclateri 245
738 Mountain Chickadee " gambeli gambeli 244
738_a_ Bailey's Mountain
Chickadee " " baileyæ 303
739 Alaska Chickadee " cinctus alascensis 244
740 Hudsonian Chickadee " hudsonicus hudsonicus 244
740_a_ Acadian Chickadee " " littoralis 244
741 Chestnut-backed Chickadee " rufescens rufescens 244
741_a_ California Chickadee " " neglectus 244
741_b_ Barlow's Chickadee " " barlowi 244
741_c_ Valdez Chestnut-sided
Chickadee " " vivax 303
743 Bush-Tit Psaltriparus minimus minimus 242
743_a_ California Bush-Tit " " californicus 242
743_b_ Grinda's Bush-Tit " " grindæ 242
744 Lead-colored Bush-Tit " plumbeus 242
745 Lloyd's Bush-Tit " melanotis lloydi 242
746 Verdin Auriparus flaviceps flaviceps 195
746_a_ Cape Verdin " " lamprocephalus 195
Family CHAMÃIDÃ. Wren-Tits.
A.O.U.
No. COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME Page
742 Wren-Tit Chamæa fasciata fasciata 215
742_a_ Pallid Wren-Tit " " henshawi 215
742_b_ Coast Wren-Tit " " phæa 300
742_c_ Ruddy Wren-Tit " " rufula 300
Family SYLVIIDÃ. Warblers, Kinglets, Gnatcatchers.
A.O.U.
No. COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME Page
747 Kennicott's Willow Warbler Acanthopneuste borealis 212
748 Golden-crowned Kinglet Regulus satrapa satrapa 187
748_a_ Western Golden-crowned Kinglet " " olivaceus 187
749 Ruby-crowned Kinglet " calendula calendula 176
749_a_ Sitkan Kinglet " " grinnelli 176
750 Dusky Kinglet " " obscurus 177
751 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Polioptila cærulea cærulea 243
751_a_ Western Gnatcatcher " " obscura 243
752 Plumbeous Gnatcatcher " plumbea 243
753 Black-tailed Gnatcatcher " californica 243
Family TURDIDÃ. Thrushes, Solitaires, Stonechats,
Bluebirds, etc.
A.O.U.
No. COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME Page
754 Townsend's Solitaire Myadestes townsendi 247
755 Wood Thrush Hylocichla mustelina 233
756 Veery " fuscescens fuscescens 238
756_a_ Willow Thrush " " salicicola 238
757 Gray-cheeked Thrush " aliciæ aliciæ 239
757_a_ Bicknell's Thrush " " bicknelli 239
758 Russet-backed Thrush " ustulata ustulata 239
758_a_ Olive-backed Thrush " " swainsoni 239
759 Alaska Hermit Thrush " guttata guttata 238
759_a_ Audubon's Hermit Thrush " " auduboni 238
759_b_ Hermit Thrush " " pallasi 238
759_c_ Dwarf Hermit Thrush " " nana 238
759_d_ Monterey Hermit Thrush " " slevini 302
759_e_ Sierra Hermit Thrush " " sequoiensis 302
[760] Red-winged Thrush Turdus musicus A.V.
761 Robin Planesticus migratorius migratorius 207
761_a_ Western Robin " " propinquus 207
761_b_ Southern Robin " " achrusterus 207
762 San Lucas Robin " confinis 207
763 Varied Thrush Ixoreus nævius nævius 207
763_a_ Northern Varied Thrush " " meruloides 207
[764] Siberian Red-spotted Bluethroat Cyanosylvia suecica robusta A.V.
[764.1] Greater Kamchatkan Nightingale Calliope calliope
camtschatkensis A.V.
765 Wheatear Saxicola Ånanthe Ånanthe 248
765_a_ Greenland Wheatear " " leucorhoa 248
766 Bluebird Sialia sialis sialis 182
766_a_ Azure Bluebird " " fulva 182
767 Western Bluebird " mexicana occidentalis 182
767_a_ Chestnut-backed Bluebird " " bairdi 182
767_b_ San Pedro Bluebird " " annabelæ 182
768 Mountain Bluebird " currucoides 182
APPENDIX I
ADDITIONS, SUBTRACTIONS, AND EMENDATIONS.
Since the publication of the first edition of the 'Color Key' in 1903,
the American Ornithologists' Union has issued the Third Edition (1910)
of its 'Check-List of North American Birds.' This includes all
approved additions to and changes in the preceding edition made since
1903 as well as rulings on a number of cases which were in abeyance at
the time the first edition of the 'Color Key' appeared.
Mere changes in nomenclature not affecting the status of a species are
given without comment in the preceding Systematic Table, which has
been fully revised and brought up to date. To ascertain the correct,
current name of any species or subspecies of North American bird the
student, after determining its identity in the 'Color Key,' has only
to refer to its number in the Systematic Table to learn whether any
change has been made in nomenclature. In addition to actual changes in
nomenclature due to the detection of errors in earlier names, it
should be noted that a third name or trinomial is now employed for
each race of a species, and also that an apostrophe is used in
connection with the names of birds named for individuals. Throughout
the 'Color Key,' therefore, alterations should be made when required
by these two changes in method.
All other changes than these simple ones of names are included, with
explanations, in this appendix, and the student is urged to make
manuscript cross-references on the pages where such changes occur to
avoid their being overlooked.
As far as possible the language of the original describer of the new
subspecies of birds is here quoted, while the Ranges are mainly from
the A.O.U. Check-List.
References to original sources of publication are given only with
cases included in the first supplement to the Third Edition (1910) of
the Check List. In all other instances reference to the original place
of description, etc., is contained in the 'Check-List.'
Pages 29, 127. The North American Kites, Hawks, Falcons, Eagles, etc.,
are now placed in three families instead of one, as follows:
BUTEONIDÃ, containing the Kites, Hawks and Eagles (Nos. 327-352a);
FALCONIDÃ containing the Falcons and Caracaras (Nos. 353-363), and
PANDIONIDÃ, containing the Osprey (No. 364).
Pages 39, 162, 168. The subfamilies Troglodytinæ and Miminæ are now
elevated to full family rank. The Mockingbirds and Thrashers (Nos.
702-712) are therefore the North American members of the Family
MIMIDÃ; and the Wrens (Nos. 713-725e) the North American members of
the Family TROGLODYTIDÃ.
Pages 39, 162, 169. The subfamilies Sittinæ and Parinæ are now
elevated to full family rank. The Nuthatches (Nos. 727 to 730a) are
therefore the North American members of the Family SITTIDÃ; and the
Titmice (Nos. 732 to 746a, except Nos. 742 to 742c now placed in the
Family CHAMÃIDÃ, see beyond) the North American members of the Family
PARIDÃ.
Page 63. Cancel No. 94, _Puffinus fuliginosus_, which proves to be the
same as No. 95, _Puffinus griseus_. The common name, however, is
retained and the species stands =95, Sooty Shearwater= (_Puffinus
griseus_). Characters as given.
Range--Oceans of Southern Hemisphere; occurs in summer on the Pacific
coast from southern Alaska to Lower California, and on the Atlantic
coast from Gulf of St. Lawrence to South Carolina.
Page 77. But one form of the Black Duck is recognized by the A.O.U.
It stands as No. 133. Black Duck (_Anas rubripes_), which name,
therefore, includes both Nos. 133 and 133a.
Page 92. After No. 197 add: =197a. Brewster's Egret= (_Egretta
candidissima brewsteri_). Similar to No. 197 "but larger, bill longer,
tarsus longer, and whole leg _very much_ heavier or thicker." [Male].
Tar. 4.36; B. 3.60. [Female]. Tar. 4.00; B. 3.42. (Thayer and Bangs).
Range--"Southern Lower California." (A.O.U.).
Page 97. After No. 210 add: =210.1. Light-footed rail.= (_Rallus
levipes_) "Much smaller than either _R. obsoletus_ or _R. beldingi_,
bill much more slender, tarsus and foot smaller than in either;
superciliary white instead of rusty...." W. 5.70; T. 2.24; Tar. 1.81;
B. 2.24. (Bangs).
Range--"Marshes of southern California, from Santa Barbara south to
San Quintin Bay, Lower California; accidental in Arizona." (A.O.U.)
Page 98. After No. 216 add: =216.1. Farallon Rail= (_Creciscus
coturniculus_). "Smaller [than No. 216] with much slenderer bill; the
plumbeous of the under parts deeper, the chestnut-brown of the upper
parts brighter and more extended, forming a broader patch on the nape
and tinging more or less strongly and generally much of the top of the
head where there is often no pure unmixed plumbeous or slaty save on
the forehead." (Brewster).
Range--"Pacific coast of United States. Breeds in coast marshes of
California; casual in Washington, Oregon and Lower California."
(A.O.U.)
Page 103. After 266 add: =268. Bristle-thighed Curlew= (_Numenius
tahitiensis_). Somewhat like _N. hudsonicus_, but thighs with long
bristle-like feathers; tail pale rusty, barred with black; markings
of back and wings pale rusty.
Range--"Alaska and Pacific Islands. Breeding range unknown; has been
taken in summer in western Alaska from Kowak River to Kenai Peninsula;
also on Laysan and Phoenix Islands; winters in islands of the South
Pacific from Hawaii to New Caledonia" (A.O.U.). Classed with
Accidental Visitants in first edition of 'Color Key.'
Page 112. Cancel No. 277a, Belted Piping Plover, which proves to be
the same as No. 277, Piping Plover.
Page 117. After No. 297b add: =297c. Sierra Grouse= (_D. o. sierræ_).
Male resembles male of No. 297, but back less black and more heavily
vermiculated with brown and gray; terminal tail-band narrower and more
speckled with blackish; medium tail-feathers more heavily marked with
gray or brownish; white neck-tufts practically absent; feathers of
sides, flanks and under tail-coverts with less white. Much paler and
more heavily vermiculated above than No. 297b.
Range--Ft. Klamath, Oregon south through the Sierras to Mount Pinos in
South California.
Page 117. The ranges of the races of this bird (now known as Spruce
Partridge, rather than Spruce Grouse) are given in the A.O.U.
'Check-List' as follows:
=298. Hudsonian Spruce Partridge= (_Canachites canadensis
canadensis_).
Range--"Boreal forest region from the eastern base of the Rocky
Mountains west of Edmonton, Alberta, east to Labrador Peninsula; also
a disconnected area in Alaska from Bristol Bay to Cook Inlet and
Prince William Sound."
=298b. Alaska Spruce Partridge= (_C. c. osgoodi_).
Range--"Mt. McKinley and the Yukon region east to Great Slave and
Athabasca lakes."
=298c. Canada Spruce Partridge= (_C. c. canace_).
Range--"Manitoba, southern Ontario, and New Brunswick south to
northern parts of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, New York, and New
England."
Page 119. After No. 301a add: =301b. Alexander's Ptarmigan= (_L. l.
alexandræ_). Similar to _L. l. lagopus_ in corresponding plumage, "but
coloration darker throughout, especially dorsally; bill smaller and
relatively much narrower." (Grinnell).
Range--Baranof and adjacent islands west to Shumagin Islands
(A.O.U.).
Page 119. After No. 301b. add; =301c. Ungava Ptarmigan= (_L. l.
ungavus_). Like No. 301 but with a heavier bill. Culmen, .82; depth of
bill at base, .57 (Riley, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XXIV, 1911, p. 233).
Range--Ungava and probably the eastern shore of Hudson Bay.
Page 120. Remove the interrogation points from before Nos. 304 and
304a, the distinctions between which there presented having been
accepted by the A.O.U., and amend Range of No. 304a. to read:
"Alpine summits from central Alaska, northern Yukon, and northwestern
Mackenzie south to Cook Inlet region, Kenai Peninsula and southern
Yukon." (A.O.U.).
Page 120. After No. 302e. add: =302f. Dixon's Ptarmigan= (_L. r.
dixoni_). Resembling _L. r. nelsoni_ in corresponding plumage, "but
much darker; in extreme blackness of coloration nearly like _Lagopus
evermanni_, but feathers of chest and back more or less finely
vermiculated with hazel." (Grinnell).
Range--Islands near Sitka.
Page 120. After No. 302d. add: =302e. Adak Ptarmigan= (_L. r.
chamberlaini_). Nearest _L. r. towsendi_ but with finer vermiculations
above, and with black bars on neck and upper back reduced to very
narrow bars or vermiculations. Grayest of the Aleutian Ptarmigan.
(Clark).
Range--Island of Adak, Aleutian Chain.
Page 122. A change here in enumeration makes Merriam's Turkey No. 310,
while the Wild Turkey (_M. g. silvestris_) becomes 310a.
Page 125. After No. 316 add: =316a. Western Mourning Dove= (_Z. m.
marginella_). Similar to _Z. m. carolinensis_ but paler. (Mearns, Auk,
1911, p. 490).
Range--"Pacific Coast and San Clemente Island east to Mississippi
Valley" (A.O.U.). The range of No. 316 should be correspondingly
restricted.
Page 126. After No. 319 add: =319a. White-winged Dove= (_M. a.
trudeaui_). Similar to _M. a. asiatica_ but "slightly larger, with a
much longer bill and much paler coloration" (Mearns, Auk. 1911,
p. 489).
Range--"Lower California, southern Arizona, southwestern New Mexico
and southern Texas, south to Costa Rica. Casual in southeastern
California and Colorado; accidental in Washington" (A.O.U.).
Page 126. No. 319 becomes West Indian White-winged Dove (_Melopelia
asiatica asiatica_). Its Range includes Cuba and Jamaica, and it is
of casual occurrence in the Bahamas and Florida.
Page 132. After No. 337d. add =337e. Alaska Red-tail= (_B. b.
alascensis_). Resembling _B. b. calurus_ "but smaller throughout, and,
keeping in consideration the stage of plumage, dark areas blacker and
more extended." [Male] W. 13.5; T. 7.67; [Female] W. 14.44; T. 8.69
(Grinnell).
Range--"Southeastern Alaska from Yakutat Bay to Admiralty Island and
the Sitka Islands" (A.O.U.).
Page 138. After No. 360b. add: =360c. Little Sparrow Hawk=
(_F. S. paulus_). Similar to No. 360 but smaller. [Male] W. 6.80;
T. 4.12 [Female] W. 6.96; T. 4.00 (Howe).
Range--Southern half of Florida.
Page 140. No. 379 proves to be separable into southern and northern
races. The former retains the name _Glaucidium gnoma gnoma_, while the
race of northern Mexico and Western United States, heretofore known by
that name, becomes _G. g. pinicola_, the Rocky Mountain Pygmy Owl.
(Nelson, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XXIII, 1910, p. 103).
Page 142. After No. 373h. add: =373i. Sahauro Screech Owl=
(_O. a. gilmani_). Nearest No. 373f but smaller and paler and with
black markings more restricted (Swarth, Univ. Cal. Pub. Zool., VII,
1910, p. 1).
Range--"Lower Sonoran Life zone of southeastern California, Arizona,
and probably New Mexico; and northwestern Mexico" (A.O.U.).
Page 143. After No. 375f. add: =375g. Saint Michael Horned Owl=
(_B. v. algistus_). Similar to No. 375d. but larger; face less
ochraceous, upper surface paler ochraceous. W. 14.60 (Oberholser).
Range--"Coast Region of northern Alaska from Bristol Bay and the Yukon
northward" (A.O.U.).
Page 143. After No. 275e. add: =375f. Labrador Horned Owl=
(_B. v. heterocnemis_). Similar to No. 375c. "but bill larger;
posterior lower parts paler; feet lighter colored and less heavily
spotted; upper parts with usually less ochraceous." (Oberholser).
Range--"Northern Ungava and Labrador" (A.O.U.).
Page 147. After No. 390 add: =390a. Northwestern Belted Kingfisher=
(_C. a. caurina_). Similar to No. 370 "but size greater, especially
measurements of flight-feathers." W. 6.54 (Grinnell, Univ. Calif. Pub.
Zool., V. 1910, p. 388).
Range--Northwestern America, south along the Pacific coast in winter.
Status of California breeding birds still undetermined. (Grinnell,
Univ. Cal. Pub. Zool., V, 1910, p. 289).
Page 150. After No. 393f. add: =393g. Newfoundland Woodpecker=
(_D. v. terrænoræ_). Similar to _D. V. villosus_, "but slightly larger,
the black areas of the upperparts increased, the white areas reduced
both in number and in size, especially in the remiges and wing-coverts,"
(Batchelder).
Range--Newfoundland.
Page 150. After No. 393e. add: =393h. White-breasted Woodpecker=
(_D. v. leucothorectis_). "Much like No. 393e. but decidedly smaller;
wing-coverts practically always without white spots." W. 4.83;
T. 3.07; B. 1.10 (Oberholser, Proc. U. S. N. M. 40, 1908, p. 608).
Range--"Canadian and Transition Zones, from southern Utah,
northwestern and central New Mexico and extreme southwestern Texas,
south to the mountains of western Zacatecas, Mexico." (A.O.U.).
Page 151. After No. 396a. add: =396b. San Fernando Woodpecker=
(_D. s. eremicus_). Similar to No. 396a, but larger; lower surface
darker; upperparts darker, the white bars on back averaging narrower
and less regular, the neck bars wider; black bars on posterior lower
parts averaging somewhat wider." [Male] W. 4.16; T. 2.67; B. 1.02.
(Oberholser, Proc. U. S. N. M. 41, 1911, P. 151).
Range--Lower California, north of Ukai and Plaia Maria Bay, except
extreme northeastern portion" (A.O.U.). The Range of No. 396a is
thus restricted to the southern half of Lower California.
Page 351. _Dryobates scalaris bairdi_ proves to be restricted to
Mexico; No. 396, its representative in the southwestern United States,
has been named Cactus Woodpecker (_D. s. cactophilus_). (Oberholser,
Proc. U. S. N. M., 41, 1911, p. 152).
Page 154. After No. 414a. add: =414b. Mearns's Gilded Flicker=
(_C. c. mearnsi_). Similar to _C. c. chrysoides_ but decidedly larger
and paler, with pileum more strongly cinnamomeus, black bars on back,
etc., narrower, spots on outer web of primaries more conspicuous
primary coverts also sometimes spotted, gray of throat, etc. lighter,
and spots on underparts usually smaller. W. 5.74; T. 3.77; B. 1.39
(Ridgway).
Range.--"Extreme southwestern California, northern Lower California,
and southern Arizona south to southern Sonora" (A.O.U.). The Range
of No. 414 is now restricted to "southern Lower California," that of
No. 414 to "middle Lower California."
Page 160. After No. 439 add: =391.1 Salvin's Hummingbird= (_Uranomitra
salvini_). Ad. [Male]. Head glittering blue; back dark shining green;
tail dark glossy green, outer pair of feathers broadly tipped with
drab; below soiled white; throat tinged with clayey white, sides of
throat spotted with blue; sides of breast greenish blue; sides of body
brilliant green. W. 2.07; T. 1.27; B. 1.02 (Brewster). Yng [Female].
Similar but duller, rump edged with rusty; sides of body brownish gray
(Bishop).
Range.--"Huachuca Mountains, southern Arizona, and eastern Sonora
(only two specimens known)" (A.O.U.).
Pages 162 and 166. The Waxwings alone now compose the Family
BOMBYCILLIDÃ (formerly AMPELIDÃ) while the Phainopepla is placed in
the Family PTILOGONATIDÃ.
Pages 162 and 169. The subfamily Chamæinæ is now elevated to full
family rank and stands as Family CHAMÃIDÃ, Wren-Tits. It contains
solely the Wren-Tits, (Nos. 742 to 742c) the only family of birds
restricted to North America.
Page 178. After No. 498f. add: =498g. Vera Cruz Red-wing=
(_A. p. richmondi_). Similar to _A. p. floridanus_ but slightly smaller;
adult female much lighter colored (resembling female of _A. p.
sonoriensis_), about intermediate in color between females of
_A. p. floridanus_ and _A. p. bryanti_. [Male] W. 4.40; T. 3.22; B. 90;
depth of B. at base, .44. [Female]. W. 3.61; T. 2.67; B. .77; depth of
B. at base, 39.
Range.--"Southern coast and Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas south
through eastern Mexico to Yucatan and eastern Guatemala; winters south
to eastern Nicaragua and Costa Rica." (A.O.U.).
Page 185. After No. 478d. add: =478e. Coast Jay= (_C. s. carbonacea_).
"Intermediate in size and coloration between _C. s. stelleri_ and
_C. stelleri frontalis_. Dorsal surface sooty black as in _stelleri_,
but with blue on forehead nearly as extended as in _frontalis_. Tint
of blue of posterior lower parts paler than in _=stelleri=_, and
extending further forward into pectoral region as in _frontalis_"
(Grinnell).
Range.--"Breeds in the humid Pacific coast strip from southern Oregon
to the Santa Lucia mountains, California and east to the mountains on
the west side of Napa Valley; in winter east to the Gabilan and Mt.
Diablo ranges" (A. O. U).
Page 192. Cancel No. 530b, United States specimens of which prove to
be merely adults of No. 530. Further west, however, black-backed birds
are not found, and this western bird has been described as new.
(Consequently after No. 530, add: =530a). Green-backed Goldfinch=
(_A. p. hesperophilus_). Similar to _A. p. psaltria_ "but ear-coverts,
sides of neck with back, nape, and rump, in fully adult plumage,
olive-green instead of black" (Oberholser). Fig. 530 represents this
area.
Range.--"Southwestern United States. Breeds from southern Oregon and
Utah to southern Lower California, Sonora and extreme southwestern New
Mexico; winters from central California to Cape San Lucas" (A.O.U.).
The Range of _A. g. psaltria_ is therefore restricted to "northern
Colorado to central northern Texas and south throughout Mexico, except
in northwestern and extreme southern portions; casual in Wyoming."
(A.O.U.).
Page 194. Cancel No. 618d, Northern Yellow-throat, which proves to be
the same as No. 681, Maryland Yellow-throat.
Page 196. After No. 652b. add: =652c. California Yellow Warbler=
(_D. æ. brewsteri_). Differs from _D. æ. æstiva_ in smaller size,
paler (or less brightly yellow) coloration and, in the male, narrower
streaking on under surface." Differs from _D. æ. rubiginosa_ "in much
smaller size and yellower coloration," and "from _D. æ. sonorana_ in
smaller size and darker coloration." [Male] W. 2.45; T. 1.96. [Female].
W. 2.33; T. 1.93 (Grinnell).
Range.--Pacific Coast, west of the Cascades, and the Sierra Nevada
from Washington to southern California. (The range of _D. æ. æstiva_
is correspondingly restricted).
Page 210. Cancel No. 464.2, Santa Barbara Flycatcher, which proves to
be the same as No. 464, Western Flycatcher.
Page 211. Cancel No. 472a, Ridgway's Flycatcher, which proves to be
the same as No. 472, Beardless Flycatcher.
Page 212. After No. 632c. add: =632a. Fraser's Vireo= (_V. h.
cognatus_). Similar to _V. h. stephensi_, but wing averaging decidedly
shorter, tarsus longer, and coloration paler. Wing, 2.48; Tar. .74
(Ridgway).
Range.--"Cape San Lucas district of Lower California (Sierra de la
Laguna; Victoria Mountains); resident" (Ridgway).
Page 214. After No. 633a. add: =633b. Texas Vireo= (_V. b. medius_).
"Similar to _V. b. belli_, but coloration paler and tail averaging
longer; pileum and hindneck brownish gray instead of grayish brown;
olive of back, etc. grayer; underparts whiter with olive-yellow of
sides and flanks much paler; under tail-coverts and axillars white,
yellowish white, or very pale sulphur yellow" (Ridgway).
Range.--"Southwestern Texas (Presidio, Brewster and Kinney Counties)
south to Coahuila and Guanajuato, central Mexico" (A.O.U.).
Pages 215, 216. The Wren-Tits have been revised and their ranges more
correctly defined, and to the two forms given two more have been
added. The four races now recognized stand as follows: =742. Wren-Tit=
(_Chamæa fasciata fasciata_). Characters as described and figured.
Range.--"Upper Sonoran zone on the eastern and southern shores of San
Francisco Bay and adjacent Santa Clara Valley" (A.O.U.).
