Identifier: birdsofnewenglan00sam (find matches)
Title: The birds of New Englandand adjacent states: containing descriptions of the birds of New England ... together with a history of their habitats ... ; with illustrations of many species of the birds, and accurate figures of their eggs
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Samuels, Edward Augustus, 1836-1908
Subjects: Birds Birds Birds
Publisher: Boston : Noyes, Holmes
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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ntknob in the roof of the mouth; tarsi shorter than the middle toe; the outer toe alittle longer, reaching not quite to the base of the middle claw; hind toe ratherlonger than to this base; wings long, reaching the middle of the tail; the seconda-ries and tertials nearly equal; the second quill longest; the first less than the fourth;tail very nearly even, shorter than the wings. GUIRACA LUDOVICIANA. —/Swamson. The Rose-breasted Grosbeak. Loxia Ludoviciana, Linnseus. Syst. Nat, I. (1766) 306. Wils. Am. Om., II.(1810) 135. * Guiraca Ludoviciana, Swainson. Phil. Mag., I. (1827) 438.Fringilla Ludoviciana, Audubon. Orn. Biog., II. (1834) 166; V. 513. Description. Upper parts generally, with head and neck all round, glossy black; a broaa crescent across the upper part of the breast, extending narrowly down to the belly, axillaries, and under wing coverts, carmine; rest of under parts, rump, and upper tail coverts, middle wing coverts, spots on the tertiaries and inner great wing coverts,
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Rose-breasted Gkosbeak, Guiraca ludoviciana. Swainson. THE EOSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK. 329 basal half of primaries and secondaries, and a large patch on the ends of the innerwebs of the outer three tail feathers, pure-white. Female, without the white of quills, tail, and rump, and without any black orred; above yellowish-brown streaked with darker; head with a central stripe above,and a superciliary on each side, white; beneath dirty-white, streaked with brown onthe breast and sides; under wing coverts and axillaries safFron-yellow. In the male, the black feathers of the back and sides of the neck have a subter-minal white bar: there are a few black spots on the sides of the breast just belowthe red. The young male of the jear is like the female, except in having the axillaries,under wing coverts, and a trace of a patch on the breast, light rose-red. The tint of carmine on the under parts varies a good deal in different specimens. Length, eight and fifty one-hundredths inches; wing, four

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