=742a. Pallid Wren-Tit= (_C. f. henshawi_). Similar to _C. f.
fasciata_, "but decidedly paler, the back, scapulars, rump, etc.
grayish brown (deep hair-brown), the pileum and hindneck brownish
gray (nearly mouse-gray or deep smoke-gray), and general color of
underparts varying from very pale grayish buff to buffy ecru-drab, or
pale, vinaceous-buff, fading to nearly white on lower abdomen"
(Ridgway).
Range.--"Upper Sonoran Zone of foothills and valleys of interior and
southern California from Shasta County south to northern Lower
California, and along the coast from Monterey Bay southward"
(A.O.U.).
=742b. Coast Wren-Tit= (_C. f. phæa_). Characters as stated on page
216.
Range.--"Humid Transition Zone of Pacific Coast of Oregon and northern
California (from Columbia River to Humboldt Bay)" (A.O.U.).
=742c. Ruddy Wren-Tit= (_C. f. rufula_). Intermediate in color between
No. 742 and No. 742b. More richly colored than the former, but not so
dark as the latter.
Range.--"Humid Transition coast strip of California from southern
Humboldt County to Santa Cruz" (A.O.U.).
Page 217. Cancel No. 710a. Pasadena Thrasher, which proves to be the
same as No. 710 California Thrasher.
Page 223. After No. 542b, add: =542d. Nevada Savannah Sparrow= (_P. s.
nevadensis_). Resembles _P. s. alaudinus_ "but much paler throughout
in all plumages; white replacing buff, black streaks thus more
conspicuously contrasted, there being a minimum amount of hazel
marginings; size slightly less." Differs from _P. s. savanna_ "as
above, but in greater degree" (Grinnell, Univ. Calif. Pub. Zool.
V, 1910, p. 312).
Range.--"Humboldt and Washoe Counties, Nevada, and probably throughout
Great Basin, south in winter to the Colorado Desert and Los Angeles
Co., California" (A.O.U.).
Page 228, after No. 574b (which, as shown in the Systematic Table, now
becomes 574.1a) add: =574.1b. California Sage Sparrow= (_Amphispiza
nevadensis canescens_). Similar to _Amphispiza belli_ but size
somewhat greater, and coloration throughout very much paler; resembles
_Amphispiza nevadensis nevadensis_, but size very much less, and
coloration slightly darker. [Male] W. 2.79; T. 3.03. [Female]
W. 2.63; T. 2.87 (Grinnell).
Range.--"Upper Sonoran Zone in Owens Valley and adjacent areas in
eastern California and extreme western Nevada" (A.O.U.).
Page 229. After No. 581c. add =581s. Suisun Song Sparrow= (_M. m.
maxillaris_). Size of _M. m. heermanni_; but black streakings
everywhere broader, and the general tone of coloration darker; larger
than _M. m. samuelis_ and with brown more extended and deeper in tone
(bay rather than hazel); unique in having the base of the maxilla
inflated or swollen with "lateral bulbosities" (Grinnell).
Range.--Marshes bordering Suisun Bay, Solano Co., California.
Page 230. After No. 581d. add: =581p. Mendocino Song Sparrow= (_M. m.
cleonsis_). Size of _M. m. samuelis_ but lighter and more rusty; black
markings of back more restricted; spots of breast broadly edged with
rusty; black on side of head and neck almost entirely replaced by
rusty or reddish brown" (McGregor).
Range.--"Coast strip of southern Oregon and northern California from
Yaquina Bay, Oregon, to Tomales Bay, California" (A.O.U.).
Page 231. After No. 585d. add: =585e. Sooty Fox Sparrow= (_P. i.
fuliginosa_). "Similar to _P. i. townsendi_ but darker and less
rufescent, the upperparts, sides of head and neck and lateral
underparts sepia or sooty brown, the upper tail-coverts and tail
slightly more castaneous; spots on underparts dark sooty brown, larger
and more confluent than in other forms" (Ridgway).
Range.--"Northwest coast strip. Breeds on the coast of British
Columbia, Vancouver Island and northwestern Washington; winters south
along the coast to San Francisco, California" (A.O.U.).
=No. 585f. Kadiak Fox Sparrow= (_P. i. insularis_). "Similar to
_P. i. unalaschensis_ but much browner and more uniform above (back
warm sepia), spots on chest, etc., larger and much deeper brown and
under tail-coverts more strongly tinged with buff" (Ridgway).
Range.--"Alaska coast strip. Breeds on Kadiak Island and on the coast
from Prince William Sound south to Cross Sound; winters along the
coast to southern California" (A.O.U.).
Page 234. After No. 715 add: =715a. San Nicolas Rock Wren= (_S. o.
pulverius_). Similar to _S. o. obsoletus_ "but entire plumage,
especially the upperparts, suffused with ochraceous or dust color,
almost identical with the tint of the soil on San Nicholas Island"
(Grinnell).
Range.--San Nicholas Island, California.
Page 236. Cancel No. 821b, _Troglodytes aëdon aztecus_, which proves
to be the same as No. 721a, _T. a. parkmani_. The common name, Western
House Wren, however, is retained in place of the common name Parkman's
Wren.
Page 237. After No. 725c add: =725d. Prairie Marsh Wren= (_T. p.
iliacus_). "Similar to _T. p. palustris_, but slightly larger and with
the coloration more rufescent, the brown of the upperparts
russet-brown to cinnamon-brown or russet, the flanks conspicuously
deep cinnamon-buff or cinnamon" (Ridgway).
Range.--Plains and prairies of central North America. Breeds from
central Alberta and southwestern Keewatin south to central Mississippi
Valley and east to Indiana; winters southward into Mexico and along
the Gulf coast to western Florida (A.O.U.).
Page 238. After No. 759c add: =759d. Monterey Hermit Thrush= (_H. g.
slevini_). General color extremely pale and ashy, nearly as much so as
in _H. g. sequoiensis_; above hair-brown, slightly browner on top of
head; upper tail-coverts and tail isabella color; spots on breast
sepia, small in size and few in numbers. (Grinnell).
Range.--"Breeds in Transition Zone of the coast belt in California
from northern Trinity County to southern Monterey County; south in
migration to Lower California and Sonora" (A.O.U.).
=759e. Sierra Hermit Thrush= (_H. g. sequoiensis_). Similar in
coloration to _H. g. slevini_, but decidedly larger and slightly
darker or browner; similar to _H. g. guttata_, but larger, paler, and
grayer; decidedly smaller." W. 3.65; T. 2.82. (Ridgway).
Range.--"Breeds in Boreal Zones from southern British Columbia to high
mountains in southern California; south in migration and in winter to
Lower California, western Texas, and northern Mexico" (A.O.U.).
Page 239. Cancel 758b, Monterey Thrush, and No. 758c, Alma Thrush,
which are now considered to be the same as No. 758, Russet-backed
Thrush.
Pages 240 and 241. The decisions of the A.O.U. Committee on numerous
proposed changes in the standing of our Juncos were not published
until after the first edition of the Color Key appeared. One new form
(No. 567h) has been added to those therein given one (_J. o.
shufeldti_) has been omitted and the following changes have been made
in nomenclature:
No. 568. _Junco mearnsi_, becomes No. 567g, Junco hyemalis mearnsi,
and the Range of this form is now given as "Rocky Mountain region.
Breeds from southwestern Saskatchewan to southern Idaho and northern
Wyoming and Colorado to southern Arizona, southern New Mexico, and
northeastern Sonora" (A.O.U.).
No. 567.1 _Junco montanus_, becomes No. 567f. _Junco hyemalis
montanus_.
No. 571.1 _Junco townsendi_, becomes No. 567i, _Junco hyemalis
townsendi_.
No. 569 _Junco caniceps_, becomes No. 570b. _Junco phæonotus
caniceps_.
No. 570a. _Junco dorsalis_, becomes _Junco phæonotus dorsalis_.
No. 567a. _Junco oreganus_, becomes _Junco hyemalis oreganus_.
No. 567c. _Junco oreganus thurberi_, becomes _Junco hyemalis
thurberi_.
No. 567d. _Junco oreganus pinosus_, becomes _Junco hyemalis pinosus_.
The common names of all the preceding species remain unchanged.
No. 567b. Coues' Junco (_Junco oreganus connectens_) becomes
Shufeldt's Junco (_Junco hyemalis connectens_), and this form also
includes _J. o. shufeldti_ of the 'Color Key,' which is therefore
cancelled. The Range of 567b, thus stands as follows:
Rocky Mountain region. Breeds from the coast of southern British
Columbia east to west, central Alberta and south to northern Oregon;
winters over entire Rocky Mountain tableland to eastern Colorado,
Arizona, New Mexico, western Texas, Chihuahua, and Sonora; casual
in northern Lower California" (A.O.U.).
The one new form added follows No. 568. after which insert =567h,
Ridgway's Junco= (_J. h. annectens_). Back with a reddish brown patch
as in _J. p. caniceps_, but sides washed with pinkish brown, as in
_J. h. mearnsi_.
Range.--"Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico" (A.O.U.).
Page 242. Cancel No. 744.1, Santa Rita Bush-Tit, which proves to be
the same as No. 745, Lloyd's Bush-Tit.
Page 243. Cancel No. 731a, Texan Tufted Titmouse, which proves to be
the same as No. 731, Tufted Titmouse.
Page 243. After No. 732 add: =732a. Sennett's Titmouse= (_B. a.
sennetti_). "Similar to _B. a. atricistatus_, but decidedly larger;
upper parts much clearer gray, with little, if any olive tinge; adult
female with crest feathers more often and more extensively tipped with
gray, and both sexes with the forehead more often tinged with brown or
rusty, sometimes deeply so" (Ridgway).
Range.--Central Texas, "from Tom Green and Concho Counties east to the
Brazos River, and from Young County south to Nueces and Bee Counties"
(A.O.U.).
Page 244. After No. 741b. add: =741c. Valdez Chestnut-sided Chickadee=
(_P. r. vivax_). Like _P. r. rufescens_ in coloration but larger, tail
proportionately longer and bill bulkier. W. 2.48; T. 2.32 (Grinnell).
Range.--Prince William Sound Region, Alaska.
Page 244. Cancel 740a. Kowak Chickadee, and No. 740b, Columbian
Chickadee, which prove to be the same as No. 740, Hudsonian Chickadee.
_Parus h. littoralis_ becomes No. 740a, Acadian Chickadee.
Page 244. After No. 738 add: =738a. Bailey's Mountain Chickadee=
(_P. g. baileyæ_). Similar to _P. g. gambeli_, "but coloration dorsally
and laterally more plumbeous, less brownish, and bill larger." B. 41
(Grinnell).
Range.--"Mountains of Great Basin region and northern Lower
California. Breeds in Canadian and Transition Zones from the Maury
Mountains, Oregon, south over Nevada and eastern California to the San
Pedro Martir Mountains, Lower California" (A.O.U.).
Page 245. After No. 736a add: =736b. Florida Chickadee= (_P. c.
impiger_). Similar to _P. c. carolinensis_ but darker and decidedly
smaller (except bill). W. 2.08; T. 1.81; B. .31 (Ridgway).
Range.--East central Florida.
Page 245. After No. 735b add: =735c. Yukon Chickadee= (_P. a.
turneri_). "Similar to _P. a. septentrionalis_ but slightly smaller,
coloration grayer above and more extensively or purely white beneath,
and white edgings of greater wing-coverts, secondaries, and outermost
rectrices broader, more purely white" (Ridgway).
Range.--Alaska, north and west of Cook Inlet.
Page 248. After No. 622c add the northeastern form of the Loggerhead
Shrike, which is intermediate between _L. l. ludovicianus_ and _L. l.
excubitorides_ and has been separated as =622e. Migrant Shrike= (_L.
l. migrans_). Similar to _L. l. ludovicianus_ but bill smaller and
colors averaging paler. Not so pale as, and lacking the whitish upper
tail-coverts of _L. l. excubitorides_.
Range.--"Eastern North America. Breeds chiefly in Transition and Upper
Austral Zones from northern Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, southern
Ontario, southern Quebec, Maine, and New Brunswick, south to eastern
Kansas, southern Illinois, Kentucky, western North Carolina and
interior of Virginia (locally in the east); winters from Middle States
and southern New England to Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi"
(A.O.U.).
The Range of the Loggerhead Shrike (No. 622) is therefore restricted
to the South Atlantic and Gulf States from southern North Carolina
south through Florida and west to Louisiana.
Page 250. After No. 612 add: =612a. Lesser Cliff Swallow= (_P. l.
tachina_). Similar to _P. l. lunifrons_ but decidedly smaller, the
forehead ochraceous instead of cream color. W. 4.08; T. 1.77
(Oberholser).
Range.--"Texas and Mexico. Breeds in western Texas, the Rio Grande
Valley, and through eastern Mexico to Vera Cruz" (A.O.U.).
Page 250. No. 612.2. _Petrochelidon melanogastra_, becomes No. 612b,
_Petrochelidon lunifrons melanogastra_.
Page 250. After No. 611.1 (which is now believed to be of only
occasional occurrence in southern Florida) add: =611.2. Gray-breasted
Martin= (_Progne chalybea_). Male much like the female of _P. subis_
but brighter, more uniformly steel-blue above. Female like female of
_P. subis_ but brighter, more uniformly gray, the belly whiter,
without black shaft streaks; the nape without sign of a collar in
either sex. W. 5.2.
Range.--Breeds from Lower Rio Grande in Texas south to southern
Brazil.
Page 253. After No. 496 (which has become _Tangavius æneus
involucratus_) add: =496a. Bronzed Cowbird= (_T. w. æneus_). Similar
to _T. æ. involucratus_ but plumage of the male _smoother_ and more
glossy; the female much grayer, more like female of _M. ater_.
Range.--"San Antonio, Texas, south through eastern Mexico, Yucatan and
central America to Panama" (A.O.U.).
The Range of No. 496 is hence restricted to the region from
northwestern Mexico to southern Arizona.
Page 255. After No. 488a. add: =488b. Western Crow= (_C. b.
hesperis_). Similar to No. 488 "but decidedly smaller, with bill
relatively smaller and more slender." [Male] W. 11.88; T. 6.72;
B. 1.87; depth of B. at nostril .62 (Ridgway).
Range.--"Western North America, from east central British Columbia and
Montana south to southern California, Arizona, and western Texas" (A.
O. U.).
APPENDIX II.
FAUNAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
When one is engaged in a study of the birds of a certain region or
locality it is of the first importance to learn what has been
published about them by previous workers. Such information may appear
in general works on the bird-life of a large area, but more frequently
it is found in 'local lists' of the birds of a limited district. These
lists constitute one of the most characteristic and numerous types of
ornithological publication. They are of value to the student of
distribution and migration, in the broader phases of these subjects,
and they are of especial interest and assistance to students living in
the region to which they relate.
The appended titles of works of this nature have been selected from a
card catalogue of faunal publications which the author began to
prepare some twenty years ago, in part with regard to their historic
importance, but mainly on the basis of their present working value.
Unfortunately many of these papers are now out of print or are hidden
in scientific publications of but limited circulation and are
therefore correspondingly inaccessible. When, however, other means to
secure them fail, the Librarian of the American Museum of Natural
History, in New York City, may be consulted with a view to securing,
at cost, a type written copy of any list desired.
THE WORLD
1875-1895. SHARPE, B., and others. Catalogue of Birds in the British
Museum. 27 vols. with descriptions of the birds of the world,
ills.--1885. STEJNEGER, L., and others. Riverside Natural History.
Vol. IV, Birds, 4to, 558 pp., ills. (Houghton, Mifflin).
Classification, structure, habits, distribution.--1893-1836. NEWTON,
A., and others. A Dictionary of Birds. Pop. Ed., 8vo, 1088 pp., ills.
(Macmillan).--1894-95. LYDEKKER, R., and others. Royal Nat. Hist.,
Birds, 4to, Vols. III, 584 pp., and IV, 576 pp., ills., General
account.--1899. EVANS, A. H., Birds. Vol. IX, Cambridge Natural
History (Macmillan). 8vo, 635 pp. ills. Classification, habits,
distribution.--1899-1909. SHARPE, B. A Hand-List of the Genera and
Species of Birds. 8vo, 5 vols. Published by British Museum. Names and
Ranges.--1909. KNOWLTON, F. H., and others. Birds of the World, sm.
4to, 873 pp., ills. (Holt). Habits, distribution.
NORTH AMERICA
1804-14, WILSON, A. American Ornithology. 9 vols., 4to Many subsequent
editions, the last, in one volume, by Porter & Coates, Philadelphia,
is crude, but at least places Wilson's text within reach of every
one.--1831-39. AUDUBON, J. J. Ornithological Biography. 5 vols., 8vo
of text to accompany the 4 elephant folios of plates (1827-38).
Republished in 8 vols., 8vo, 1840-44 and later editions. The elephant
folios with the 5 volumes of text sell for $2500-$3000; the text can
sometimes be purchased at $5 per volume; the first 8vo edition brings
about $350.--1832-34. NUTTALL, T. Manual of the Ornithology of the
United States and Canada. 2 vols. Several later editions, the last
revised by Montague Chamberlain (Little, Brown & Co.), 1903, 2 vols.
in one, 473 and 431 pp.--1858. BAIRD, S. F., CASSIN, J., and LAWRENCE,
G. N. Pacific R. R. Reports. Vol. IX. Birds (of North America). 4to.
pp. LVI+1005--1872. COUES, E. Key to North American Birds. 1903, 5th
and last ed., 2 vols., roy. 8vo. 1152 pp. The introduction, of 233
pages, treats of general ornithology and the anatomy of
birds.--1874-1884. BAIRD, S. F., BREWER, T. M., and RIDGWAY, R.
History of North American Birds. Land birds, 3 vols.: water birds,
2 vols., 4to. The volumes on land birds republished in 8vo size but
from same plates, 1905, 596, 590, 560 pp. (Little, Brown & Co).--1886.
American Ornithologists' Union Check-List of North American Birds. New
York, Rev. Ed. 1910, 8vo, 430 pp.--1887. RIDGWAY, R. A Manual of North
American Birds. 2d Ed. 1896, 653 pp. (Lippincott).--1892-5. BENDIRE,
C. Life Histories of North American Birds. I, 414 pp., Gallinaceous
birds, Pigeons, Hawks, and Owls; II, 1895, 508 pp., Parrots, Cuckoos,
Trogons, Kingfishers, Woodpeckers, Goatsuckers, Swifts, Hummingbirds,
Cotingas, Flycatchers, Larks, Crows and Jays, Blackbirds and Orioles.
(Pub. by U. S. Nat. Mus.)--1893. NEHRLING, H. Our Native Birds
of Song and Beauty. Vol. I, 371 pp.; Vol. II, 1896, 452 pp.
Biographical.--1898. DAVIE, O. Nests and Eggs of North American
Birds. 5th Ed., 8vo, 509 pp. (Columbus, Ohio).--1901-1911. RIDGWAY, R.
The Birds of North and Middle America. Bull. 50, U. S. Nat. Mus. Part
I, 1901, Fringillidæ; Part II, 1902, Tanagridæ, Icteridæ, CÅrebidæ,
Mniotiltidæ; Part III, 1904, Motacillidæ, Hirundinidæ, Ampelidæ,
Ptilogonatidæ, Dulidæ, Vireonidæ, Laniidæ, Corvidæ, Paridæ, Sittidæ,
Certhiidæ, Troglodytidæ, Cinclidæ, Chameidæ, Sylviidæ; Part IV, 1907,
Turdidæ, Zeledoniidæe, Mimidæe, Sturnidæ, Ploceidæ, Alaudidaæ,
Oxyruncidæ, Tyrannidæ, Pipridæ, Cotingidæ. Part V, 1912,
Pteroptochidæ, Formicariidæ, Furnariidæ, Dendrocolaptidæ, Trochilidæ,
Micropodidæ, Trogonidæ. Other volumes to follow. The standard
work.--1903. CHAPMAN, F. M. Color Key to North American Birds. 312
pp., upward 800 col. ills.--1904. REED, C. S. North American Birds'
Eggs. 355 pp., many ills.--1910. American Ornithologists' Union
Abridged Check-List of North American Birds. Pocket Edition,
77 printed + 77 blank pp. (New York).
EASTERN NORTH AMERICA.
1872-1881. MAYNARD, C. J. Birds of Eastern North America; 1896, Rev.
Ed., 4to, 721 pp., ills. (West Newton, Mass.).--1884. LANGILLE, J.
H.... Our Birds in Their Haunts. 12mo, 624 pp. (Cassino).--1889.
MERRIAM, F. A. Birds Through an Opera-glass. 12mo, 223 pp.
(Houghton).--1895. WRIGHT, M. O. Birdcraft, 12mo, 317 pp., ills.
(Macmillan).--1895. CHAPMAN, F. M. Handbook of the Birds of Eastern
North America, 421 pp., ills.; 1912. Rev. Ed. (Appleton's).--1897.
CHAPMAN, F. M. Bird-Life. A Guide to the Study of our Common Birds.
12mo. 269 pp. 75 plls.; 1901, Rev. Ed., with col. plls.
(Appleton's).--1897. WRIGHT, M. O., and COUES, E. Citizen Bird, 12mo,
430 pp. ills. (Macmillan).--1898. BLANCHAN, N. Bird Neighbors, 234
pp., col. Plls. (Doubleday).--1898. MERRIAM, F. A. Birds of Village
and Field. 12mo. 406 pp., ills. (Houghton).--1898. SCOTT, W. E. D. Bird
Studies, an Account of the Land Birds of Eastern North America. 4to,
363 pp. Many half-tones (Putnam's).--1898. APGAR, A. C. Birds of the
United States East of the Rockies. 12mo, 415 pp. ills. (Am. Book
Co.).--1899. CORY, C. B. The Birds of Eastern North America. 8vo,
387 pp., ills. (Field Museum).--1905-6. REED, C. A. Bird-Guide.
Oblong, 32mo, Part I, 254 pp.; Part II, 197 pp.; many ills. (Doubleday).
GREENLAND
1861. REINHARDT, J. List of Birds Hitherto Observed in Greenland;
Ibis, III, pp. 1-19, 118 species.--1875. NEWTON, A. Notes on Birds
Which Have Been Found in Greenland, ... London, 8vo pamphlet,
pp. 94-115 (Author's extra from Man. Nat. Hist. Greenland). 63+62
species; bibliography.--1889. HAGERUP, A. Some Account of the Birds
of Southern Greenland, from the MSS.. of A. Hagerup, edited by Montague
Chamberlain. Auk, VI, pp. 211-218, 219-297, 39 species.--1891.
HAGERUP, A. T. The Birds of Greenland, translated from the Danish by
Fremann B. Arngrimson, edited by Montague Chamberlain, Boston (Little,
Brown & Co.), 8vo, 62 pp.; 139 species.--1892. STONE, W. Birds
Collected by the West Greenland Expedition. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci.,
Phila., 1892, pp. 145-152; 147 species.--1895. STONE, W. List of Birds
Collected by the Peary Expd. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., 1895, pp.
502-505; 28 species.--1895. SCHALOW, H. VON. Ueber eine Voglesammlung
aus Westgrönland. Jour. für Orn., 1895, pp. 457-481; 35 species.--1899.
CHAPMAN, F. M. Report on Birds Received Through the Peary Expeditions
to Greenland. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XII, pp. 219-244; 48
pages.--1904. SCHALOW, H. Die Vögel der Arktis, Band IV, Leiferung, I,
pp. 81-288; Gustav Fischer, Jena. A detailed synopsis of Arctic
bird-life.
ALASKA
1869. DALL, W. H., and BANNISTER, H. M. List of the Birds of Alaska,
with Biographical Notes. Trans. Chic. Acad. Nat. Sci., I, pp. 267-310,
pll. XXVII-XXXIV; 212 species.--1873. DALL, W. H. Notes on the
Avifauna of the Aleutian Islands, from Unalashka, eastward. Proc. Cal.
Acad. Sci. V, pp. 25-35; 53 species.--1874. DALL, W. H. Notes on the
Avifauna of the Aleutian Islands, especially those west of Unalashka.
Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. V, pp. 270-281; 45 species.--1875. COUES, E. A
Report upon the Condition of Affairs in the Territory of Alaska. By H.
W. Elliot. 8vo. pp. 277. Chapter IX. Ornithology of the Prybilov
Islands, pp. 166-212; 39 species.--1882. BEAN, T. H. Notes on Birds
Collected during the Summer of 1880 in Alaska and Siberia. Proc. U. S.
Nat. Mus., V, pp. 144-173; 77 species.--1885. MURDOCH, J. Bird
Migration at Point Barrow, Arctic Alaska. Auk, II, p. 63; 50
species.--1883. HARTLAUB, G. Beitrag zur Ornithologie von Alaska, nach
dem Sammlungen und Noten von Dr. Arthur Krause und Dr. Aurel Krause.
Journ für Orn. pp. 257-286; 83 species.--1883. NELSON, E. W. Birds of
Bering Sea and the Arctic Ocean. Cruise of the Revenue steamer Corwin
in Alaska and the N. W. Arctic Ocean in 1881. Washington.--1885.
MURDOCH, J. Report of the International Polar Expedition to Point
Barrow, Alaska. Washington. Birds, pp. 104-128; 54 species.--1885.
TURNER, L. M. Notes on the Birds of the Nearer Islands, Alaska. Auk,
II, pp. 154-159; 69 species.--1887. TOWNSEND, C. H. List of the
Midsummer Birds of the Kowak River, Northern Alaska. Auk, IV,
pp. 11-13; 52 species.--1888. NELSON, E. W. Report upon Natural History
Collections made in Alaska Between the Years 1877 and 1881. Edited by
Henry W. Henshaw. 4to. pp. 337. Birds, pp. 19-230, pll. I-XII,
colored; 260 species; important.--1888. TURNER, L. M. Contributions
to the Natural History of Alaska. Results of Investigations made
chiefly in the Yukon District and the Aleutian Islands. 4to, pp. 226;
birds, pp. 115-191, pll. I-X, colored; 168 species.--1898.
GRINNELL, J. Summer Birds of Sitka, Alaska. Auk, XV, pp. 122-131;
66 species.--1899. PALMER, W. The Avifauna of the Pribilov Islands.
The Fur Seals and Fur Seal Islands of the North Pacific Ocean,
Part III, pp., 355-431; 68 species; bibliography.--1900. GRINNELL, J.
Birds of the Kotzebue Sound Region, Alaska. Pacific Coast Avifauna
No. 1. Cooper Orn. Club, Los Angeles, Calif. 80 pp. 1 map; 113
species.--1900. STONE, W. Report on Birds and Mammals obtained by the
McIlhenny Expedition to Pt. Barrow, Alaska, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci.
Phila., birds, pp. 4-33; 69 species.--1901. OSGOOD, W. H. Natural
History of the Cook Inlet Region, Alaska. North American Fauna, No. 21;
birds, pp. 72-81; 78 species.--1902. McGREGOR, R. C. A List of Birds
Collected in Norton Sound, Alaska. The Condor, IV, pp. 135-144; 63
species.--1904. OSGOOD, W. H. A Biological Reconnaissance of the Base
of the Alaska Peninsula. North American Fauna, No. 24; birds, pp.
51-81; 134 species.--1906. McGREGOR, R. C. Birds Observed in the
Krenitzin Islands, Alaska. The Condor, VIII, pp. 114-122; 44
species.--1909. GRINNELL, J. Birds and Mammals of the 1907 Alexander
Expedition to Southeastern Alaska. Univ. Cal. Pub. Zool. V, 2 pp.
171-264; 99 species.--1909. OSGOOD, W. H. Biological Investigations
in Alaska and Yukon Territory. North American Fauna, No. 30; 96 pp.
6 plls. I. East Central Alaska, 76 species; II. Ogilvie Range, Yukon,
43 species; III. The Macmillan River, Yukon, 55 species.--1909.
SHELDON, C. List of Birds Observed on the Upper Toklat River near
Mt. McKinley, Alaska, 1907-1908. The Auk, XXVI, pp. 66-70; 63
species.--1910. CLARK, A. H. The Birds Collected and Observed in the
North Pacific Ocean, and in Bering, Okhotsk, Japan, and Eastern Seas,
from April to December, 1906. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. No. 1727, pp.
25-74; 175 species.--1910. GRINNELL, J. Birds of the 1908 Alexander
Alaska Expedition, with a note on the Avifaunal Relationships of the
Prince William Sound District, Univ. Cal. Pub. Zool. V, 12, pp.
361-428; 2 plls; 89 species.--1911. SWARTH, H. S. Birds and Mammals
of the 1909 Alexander Alaska Expedition. Univ. Cal. Pub. Zool. VII, 2,
pp. 9-172; 6 plls. Birds, pp. 23-112; 137 species.--1912. BENT, A. C.
Notes on Birds Observed during a Brief visit to the Aleutian Islands
and Bering Sea in 1911. Smiths. Miscell. Colls. Vol. 56 No. 32;
pp. 29; 60+22 species.
LOWER CALIFORNIA
1859, BAIRD, S. F. Notes on a collection of Birds made by Mr. John
Xantus, at Cape San Lucas, Lower California. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci.
Phila., XI, pp. 299-306; 42 species.--1876. RIDGWAY, R. Ornithology of
Guadeloupe Island based on notes and collections made by Dr. Edward
Palmer. Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr. Vol. II, pp. 183-195; 10
species.--1877. STREETS, T. H., M. D. Contributions to the Natural
History of the Hawaiian and Fanning Islands and Lower California.
Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 7, p 172; birds, pp. 9-33.--1883. BELDING,
L. Catalogue of a Collection of Birds made near the Southern Extremity
of the Peninsula of Lower California. Edited by R. Ridgway. Proc. U. S.
Nat. Mus. V. 1882, pp. 532-550; 154 species (See also _Ibid._, pp.
527-532; VI, pp. 344-352).--1888. BRYANT, W. E. Cerros Island. Forest
and Stream, XXVII, pp. 62-64; 27 species.--1887. BRYANT, W. E.
Additions to the Ornithology of Guadeloupe Island. Bull. Cal. Acad.
Sci. II, 6, pp. 269-318; 35 species.--1888. GOSS, N. S. New and Rare
Birds found Breeding on the San Pedro Martir Isle. Auk, V, pp. 240-224;
5 species.--1890. BRYANT, W. E. A catalogue of the Birds of Lower
California, Mexico. Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., 2nd Ser. II, pp. 237-320,
with map; 320 species; bibliography.--1890. TOWNSEND, C. H. Birds from
the Coasts of Western North America and adjacent Islands Collected in
1888-89, with Descriptions of New Species. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XIII,
1890, pp. 131-142. Clarion Islands, 10 species; Socorro Island,
9 species; San Benedicte Island, 6 species; Lower California,
23 species; Mouth of Rio Colorado, Sonora, 3 species; Cerros Island,
2 species; Guadeloupe Island, Lower California, 3 species; Santa
Barbara Island, California, 4 species; San Clemente Island, California,
9 species; San Nicolas Island, California, 1 species; Santa Rosa Island,
California, 5 species; Santa Cruz Island, California, 10 species.--1895.
ANTHONY, A. W. Birds of San Fernando, Lower California. Auk, XII,
pp. 134-143; 65 species.--1898. ANTHONY, A. W. Avifauna of Revillagigedo
Islands. The Auk, XV, pp. 311-318. San Benedicte Island, 11 species;
Socorro Island, 24 species; Clarion Island, 17 species.--1902. BREWSTER,
W. Birds of the Cape Region of Lower California. Bull. Mus. Comp.
Zool., No. 1, XLI, 241 pp., 1 map; 255 species; bibliography.--1903.
GRINNELL, J. and DAGGETT, F. S. An Ornithological Visit to Los
Coronados Islands, Lower California. The Auk, XX, pp. 27-37; 22
species; bibliography.--1904. BRENINGER, G. F. San Clemente Island and
its Birds. The Auk, XXI, pp. 218-223.--1905. KAEDING, H. B. Birds from
the West Coast of Lower California and Adjacent Islands. The Condor,
VII, pp. 105-111; 168 species.--1905. STONE, W. and RHOADS, S. N.
On a Collection of Birds and Mammals from the Colorado Delta,
Lower California. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci Phila., pp. 676-690; 50
species.--1907. THAYER, J. E. and BANGS, O. Birds Collected by W. W.
Brown, Jr., on Cerros, San Benito and Natividad Islands in the spring
of 1906, with Notes on the Biota of the Islands. The Condor, IX, pp.
77-81. Cerros, 29; Natividad, 9; San Benito, 7 species.--1907. THAYER,
J. E., and BANGS, O. Catalogue of Birds Collected in Middle Lower
California. The Condor IX, pp. 135-140; 73 species.--1908. THAYER,
J. E. and BANGS, O. The Present State of the Ornis of Guadeloupe
Island. The Condor, X, pp. 101-106; 20 species.--1909. OSBORN, P. I.
Notes on the Birds of Los Coronados Islands, Lower California.
The Condor XI, pp. 134-138; 34 species.
BRITISH POSSESSIONS
BERMUDA
1859. JONES, J. M., WEDDERBURN, J. W., and HURDIS, J. L.. The
Naturalist in Bermuda. Birds, pp. 23-97.--1884. REID, S. G. List of
the Birds of Bermuda. Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 25., pp. 165-279;
186 species. (See also, MERRIAM, C. H., _Ibid._, 283, 284).--1901.
BANGS, O. and BRADLEE, T. S. The Resident Land Birds of Bermuda.
Auk, XVIII, pp. 249-257; 10 species.
CANADA
1831. SWAINSON, W., and RICHARDSON, J. Fauna Boreali-Americana.
Part Second, 4to, pp. lxvi-524, pll. 24-73, woodct. 41; 238 species;
important.--1863. BLAKISTON, T. On the Birds of the Interior of
British America. Ibis., V, pp. 39-87, 121-155; 250 species.--1887.
CHAMBERLAIN, M. A Catalogue of Canadian Birds with Notes on the
Distribution of the Species. 8vo, pp. 143. St. John, N. B.--1898.
RUSSELL, F. Explorations in the Far North, (Lake Winnipeg, Crow Nest
Pass, Alberta, Fort Chippewayan, Fort Rae, Herschel Island.) Published
by University of Iowa. Birds, pp. 253-270; 122 species.--1909. MACOUN,
J. and J. M. Catalogue of Canadian Birds. 8vo, XVIII+761 pp.
Government Ptg. Bureau, Ottawa. Distribution and nesting; important.
ALBERTA
1892. RAINE, W. (See Saskatchewan.)--1909. STANSELL, S. S. S., Birds
of Central Alberta. The Auk, XXVI, pp. 391-400; 157 species.
BRITISH COLUMBIA
1868. BROWN, R. Synopsis of the Birds of Vancouver Island. Ibis,
2nd Ser., IV, pp. 414-428; 153 species.--1890. CHAPMAN, F. M. On a
Collection of Birds made by Mr. Clark P. Streator in British Columbia
with Field Notes by the Collector. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., III,
pp. 123-158; 160 species, from Westminister, Mt. Lehman, Ducks, and
Ashcroft, B. C., Duncan's Station, Vancouver Island, and Kalama,
Washington.--1891. FANNIN, J. Check-List of British Columbia Birds.
8vo. pp. XIV+49. Victoria, B. C.; 307 species.--1893. RHOADS, S. N.
The Birds observed in British Columbia and Washington during spring
and summer of 1892. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1893, pp. 21-65;
260 species.--1901. OSGOOD, W. H. Natural History of the Queen
Charlotte Islands, British Columbia. North American Fauna, No. 21,
Birds, pp. 38-50; 98 species.--1903. BROOKS, A. Notes on the Birds
of the Cariboo District, British Columbia. The Auk, XX, pp. 277-284;
94 species.--1912. SWARTH, H. S. Report on a Collection of Birds and
Mammals from Vancouver Island, Univ. Calif. Pub. Zool. X, 1, pp. 124;
111 species.
FRANKLIN
1879. KUMLIEN, L. Contributions to the Natural History of Arctic
America, made in Connection with the Howgate Polar Expedition, 1877-78.
Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 15. Birds, pp. 69-105; 84 species.--1886.
GREELEY, A. W. Three years of Arctic Service. Roy 8vo, 2 vols, Birds,
Vol. II, App. VIII, pp. 372-385; 35+5 species.
KEEWATIN
1902. PREBLE, E. A. Birds of Keewatin, N. A. Fauna, No. 22, pp. 75-131;
260 species.--1905. EIFRIG, C. W. G. Ornithological Results of the
Canadian Neptune Expedition to Hudson Bay and Northward, 1903-1904.
Auk, pp. 233-241; 51 species.
LABRADOR (INCLUDING UNGAVA)
1861. COUES, E. Notes on the Ornithology of Labrador. Proc. Acad. Nat.
Sci. Phila., XIII, pp. 215-257; 82 species.--1885. TURNER, L. M. List
of the Birds of Labrador, including Ungava, East Main, Moose, and Gulf
Districts of the Hudson Bay Company, together with the Island of
Anticosti. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., VIII, pp. 233-254; 207 species. (See
also PACKARD, A. S. The Labrador Coast, 1891).--1887. FRAZAR, M. A. An
Ornithologist's Summer in Labrador. Orn. and Oöl., XII, pp. 1-3, 17-20,
33-35; 62 species.--1902. BIGELOW, H. B. Birds of the Northwestern
Coast of Labrador. Auk, XIX, 1902, pp. 24-31; 85 species.--1907.
TOWNSEND, C. W., and ALLEN, G. M. Birds of Labrador. Proc. Bost. Soc.
Nat. Hist., XXXIII, pp. 277-428, map; 213 species. (See also TOWNSEND,
C. W., and BENT, A. C. The Auk, 1910, pp. 1-18; 93 species.)
MACKENZIE
1862. ROSS, B. R. List of Mammals, Birds, and Eggs, observed in the
Mackenzie's River District with notices. Canad. Nat. and Geol., VII,
pp. 137-155. Birds, pp. 142-155; 192 species. (See also Nat. Hist.
Rev. 2nd Ser. II, pp. 269-290).--1891. MACFARLANE, R. Notes on and
List of Birds and Eggs Collected in Arctic America, 1861-1866. Proc.
U. S. Nat. Mus., XIV, pp. 413-446; 131 species. (See also Hist. & Sci.
Soc. of Man., Trans. 39).--1908. MACFARLANE, R. List of Birds and Eggs
Observed and Collected in the North-West Territories of Canada,
between 1880 and 1894. pp. 285-447 of Mair's "Through the Mackenzie
Basin," Toronto. William Briggs. 220 species.--1908. PREBLE, E. A. A
Biological Investigation of the Athabasca-Mackenzie Region, N. A.
Fauna, No. 27, 574 pp. Birds, pp. 251-500; 296 species; bibliography;
important.--1908. SETON, E. T. Bird Records from Great Slave Lake
Region. The Auk, XXV, pp. 68-74; 88 species.
MANITOBA
1886. SETON, E. T. The Birds of Western Manitoba. Auk, III, pp. 145-156,
320-329, 453; 258 species.--1891. SETON, E. T. The Birds of Manitoba.
Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XIII, pp. 457-643, 1 pl.; 266 species. (See also
14 additions. Auk, 1893, p. 49.)--1909. SETON, E. T. Fauna of Manitoba.
British Assc. Handbook. Winnipeg, pp. 1-47; 273 species.
NEW BRUNSWICK
1857. BRYANT, H. A List of Birds Observed at Grand Menan and at
Yarmouth, N. S., from June 16 to July 8. Proc. Bost. Nat. Hist., VI,
pp. 114-123; 55 species.--1873. HERRICK, H. A Partial Catalogue of the
Birds of Grand Menan, N. B., Bull. Essex. Inst., V. pp. 28-41; 194
species.--1879. PEARSALL, R. F. Grand Menan Notes; Summers of 1877 and
1878. Forest and Stream, XIII, p. 524; 43 species.--1882. BATCHELDER,
C. F. Notes on the Summer Birds of the Upper St. John. Bull. N. O. C,
VII, pp. 106-111, 147-152; 105 species.--1882, CHAMBERLAIN, M. A
Catalogue of the Birds of New Brunswick. Bull. Nat. Hist. Soc. New
Brunswick, No. I, pp. 23-68, 269 species.--1912. TOWNSEND, C. W. Notes
on the Summer Birds of the St. John Valley, New Brunswick. The Auk,
XXIX, pp. 16-23; 81 species.
NEWFOUNDLAND
1869. REEKS, H. Notes on the Zoölogy of Newfoundland. Zoölogist, 2nd
ser., IV, pp. 1609-1614, 1698-1695, 1741-1759, 1849-1858; 212 species.
See also Canad. Nat. and Quart. Journ. Sci., V. 1870-71, pp. 38-47,
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pp. 71-73; 50 species summer birds.--1912. ARNOLD, E. A Short Summer
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NOVA SCOTIA
1857. BRYANT, H. (See New Brunswick.)--1858. BLAKISTON, R. A., BLAND,
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ONTARIO
1860. McILWRAITH, T. List of Birds Observed in the Vicinity of
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V. 1866, pp. 79-96), 241 species.--1882. MORDEN, J. A., and SAUNDERS,
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Nat. II, pp. 183-187, 192-194, also III, pp. 218, 219, 243; 236
species.--1891. FARLEY, W. L. A List of the Birds of Elgin County,
Ontario. The Oölogist, VIII, pp. 81-87; 190 species.--1891. Ottawa
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Cameron, Printer, Toronto, Ont. 82 pp; 324 species.--1906. SWALES, B.
H., and TAVERNER, P. A. Remarks on the Summer Birds of Lake Muskoka,
Ont. Wilson Bull., XVIII, pp. 60-68; 59 species.--1906-7. FLEMING, J.
H. Birds of Toronto, Ont. Auk, XXIII, pp. 437-453; XXIV, pp. 71-89;
290 species.--1907. HUBEL, F. C. Preliminary List of the Summer Birds
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QUEBEC
1878. CORY, C. B. A Naturalist in the Magdalen Islands (Boston). Part
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SASKATCHEWAN
1892. RAINE, W. Bird-nesting in North-West Canada. 8vo. pp. 197; ills.
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UNITED STATES
WESTERN UNITED STATES
1856. CASSIN, J. Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas,
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Reconnaissance of Portions of Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah.
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1-274; 295 species.--1902. BAILEY, F. M. Handbook of Birds of Western
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MISSISSIPPI VALLEY
1888. COOKE, W. W. Reports on Bird Migration in the Mississippi Valley
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NEW ENGLAND
1877. MINOT, H. D. The Land and Game Birds of New England. Second
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ALABAMA
1878-9. BROWN, N. C. A List of Birds Observed at Coosada, Central
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ARIZONA
1853. WOODHOUSE, S. W. Report of an Expedition down the Zuni and
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ARKANSAS
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CALIFORNIA[E]
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2 maps; 10 species.--1896. MERRIAM, F. A. A-birding on a Bronco [in
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BARLOW, C. The Story of the Farallones. Ob. 16mo, 32 pp. ills. H. R.
Taylor, Alameda.--1897. GRINNELL, J. Report on Birds Recorded during a
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D. P. Elder & Morgan Sheppard, San Francisco.--1899. MERRIAM, C. H.
Results of a Biological Survey of Mount Shasta, California. North
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Birds of the Placerville-Lake Tahoe Stage Road. The Condor, III,
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of Water-Birds. Bailey's Handbook of Birds of the Western United States,
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Birds. Pacific Coast Avifauna, No. 3, Cooper Orn. Club, 92 pp.; 2 maps;
491 species.--1902. GRINNELL, J. List of Birds to be looked for in the
Vicinity of Pasadena. Bailey's Handbook of Birds of the Western United
States, pp. lvi-lxiv; 191 species.--1902. KOBBE, W. H. List of Water
Birds of San Francisco Bay. Bailey's Handbook of Birds of the Western
United States, pp. lviii-1; 91 species.--1903. ANDERSON, M. P., and
GRINNELL, J. Birds of the Siskiyou Mountains, California: A Problem
in Distribution. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., pp. 4-15;
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The Condor, V, pp. 121-127; 17 species.--1903. RAY, M. S. A List of
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Eastern California and Western Arizona. The Condor, V, pp. 75-78;
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1887-1903. The Condor, VI, pp. 61-67.--1904. RAY, M. S. A Fortnight on
the Farallones. The Auk, XXI, pp. 425-442; 14 species.--1904. WHEELOCK,
J. G. Birds of California: An Introduction to more than Three Hundred
Common Birds of the State and Adjacent Islands. 12mo. xxviii+578 pp.;
ills. A. C. McClurg & Co.--1905. GRINNELL, J. Summer Birds of Mount
Pinos, California. The Auk, XXII, pp. 378-391; 73 species.--1906.
DIXON, J. Land Birds of San Onofre, California. The Condor, VIII,
pp. 91-98; 63 species.--1906. RAY, M. S. Summer Birds of San Francisco
County, California. The Condor, VIII, pp. 42-44; 44 species.--1907.
BEAL, F. E. L. Birds of California in Relation to the Fruit Industry.
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Birds of the Tulare Lake Region. The Condor, X, pp. 200-205; 83
species.--1908. GRINNELL, J. The Biota of the San Bernardino Mountains.
Univ. Cal. Publ. Zool. V, I, 170 pp. xxiv plls. Birds, pp. 50-54; 139
species.--1908. HOLLISTER, N. Birds of the Region about Needles,
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COLORADO
1872. AIKEN, C. E., and HOLDEN, C. H. Jr. (See Wyoming).--1873.
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Nutt. Orn. Club, VI, pp 85-91; 138-143; 104 species.--1883. ALLEN, J.
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6-9 65-68, 145-150; XV, 1890, pp. 36-38. ("To be continued.")
233 species to _Junco_, inclusive.--1890. KELLOGG, V. L. Summer
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appendix; and 1909. The Auk, pp. 400-422, third supplement, increasing
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the Birds of Mesa County, Colorado. The Condor, X, pp. 152-180;
203 species.--1908. WARREN, E. R. Northwestern Colorado Bird Notes.
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and Rockwell, R. B. The Condor, XI, 1909, pp. 110-122, and Rockwell,
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Auk, XXVIII, pp. 304-319; 90 species.--1912. COOKE, W. W. The Present
Status of the Colorado Check-List of Birds. The Condor, XIV, pp.
147-153. Admits 403 species.--1912. SCLATER, W. L. A History of
the Birds of Colorado. Witherby & Co., London, 8vo, pp. xxiv+576;
plls. xvii; 392 species; important.
CONNECTICUT
1843. LINSLEY, J. H. A Catalogue of the Birds of Connecticut. Am.
Journ. Sci. and Arts, XLIV, pp. 249-274, 302 species. See also Ibid.,
XLVI, 1844, pp. 50, 51.--1877. MERRIAM, C. H. A Review of the Birds of
Connecticut, with Remarks on their Habits. Trans, of the Conn. Acad.,
IV, pp. 1-165; 292 species.--1887. PLATT, F. A List of the Birds of
Meriden, Conn. Trans. Meriden Scientific Assoc, II, 1885-86,
pp. 30-53; III, p. 41; 116 species.--1892. AVERILL, C. K., JR., List
of Birds Found in the Vicinity of Bridgeport, Connecticut. Bridgeport
Scientific Society, 8vo, pp. 1-19, 246 species.--1906. CHAPMAN, F. M.
(See New York).--1908. COMMITTEE. A List of the Birds of the New Haven
Region. Bull. No. 1, New Haven Bird Club, pp. 1-32; 217 species.
DAKOTA (NORTH and SOUTH)
1875. GRINNELL, G. B. Report of a Reconnaissance of the Black Hills of
Dakota, made in the summer of 1874. By William Ludlow. Chapter II.
Birds, pp. 85-102; 110 species.--1875. HOFFMAN, W. J. List of Birds
Observed at Grand River Agency, Dakota Ter., from October 7th, 1872,
to June 7th, 1873. Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., XVIII, pp. 169-175;
79 species.--1877. McCHESNEY, C. E., M. D. Birds of the Coteau des
Prairies of Eastern Dakota. Forest and Stream, VIII, pp. 176, 177,
192, 224, 225, 241, 242, 261; 102 species.--1901-2. BENT, A. C.
Nesting habits of the Anatidæ in North Dakota. Auk, XVIII, pp;
328-336; XIX, pp. 11-12; 165-174; 16 species.--1908. REAGAN, A. B.
The Birds of the Rosebud Indian Reservation, South Dakota. The Auk,
XXV, pp. 462-467; 108 species.--1909. VISHER, S. S. A List of the
Birds of western South Dakota. The Auk, XXVI, pp. 144-153; 194
species.--1911. VISHER, S. S. Annotated List of the Birds of Harding
County, Northwestern South Dakota. The Auk, XXVIII, pp. 5-16;
154 species.
DELAWARE
1905. RHOADS, S. N., and PENNOCK, C. J. Birds of Delaware: A
Preliminary List. Auk, XXII, 1905, pp. 194-205; 211 species. (See also
Auk, XXV, 1908, pp. 282-288.)--1897-1908. STONE, W., Editor. Numerous
Notes on Delaware Birds. Proc. Del. Valley Orn. Club, Phila.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
1883. COUES, E. and PRENTISS, D. W. Avifauna Columbiana, Second
Edition. Bull. U. S. Natl. Mus. No. 26, 8vo, pp. 1-133, many woodcuts,
4 maps, 248 species.--1888. RICHMOND, C. W. An Annotated List of
Birds Breeding in the District of Columbia. Auk, V, pp. 18-25; 100
species.--1888. SMITH, HUGH M., and PALMER, WILLIAM. Additions to the
Avifauna of Washington, D. C., and Vicinity. Auk, V, pp. 147, 148. Adds
12 species to Coues' and Prentiss' list of 1883.--1898. MAYNARD, L. W.
Birds of Washington and Vicinity, with Introduction by Florence A.
Merriam. 12mo. 204 pp. Washington, D. C. 291 species.
GEORGIA
1883. BAILEY, H. B. Memoranda of a Collection of Eggs from Georgia.
Bull. N. O. C., VIII, pp. 37-43; 104 species--1903. SMITH, R. S.
Birds of Kirkwood, De Kalb Co., Ga. Wilson Bull., XV, pp. 49-59;
125 species.--1909. HOWELL, A. H. Notes on the Summer Birds of
Northern Georgia. Auk, XXVI, pp. 129-137; 76 species.
FLORIDA
1871. ALLEN, J. A. On the Mammals and Winter Birds of East Florida.
Bull. Mus. Comp. Zoöl., II, pp. 161-450, pll. ix-xiii; 181
species.--1888. CHAPMAN, F. M. A List of Birds Observed at Gainesville,
Florida. Auk, V, pp. 267-277; 149 species.--1888-90. SCOTT, W. E. D.
A Summary of Observations on the Birds of the Gulf Coast of Florida.
Auk, V, pp. 373-379; VI, pp. 13-18, 152-160, 245-252, 318-326;
VII, pp. 14-22, 114-120; 262 species.--1890. SCOTT, W. E. D. On
Birds Observed at the Dry Tortugas, Florida, during parts of March
and April, 1890. Auk, VII, pp. 301-314; 80 species.--1891. BREWSTER,
W., and CHAPMAN, F. M. Notes on the Birds of the Lower Suwanee
River. Auk, VIII, pp. 125-138; 116 species. (See also Brewster,
Ibid., pp. 149-157.)--1892. SCOTT, W. E. D. Notes on the Birds
of the Caloosahatchie Region of Florida. Auk, IX, pp. 209-218, 259
species.--1895. WAYNE, A. T. Notes on the Birds of the Wacissa and
Aucilla River Regions of Florida. Auk, XII, 1895, pp. 362-367; 161
species.--1896. CORY, C. B. Hunting and Fishing in Florida with a Key
to the Water Birds of the State.--1904. WILLIAMS, R. W., JR. A
Preliminary List of the Birds of Leon County, Florida. Auk, XXI, 1904,
pp. 449-462; 156 species. (See also Ibid., XXIII, pp. 153-161; XXIV,
pp. 158, 159.)--1906. FOWLER, H. W. Birds Observed in June in the
Florida Keys. Auk, XXIII, pp. 396-400; 33 species.
IDAHO
1891. MERRIAM, C. H. Results of a Biological Reconnaissance of Idaho,
south of latitude 45° and east of the thirty-eighth Meridian made
during the summer of 1890. N. A. Fauna, No. 5. Annotated List of Birds
Observed in Idaho during the Summer and Fall of 1890, with Notes
on Species previously Recorded from the State, pp. 90-108; 157
species.--1897-8. MERRILL, J. C. Notes on the Birds of Fort Sherman,
Idaho. Auk, XIV, pp. 347-357, XV, pp. 14-22; 159 species.
ILLINOIS
1855. KENNICOTT, R. Catalogue of Animals Observed in Cook County.
Illinois. Trans. Ill., State Agric. Soc. for 1853-54, I, Birds,
pp. 580-589; 187 species.--1868. ALLEN, J. A. (See Iowa).--1874.
RIDGWAY, R. Catalogue of the Birds Ascertained to Occur in Illinois.
Ann. Lyc. Nat. Hist. N. Y., X, pp. 364-394; 311 species.--1876. NELSON,
E. W. Birds of Northeastern Illinois. Bull. Essex Inst., VIII,
pp. 90-155; 316 species.--1877. NELSON, E. W. Notes upon Birds Observed
in Southern Illinois, between July 17 and September 4, 1875. Bull.
Essex. Inst., IX, pp. 32-65; 133 species.--1881. RIDGWAY, R. A. Revised
Catalogue of the Birds Ascertained to Occur in Illinois. Ills. State
Lab. Nat. Hist., Bull. No. 4, pp. 161-208; 352 species.--1884. COOKE,
W. W. Bird Migration in the Mississippi Valley, Southern Illinois.
Forest and Stream, XXIII, pp. 444, 445, 463, 464; 144 species based
on Ridgway's list of 1881, and observations of Cyrus W. Butler in
the vicinity of Anna, Ills., during December, 1882, and January
1883.--1887. RIDGWAY, R. List of the Birds Found Breeding Within the
Corporate Limits of Mt. Carmel, Illinois. Bull. No. 2, Ridgway Orn.
Club, pp. 26-35; 85 species.--1890-1895. RIDGWAY, R. The Ornithology
of Illinois. Roy. 8vo, Vol. I, 1890, 520 pp., 32 plls. Land-birds to
Gallinæ; Vol. II, 1895, 282 pp., 33 plls. Gallinæ and Water-birds;
363 species.--1891. LOUCKS, W. E. List of Birds Found Breeding in the
Vicinity of Peoria, Illinois. The Oölogist, VIII, pp. 224-226;
80 species.--1904. WALTER, H. E. and A. W. Wild Birds in City Parks.
Rev. Ed., Chicago. 16mo, 66 pp.; 145 species.--1907. WOODRUFF, F. M.
The Birds of the Chicago Area. Chicago Acad. Sci. Bull. VI. Nat. Hist.
Surv., 221 pp., 12 plls.; 318 species.--1909. CORY, C. B. Birds of
Illinois and Wisconsin. Field Museum, Zoöl. Ser. IX, 8vo. 764 pp. many
ills.; 398 species.--1910. HESS, I. E. One Hundred Breeding Birds of
an Illinois Ten-Mile Radius. Auk, XXVII, pp. 19-32.
INDIANA
1869. HAYMOND, R. Birds of Franklin County, Indiana. Cox's Geol. Surv.
Indiana, Rep. for 1869, pp. 209-235; 163 species.--1886. BUTLER, A. W.
A List of the Birds Observed in Franklin Co., Ind. Bull. Brookville
Soc. Nat. Hist., No. 2, pp. 12-39. 253 species.--1888-89. EVERMANN, B.
W. Birds of Carroll County, Indiana. Auk, V. pp. 344-351; VI,
pp. 22-30; 203 species.--1891. BUTLER, A. W. The Birds of Indiana, with
Illustrations of Many of the Species. Prepared for the Indiana
Horticultural Society and Originally Published in its Transactions for
1890. 8vo, 135 pp.; 305 species.--1898. BUTLER, A. W. The Birds of
Indiana, a descriptive Catalogue of the Birds that have been observed
within the State with an account of their Habits. Rep. of the State
Geologist, pp. 515-1187; 321 species; bibliography. Important.--1906.
McATEE, W. L. Ecological Notes on the Birds Occurring within a Radius
of Five Miles of the Indiana University Campus. Proc. Ind. Acad. Sci.,
pp. 65-202, 32 ills., 225 species.
IOWA
1868. ALLEN, J. A. Notes on Birds Observed in Western Iowa, in the
Months of July, August and September; also on Birds Observed in
Northern Illinois, in May and June, and at Richmond, Wayne Co.,
Indiana, between June third and tenth. Mem. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist,
I. pt. IV, pp. 488-526. Ogle County, Ills., 84 species; Cook County,
Ills., 94 species; Richmond, Ind., 72 species; Western Iowa, 108
species.--1873. TRIPPE, F. M. Notes on the Birds of Southern Iowa.
Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., XV, pp. 229-242; 162 species.--1888.
KEYES, CHARLES R. and WILLIAMS, H. S. A Preliminary Annotated
Catalogue of the Birds of Iowa. Proc. Davenport Acad. Nat. Sci., V,
8vo, 49 pp.; 260 species.--1890. COONE, JOHN V. Summer Residents of
Buena Vista County, Iowa. The Oölogist, VII, pp. 45-47;
52 species.--1895. JONES, LYNDS. Bird Migration at Grinnell, Iowa.
Auk, XII, 1895, pp. 117-134, 231-237.--1897. ANDERSON, R. M. An
Annotated List of the Birds of Winnebago and Hancock Counties, Iowa.
Pub. by Author, Forest City, Iowa. 16mo, 19 pp.; 218 species.--1906.
WILSON, B. H. Birds of Scott Co., Iowa. Wilson Bull., XVIII, pp. 1-11;
166 species.--1907. ANDERSON, R. M. The Birds of Iowa. Proc. Davenport
Acad. Sci., XI, pp. 125-417; 355 species.
KANSAS
1875. SNOW, F. H. A Catalogue of the Birds of Kansas. Contributed to
the Kansas Academy of Science. 8vo, 14 pp. Third Edition. 295
species.--1886. GOSS, N. S. A Revised Catalogue of the Birds of
Kansas, with Descriptive Notes of the Nests and Eggs of the Birds
Known to Breed in the State. Topeka. 8vo, vi+76 pp.; 335 species. (See
also review in Auk, III, 1886, p. 399.)--1891. GOSS, N. S. History of
the Birds of Kansas. Illustrating 529 Birds. Topeka, Kansas. Geo. W.
Crane & Co., Royal 8vo, 692 pp., 35 photogravure plates; 343
species.--1899. LANTZ, D. E. A Review of Kansas Ornithology. Trans.
Kans. Acad. Sci., 1896-7, pp. 224-276; 351 species.--1903. SNOW, F. H.
A Catalogue of the Birds of Kansas. Fifth Edition. Trans. Kans. Acad.
Sciences, XVIII, 23 pp.; 342 species.--1909. WETMORE, A. Fall Notes
from Eastern Kansas. The Condor, XI, pp. 154-164; 74 species.--1912.
ISELEY, D. A List of the Birds of Sedgwick County, Kansas. The Auk,
XXIX, pp. 25-43; 208 species.
KENTUCKY
1882. BECKHAM, C. W. A List of the Birds of Bardstown, Nelson County,
Kentucky. Journ. Cinc. Soc. Nat. Hist., VI, pp. 136-147; 167
species.--1885. BECKHAM, C. W. List of the Birds of Nelson County.
Kentucky Geol. Surv., John R. Proctor, Director. Author's Edition,
4to, pp. 1-58; 171 species.--1887. PINDAR, L. O. List of the Birds of
Fulton County, Kentucky. Orn. and Oöl. XII, pp. 54, 55, 84, 85; 122
species.--1889. PINDAR, L. O. List of the Birds of Fulton County,
Kentucky. Auk, VI, pp. 310-316, 183 species.--1910. HOWELL, A. H.
Notes on the Summer Birds of Kentucky and Tennessee. Auk, XXVII pp.
295-304. Kentucky, 80 species.
LOUISIANA
1900. BEYER, G. E. The Avifauna of Louisiana. Proc. La. Soc. Nat. 45
pp.; 323 species.--1904. ALLISON, A. The Birds of West Baton Rouge
Parish, Louisiana. Auk, XXI, 1904, pp. 472-484; 130 species.--1906.
BEYER, G. E., ALLISON, A., KOPMAN, H. H. List of the Birds of
Louisiana. Auk, XXIII, 1906, pp. 1-15, 275-281, XXIV, 314-321; XXV,
173-180; 339-448. 128 species to Pici.--1908. HOWELL, A. H. Notes on
the Winter Birds of Northern Louisiana Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington,
XXI, 119-124 pp.; 70 species.
MAINE
1862. BOARDMAN, G. A. Catalogue of the Birds Found in the Vicinity of
Calais, Maine, and about the Islands of the Mouth of the Bay of Fundy.
Edited by A. E. Verrill. Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., IX, pp. 122-132;
236 + 4 species. (For 12 additions see Verrill, Ibid., pp. 233,
234.)--1862. VERRILL, A. E. Catalogue of the Birds Found at Norway,
Oxford Co., Maine. Proc. Essex. Inst., III, pp. 136-160; 159
species.--1872. MAYNARD, C. J. A Catalogue of the Birds of Coos Co.,
N. H., and Oxford Co., Maine. With notes by Wm. Brewster, Proc. Bost.
Soc. Nat. Hist., XIV, 1871, pp. 356-385; 164 species.--1882. BROWN,
N. C. A Catalogue of the Birds Known to Occur in Portland, Maine.
Proc. Portl. Soc. Nat. Hist., Dec. 14, 1882, pp, 1-37; 250 species.
(See also Proc. Portl. Soc. Nat. Hist., 1889, pp. 37-40).--1900. HOWE,
R. H., JR. Summer Birds near Isleboro and the Fox Islands. Journ.
Maine Orn. Soc. II, pp. 28-32, III, pp. 14, 15; IV, p. 18; 100
species.--1908. KNIGHT, O. W. The Birds of Maine, Pub. by Author,
Bangor 8vo, 693 pp., 30 ills.; 327 species.
MARYLAND
1895. KIRKWOOD, F. C. A List of the Birds of Maryland. Trans. Md.
Acad. Sci., 1895, pp. 241-382; 290 species.--1900. MERRIAM, C. H., and
PREBLE, E. A. The Summer Birds of Western Maryland. Maryland Geol.
Surv., pp. 291-307; 100 species.--1904. EIFRIG, G. Birds of Allegany
and Garrett Counties, Western Maryland. Auk, XXI, 1904, pp. 234-250;
180 species.
MASSACHUSETTS
1870. MAYNARD, C. J. Catalogue of the Birds of Eastern Massachusetts.
The Naturalist's Guide, Part II, pp. 81-170; 299 species.--1886.
ALLEN, J. A. A Revised List of the Birds of Massachusetts. Bull. Am.
Mus. Nat. Hist., I, pp. 221-271; 349 species.--1887. CLARK, H. L. The
Birds of Amherst and Vicinity, Including Nearly the Whole of Hampshire
County, Mass. 8vo. 55 pp.; 177 species--1888. BREWSTER, W. Notes
on the Birds of Winchendon, Worcester Co. Auk, V, pp. 386-393; 82
species.--1889. FAXON, W. On the Summer Birds of Berkshire County,
Mass. Auk, VI, pp. 39-46, 99-107. Southern Berkshire, 76 species;
Graylock Mountain, 80 species.--1889. INGALLS, C. E. Birds of
Templeton and the Adjoining Towns. Gardner News, XX, June; 155 species.
Not seen; title from Howe and Allen.--1891. COLBURN, W. W., and MORRIS,
R. O. The Birds of the Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts. 16mo, 24 pp.
Springfield. Published by the Authors. 212 species.--1891. WAKEFIELD,
J. R. A List of the Birds of Dedham. Dedham Hist. Reg., II, pp. 70-74;
181 species. Not seen; title from Howe and Allen.--1897. MORSE, A. P.
Birds of Wellesley. Published by Author. Wellesley. 16mo, 56 pp.;
224 species.--1900. FAXON, W., and HOFFMANN, R. The Birds of Berkshire
Co. Coll. Berkshire Hist. and Sci. Soc., III, pp. 109-166; 200
species.--1901. HOWE, R. H. JR., and ALLEN, G. M. The Birds
of Massachusetts. Published by the Authors. 8vo, 154 pp.; 362
species.--1901. MORRIS, R. O.--The Birds of Springfield, Mass., and
Vicinity. H. R. Johnson, Springfield. 8vo, 54 pp.; 255 species.--1905.
TOWNSEND, C. W. The Birds of Essex County, Massachusetts. Memoirs Nutt.
Orn. Club. 4to, 352 pp. Frontispiece and Map; 319 species.--1906.
BREWSTER, W. The Birds of the Cambridge Region of Massachusetts.
Memoirs Nutt. Orn. Club, IV. 426 pp., plls. 7; 249 species.--1909.
WRIGHT, H. W. Birds of the Boston Public Garden. (Houghton, Mifflin),
16mo, 238 pp.; 166 species.--1912. MORSE, A. P. A Pocket List of the
Birds of Eastern Massachusetts with especial reference to Essex County.
Pp. 92. Peabody Academy Science, Salem.
MICHIGAN
1857. KNEELAND, S. On the Birds of Keeweenan Point, Lake Superior,
Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist, VI, 231-241 pp.; 147 species.--1875.
BOIES, A. H. Catalogue of the Birds Ascertained to Occur in Southern
Michigan. 8vo, 12 pp.; 211 species.--1876. COVERT, A. B. Birds of
Lower Michigan. Forest and Stream, VI, pp. 99, 132, 163, 214, 318,
354, 402; VII, pp. 147, 164, 276. (See also VI, p. 197.)
213 species.--1879. GIBBS, M. Annotated List of the Birds of Michigan.
Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geograph. Survey of the Territories, V, 3 pp.
481-497; 310 species.--1880. STEERE, J. B. A List of the Mammals and
Birds of Ann Arbor and Vicinity. 8vo. 8pp.; 111 species of
birds.--1884. ATKINS, H. A. Summer Birds of Locke, Michigan. Orn and
Oöl., IX, pp. 43-45; 80 species.--1884. ATKINS, H. A. Winter Birds of
Locke, Michigan. Orn and Oöl., IX, pp. 31, 32; 31 species.--1885.
ATKINS, H. A. Summer Birds of Locke, Michigan. Orn and Oöl., X,
p. 3; 82 species.--1885. GIBBS, M. A Catalogue of the Birds of
Kalamazoo County, Michigan. Orn and Oöl., X, pp. 6, 7, 38, 39, 54,
55, 68-70, 86, 87, 118, 119, 133-135, 149-151, 166, 167, 189, 190;
230 species.--1885-7. GIBBS, M. The Birds of Michigan. Forest and
Stream, XXIII, pp. 483, 484; XXIV, pp. 5, 6, 26, 27, 44, 45, 65, 84,
104, 105, 124, 125, 144, 145, 184, 224, 267, 268, 288, 289, 307, 347,
387, 388, 427; XXV, pp. 4, 5. 304, 305, 365, 366; XXVI, pp. 305, 306;
XXVII, pp. 123, 124, 223, 224; 68 species--1890. WHITE, T. G. Birds
of Mackinac Island, Michigan. The Oölogist, VII, pp 48, 49; 101
species.--1893. COOK, A. J. Birds of Michigan. Bull. 94, State
Agricultural College. 8vo, 148 pp.; 332 species.--1893. WHITE, S. E.
Birds Observed on Mackinac Island, Michigan, During the Summers of
1889, 1890, and 1891. The Auk, X, pp. 221-230; 143 species.--1897.
BOIES, A. H. Birds of Neebish Island, St. Mary's River, Michigan.
Bull. Mich. Orn. Club, I. pp. 17-20, 27-29; 149 species.--1903. SWALES,
B. H. Notes on the Winter Birds of Wayne Co., Michigan. Wilson Bull.,
XIV, pp. 20-24; XV, 1904, p. 82; 71 species.--1903. SWALES, B. H.
A List of the Land Birds of Southeastern Michigan. Bull. Mich. Orn.
Club, IV, pp. 14-17, 35-40; V, pp. 37-43; 165 species. (See also
Wilson Bull. XVII, 1905, p. 108-114; Auk, XXV, pp. 230-232).--1905.
WOOD, N. A., and FROTHINGHAM, E. H. Notes on the Birds of Au Sable
Valley, Michigan. Auk, XXII, 1905, pp. 39-154; 103 species.--1906.
WOOD, N. A., PEET, M. M., McCREARY, O. Annotated List of the Birds of
Porcupine Mountains [89 species] and Isle Royale [81 species], Mich.
Rep. Geol. Surv. Mich., 1905, pp. 113-127. See also McCreary, Ibid.,
pp. 56-57.--1909. BLACKWELDER, E. Summer Birds of Iron County. Auk,
XXVI, pp. 363-370; 80 species.--1910. WOOD, J. CLAIRE. Some Winter
Birds of the Season 1908-9 in Wayne County. Auk, XXVII, pp.
36-41.--1910. WOOD, N. A., and TINKER, A. D. Notes on Some of the
Rarer Birds of Washtenaw County. Auk, XXVII, pp. 129-141; 34
species.--1910. CHANEY, R. W. Summer and Fall Birds of the Hamlin Lake
Region, Mason County. Auk, XXVII, pp. 271-279; 119 species.--1911.
WOOD, N. A. Expedition to Charity Islands, Lake Huron. Wilson Bull.,
XXIII, pp. 78-112; 162 species.--1912. BARROWS, W. B. Michigan Bird
Life. Special Bull. of Mich. Agric. College. 8vo, pp. xiv + 822;
many ills., bibliography; important.
MINNESOTA
1871. TRIPPE, T. M. Notes on the Birds of Minnesota. Proc. Essex
Inst., VI, pp. 113-119; 138 species.--1874. HATCH, P. L. Report on the
Birds of Minnesota. Bull. Minn. Acad. Nat. Sci., pp. 43-68;
230 species.--1876. ROBERTS, T. S. A List of Some Birds Observed in
the Vicinity of Minneapolis, Minn., not Enumerated in Dr. Hatch's List.
The Scientific Monthly (Toledo, Ohio), I, 5, p. 231.--1880. ROBERTS,
T. S., and BENNER, F. A Contribution to the Ornithology of Minnesota.
Bull. N. O. C., V, pp. 11-20; 86 species.--1881. HATCH, P. L. A List
of the Birds of Minnesota. Ninth Ann. Rep. Geol. and Nat. Hist. Surv.
Minn., for 1880, 1881, pp. 361-372; 281 species.--1881. ROBERTS, T. S.
The Winter Birds of Minnesota. 9th Ann. Rep. Geol. and N. H. Surv.
Minn., for 1880-1881, pp 373-383; 52 species.--1883. BRACKETT, F. H.
Ornithological Notes from Minnesota. Quart. Journ. Bost. Zoöl.
Soc. II, pp. 47-49; III, pp. 7-16; 134 species.--1890. CANTWELL, G. C.
A List of the Birds of Minnesota. Orn. and Oöl., XV, p, 129-139. (See
also p. 156 and XVI, p. 157); 295 species.--1892. HATCH, P. L. Notes
on the Birds of Minnesota. Geol. and Nat. Hist. Survey of Minn. 8vo,
487 pp.; 302 species.--1904. CURRIER, E. S. Summer Birds of the Leech
Lake Region, Minn. Auk, XXI, pp. 29-44; 117 species.--1907. ROBERTS,
T. S. List of Birds of Becker Co., Minn., Pioneer Hist. of Becker Co.
(Pioneer Press, St. Paul), pp. 159-190; 262 species.--1911. HONYWILL,
A. W. JR.--Notes on some Summer and Fall Birds of the Crooked Lake
Region. Cass and Crow, Wing Counties, Minn. The Auk, XXVIII,
pp. 229-237; 86 species.
MISSISSIPPI
1905. STOCKARD, C. R. Nesting Habits of Birds in Mississippi. Auk,
XXII, 1905, pp. 146-158, 273-285; 83 species.--1906. ALLISON, A. Notes
on the Winter Birds of Hancock Co., Miss., Auk, XXIII, 1906,
pp. 44-47; 51 species. Also Ibid., p. 232.--1907. ALLISON, A. Notes on
the Spring Birds of Tishomingo County, Miss. Auk, XXIV, pp. 12-25.
MISSOURI
1879. SCOTT, W. E. D. Notes on Birds Observed During the Spring
Migration in Western Missouri. Bull. N. O. C., IV, pp. 139-147;
148 species.--1884. HURTER J. List of Birds Collected in the
Neighborhood of St. Louis, Mo. Orn. and Oöl., IX, pp. 85-87,
95-97. (see also p. 128); 265 species.--1896. WIDMANN, O. The
Peninsula of Missouri as a Winter Home for Birds. Auk, XIII, 1896,
pp. 216-222.--1907. WIDMANN, O. A Preliminary Catalogue of the Birds
of Missouri. Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis, XVIII, pp. 1-288; 383
species--1908. WOODRUFF, E. S. Birds of Shannon and Carter Counties,
Missouri, Auk, XXV, pp. 191-213; 172 species.
MONTANA
1876. GRINNELL, G. B. Report of a Reconnaissance from Carroll Montana
Territory on the Upper Missouri, to the Yellowstone National Park, and
Return, made in the summer of 1875 by William Ludlow.... Birds,
pp. 72-92; 139 species.--1894. RICHMOND, C. W., and KNOWLTON, F. H.
Auk, XI, pp. 298-308; 111 species.--1895. THORNE, P. M. List of Birds
observed in the Vicinity of Fort Keogh, Montana, from July 1888,
to September 1892. The Auk, XII, pp. 211-219; 139 species.--1901.
CARY, M. Birds of the Black Hills. The Auk, XVIII, pp. 231-238; 91
species.--1901. SILLOWAY, P. M. Summer Birds of Flathead Lake. Bull,
No. 3 Univ. Mont. 8vo. 83 pp., 16 plls.; 123 species (see also, Ibid,
No. 6, pp. 289-308).--1903. SILLOWAY, P. M. The Birds of Fergus
County, Montana. Bull. No. 1, Fergus Co. Free High School, Lewiston,
Mont. 77 pp., 17 ppls.; 179 species.--1907-8. CAMERON, E. S. The Birds
of Custer and Dawson Counties, Montana. The Auk, XXIV, pp. 241-270;
389-406; XXV, pp. 34-56; 192 species.--1911. SAUNDERS, A. A.... A
Preliminary List of the Birds of Gallatin County, Montana. The Auk,
XXVIII, pp. 26-49; 198 species.--1912. SAUNDERS, A. A. Some Birds of
Southwestern Montana. The Condor, XIV, pp. 22-32; 152 species.
NEBRASKA
1878. AUGHEY, S. Notes on the Nature of the Food of the Birds of
Nebraska. First Ann. Rep. U. S. Ent. Com. for the year 1877.
Appendix II, pp. 13-62; 252 species.--1883. HALL, A. Spring
Birds of Nebraska. Forest and Stream, XX, pp. 265, 266, 284;
114 species.--1888. TAYLOR, W. EDGAR. A Catalogue of Nebraska
Birds ... Ann. Rep. Nebr. State Board of Agric., for the year 1887,
pp. 111-118; 314 species.--1888-89. TAYLOR, E. W., and VAN VLEET, A.
H. Notes on Nebraska Birds. Orn. and Oöl., XIII, pp. 49-51, 169-172;
XIV, pp. 163-165; 137 species.--1896. BRUNER., L. Notes on Nebraska
Birds. Rep. Neb. State Hort. Soc., 1896, pp. 48-178; 415
species.--1901. BRUNER, L. Birds that Nest in Nebraska. Proc. Nebr.
Orn. Union, 1901, pp. 48-61; 212 species.--1904. BRUNER, L., WALCOTT,
R. H., and SWENK, M. H. A Preliminary Review of the Birds of Nebraska,
1-116+5 p.; 406 species. Klopp and Bartlett, Omaha, Nebr.--1909.
WALCOTT, R. H. An Analysis of Nebraska's Bird Fauna. Proc. Neb. Orn.
Union, IV, pp. 25-55.
NEVADA
1877. HENSHAW, H. W. Annual Report upon the Survey West of the
One-Hundredth Meridian. Being Appendix N N of the Annual Report of
Engineers for 1877. Report on the Ornithology of Portions of Nevada
and California, pp. 1303-1322.--1877. RIDGWAY, R. Report of Geological
Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel. Clarence King, Geologist, in
charge. Vol. IV, Part III, Ornithology, 4to, pp. 303-670. Mainly
limited to that portion of the Great Basin included between the
thirty-ninth and forty-second parallels and extending from the Sierra
Nevada to the Wasatch Mountains; 262 species.--1880. HENSHAW, H. W.
Annual Report upon the Geog. Surv. of the Terr. west of the 100th
Meridian ... App. O. O. of the Ann. Rep. of the Chief of Engineers
for 1879. App. L. Ornithological Report from Observations and
Collections made in portions of California, Nevada, and Oregon; pp.
282-335; 184 species.--1881. HOFFMAN, W. J. Annotated List of the
Birds of Nevada. Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geograph. Survey of the
Territories, VI, 2, pp. 203-256; 250 species.--1903. HANFORD, F. S.
The Summer Birds of Washoe Lake, Nevada. The Condor, V, pp. 49-52;
48 species.--1912. TAYLOR, W. P. Field Notes on Amphibians, Reptiles
and Birds of Northern Humboldt County, Nevada. Univ. Pub. Zool. VII,
10, pp. 319-436; 103 species.
NEW HAMPSHIRE
1877. GOODHUE, C. F. The Birds of Webster and Adjoining Towns. Forest
and Stream, VIII, pp. 33, 49, 96, 113, 146; 151 species.--1872.
MAYNARD, C. J. See Maine.--1887. CHADBOURNE, A. P. A List of the Summer
Birds of the Presidential Range of the White Mountains, N. H. Auk, IV,
pp. 100-108; 47 species.--1888. FAXON, W., and ALLEN, J. A. Notes on
the Summer Birds of Holderness [65 species], Bethlehem [50 species],
and Franconia, N. H. [87 species]. Auk, V. pp. 149-155.--1889. ALLEN,
F. H. Summer Birds at Bridgewater, N. H. Auk, VI, pp. 76-79.--1882.
KNOWLTON, F. H. A Revised List of the Birds of Brandon, Vt. The
Brandon Union, February 10, 1882; 149 species.--1899. DEARBORN, N.
Preliminary List of the Birds of Belknap and Merrimac Counties, N. H.
New Hampshire College, Durham, 8vo, 34 pp.; 175 species.--1900.
BATCHELDER, F. W. and FOGG, E. H. Preliminary List of Birds... of
Manchester, N. H. Proc. Manchester Inst. Arts and Sci., I, pp.
123-138; 132 species. (See also Proc. for 1901, 1902.)--1900 DEARBORN,
N. The Birds of Durham and Vicinity. Cont. Zoöl. Lab. N. H. College
Agric. and Mech. Arts, VI, 121 pp., map.--1904. ALLEN, G. M. The Birds
of New Hampshire. Proc. Manchester Inst. Arts and Sciences, IV,
pp. 23-222; 283 species.--1904. COMEY, A. C. A Partial List of the
Summer Birds of Holderness, N. H. Wilson Bull., XVI, 5-9 pp.;
94 species.
NEW JERSEY
1885. BARRELL, H. F. Birds of the Upper Passaic Valley, New Jersey.
Orn. and Oöl., X, pp. 21-23, 42, 43; 149 species.--1887. THURBER, E.
A List of Birds of Morris County, New Jersey. True Democratic Banner
(newspaper), Morristown, N. J., Nov. 10, 17, 24; 205 species.--1894.
STONE, W. The Birds of Eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey. 8vo,
185 pp. Del. Valley Orn. Club, Phila.; 346 species.--1894. STONE, W.
Summer Birds of the Pine Barrens of New Jersey. Auk, XI, 1894,
pp. 138-140; 90 species.--1897-1910. STONE, W., Editor. Numerous Notes
on Birds of Chiefly Southern New Jersey. Proc. Del. Valley Orn. Club,
Phila.--1901. BABSON, W. A. The Birds of Princeton, N. J. Bull. Bird
Club, Princeton Univ. I, pp. 7-28; 230 species.--1906. CHAPMAN, F. M.
(See New York.)--1907. HOLMES, L. K. Birds Found within a Radius of
12 Miles of Summit, N. J. Wilson Bull. XIX, pp. 21-27; 201 species.
See also list of Summer Birds, _Ibid._, XVII, pp. 8-12; and Hann, List
of Summer Birds, _Ibid._, pp. 117-122.--1909. STONE, W. The Birds of
New Jersey. Ann. Rep. N. J. State Museum for 1908, pp. 11-347, 409-419;
plls. 1-84.--1909. BAILY, W. L. Breeding Birds of Passaic and Sussex
Counties. Cassinia, pp. 29-36; 94 species.
NEW MEXICO
1853. WOODHOUSE, S. W. (See Arizona)--1859. HENRY, T. C. Catalogue of
the Birds of New Mexico as compiled from Notes and Observations made
while in that Territory during a residence of Six Years. Proc. Acad.
Nat. Sci. Phila., XI, pp. 104-109; 198 species.--1885-6. HENSHAW, H.
W. List of Birds Observed in Summer and Fall on the Upper Pecos River,
New Mexico. Auk, II, pp. 326-333; III, pp. 73-80; 80 species.--1892.
ANTHONY, A. W. Birds of Southwestern New Mexico. Auk, IX, pp. 357-369;
129 species.--1898. MITCHELL, W. I. The Summer Birds of San Miguel
County, New Mexico. The Auk, XV, pp. 306-311; 85 species. (See
also, Bailey, _Ibid._, XXI, 1904, pp. 443-449).--1904. BAILEY, F. M.
Additional Notes on the Birds of the Upper Pecos. The Auk, XXI,
pp. 349-363; 93 species.--1906. HUNN, J. T. S. Notes on Birds
of Silver City, New Mexico. The Auk, XXIII, pp. 418-425; 112
species.--1908. GILMAN, M. F. Birds on the Navajo Reservation in New
Mexico. The Condor, X, pp. 146-152; 108 species.--1912. BERGTOLD, W. H.
October Birds of the Headwaters of the Gila River, New Mexico.
The Auk, XXIX, pp. 327-336; 76 species.
NEW YORK
1844. GIRAUD, J. P., JR. The Birds of Long Island ... New York,
vol. V, 8vo, 397 pp.; 286 species.--1844. DE KAY, JAMES E. Zoölogy
of New York. Part II, Birds. Albany. 1 vol., 4to, xii+380 pp.,
141 col. plls.--1876. FOWLER, H. G. Birds of Central New York.
Forest and Stream, VI, pp. 180, 233, 284, 337, 402; VII, pp. 36, 52,
84, 230. Also Additions _Ibid._, p. 180; 170 species.--1877. ROOSEVELT,
T., JR., and MINOT, H. D. The Summer Birds of the Adirondacks in
Franklin County, N. Y. 8vo, 4 pp.; 97 species.--1879. RATHBUN, FRANK
R. A Revised List of Birds of Central New York. (Cayuga, Onondaga,
Seneca, Wayne, and Yates Counties, Auburn, N. Y.) 44 pp. See also Orn.
and Oöl., VII, 1882, pp. 132, 133; 14 additions.--1879-80. MEARNS, E. A.
A List of the Birds of the Hudson Highlands. Bull. Essex. Inst.,
X, pp. 166-179; XI, pp. 43-52, 154-168, 189-204; XII, pp. 11-25,
109-128; XIII, pp. 75-93. (See also Auk, VII, 1890, pp. 55, 56); 214
species.--1880. GREGG, W. H. Revised Catalogue of the Birds of Chemung
County, New York, Elmira, N. Y., O. H. Wheeler; 217 species.--1881-84.
MERRIAM, C. H. Preliminary List of Birds Ascertained to Occur in the
Adirondack Region, Northeastern New York. Bull. N. O. C., VI, pp.
225-235; and Addenda VII, 1882, pp. 128, 256, 257. Auk, I, 1884, pp.
58, 59; 211 species.--1882. BICKNELL, E. P. A Review of the Summer
Birds of a part of the Catskill Mountains, with prefatory remarks on
the faunal and floral features of the region. Trans. of the Linn. Soc.
of New York, I, pp. 115-168; 90 species.--1885 ... HOLLICK, A.
Preliminary List of the Birds Known to Breed on Staten Island.
Proc. Nat. Sci. Assc. Staten Island. Extra No. 4, December. 67
species.--1886.... BARNUM, M. K. A Preliminary List of the Birds of
Onondaga County, N. Y. Bull. of the Biol. Lab. of Syracuse. 8vo, pp.
1-34; 204 species.--1886. RALPH, W. L., and BAGG, E. An Annotated List
of the Birds of Oneida County, N. Y., and Its Immediate Vicinity.
Trans. Oneida Hist. Soc., III, pp. 101-147; 224 species. (See also
_Ibid._, VII, 1890, pp. 2, 29-232.) Orn. and Col. XIII, 1888, pp. 58,
59. Auk, XI, 1894, pp. 162-164.--1886. WOODRUFF, L. B., and PAINE,
A. G., JR. Birds of Central Park, New York City. A Preliminary List.
Forest and Stream, XXVI, pp. 386, 387, 487; 121 species.--1889.
BERGTOLD, W. H. A List of the Birds of Buffalo and Vicinity. Bull.
Buffalo Nat. Field Club, 1, 7, pp. 1-21; 237 species.--1889. DAVISON,
J. L. Birds of Niagara County, New York, Forest and Stream, XXXIII,
pp. 164, 183, 303; 190 species.--1892. CLUTE, W. N. The Avifauna of
Broome Co., N. Y. Wilson Quart., pp. 59-64; 106 species.--1896. SHORT,
E. H. Birds of Western New York. F. H. Lattin, Albion, N. Y. 20 pp.;
229 species.--1901. EATON, E. H. Birds of Western New York. Proc.
Roch. Acad. IV, 64 pp.; 299 species.--1901. EMBODY, G. O. Birds of
Madison County, N. Y. Bull. Dep't. Geol. and Nat. Hist., Colgate
University, Hamilton, N. Y. 8vo, 36 pp.; 191 species. (See also Maxon,
Auk, XX, p. 263.)--1904. CHAPMAN, F. M. An Annotated List of the
Birds Known to Breed within 50 Miles of New York City. Guide Leaflet,
No. 14, Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 31 pp., 13 ills.--1906. CHAPMAN, F. M.
The Birds of the Vicinity of New York City. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., Guide
Leaflet, No. 22, Rev. Ed., 96 pp. Numerous ills.; 353 species.--1907.
BRAISLIN, W. C. A List of the Birds of Long Island, N. Y. Abst. Proc.
Linnæan Society, N. Y., 1907, pp. 31-123; 364 species. (See also Auk,
1909, pp. 314-316.)--1910. REED, H. D., and WRIGHT, A. H. Vertebrates
of the Cayuga Lake Basin. Proc. Am. Philos. Soc., XLVIII, pp. 370-459;
257 species.--1910. WRIGHT, A. H. and ALLEN, A. A. The Increase of
Austral Birds at Ithaca. Auk, XXVII, pp. 63-66.--1910. EATON, E. H.
Birds of New York. I, Water and Game Birds. 4to, pp. 1-501, col. plls.
[by Fuertes] 42. Important.--1912. BAGG, E. Annotated List of the
Birds of Oneida County, N. Y., and of the West Canada Creek Valley.
Trans. Oneida Hist. Soc. XII, pp. 16-85; 257 species.
NORTH CAROLINA
1871. COUES, E. Notes on the Natural History of Fort Macon, N. C. and
Vicinity. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. XXIII, Birds, pp. 18-47. Also
_Ibid._, 1878, pp. 22-24; 133 species.--1885. BRIMLEY, H. H. and C. S.
Summer Birds of Raleigh, N. C. Orn. and Oöl., X. pp. 143, 144;
82 species.--1885.--BRIMLEY, H. H. and C. S. Winter Birds of
Raleigh, N. C. Orn. and Oöl., X, p. 128; 72 species.--1886. BREWSTER,
W. An Ornithological Reconnaissance in Western North Carolina. Auk,
III, pp. 94-112, 173-179; 102 species.--1886. BATCHELDER, C. F.
The North Carolina Mountains in Winter. Auk, III, pp. 307-314; 40
species.--1887. ATKINSON, G. F. Preliminary Catalogue of the Birds
of North Carolina. Journ. Elisha Mitchell Society, 1887, Part 2, pp.
44-87; 255 species. A compilation with some errors.--1887. CAIRNS,
J. S. A List of Birds of Buncombe Co., North Carolina. Orn. and Oöl.,
XII, pp. 3-6; 169 species.--1887. SENNETT, G. B. Observations in
Western North Carolina Mountains in 1886. Auk, IV, pp. 240-245;
29 species.--1888. BRIMLEY, C. S. A List of Birds Known to Breed at
Raleigh, N. C. Orn. and Oöl., XIII, pp. 42, 43; 54 species. (See also
_Ibid._, p. 187. Auk, XIV, p. 165.)--1889. CAIRNS, J. S. The Summer
Birds of Buncombe County, North Carolina. Orn. and Oöl., XIV,
pp. 17-22; 123 species.--1893. BRIMLEY, C. S. Some Additions to the
Avifauna of North Carolina, with Notes on Some Other Species. Auk, X,
1893, pp. 241-244; 48 species.--1897. SMITHWICK, J. W. P. Ornithology
of North Carolina. Bull. 144, N. C. Agric. Exp. Sta. 193-228;
303 species.--1899. PEARSON, T. G. Preliminary List of Birds of Chapel
Hill, N. C. Journ. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc., XVI, pp. 33-51;
132 species.--1901. BISHOP, L. B. The Winter Birds of Pea Island, N. C.
Auk, XVIII, pp. 260-268; 42 species.--1905. OBERHOLSER, H. C. Notes on
the Mammals and Summer Birds of Western North Carolina. Published by
Biltmore Forest School. Birds pp. 11-24; 136 species.--1910. PHILIPP,
P. B. (see S. C.)
OHIO
1877 ... LANGDON, F. W. A Catalogue of the Birds of the Vicinity of
Cincinnati. 8vo, 18 pp. Salem, Mass.; 279 species.--1879. LANGDON, F.
W. A Revised List of Cincinnati Birds. Journ. Cin. Soc. Nat. Hist., I,
4, pp. 167-193. (See also _Ibid._, III, pp. 121-127; V, 1882, p. 186;
VI, 1883, pp. 12-31; 256 species.)--1882. WHEATON, J. M. Report on the
Birds of Ohio, Report of the Geological Survey of Ohio, IV, I,
pp. 188-628; 298 species.--1891. SMITH, R. W. 000 A List of the Birds
of Warren County, Ohio. Journ. Cin. Soc. Nat. Hist., XIV, pp. 105-133;
189 species.--1896. OBERHOLSER, H. C. A Primary List of the Birds
of Wayne Co. Bull. Ohio Agric. Exp. Sta. I, 4, pp. 243-354; 183
species.--1902. HENINGER, W. F. A Preliminary List of the Birds of
Middle Southern Ohio. Wilson Bulletin, IX, pp. 77-93; 209 species.
(See also _Ibid._, pp. 130-132; XII, 1905, pp. 89-93).--1902. JONES,
L. Bird Studies in Lorain Co., Ohio. Wilson Bull., IX, pp. 37-58;
also pp. 94-100.--1908. DAWSON, W. L. The Birds of Ohio, 4 to
xiv+671 pp. Many illus. Columbus, Wheaton Pub. Co.--1903. FIELD, A.
I. Birds of Lecking Co., Ohio. Bull. Sci. Lab. Denison Univ., XV;
203 species.--1903. JONES, L. The Birds of Ohio. A revised Catalogue,
Ohio State Acad. of Sci., Special Papers No. 6, 141 pp. 1 map; 318
species.--1906. HENINGER, W. F. A Preliminary List of Birds of Seneca
Co., Ohio. Wilson Bull., XVIII. pp. 47-60; 205 species.--1909-10.
JONES, L. The Birds of Cedar Point and Vicinity. Wilson Bull., XXI,
pp. 55-76, 115-131, 187-202; XXII, pp 25-41, 97-115, 172-182.
_Note._--Every issue of the Wilson Bulletin (Oberlin, Ohio) contains
matter of special interest to bird students in Ohio and the adjoining
states.
OREGON
1839. TOWNSEND, J. K. Narrative of a Journey across the Rocky
Mountains to the Columbia River ... Philadelphia: Henry Perkins,
134 Chestnut Street. Boston: Perkins and Marvin. 8vo, pp. viii, 352.
Appendix: Catalogue of Birds found in the Territory of the Oregon,
pp. 331-352.--1860. COOPER, J. G. and SUCKLEY, G. Report upon the
Birds Collected on the Survey. Pac. R. R. Rep. Vol. XII, Book 11,
pp. 140-291; 216 species observed in Oregon and Washington.--1877.
BENDIRE, C. Notes on some of the Birds found in Southeastern Oregon,
particularly in the Vicinity of Camp Harney, from November, 1874 to
January 1877. Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., XIX, pp. 109-149;
191 species.--1879. MEARNS, E. A. Partial List of the Birds of Fort
Klamath, Oregon, Collected by Lieutenant Willis Wittich, U. S. A.,
with Annotations and Additions by the Collector. Bull. N. O. C.,
IV, pp. 161-166, 194-199; 111 species.--1880. HENSHAW, H. W.
(See Nevada.)--1880. JOHNSON, O. B. List of the Birds of the
Willamette Valley, Oregon. Am. Nat. XIV, pp. 485-491, 635-646; 140
species.--1886. ANTHONY, A. W. Field Notes on the Birds of Washington
County, Oregon. Auk, III, pp. 161-172; 120 species.--1888. MERRILL, J.
C. Notes on the Birds of Fort Klamath, Oregon. With remarks on certain
species by William Brewster. Auk, V, pp. 139-146, 251-262, 357-366;
168 species.--1902. ANTHONY, A. W. List of Birds in the Vicinity of
Portland, Oregon. Bailey's 'Handbook of Birds of the Western United
States,' pp. xliii-xlviii; 145 species.--1902. LORD, W. R. A First
Book upon the Birds of Oregon and Washington, 16mo, 304+iv pp. ills.
J. K. Gill Co., Portland.--1904. MILLER, L. H. The Birds of the John
Day Region, Oregon. The Condor, VI, pp. 100-106; 71 species.--1905.
FINLEY, W. L. Among the Sea Birds off the Oregon Coast. The Condor,
VII, pp. 110-127; 161-169.--1909. JEWETT, S. G. Some Birds of Baker
County, Oregon. The Auk, XXVI, pp. 5-9; 83 species.--1911. Peck, M. E.
Summer Birds of Willow Creek Valley, Malheur County, Oregon. The
Condor, XIII, pp. 63-69; 74 species.
PENNSYLVANIA
1844. BAIRD, W. M. and S. F. List of Birds Found in the Vicinity of
Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pa. Am. Journ. Sci. and Arts, XLVI,
pp. 261-273; 201 species.--1845. BAIRD, S. F. Catalogue of Birds Found
in the Neighborhood of Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pa. Lit. Rec.
and Journ. Linn. Assoc. of Penna. College, I, pp. 249-257; 203
species.--1861. BARNARD, V. A. A Catalogue of the Birds of Chester
County, Pa. Times of Arrival in Spring. Ann. Rep. Smiths. Inst., 1860,
pp. 434-438; 191 species--1869. TURNBULL, W. P. The Birds of East
Pennsylvania and New Jersey ... 1 vol. roy. 8vo, and also 4to,
xii+62 pp.; 342 species.--1880. WARREN, H. B. The Birds of Chester
County, Pa. Forest and Stream, XIII, pp. 1024, 1025; XIV, pp. 6, 25;
218 species.--1886. PARKER, H. G. List of Birds near Philadelphia with
the Dates That Sets of Eggs Were Taken. Orn. and Oöl. XI, pp. 70, 71;
76 species.--1887. PENNOCK, C. J. Birds of Chester County, Pa. The
Oölogist. IV, pp. 1-10; 234 species.--1889. RESSEL, C. B. Birds of
Chester County, Pa. Orn. and Oöl., XIV, 97-101, pp. 112-116, 129, 130;
199 species.--1890. WARREN, B. H. Report on the Birds of Pennsylvania.
With Special Reference to the Food Habits. Second Edition. Harrisburg,
8vo, xiv+434 pp.; 100 col. plls.--1891. STONE, W. The Summer Birds of
Harvey's Lake, Luzerne Co., Pennsylvania, with Remarks on the Faunal
Position of the Region. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1891,
pp. 431-438; 54 species.--1892. DWIGHT, J., JR. Summer Birds of the
Crest of the Pennsylvania Alleghanies. Auk, IX, pp. 129-141;
84 species.--1893. JACOBS, J. W. Summer Birds of Greene Co., Pa. 8vo,
15 pages; 90 species. Published by Author, Waynesburg, Pa.--1893.
TODD, W. E. C. Summer Birds of Indiana [65 species] and Clearfield
[55 species] Counties, Pa. Auk, X, 1893, pp. 35-46.--1894. STONE, W.
The Birds of Eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey. 8vo, vii+185 pp. Del.
Valley Orn. Club, Phila. 346 species.--1895. ROTZELL, W. E. Birds of
Narbeth, Pa., and Vicinity. The Citizen, June 22 and 29, and reprinted
in pamphlet, 8 pp.; 108 species.--1896. BAILY, W. L. Summer Birds of
Northern Elk Co. Auk, XIII, pp. 289-197; 69 species.--1896. YOUNG, R.
T. Summer Birds of Anthracite Coal Regions of Pennsylvania. Auk, XIII,
1896, pp. 278-285; 59 species--1897. MONTGOMERY, T. H., JR. A List of
the Birds of the Vicinity of West Chester, Chester Co., Pa. Am. Nat.,
1897, pp. 622-628, 812-814, 907-911; 145 species--1897-1910. STONE, W.
Editor. Numerous Notes on and Short Lists of Eastern Pennsylvania
Birds. Proc. Del. Valley Orn. Club, Phila.--1899. RHOADES, S. N. Notes
on Some of the Rarer Birds of Western Pennsylvania. Auk, XVI,
pp. 308-313; 65 species.--1901. BURNS, F. L. A Sectional Bird Census,
at Berwyn, Pa. Wilson Bull. No. 36, pp. 84-103; 62 species.--1904.
TODD, W. E. C. The Birds of Erie and Presque Isle, Erie Co., Pa. Annals
Carnegie Museum, II. pp. 841-596, 4 plates; 237 species.--1904. TODD,
W. E. C. The Mammal and Bird Fauna of Beaver County, Pa. Bausman's
History of Beaver County, II, 1904, pp. 1195-1202; 178 species.
RHODE ISLAND
1899. HOWE, R. H., JR. and STURTEVANT, E. The Birds of Rhode Island.
Published by Authors. 8vo, 111 pp.; 291 species.--1908. Commissioners
of Birds. A Check-List of Rhode Island Nesting Birds, pp. 1-26;
104 species.
SOUTH CAROLINA
1868. COUES, E. Synopsis of the Birds of South Carolina. Proc. Bost.
Soc. Nat. Hist., XII, pp. 104-127; 294 species.--1879. LOOMIS, L. M. A
Partial List of the Birds of Chester County, S. C. Bull. N. O. C., IV,
pp. 209-218; 140 species. (See also additions and notes. Auk, II,
1885, pp. 188-193; VIII, 1891, pp. 49-59, 167-173; IX, 1892; pp. 28-39;
XI, 1894, pp. 26-39, 94-117.)--1885. HOXIE, W. Notes on the Birds of
the Sea Islands. Orn. and Oöl., X, pp. 13-27, 29, 44-46, 62, 63.
(Also Corrections and Additions. _Ibid._, XI, 1886, pp. 33, 34.)
238 species.--1890. LOOMIS, L. M. Observations on Some of the Summer
Birds of the Mountain Portions of Pickens County, Auk, VII, pp. 30-39,
124-130; 76 species.--1891. LOOMIS, L. M. June Birds of Cæsar's Head,
S. C. Auk, VIII, pp. 323-333; 52 species.--1910. PHILIPP, P. B. List
of Birds Observed [in the Carolinas]. Auk, XXVII, pp 312-322. (See
also Wayne, _Ibid._, p. 464.)--1910. WAYNE, A. T. Birds of South
Carolina. Cont. from Charleston Museum, I, 8vo, xxi+pp. 254;
337 species.
TENNESSEE
1886. FOX, W. H. List of Birds Found in Roane County, Tennessee,
During April, 1884, and March and April, 1885. Auk, III, pp. 315-320;
114 species.--1895. RHOADS, S. N. Cont. Zoöl. Tenn., Proc. Acad. Nat.
Sci., Phila., 1895. pp. 463-501. Also Auk, XIII, 1896, p. 181;
223 species.--1910. HOWELL, A. H. Notes on the Birds of Kentucky and
Tennessee. Auk, XXVII, pp. 295-304. Tenn.; 161 species.
TEXAS
1865-6. DRESSER, H. E. Notes on the Birds of Southern Texas. Ibis.,
2nd Ser. I, pp. 312-330, 466-495, II, pp. 23-46; 272 species.--1878.
MERRILL, J. C. Notes on the Ornithology of Southern Texas. Being a
List of Birds Observed in the Vicinity of Fort Brown, Texas, from
February, 1876, to June, 1878. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. I, pp. 118-173;
252 species.--1878. SENNETT, G. B. Notes on the Ornithology of the
Lower Rio Grande, Texas, from Observations made during the Season of
1877. Edited, with Annotations, by Dr. Elliott Coues. Bull. U. S.
Geol. and Geograph. Survey, Vol. IV, pp. 1-66; 151 species.--1879.
SENNETT, G. B. Further Notes on the Ornithology of the Lower Rio
Grande of Texas, from observations made during the spring of 1878.
Edited, with Annotations by Dr. Elliott Coues. Bull. U. S. Geol.
and Geograph. Survey of the Territories, V, 3, pp. 371-440; 168
species.--1882. BROWN, N. C. A Reconnaissance in Southwestern Texas.
Bull. N. O. C., VII, pp. 33-42! 104+6? species observed near Boerne,
Kendall County.--1882. NEHRLING, H. List Of Birds Observed at Houston,
Harris, Texas and vicinity, and in the Counties Montgomery, Galveston,
and Ford Bend. Bull Nutt. Orn. Club, VII, pp. 6-13, 166-175, 222-225;
209 species.--1887. LLOYD, W. Birds of Tom Green and Concho Counties,
Texas. Auk, IV, pp. 181-193, 289-299; 253 species.--1888. BECKHAM, C.
W. Observations on the Birds of southwestern Texas. Proc. U. S. Nat.
Mus., X, 1887, pp. 635-696; 283 species.--1891. CHAPMAN, F. M. On the
Birds Observed near Corpus Christi, Texas, during parts of March and
April, 1891. Bull Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., III, pp. 315-328; 33+66
species.--1892. ATTWATER, H. P. List of Birds Observed in the vicinity
of San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas. Auk, IX, pp. 229-238; 337-345;
242 species.--1892. RHOADS, S. N. The Birds of Southeastern Texas and
Southern Arizona, Observed during May, June, and July, 1891. Proc.
Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., pp. 98-126. Annotated lists of 100+8 species
observed at Corpus Christi, and 124+2 species observed in Southern
Arizona.--1900. CARROLL, J. J. Notes on the Birds of Refugio County,
Texas. The Auk, pp. 337-348.--1905. MONTGOMERY, T. H. JR. Summer
Resident Birds of Brewster County, Texas. The Auk, XXII, pp. 12-15;
47 species.--1911. LACEY, H. The Birds of Kerrville, Texas, and
Vicinity. The Auk, XXVIII, pp. 200-219; 202 species.
UTAH
1858. BAIRD, S. F. Birds found at Fort Bridger, Utah. Pac. R. R. Rep.
IX, pp. 926-927; 104 species.--1873. MERRIAM, C. H. Report on the
Mammals and Birds of the Expedition to Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, and
Utah. Sixth Ann. Rep. U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr. for 1872, 1873. Birds,
pp. 670-715. A list of 176 Utah birds.--1873. RIDGWAY, R. Notes on the
Bird-fauna of the Salt Lake Valley and the adjacent portions of the
Wahsatch Mountains. Bull. Essex Inst., V, pp. 168-173. Remarks on
Allen's "List of Birds Collected in the Vicinity of Ogden" and list of
Birds found breeding near Salt Lake City.--1874. HENSHAW, H. W. An
annotated list of the Birds of Utah. Ann. Lyc. Nat. Hist., N. Y., XI,
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VERMONT
1901. HOWELL, A. H. Preliminary List of Summer Birds of Mount
Mansfield, Vt. Auk, XVIII, pp. 337-347; 86 species.--1902. PERKINS, G.
H. A Preliminary List of the Birds Found in Vermont. 21st Ann. Rep.
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176 species.--1908. ALLEN, F. H. Summer Birds of Southern Vermont,
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VIRGINIA
1890. RIVES, WM. C., M. D. A Catalogue of the Birds of the Virginias.
Proc. Newport Nat. Hist. Soc., Document VII, Newport R. I. 8vo.
100 pp.; 305 species.--1902. DANIELS, J. W. Summer Birds of the Great
Dismal Swamp. Auk, XIX, 15-18 pp.; 41 species.--1910. EMBODY, G. C. A
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species.--1912. BAILEY, H. B. Notes on Birds Breeding in the Mountains
of Virginia. The Auk, XXIX, pp. 79-84; 94 species.
WASHINGTON
1892. LAWRENCE, R. H. A Preliminary List of the Birds of the Gray's
Harbor Region, Washington. Auk, IX, pp. 39-47; 92 species. (See also
pp. 352-357; and Palmer, _Ibid._, pp. 308-310).--1893. RHOADS, S. N.
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Birds of Okanagan County, Washington. The Auk, XIV, pp. 168-182;
143 species.--1900. KOBBÃ, W. H. The Birds of Cape Disappointment,
Washington. The Auk, XVII, pp. 349-358; 63 species--1902. LORD, W. R.
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112 species--1903. SNODGRASS, R. E. A List of Land Birds from Central
Washington. The Auk, XX, pp. 202-209; 53 species.--1904. SNODGRASS, R.
E. A List of Land Birds from Central and Southeastern Washington. The
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Birds of Tacoma, Washington, and Vicinity. The Auk, XXIII, pp. 138-148;
201 species.--1906. JOHNSON, R. H. The Birds of Cheney, Washington.
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of the Bellingham Bay Region. The Auk, XXV, pp. 425-439; 212
species.--1908. DAWSON, W. L. The Bird Colonies of the Olympiades.
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WEST VIRGINIA
1873. SCOTT, W. E. D. Partial List of the Summer Birds of Kanawha
County, West Virginia, with Annotations. Proc. Bost. Soc. Hist., XV,
pp. 219-227; 86 species.--1875. BREWSTER, W. Some Observations on the
Birds of Ritchie County, West Virginia. Annals of the Lyc. Nat. Hist.,
N. Y., XI, pp. 139-146; 100 species.--1888. DOAN, W. D. Birds of West
Virginia. Bull. 3, Agric. Exp. Sta., Morgantown; 200 species.--1889.
SURBER, T. Birds of Greenbriar County, West Va. The Hawkeye Orn. and
Oöl. (E. B. Webster, Cresco, Iowa), II, pp. 2-4, 13-15, 29-32;
121 species.--1890. RIVES, W. C. (See Virginia.)--1898. RIVES, W. C.
Summer Birds of the West Virginia Spruce Belt. Auk, XV, pp. 131-137;
46 species.--1909. BROOKS, E. A. West Virginia Birds in State Board of
Agriculture. Report W. Va. State Board Agric., for 1908, pp. 3-62;
193 species.
WISCONSIN
1853. HOY, P. R. Notes on the Ornithology of Wisconsin. Proc. Acad.
Nat. Sci., Phila., VI, pp. 304-313, 318-385, 423-429; 283 species.
(Revised with additions in the Trans. Wisc. State Agric. Soc., 1852,
II, pp. 341-364.)--1854. BARRY, A. C. On the Ornithological Fauna of
Wisconsin. Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., V, 1854, pp. 1-13;
218 species.--1882. KING, F. H. Economic Relations of Wisconsin Birds.
Wis. Geol. Survey, I, pp. 441-610; figs. 103-144; 295 species.--1883.
WILLARD, S. W. Migration and Distribution of North American Birds in
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Letters, VI, pp. 177-196; 210 species.--1894. GRUNDTVIG, F. L. The
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(N. S.), pp. 1-143, 8 half-tones; 357 species.--1909. CORY, C. B.
(See Ills.)
WYOMING
1872. HOLDEN, C. H. JR. Notes on the Birds of Wyoming and Colorado
Territories, with additional memoranda by C. E. Aiken. Edited by
T. M. Brewer. Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., XV, pp. 193-210; 142
species.--1873. MERRIAM, C. H. (See Utah.)--1876. GRINNELL, G. B.
(See Montana).--1879. WILLISTON, S. W. A List of Birds taken in
Southern Wyoming, with supplementary notes by George B. Grinnell;
Forest and stream, XII, pp. 306-307, 325-326, 365; 109 species.--1902.
KNIGHT, W. C. The Birds of Wyoming. University of Wyoming. 8vo.
174 pp., 48 plls.; 288 species.--1902. BOND, F. List of Birds of
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United States,' pp. lxxiii; 184 species.--1907. PALMER, T. S. Birds
of Yellowstone Park. Ann. Rep. Supt. of Yellowstone Park for 1907.
pp. 15-23; 70 species.
INDEX
Acanthis hornemannii
" exilipes 176
linaria 176
" holbÅllii 176
" rostrata 176
Accipiter atricapillus 131
" striatulus 131
cooperii 131
velox 131
Actitis macularia 107
Actodromas acuminata 109
bairdii 109
fuscicollis 109
maculata 109
minutilla 109
Ãchmophorus occidentalis 44
Ãgialitis hiaticula 112
meloda 112
" circumcincta 112
nivosa 112
semipalmata 112
Aëronautes melanoleucus 158
Ãstrelata fisheri 260
hasitata 65
scalaris 260
Agelaius gubernator californicus 179
phÅniceus 178
" bryanti 178
" caurinus 178
" floridanus 178
" fortis 178
" neutralis 178
" richmondi 298
" sonoriensis 178
tricolor 179
Aimophila carpalis 220
ruficeps 220
" eremÅca 220
" scottii 220
" sororia 220
Aix sponsa 78
Ajaia ajaja 89
Alauda arvensis 275
Alaudidæ 34, 163
Albatross, Black-footed 62
Laysan 62
Short-tailed 12, 62
Sooty 62
Yellow-nosed 62
Alca torda 48
Alcedinidæ 32, 144
Alcidæ 10
Alle alle 46
Amazilis cerviniventris chalconota 160
tzacatl 160
Ammodramus caudacutus 225
henslowi 224
" occidentalis 224
leconteii 225
maritimus 226
" fisheri 226
" macgillivraii 226
" peninsulæ 226
" sennetti 226
nelsoni 225
" subvirgatus 225
nigrescens 226
Ampelidæ 37, 166
Ampelis cedrorum 198
garrulus 198
Amphispiza belli 228
" canescens 300
" cinerea 228
" nevadensis 228
bilineata 249
" deserticola 249
Anas boschas 76
fulvigula 77
" maculosa 77
obscura 77
" rubripes 77
Anatidæ 16, 74
Anhinga 14, 73
anhinga 73
Anhingidæ 14, 67
Ani 146
Groove-billed 146
Anous stolidus 60
Anser albifrons 262
" gambeli 85
fabialis 262
Anseres 15, 74
Anthus pensilvanicus 232
spraguei 232
Antrostomus carolinensis 156
vociferus 156
" macromystax 156
Aphelocoma californica 184
Aphelocoma californica hypoleuca 184
" obscura 184
cyanea 184
cyanotis 184
insularis 184
sieberii arizonæ 183
" couchii 183
texana 184
woodhouseii 184
Aphriza virgata 111
Aphrizidæ 24, 100
Aquila chrysaëtos 136
Aramidæ 20, 95
Aramus giganteus 96
Archibuteo ferrugineus 135
lagopus sancti-johannis 135
Arctonetta fischeri 82
Ardea herodias 93
" fannini 93
" wardi 93
occidentalis 92
Ardeidæ 19, 87
Ardetta exilis 91
neoxena 91
Arenaria interpres 102
melanocephala 107
morinella 102
Arquatella couesi 107
maritima 107
ptilocnemis 108
Arremonops rufivirgatus 215
Asio accipitrinus 138
wilsonianus 138
Astragalinus lawrenci 189
psaltria 192
" hesperophilus 299
" mexicanus 299
tristis 192
" pallidus 192
" salicamans 192
Asturina plagiata 131
Asyndesmus torquatus 152
Atthis morcomi 161
Auk, Great 48
Razor-billed 9, 48
Auklet, Cassin 46
Crested 47
Least 47
Paroquet 47
Rhinoceros 45
Whiskered 47
Auriparus flaviceps 195
" lamprocephalus 195
Avocet 22, 103
Aythya affinis 79
americana 79
collaris 79
Aythya marila 78
vallisneria 79
Bæolophus atricristatus 243
" sennetti 303
bicolor 243
" texensis 243, 303
inornatus 242
" cineraceus 242
" griseus 242
wollweberi 244
Baldpate 77
Bartramia longicauda 105
Basilinna leucotis 160
xantusi 159
Becard, Xantus's 276
Bittern, American 91
Cory 91
Least 91
Blackbird, Bicolored 179
Brewer 254
Red-winged 178
Rusty 254
Tricolored 179
Yellow-headed 199
Bluebird 182
Azure 182
Chestnut-backed 182
Mountain 182
San Pedro 182
Western 182
Bobolink 251
Bob-white 26, 115
Florida 115
Masked 115
Texan 115
Bombycillidæ 298
Bonasa umbellus 118
" sabini 118
" togata 118
Bonasa umbellus umbelloides 118
Booby 70
Blue-faced 70
Blue-footed 70
Brewster 70
Red-footed 70
Botaurus lentiginosus 91
Brachyramphus brevirostris 46
craveri 46
hypoleucus 46
marmoratus 46
Brant 86
Black 86
Branta bernicla glaucogastra 86
canadensis 86
" hutchinsii 86
" minima 86
" occidentalis 86
leucopsis 262
Branta nigricans 86
Bubo virginianus 143
" algistus 297
" arcticus 143
" elachistus 143
" heterocnemis 297
" pacificus 143
" pallescens 143
" saturatus 143
Bubonidæ 30, 127
Budytes flavus leucostriatus 192
Buffle-head 80
Bullfinch, Cassin's 279
Bulweria bulweri 260
Bunting, Beautiful 180
Indigo 181
Lark 252
Lazuli 180
Painted 180
Varied 180
Bush-Tit 242
California 242
Grinda 242
Lead-colored 242
Lloyd 242
Santa Rita 242, 303
Buteo abbreviatus 134
albicaudatus sennetti 135
borealis 132
" alascensis 296
" calurus 132
" harlani 132
" kriderii 132
brachyurus 134
lineatus 133
Buteo lineatus alleni 133
elegans 133
platypterus 133
swainsoni 133
Buteonidæ 294
Butorides virescens 94
" anthonyi 94
" frazari 94
Buzzard, Turkey 129
Calamospiza melanocorys 252
Calcarius lapponicus 219
" alascensis 219
ornatus 218
pictus 220
Calidris arenaria 108
Callipepla squamata 116
" castanogastris 116
Callothrus robustus 253
Calothorax lucifer 159
Calypte annæ 161
costæ 159
Campephilus principalis 149
Camptolaimus labradorius 81
Canachites canadensis 117, 298
" canace 117, 298
" osgoodi 117, 298
franklinii 117
Canvas-back 79
Caprimulgidæ 33, 155
Caracara, Audubon 134
Guadalupe 134
Cardellina rubrifrons 177
Cardinal 36, 172
Arizona 172
Florida 172
Gray-tailed 172
St Lucas 172
Texas 172
Cardinalis cardinalis 172
canicaudus 172
floridanus 172
igneus 172
superbus 172
Carduelis carduelis 177
Carpodacus amplus 175
cassini 175
mcgregori 175
mexicanus elementis 175
" frontalis 175
" ruberrimus 175
purpureus 174
" californicus 174
Casarca casarca 262
Catbird 247
Catharista urubu 129
Cathartes aura 129
Cathartidæ 28, 127
Catherpes mexicanus albifrons 234
" conspersus 234
" punctulatus 234
Centrocercus urophasianus 122
Centurus aurifrons 153
carolinus 153
uropygialis 153
CeophlÅus pileatus 149
" abieticola 149
Cepphus columba 48
grylle 48
mandtii 48
Cerorhinca monocerata 45
Certhia familiaris albescens 237
" americana 237
" montana 237
" occidentalis 237
" zelotes 238
Certhiidæ 39, 168
Ceryle alcyon 147
" caurina 297
americana septentrionalis 147
torquata 273
Chachalaca 27, 122
Chætura pelagica 158
vauxii 158
Chamæa fasciata 215, 300
" phæa 216, 300
" rufula 300
Chamæidæ 294, 298
Charadriidæ 24, 100
Charadrius dominicus 110
" fulvus 110
Charitonetta albeola 80
Chat, Long-tailed 198
Yellow-breasted 38, 198
Chaulelasmus streperus 77
Chen cærulescens 85
hyperborea 84
" nivalis 84
rossii 84
Chewink 204
Chickadee 39
Alaskan 244
Bailey's Mountain 303
Barlow 244
Black-capped 245
California 244
Canadian 244
Carolina 245
Chestnut-backed 244
Columbian 244
Florida 303
Hudsonian 244
Kowak 244
Long-tailed 245
Mexican 245
Mountain 244
Oregon 245
Plumbeous 245
Valdez Chestnut-sided 303
Yukon 303
Chondestes grammacus 218
" strigatus 218
Chordeiles acutipennis texensis 157
virginianus 157
" chapmani 157
" henryi 157
" sennetti 157
Chuck-will's widow 156
Ciconiidæ 18, 87
Cinclidæ 38, 168
Cinclus mexicanus 247
Circus hudsonius 130
Cistothorus stellaris 236
Clangula clangula americana 80
islandica 80
Coccyges 31, 144
Coccyzus americanus 146
" occidentalis 146
minor 146
" maynardi 146
erythrophthalmus 146
CÅligena clemenciæ 160
Colaptes auratus 154
" luteus 154
cafer collaris 154
" saturatior 154
chrysoides 154
" brunnescens 154
" mearnsi 298
rufipileus 154
Colinus ridgwayi 115
virginianus 115
" floridanus 115
" texanus 115
Columba fasciata 124
" vioscæ 124
flavirostris 124
leucocephala 124
Columbæ 27, 123
Columbidæ 27, 123
Columbigallina passerina bermudiana 126
Columbigallina passerina pallescens 126
" terrestris 126
Colymbus auritus 43
dominicus brachypterus 43, 257
holbÅllii 43
nigricollis californicus 43
Compsothypsis americana 195
" usneæ 195
nigrilora 195
Condor 129
Contopus borealis 208
pertinax pallidiventris 208
richardsonii 208
" peninsulæ 208
virens 208
Conurus carolinensis 145
Coot, American 21, 99
European 265
Cormorant 71
Baird 72
Brandt 72
Double-crested 71
Farallon 71
Florida 71
Mexican 71
Pelagic 72
Red-faced 72
Violet-green 14, 72
White-crested 71
Corvidæ 35, 163
Corvus americanus 255
" pascuus 255
brachyrhynchos hesperis 304
caurinus 255
corax principalis 255
" sinuatus 255
cryptoleucus 255
ossifragus 255
Coturniculus bairdii 224
savannarum passerinus 224
" bimaculatus 224
" floridanus 224
Cowbird 253
Bronzed 304
Dwarf 253
Red-eyed 253
Cracidæ 27, 113
Crake, Corn 265
Spotted 265
Crane, Little Brown 96
Sandhill 9, 96
Whooping 96
Creciscus coturniculus 294
Creeper, Brown 39, 237
Creeper, California 237
Mexican 237
Rocky Mountain 237
Sierra 238
Crossbill, American 173
Mexican 173
White-winged 174
Crotophaga ani 146
sulcirostris 146
Crow, American 255
Carrion 129
Fish 255
Florida 255
Northwest 255
Western 304
Crymophilus fulicarius 102
Cuckoo, Black-billed 146
California 146
Kamchatka 273
Mangrove 146
Maynard 146
Yellow-billed 146
Cuculidæ 31, 144
Curlew, Bristle-thighed 295
Eskimo 103
Hudsonian 23, 103
Long-billed 103
Cyanocephalus cyanocephalus 183
Cyanocitta cristata 183
" florincola 183
stelleri 185
" annectens 185
" carbonacea 298
" carlottæ 185
" diademata 185
" frontalis 185
Cyanopiza amÅna 180
ciris 180
cyanea 181
versicolor 180
versicolor pulchra 180
Cyclorrhynchus psittaculus 47
Cypseloides niger borealis 158
Cyrtonyx montezumæ mearnsi 115
Dafila acuta 76
Daption capensis 260
Darters 67
Dendragapus obscurus 117
" fuliginosus 117
" richardsonii 117
" sierræ 295
Dendrocygna autummalis 83
fulva 83
Dendroica æstiva 196
æstiva brewsteri 299
æstiva rubiginosa 196
æstiva æstiva sonorana 196
auduboni 190
auduboni nigrifrons 199
blackburniæ 187
bryanti castaneiceps 196
cærulea 181
cærulescens 180
cærulescens cairnsii 180
castanea 206
chrysoparia 188
coronata 197
discolor 197
dominica 190
dominica albilora 190
graciæ 190
kirtlandii 191
maculosa 190
nigrescens 249
occidentalis 188
olivacea 187
palmarum 196
palmarum hypochrysea 197
pensylvanica 198
striata 249
tigrina 196
townsendi 188
vigorsii 191
virens 188
Dichromanassa rufescens 94
Dickcissel 198
Diomedea albatrus 62
immutabilis 62
nigripes 62
Diomedeidæ 12, 61
Dipper 38, 247
Dolichonyx oryzivorus 251
Dotterel 267
Dove, Bermuda Ground 126
Blue-headed 126
Ground 126
Inca 126
Key West Quail 126
Mexican Ground 126
Mourning 27, 125
Ruddy Quail 126
Western Mourning 296
West Indian White-winged 296
White-fronted 125
White-winged 126
Zenaida 125
Dovekie 46
Dowitcher 106
Long-billed 106
Dryobates arizonæ 151
borealis 151
nuttallii 151
pubescens 150
pubescens gairdnerii 150
pubescens homorus 150
pubescens medianus 150
pubescens nelsoni 150
pubescens turati 151
scalaris bairdii 151, 297
scalaris cactophilus 297
scalaris eremicus 297
scalaris lucasanus 150
villosus 150
villosus leucomelas 150
villosus leucothorectis 297
villosus auduboni 150
villosus harrisii 150
villosus hyloscopus 150
villosus monticola 150
villosus picoideus 150
villosus terrænovæ 297
Duck, Black 77
Black-bellied Tree 83
Florida 77
Fulvous Tree 83
Harlequin 81
Labrador 81
Lesser Scaup 79
Masked 80
Mottled 77
Red-legged Black 77
Ring-necked 79
Ruddy 80
Rufous-crested 262
Scaup 79
Wood 78
Dunlin 266
Eagle, Alaska Bald 136
Bald 136
Golden 136
Ectopistes migratorius 125
Egret American 92
Brewster's 294
Reddish 94
Egretta candidissima 92
candidissima brewsteri 294
Eider, American 82
Greenland 82
King 82
Pacific 82
Eider, Spectacled 82
Steller 81
Elanoides forficatus 130
Elanus leucurus 130
Empidonax cineritius 210
difficilis 210
flaviventris 210
fulvifrons pygmæus 215
griseus 209
hammondi 209
insulicola 210
minimus 209
traillii 209
" alnorum 209
virescens 210
wrightii 209
Eniconetta stelleri 81
Ereunetes occidentalis 108
pusillus 108
Erismatura jamaicensis 80
Erolia ferruginea 106
Eugenes fulgens 159
Falco columbarius 137
" suckleyi 137
fusco-cærulescens 137
islandus 136
mexicanus 135
peregrinus anatum 137
" pealei 137
richardsonii 137
rusticolus 136
" gyrfalco 136
" obsoletus 136
sparverius 137
" paulus 296
" peninsularis 138
" phalÅna 138
Falcon, Aplomado 137
Peale 137
Prairie 135
Falconidæ 29, 127, 294
Finch, California Purple 174
Cassin 175
Guadalupe House 175
House 175
Pine 225
Purple 174
San Benito House 175
San Clemente House 175
St Lucas House 175
Flamingo 16, 89
Flicker, Brown 154
Gilded 154
Guadalupe 154
Mearns's Gilded 298
Northern 154
Northwestern 154
Red-shafted 154
Southern 154
Florida cærulea 94
Flycatcher, Alder 209
Arizona Crested 203
Ash-throated 203
Beardless 211
Buff-breasted 215
Coues 208
Crested 203
Derby 202
Fork-tailed 276
Giraud 274
Gray 209
Green-crested 210
Hammond 209
Least 209
Lower California 203
Mexican Crested 203
Nutting 203
Olivaceous 203
Olive-sided 208
Ridgway 211, 299
Santa Barbara 210, 299
Scissor-tailed 177
St Lucas 210
Sulphur-bellied 203
Traill 209
Vermillion 177
Western 210
Wright 209
Yellow-bellied 210
Fratercula arctica 45
" glacialis 45
" naumanni 258
corniculata 45
Fregata aquila 73
Fregatidæ 15, 67
Fregetta grallaria 260
Frigate Bird 73
Fringillidæ 36, 164
Fulica americana 99
Fulmar 12, 63
Giant 260
Pacific 63
Rodger's 63
Slender-billed 63
Fulmarus glacialis 63
" glupischa 63
rodgersii 63
Gadwall 77
Galeoscoptes carolinensis 247
Gallinæ 25, 113
Gallinago delicata 105
Gallinula galeata 99
Gallinule, Florida 99
Purple 99
Gannet 13, 69
Gavia adamsii 44
arctica 44
imber 44
lumme 44
pacifica 44
Gaviidæ 10
Gelochelidon nilotica 58
Geococcyx californianus 146
Geothlypis agilis 189
beldingi 194
formosa 193
philadelphia 189
poliocephala 194
tolmiei 189
trichas 193
" arizela 194
" brachidactyla 194
" ignota 194
" occidentalis 193
" sinuosa 194
Geotrygon chrysia 126
montana 126
Glaucidium gnoma 140
" californicus 140
" pinicola 296
hoskinsii 140
phalænoides 140
Gnatcatcher, Black-tailed 243
Blue-gray 243
Plumbeous 243
Western 243
Godwit, Black-tailed 266
Hudsonian 110
Marbled 110
Pacific 110
Golden-eye, American 80
Barrow 80
Goldfinch, American 192
Arkansas 192
California 192
European 177
Green-backed 299
Lawrence 189
Mexican 192
Western 192
Goose, Barnacle 262
Goose, Bean 262
Blue 85
Cackling 86
Canada 86
Emperor 85
European White-fronted 263
Greater Snow 84
Hutchins 86
Lesser Snow 84
Pink-footed 263
Ross Snow 84
White-cheeked 86
White-fronted 85, 262
Goshawk, American 131
Mexican 131
Western 131
Grackle, Boat-tailed 254
Bronzed 254
Florida 254
Great-tailed 254
Purple 35, 254
Grebe, Eared 43
HolbÅll 43
Horned 43
Least 43
Mexican 257
Pied-billed 9, 43
Western 44
Green-shank 266
Grosbeak, Alaskan Pine 173
Black-headed 207
Blue 181
Evening 36, 199
Kadiak Pine 173
Pine 173
Rocky Mountain Pine 173
Rose-breasted 174
Western Blue 181
Western Evening 199
Grouse, Alaska Spruce 117
Canada 117
Canadian Ruffed 118
Columbian Sharp-tailed 121
Dusky 117
Franklin 117
Gray Ruffed 118
Hudsonian Spruce 117
Oregon Ruffed 118
Prairie Sharp-tailed 121
Richardson 117
Ruffed 26, 118
Sage 122
Sharp-tailed 121
Sierra 295
Sooty 117
Gruidæ 20, 95
Grus americana 96
canadensis 96
mexicana 96
Guara alba 90
rubra 89
Guillemot, Black 48
Mandt 48
Pigeon 48
Guiraca cærulea 181
" lazula 181
Gull, Bonaparte 56
Black-backed 54
California 55
Franklin 56
Glaucous 53
Glaucous-winged 53
Heermann 54
Herring 11, 55
Iceland 53
Ivory 52
Kittiwake 52
Kumlien 53
Laughing 56
Little 259
Mew 258
Nelson 53
Point Barrow 53
Ring-billed 52
Ross 56
Sabine 56
Siberian 258
Slaty-backed 54
Short-billed 52
Vega 55
Western 54
Gymnogyps californianus 129
Gyrfalcon 136
Black 136
Gray 136
White 136
Hæmatopodidæ 25, 100
Hæmatopus bachmani 104
frazari 104
palliatus 104
Haliæetus leucocephalus 136
Halocyptena microsoma 65
Harelda hyemalis 81
Harrier 130
Hawk, American Rough-legged 135
Broad-winged 133
Cooper 131
Desert Sparrow 133
Duck 137
Ferruginous Rough-legged 135
Fish 129
Florida Red-shouldered 133
Harlan 132
Harris 132
Krider 132
Little Sparrow 296
Marsh 130
Mexican Black 134
Pigeon 137
Red-bellied 133
Red-shouldered 133
Red-tailed 29, 28, 132
Sennett White-tailed 135
Sharp-shinned 131
Short-tailed 134
Snail 130
Sparrow 137
St Lucas Sparrow 138
Swainson 133
Western Red-tail 132
Zone-tailed 134
Heath Hen 121
Heleodytes brunneicapillus 233
" affinis 233
" anthonyi 233
" bryanti 233
" couesi 288
Helinaia swainsonii 215
Helminthophila bachmanii 191
celata 210
" lutescens 210
" sordida 210
chrysoptera 189
lawrencei 197
leucobronchialis 197
luciæ 206
Helminthophila peregrina 212
pinus 191
rubricapilla 195
" gutturalis 195
virginiæ 197
Helmitheros vermivorus 215
Helodromas solitarius 107
" cinnamomeus 107
Herodias egretta 92
Herodiones 17, 87
Heron, Anthony Green 94
Black-crowned Night 93
European 264
Frazar Green 94
Great Blue 92
Heron, Great White 92
Little Blue 94
Little Green 19, 94
Louisiana 94
Northwest Coast 93
Snowy 92
Ward 93
Yellow-crowned Night 93
Hesperiphona vespertina 199
" montana 199
Heteractitis incanus 111
Himantopus mexicanus 104
Hirundinidæ 36, 165
Hirundo erythrogastra 250
Histrionicus histrionicus 81
Hummingbird, Allen 161
Anna 161
Black-chinned 159
Blue-throated 160
Blue-billed 160
Broad-tailed 161
Buff-bellied 160
Calliope 161
Costa 159
Lucifer 159
Morcom 161
Rieffer 160
Rivoli 159
Ruby-throated 33, 160
Rufous 161
Salvin 298
White-eared 160
Xantus 159
Hydranassa tricolor ruficollis 94
Hydrochelidon nigra surinamensis 60
Hylocichla aliciæ 239
" bicknelli 239
guttata 238
" auduboni 238
" nana 238
" pallasii 238
fuscescens 238
" salicicola 238
mustelina 233
ustulata 239
" almæ 239
" Ådica 239
" swainsonii 239
Iache latirostris 160
Ibididæ 18, 87
Ibis, Glossy 90
Scarlet 89
Wood 18, 90
White 90
White-faced Glossy 18, 90
Icteria virens 198
" longicauda 198
Icteridæ 35, 164
Icterus audubonii 186
bullocki 186
cucullatus nelsoni 186
" sennetti 186
galbula 186
parisorum 186
spurius 206
Ictinia mississippiensis 130
Ionornis martinica, 99
Iridoprocne bicolor 250
Ixoreus nævius 207
" meruloides 207
Jabiru 264
Jacana, Mexican 25, 102
spinosa 102
Jacanidæ 25, 100
Jaeger, Long-tailed 51
Parastic 10, 51
Pomarine 51
Jay, Alaskan 252
Belding 184
Black-headed 185
Blue 35, 183
Blue-eared 184
Blue-fronted 185
California 184
Canada 252
Coast 298
Couch 183
Florida 184
Florida Blue 183
Gray 252
Green 185
Labrador 252
Long-crested 185
Oregon 252
Pinon 183
Queen Charlotte 185
Rocky Mountain 252
Santa Cruz 184
Steller 185
Texan 184
Woodhouse 184
Xantus 184
Junco aikeni 240
Arizona 241
Baird 240
bairdi 240
caniceps 241, 302
Carolina 240
Coues 241, 302
dorsalis 241, 302
Gray-headed 241
Guadalupe 240
hyemalis 240
" annectens 302
" carolinensis 240
" connectens 302
insularis 240
mearnsi 240, 302
Montana 240
montanus 240, 302
oreganus 241, 302
" connectens 241, 302
" pinosus 241, 302
" shufeldti 241
" thurberi 241, 302
Oregon 241
phæonotus dorsalis 241
" palliatus 241
Pink-sided 240
Point Pinos 241
Red-backed 241
Ridgway's 303
Shufeldt 241, 302
Slate-colored 240
Thurber 241
Townsend 240
townsendi 240
White-winged 240
Killdeer 24, 112
Kingbird 247
Arkansas 202
Cassin 202
Couch 202
Gray 247
Kingfisher, Belted 31, 147
Northwestern Belted 297
Ringed 271
Texas 147
Kinglet, Dusky 177
Golden-crowned 40, 187
Ruby-crowned 176, 215
Sitkan 176, 215
Western 187
Kite, Everglade 130
Mississippi 130
Swallow-tailed 130
White-tailed 130
Kittiwake 52
Pacific 52
Red-legged 52
Knot 106
Lagopus evermanni 120
lagopus 119
" alexandræ 295
" alleni 119
" ungavus 295
leucurus 118
" peninsularis 118
rupestris 119
" atkhensis 120
" chamberlaini 296
" dixoni 296
" nelsoni 119
" reinhardi 119
" townsendi 120
Laniidæ 37, 166
Lanius borealis 248
ludovicianus 248
" migrans 304
anthonyi 248
" excubitorides 248
" gambeli 248
Lapwing 267
Laridæ 11, 50
Lark Bunting 252
California Horned 201
Desert Horned 201
Dusky Horned 201
Horned 34, 200
Hoyt Horned 200
Island Horned 202
Montezuma Horned 202
Pallid Horned 200
Prairie Horned 200
Ruddy Horned 201
Scorched Horned 201
Sonoran Horned 202
Streaked Horned 200
Texan Horned 200
Larus affinis 258
argentatus 55
atricilla 56
barrovianus 53
brachyrhynchus 52
californicus 55
canus 258
delawarensis 52
franklinii 56
glaucescens 53
glaucus 53
heermanni 54
kumlieni 53
leucopterus 53
marinus 54
minutus 259
nelsoni 53
occidentalis 54
philadelphia 56
schistisagus 54
vegae 55
Leptotila fulviventris brachyptera 125
Leucosticte, Aleutian 179
atrata 179
australis 179
Black 179
Brown-capped 179
Gray-crowned 179
griseonucha 179
Hepburn 179
tephrocotis 179
" littoralis 179
Limicolæ 21, 100
Limosa fedoa 110
hæmastica 110
lapponica baueri 110
Limpkin 20, 96
Longipennes 10
Longspur, Alaskan 219
Chestnut-collared 218
Lapland 219
McCown 218
Smith 220
Loon 10, 44
Black-throated 44
Pacific 44
Red-throated 44
Yellow-billed 44
Lophodytes cucullatus 76
Lophortyx californicus 116
" vallicola 116
gambelii 116
Loxia curvirostra minor 173
" stricklandi 173
leucoptera 174
Lunda cirrhata 45
Macrochires 33, 154
Macrorhamphus griseus 106
scolopaceus 106
Magpie American 253
Yellow-billed 253
Mallard 6, 76
Man-o'-War Bird 73
Mareca americana 77
penelope 77
Marsh Hen 98
Martin Cuban 250
Gray-breasted 304
Purple 250
Western 250
Meadowlark 199
Florida 199
Texas 199
Western 199
Megalestris skua 51
Megaquiscalus major 254
major macrourus 254
Megascops asio 141
" aikeni 142
" bendirei 141
" cineraceus 142
" flammeola 142
" floridanus 141
" idahÅnsis 142
" kennicottii 141
" macfarlanei 142
" maxwelliæ 141
" mccalli 141
" trichopsis 142
" xantusi 142
Melanerpes erythrocephalus 153
formiciviorus 153
" angustifrons 153
" bairdi 153
Meleagris gallopavo intermedia 122
" merriami 122
" osceola 122
" silvestris 122
Melopelia asiatica asiatica 296
" trudeaui 296
leucoptera 126
Melospiza cinerea 230
" caurina 230
" clementæ 230
" cooperi 230
" fallax 229
" graminea 230
" heermanni 229
" insignis 230
" juddi 229
" kenaiensis 230
" melodia 229
" merrilli 229
" montana 229
" morphna 230
" pusillula 230
" rivularis 229
" rufina 230
" samuelis 230
Melospiza georgiana 222
lincolnii 226
" striata 226
melodia cleonensis 301
" maxillaris 300
Merganser, American 76
americanus 76
Hooded 76
Red-breasted 15, 76
serrator 76
Mergus albellus 261
Merlin, Black 137
Richardson 137
Merula confinis 207
migratoria 207
migratoria achrustera 207
" propinqua 207
Micropalama himantopus 106
Micropallas whitneyi 140
Micropodidæ 33, 155
Mimidæ 294
Mimus polyglottos 248
" leucopterus 248
Mniotilta varia 249
Mniotiltidæ 38, 167
Mockingbird 248
Western 248
Molothrus ater 253
" obscurus 253
Motacillidæ 38, 167
Murre 48
Brunnich 48
California 48
Pallas 48
Murrelet, Ancient 47
Craveri 46
Kittlitz 46
Marbled 46
Xantus 46
Muscivora forficata 177
tyrannus 276
Myadestes townsendii 247
Mycteria americana 263
Myiarchus cinerascens 203
" nuttingi 203
" pertinax 203
crinitus 203
lawrencei olivascens 203
mexicanus 203
" magister 203
Myiodynastes luteiventris 203
Myiozetetes similis superciliosus 274
Netta rufina 262
Nettion carolinensis 78
crecca 261
Nighthawk 157
Florida 157
Sennett 157
Texan 157
Western 157
Noddy 60
Nomonyx dominicus 80
Nonpareil 180
Nucifraga columbiana 252
Numenius borealis 103
hudsonicus 103
longirostris 103
tahitiensis 295
Nutcracker, Clarke 252
Nuthatch Brown-headed 246
Florida 246
Pygmy 246
Red-breasted 39, 246
Rocky Mountain 246
Slender-billed 246
St Lucas 246
White-breasted 246
White-naped 247
Nuttallornis borealis 208
Nyctala acadica 140
" scotæa 140
tengmalmi richardsoni 139
Nyctanassa violacea 93
Nyctea nyctea 143
Nycticorax nycticorax nævius 93
Nyctidromus albicollis merrilli 157
Oceanites oceanicus 66
Oceanodroma cryptoleucura 260
furcata 65
homochroa 65
kaedingi 65
leucorhoa 66
macrodactyla 66
melania 66
socorroensis 66
Ochthodromus wilsonius 112
Odontoglossæ 16, 87
Oidemia americana 83
deglandi 83
fusca 262
perspicillata 83
Olbiorchilus alascensis 236
hiemalis 236
" helleri 236
" pacificus 236
meligerus 236
Old-squaw 81
Olor buccinator 84
columbianus 84
cygnus 263
Oreortyx pictus 116
" confinis 116
" plumiferus 116
Oreospiza chlorura 206
Oriole, Arizona Hooded 186
Audubon 186
Baltimore 35, 186
Bullock 186
Hooded 186
Orchard 206
Scott 186
Sennett 279
Ornithion imberbe 211
" ridgwayi 211
Oroscoptes montanus 233
Ortalis vetula maccalli 122
Osprey, American 129
Ossifraga gigantea 259
Otocoris alpestris 200
" actia 201
" adusta 201
" arcticola 200
" giraudi 200
" hoyti 200
" insularis 202
" leucolæma 201
" merrilli 201
" occidentalis 202
" pallida 202
" praticola 200
" rubea 201
" strigata 201
Otus asio gilmani 297
Ouzel, Water 247
Oven-bird 232
Owl, Acadian 140
Aiken Screech 142
American Hawk 143
American Long-eared 138
Arctic Horned 143
Barn 29, 138
Barred 139
Burrowing 138
California Pygmy 140
California Screech 141
Dusky Horned 143
Dwarf Screech 142
Elf 140
Ferruginous Pygmy 140
Flammulated Screech 142
Florida Barred 139
" Burrowing 138
" Screech 141
Great Gray 139
Great Horned 143
Hoskin 140
Kennicott Screech 141
Labrador Horned 297
Long-eared 138
MacFarlane Screech 142
Mexican Screech 142
Monkey-faced 138
Northern Saw-whet 140
Northern Spotted 139
Pacific Horned 143
Pygmy 140
Richardson 139
Rocky Mountain Screech 141
Sahauro Screech 297
Saint Michael Horned 297
Saw-whet 140
Screech 30, 141
Short-eared 138
Snowy 143
Spotted 139
" Screech 142
Texas Barred 139
Texas Screech 141
Western Horned 143
Xantus Screech 142
Oxyechus vociferus 112
Oyster-catcher, American 25, 104
Black 104
European 267
Frazar 104
Pagophila alba 52
Paludicolæ 19, 95
Pandion haliaëtus carolinensis 29
Pandionidæ 294
Parabuteo unicintus harrisi 132
Parauque, Merrill 157
Paridæ 39, 169
Paroquet, Carolina 30, 145
Parrot, Thick-billed 145
Partridge 118
Alaska Spruce 295
California 116
Canada Spruce 295
Chestnut-bellied Scaled 116
Gambel 116
Hudsonian Spruce 295
Mearns 115
Mountain 116
Partridge, Plumed 116
San Pedro 116
Scaled 116
Valley 116
Parus atricapillus 245
" occidentalis 245
" septentrionalis 245
carolinensis 245
" agilis 245
cinctus alascensis 244
gambeli 244
hudsonicus 244
" columbianus 244
" littoralis 244
" stoneyi 244
rufescens 244
" barlowi 244
" neglectus 244
sclateri 245
wollweberi 244
Passer domesticus 219
Passerculus beldingi 223
princeps 225
sandwichensis 223
" alaudinus 223
" bryanti 223
" nevadensis 300
" savanna 223
rostratus 223
" guttatus 223
" halophilus 224
" sanctorum 224
Passerella iliaca 231
" annectens 231
" fuliginosa 231, 301
" insularis 231, 301
" megarhyncha 231
" schistacea 231
" stephensi 231
" townsendi 231
" unalaschensis 231
Passeres 34, 162
Passerina hyperboreus 251
nivalis 251
" townsendi 251
PediÅcetes phasianellus 121
" campestris 121
" columbianus 121
Pelagodroma marina 260
Pelecanidæ 15, 67
Pelecanus californicus 73
erythrorhynchus 73
occidentalis 73
Pelican, American White 73
Brown 15, 73
California Brown 73
Pelidna alpina pacifica 108
Penthestes carolinensis impiger 303
gambeli baileyæ 303
rufescens vivax 303
Perisoreus canadensis 252
" capitalis 252
" fumifrons 252
" nigricapillus 252
obscurus 252
" griseus 252
Petrel, Ashy 65
Black 66
Black-capped 65
Bulwer's 260
Fisher's 260
Fork-tailed 65
Guadalupe 66
Hawaiian 260
Kaeding's 65
Leach's 12, 66
Least 65
Pintado 260
Scaled 260
Socorro 66
Stormy 66
White-bellied 260
White-faced 260
Wilson's 66
Petrochelidon lunifrons 250
tachina 304
melanogastra 250, 304
Peucæa æstivalis 221
" bachmanii 221
botterii 221
cassini 221
Pewee, Western Wood 208
Large-billed Wood 208
Wood 208
Phaëthon americanus 69
æthereus 69
rubricaudus 260
Phaëthontidæ 13, 67
Phainopepla 253
nitens 253
Phalacrocoracidæ 14, 67
Phalacrocorax dilophus 71
" albociliatus 71
" cincinatus 71
" floridanus 71
mexicanus 72
pelagicus 72
" resplendens 72
Phalacrocorax pelagicus robustus 72
penicillatus 72
urile 72
Phalænoptilus nuttallii 156
" californicus 156
" nitidus 156
Phalarope, Northern 21, 102
Red 102
Wilson 102
Phalaropodidæ 21, 100
Phalaropus lobatus 102
Phasianidæ 27, 113
Phasianus colchicus 113, 122
torquatus 113, 121
Pheasant, English 113, 122
Ring-necked 123, 122
Philacte canagica 85
Philohela minor 105
PhÅbe 34, 208
Black 251
Say 205
Western Black 251
PhÅbetria fuliginosa 62
PhÅnicopteridæ 17, 87
PhÅnicopterus ruber 89
Phyllopseustes borealis 212
Pica pica hudsonia 253
nuttalli 253
Pici 32, 148
Picidæ 32, 148
Picoides americanus 149
" dorsalis 149
" fasciatus 149
arcticus 149
Pigeon, Band-tailed 124
Passenger 125
Red-billed 124
Scaled 269
Viosca 124
White-crowned 124
Wild 125
Pincola enucleator alascensis 173
" californica 173
" flammula 173
" leucura 173
" montana 173
Pintail 76
Pipilo aberti 205
consobrinus 204
erythrophthalmus 204
" alleni 204
fuscus albigula 205
" crissalis 205
" mesoleucus 205
Pipilo fuscus senicula 205
maculatus arcticus 204
" atratus 204
" clementæ 204
" magnirostris 204
" megalonyx 204
" oregonus 204
Pipit 38, 232
Sprague 232
Piranga erythromelas 171
hepatica 171
ludovicianus 171
rubra 171
" cooperi 171
Pitangus derbianus 202
Plataleidæ 18, 87
Platypsaris albiventris 274
Plegadis autumnalis 90
guarauna 90
Plover, Black-bellied 24, 110
European Golden 267
Golden 110
Little Ringed 267
Mongolian 267
Mountain 105
Pacific Golden 110
Piping 112
Ring 112
Semipalmated 112
Snowy 112
Wilson 112
Plautus impennis 48
Podasocys montana 105
Podicipidæ 9
Podilymbus podiceps 43
Polioptila cærulea 243
" obscura 243
californica 243
plumbea 243
Polyborus cheriway 134
lutosus 134
Pocecetes gramineus 221
" affinis 221
" confinis 221
Poor-will 156
California 156
Frosted 156
Porzana carolina 98
coturniculus 294
jamaicensis 98
noveboracensis 97
Prairie Hen 121
Attwater 121
Lesser 121
Priocella glacialoides 63
Priofinus cinereus 260
Procellaria pelagica 66
Procellariidæ 12, 61
Progne chalybea 304
cryptoleucus 250
subis 250
" hesperia 250
Protonotaria citrea 187
Psaltriparus lloydi 242
minimus 242
" californicus 242
" grindæ 242
plumbeus 242
santaritæ 242
Psittaci 30, 144
Psittacidæ 30, 144
Ptarmigan 119
Adak 296
Alexander 295
Chamberlain 296
Allen 119
Dixon 296
Evermann 120
Kenai White-tailed 118
Nelson 119
Reinhardt 119
Rock 119
Townsend 120
Turner 120
Ungava 295
Welch 120
White-tailed 118
Willow 119
Ptilogonatidæ 298
Ptychoramphus aleuticus 46
Puffin 45
Horned 45
Large-billed 45
Tufted 45
Puffinus assimilis 260
auricularis 64
borealis 64
bulleri 260
creatopus 64
cuneatus 63
gravis 64
griseus 63
lherminieri 64
opisthomelas 64
puffinus 259
tenuirostris 64
Pygopodes 9
Pyocephalus rubineus mexlcanus 177
Pyrrhuloxia, Arizona 172
sinuata 172
" peninsulæ 172
" texana 172
St Lucas 172
Quail 115
Querquedula cyanoptera 78
discors 78
Quiscalus quiscula 254
" aglæus 254
" æneus 254
Rail, Belding 97
Black 98
California Clapper 97
Caribbean Clapper 98
Carolina 98
Clapper 20, 98
Farallon 265
King 97
Light-footed 294
Louisiana Clapper 98
Scott Clapper 98
Virginia 97
Wayne Clapper 98
Yellow 97
Rallidæ 21, 95
Rallus beldingi 97
crepitans 98
" saturatus 98
" scottii 98
" waynei 98
elegans 97
levipes 294
longirostris caribæus 98
obsoletus 97
virginianus 97
Raptores 28, 127
Raven, American 255
Northern 255
White-necked 255
Recurvirostra americana 103
Recurvirostridæ 23, 100
Redhead 79
Redpoll 35, 176
Greater 176
Greenland 176
Hoary 176
HolbÅll 176
Red-shank 266
Redstart, American 38, 187
Painted 177
Red-tail, Alaska 296
Red-wing, Bahaman 178
Florida 178
Northwestern 178
San Diego 178
Sonoran 178
Thick-billed 178
Vera Cruz 298
Reedbird 251
Regulus calendula 176, 215
" grinnelli 176, 215
obscurus 177
satrapa 187
" olivaceus 187
Rhodostethia rosea 56
Rhynchophanes mccownii 218
Rhynchopsitta pachyrhyncha 145
Riparia riparia 211
Rissa brevirostris 52
tridactyla 52
" pollicaris 52
Road-runner 146
Robin 34, 207
Southern 207
St Lucas 207
" Western 207
Rostrhamus sociabilis 130
Rough-leg, Ferruginous 135
Ruff 266
Rynchopidæ 12, 52
Rynchops nigra 60
Salpinctes obsoletus 234
" pulverius 301
guadeloupensis 234
Sanderling 108
Sandpiper Aleutian 107
Baird 109
Bartramian 105
Buff-breasted 105
Curlew 106
Green 266
Least 109
Pectoral 109
Prybilof 108
Purple 107
Red-backed 108
Semipalmated 23, 108
Sharp-tailed 109
Solitary 107
Spoonbill 266
Spotted 107
Stilt 106
Upland 105
Western 109
Western Solitary 107
White-rumped 109
Sapsucker, Northern Red-breasted 152
Red-breasted 152
Red-naped 152
Williamson 152
Yellow-bellied 152
Saxicola Ånanthe 248
" leucorhoa 248
Sayornis nigricans 251
" semiatra 251
phÅbe 208
saya 205
Scardafella inca 126
Scolecophagus carolinus 254
cyanocephalus 254
Scolopacidæ 23, 100
Scoter, American 83
Surf 83
Velvet 262
White-winged 83
Scotiaptex nebulosa 139
Seed-eater, Morellet 249
Seiurus aurocapillus 232
motacilla 232
noveboracensis 232
" notabilis 232
Selasphorus alleni 161
platycercus 161
rufus 161
Setophaga picta 177
ruticilla 187
Shearwater Allied 260
Audubon 64, 260
Black-tailed 260
Black-vented 64
Buller 260
Cory 64
Dark-bodied 63
Greater 64
Manx 259
New Zealand 260
Pink-footed 64
Slender-billed 64
Sooty 63
Townsend 64
Wedge-tailed 63
Sheldrake 262
Ruddy 262
Shoveller 78
Shrike, California 248
Island 248
Loggerhead 248
Migrant 304
Northern 37, 248
Shrike, White-rumped 248
Sialia arctica 182
mexicana anabelæ 182
" bairdi 182
" occidentals 182
sialis 182
" azurea 182
Simorhynchus cristatellus 47
pusillus 47
pygmæus 47
Siskin, Pine 225
Sitta canadensis: 246
carolinensis 246
" aculeata 246
" atkinsi 246
" lagunæ 246
" nelsoni 246
pusilla 246
pygmæa 246
" leuconucha 247
Sittidæ 294
Skimmer, Black 11, 60
Skua 51
Skylark 297
Smew 262
Snakebird 73
Snipe, European 265
Great 266
Wilson 105
Snowflake 251
McKay 251
Pribilof 251
Solitaire, Townsend 247
Somateria dresseri 82
molissima borealis 82
spectabilis 82
v-nigra 82
Sora 20, 98
Sparrow, Acadian Sharp-tailed 225
Bachman 221
Baird 224
Belding Marsh 223
Bell 228
Black-chinned 219
Black-throated 249
Botteri 221
Brewster 228
Brown Song 229
Bryant Marsh 223
California Sage 300
Cassin 221
Chipping 222
Clay-colored 228
Desert 249
Desert Song 229
Dusky Seaside 226
English 219
Field 222
Fisher Seaside 226
Florida Grasshopper 224
Forbush 226
Fox 231
Golden-crowned 227
Grasshopper 224
Gray Sage 228
Henslow 224
Harris 219
Heerman Song 229
Intermediate 227
Ipswich 225
Kadiak Fox 231, 301
Lagoon 224
Laguna 220
Large-billed 223
Lark 218
Leconte 225
Lincoln 226
Macgillivray Seaside 226
Mendocino Song 301
Merrill Song 226
Mountain Song 229
Nelson 225
Nevada Savannah 300
Nuttall 227
Pine Woods 221
Vesper 221
Rock 220
Rufous-crowned 220
Rufous-winged 220
Rusty Song 230
Sage 228
Samuel Song 230
San Benito 224
San Clemente Song 230
San Diego Song 230
Sandwich 223
Savanna 223
Scott 220
Scott Seaside 226
Seaside 226
Sharp-tailed 225
Shumagin Fox 231
Slate-colored 231
Song 229
Sooty Fox 231, 301
Stephen 231
St Lucas 223
Suisun Song 300
Swamp 222
Texas 215
Texas Seaside 226
Thick-billed 231
Tree 222
Townsend 231
Vesper 221
Western Chipping 222
Western Field 222
Western Grasshopper 224
Western Henslow 224
Western Lark 218
Western Savanna 223
Western Tree 222
Western Vesper 221
White-crowned 227
White-throated 227
Worthen 228
Yakutat Fox 231
Spatula clypeata 78
Speotyto hypogæa cunicularia 138
" floridana 138
Sphyrapicus ruber 152
" notkensis 152
thyroideus 152
varius 152
" nuchalis 152
Spinus pinus 225
Spiza americana 198
Spizella atrogularis 219
breweri 228
monticola 222
" ochracea 222
pallida 228
pusilla 222
" arenacea 222
socialis 222
" arizonæ 222
wortheni 228
Spoonbill, Roseate 89
Sporophila morelleti 249
Squatarola squatarola 110
Starling 253
StarnÅnas cyanocephala 126
Steganopodes 13, 67
Steganopus tricolor 102
Stelgidopteryx serripennis 211
Stellula calliope 161
Stercorariidæ 10, 49
Stercorarius longicaudus 51
parasticus 51
pomarinus 51
Sterna anæthetus 58
antillarum 58
aleutica 58
caspia 57
dougalli 59
elegans 57
forsteri 59
fuliginosa 60
hirundo 59
maxima 57
paridisæa 59
sandvicensis acuflavida 57
trudeaui 259
Stilt, Black-necked 22, 104
Stint, Long-toed 266
Strigidæ 127
Strix pratincola 138
Sturnella magna 199
" argutula 199
" hoopesi 199
" neglecta 199
Sturnidæ 164
Sturnus vulgaris 253
Sula bassana 69
brewsteri 70
cyanops 70
nebouxii 70
piscator 70
sula 70
Sulidæ 13, 67
Surf Bird 111
Surnia ulula caparoch 143
Swallow, Bank 211
Barn 250
Cliff 250
Lesser Cliff 304
Mexican Cliff 250
Northern Violet-green 250
Rough-winged 211
St Lucas 251
Tree 36, 250
White-bellied 250
Swallow-tailed Kite 130
Swan, Trumpeter 84
Whistling 84
Whooping 263
Swift, Black 158
Chimney 33, 158
Vaux 158
White-throated 158
Sylviidæ 40, 169
Symphemia semipalmata 111
" inornata 111
Synthliboramphus antiquus 47
Syrnium occidentale 139
" caurinum 139
Syrnium varium 139
" alleni 139
" helveolum 139
Tachycineta thalassina lepida 250
" brachyptera 251
Tanager, Cooper 171
Hepatic 171
Louisiana 171
Scarlet 171
Summer 36, 171
Western 171
Tanagridæ 36, 165
Tangavius æneus æneus 304
" involucratus 304
Tantalus loculator 90
Tattler, Wandering 111
Teal, Blue-winged 78
Cinnamon 78
Green-winged 78
Telmatodytes marianæ 237
palustris 237
" griseus 237
" iliacus 301
" paludicola 237
" plesius 237
Tern, American Black 60
Aleutian 58
Arctic 59
Bridled 58
Cabot 57
Caspian 57
Common 11, 59
Elegant 57
Forster 59
Gull-billed 58
Least 58
Roseate 59
Royal 57
Sooty 60
Trudeau 259
White-winged Black 259
Tetraonidæ 26, 113
Thalassogeron culminatus 62
Thrasher, Bendire 216
Brown 39, 233
Californian 217
Crissal 217
Curve-billed 216
Desert 217
Leconte 217
Mearns 216
Palmer 216
Pasadena 217, 300
Sage 288
Sennett 238
St Lucas 216
Thrush, Alaska Hermit 238
Alma 239, 302
Audubon Hermit 238
Bicknell 239
California Olive-backed 239, 302
Dwarf Hermit 238
Gray-cheeked 239
Hermit 238
Monterey Hermit 302
Olive-backed 239
Pale Varied 207
Russet-backed 239
Sierra Hermit 302
Varied 207
Willow 238
Wilson 238
Wood 40, 233
Thryomanes bewickii 235
" calophonus 235
" charienturus 235
" cryptus 235
" leucogaster 235
" spilurus 235
brevicauda 235
leucophrys 235
Thryothorus ludovicianus 234
" lomitensis 234
" miamensis 234
Titlark 232
Titmouse, Ashy 242
Black-crested 243
Bridled 244
Gray 242
Plain 242
Sennett 303
Texan Tufted 243, 302
Tufted 243
Totanus flavipes 111
melanoleucus 111
Towhee 204
Abert 206
Anthony 205
Arctic 204
Californian 205
Canon 205
Green-tailed 206
Guadalupe 204
Mountain 204
Oregon 204
San Clemente 204
San Diego 204
Towhee, Spurred 204
St Lucas 205
White-eyed 204
Toxostoma bendirei 216
cinereum 216
" mearnsi 216
" crissalis 217
curvirostre 216
" palmeri 216
lecontei 217
" arenicola 217
longirostre sennetti 233
redivivum 217
" pasadenense 217
rufum 233
Tree Duck, Black-bellied 83
Fulvous 83
Tringa canutus 106
Trochilidæ 33, 155
Trochilus alexandri 159
colubris 160
Troglodytes aëdon 236
" parkmanii 236
" aztecus 236, 301
Troglodytidæ 39, 168, 294
Trogon ambiguus 147
Coppery-tailed 31, 147
Trogonidæ 31, 144
Tropic Bird 69
Red-billed 69
Red-tailed 260
Yellow-billed 13, 69
Tryngites subruficollis 105
Tubinares 12
Turdidæ 40, 170
Turkey Florida 122
Merriam 122
Rio Grande 122
Water 73
Wild 27, 122
Turnstone 24, 102
Black 107
Ruddy 102
Tympanuchus americanus 121
" attwateri 121
pallidicinctus 121
Tyrannidæ 34, 163
Tyrannus 202
domincensis 247
melancholicus couchi 202
tyrannus 247
verticalis 202
vociferans 202
Uranomitra salvini 298
Uria lomvia 48
" arra 48
troile 48
" californica 48
Urubitinga anthracina 134
Verdin 195
Baird 195
Vireo, Anthony 212
atricapillus 245
Bell 214
belli 214
" medius 299
Bermuda 213
Black-capped 245
Black-whiskered 212
Blue-headed 214
calidris barbatulus 212
Cassin 214
flavifrons 198
flavoviridis 213
Frazar 299
gilvus 213
" swainsonii 213
Gray 214
Hutton 212
huttoni 212
" cognatus 299
" obscurus 212
" stephensi 212
Key West 213
Least 214
Mountain Solitary 214
noveboracensis 213
" bermudianus 213
" maynardi 213
" micrus 213
olivaceus 212
Philadelphia 213
philadelphicus 213
Plumbeous 214
pusillus 214
Red-eyed 37, 212
Small White-eyed 213
solitarius 214
" alticola 214
" cassinii 214
" lucasanus 214
" plumbeus 214
St Lucas 214
Stephens 212
Texas 299
vicinior 214
Warbling 213
Western Warbling 213
White-eyed 213
Yellow-green 213
Yellow-throated 198
Vireonidæ 37, 166
Vulture, Black 129
California 129
Turkey 28, 129
Wagtail, Siberian Yellow 192
Warbler, Alaskan Yellow 196
Audubon 190
Bachman 191
Bay-breasted 206
Black and White 249
Blackburnian 187
Black-fronted 190
Black-poll 249
Black-throated Blue 180
Black-throated Gray 249
Black-throated Green 188
Blue-winged 191
Brewster 197
Cairns 180
Calaveras 195
California Yellow 299
Canadian 191
Cape May 196
Cerulean 181
Chestnut-sided 198
Connecticut 189
Dusky 210
Golden-cheeked 188
Golden Pileated 193
Golden-winged 189
Grace 190
Hermit 188
Hooded 188
Kennicott Willow 212
Kentucky 193
Kirtland 191
Lawrence 197
Lucy 206
Lutescent 210
Macgillivray 189
Magnolia 190
Mangrove 196
Mourning 189
Myrtle 197
Nashville 38, 195
Northern Parula 195
Olive 187
Orange-crowned 210
Palm 196
Parula 195
Pileated 193
Pine 191
Prairie 197
Prothontary 187
Red-faced 177
Sennett 195
Sonora 196
Swainson 215
Sycamore 190
Tennessee 212
Townsend 188
Virginia 197
Wilson 193
Worm-eating 215
Yellow 38, 196
Yellow Palm 197
Yellow-throated 190
Water-Thrush 232
Grinnell 232
Louisiana 232
Waxwing, Bohemian 198
Cedar 37, 198
Wheatear 248
Greenland 248
Whimbrel 267
Whip-poor-will 33, 156
Stephen 156
Whiskey Jack 252
Widgeon, European 77
Willet 111
Western 111
Wilsonia canadensis 191
mitrata 188
pusilla 193
" chryseola 193
" pileota 198
Woodcock, American 23, 105
European 265
Woodpecker, Alaska Downy 150
Alaskan Three-toed 149
Alpine Three-toed 149
American Three-toed 32, 149
Arctic Three-toed 149
Arizona 151
Batchelder 150
Cabanis 150
Cactus 297
California 158
Downy 154
Gairdner 155
Gila 158
Golden-fronted 158
Hairy 150
Harris 150
Ivory-billed 149
Lewis 152
Narrow-fronted 153
Newfoundland 297
Northern Downy 150
Northern Hairy 150
Northern Pileated 32, 149
Nuttall 151
Pileated 149
Queen Charlotte 150
Red-bellied 153
Red-cockaded 151
Red-headed 153
Rocky Mountain Hairy 150
Saint Lucas 151
San Fernando 297
Southern Downy 150
Striped-breasted 153
Texan 151
White-breasted 297
White-headed 151
Willow 151
Wren, Alaskan 235
Aztec 236
Aleutian 236
Baird 235
Bewick 235
Bryant Cactus 233
Cactus 233
Canon 234
Carolina 234
Desert Cactus 233
Dotted Canon 234
Florida 234
Guadalupe 235
Guadalupe Rock 234
House 39, 236
Interior Tule 237
Kadiak Winter 236
Lomita 234
Long-billed Marsh 237
Marian Marsh 237
Northwest Bewick 235
Parkman 236
Prairie Marsh 301
Rock 234
San Clemente 235
San Nicolas 301
Short-billed Marsh 236
Southwest Bewick 235
St Lucas Cactus 233
Texas Bewick 235
Texan Cactus 233
Tule 237
Vigors 235
Western House 236
Western Winter 236
White-throated 234
Winter 236
Worthington Marsh 237
Wren-Tit, Coast 216, 300
Pallid 215, 300
Ruddy 300
Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus 199
Xanthoura luxuosa glaucescens 185
Xema sabinii 56
Xenopicus albolarvatus 151
Yellow-legs 111
Greater 111
Yellow-throat, Belding 194
Florida 194
Maryland 193
Northern 194
Pacific 194
Rio Grande 194
Salt Marsh 194
Western 193
Zamelodia ludoviciana 174
melanocephala 207
Zenaida zenaida 125
Zenaidura macroura 125
" marginella 296
Zonotrichia albicollis 227
coronata 227
leucophrys 227
" gambeli 227
" nuttalli 227
querula 219
* * * * * * *
Transcriber's Notes
The text presented is that obtained through the conversion of the
printed text into digital form. All OE and oe ligatures were converted
to the individual letters. Where questions remained as to the
identification of the converted image, several on-line versions of the
text and other resources were consulted in an attempt to resolve them.
The word "Alleghenies" appears 30 times and "Alleghanies" only 6. So for
consistancy, the 6 were converted. One instance of "Kæding" (Index) was
converted to "Keading" to match the rest. Two instances of "Zoölogy" and
one instance of "Zoology" which was retained as they are titles in
publications referenced.
In addition to the list of corrections listed below, a number of minor
corrections were made.
The U. S. adopted the named Kodiak in 1890; but islanders and others
continued to use "Kadiak" until the early 1920s. Therefore, the word
Kadiak was retained. In the case of the bird species, some have names
that differ from common names used today (for example Canon Wren instead
of Canyon Wren). The A.O.U. listing shows Cañon for two species of Wren
and a Towhee which were retained. As for the scientific names, there are
two spellings for species named in honor of Audubon ("auduboni" and
"audubonii") which have been retained as they appear in the original
publication.
Typographical Corrections
Page(s) Typo => Correction
============ =====================================
4 vernacluar => vernacular
84 Chespeake => Chesapeake
111, 166, 353 Tatler => Tattler
151 Bailley => Bailey
160 Nicaraugua => Nicaragua
165 incalcuable => incalculable
170 preceeding => preceding
171 Louisana => Louisiana
189 680. Macgillivray Warbler comma changed to period
at end of description
199 501c. Florida Meadowlark says "Similar to No. 591..."
which is a Towhee assumed it should have been "501"
201 474f. Ruddy Horned Lark says "Similar to No. 472e..."
472 is a Flycatcher assumed number should be "474e"
209 466. Traill Flycatcher comma changed to period
at end of description
212 632a. Stephen Vireo says: Similar to No. 622
622 is a Loggerhead Shrike number should be "632"
213 Hamshire => Hampshire
223 Savanna => Savannah
230 581f. Sooty Song Sparrow comma changed to period
at end of description
249 Second [Male] changed to [Female]
257 Ãchmorphorus => Ãchmophorus
275 nuttali => nuttalli
281 bimacuculatus => bimaculatus
283 Parrhuloxia => Pyrrhuloxia
284 cyaneovirdis => cyanoviridis
284 BOMBCILLIDÃ => BOMBYCILLIDÃ
285 flavovirdis => flavoviridis
295, 311 Athabaska => Athabasca
299 Goldfish => Goldfinch
303 atricistatus => atricistatus
314 Avifouna => Avifauna
315 Miffilin => Mifflin
326 Annonated => Annotated
326 Veterbrates => Vertebrates
333 Removed duplicate entry for Actodromas maculata
345 Mergus albellus => Mergellus albellus
356 Guadelupe => Guadalupe
Incorrect Page Numbers
Page Item Listed Correction
===== ============================= ====== ===================
333 Alcedinidæ 147 144
333 Bæolophus bicolor 248 243
336 Ceryle torquata 271 273
337 Cowbird, Red-eyed 27 253
339 Flamingo 7 16
339 Flycatcher, Fork-tailed 274 276
339 Flycatcher, Giraud (Alternate
name for Buff-breasted) 274 276
339 Fulmar, Giant 259 260
342 Jabiru 263 264
344 Macrochires 154 155
344 Mallard 6 74
344 Melanerpes torquatus 152 Not found in book
345 Mergellus albellus 261 262
345 Myiozetetes similis
superciliosus 274 Not found in book
356 Wren, Alaskan 235 236
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