The birds of New England and 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 (14568891058)
Identifier: birdsofnewenglan00insamu (find matches)
Title: The birds of New England and 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 A. (Edward Augustus), 1836-1908
Subjects: Birds Birds Birds
Publisher: Boston : Noyes, Holmes and Co.
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation
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THE CANADA GROUSE. 379 scapulars, and outer surface of the wings are mottled like the back, but more irregu-larly, and with a browner shade of gray, the feathers with a central white streakexpanding towards the tip (on the wing these streaks seen only on some of thegreater coverts); there is no white above, except as described; the under partsare mostly uniform black, the feathers of the sides of the belly and breast broadl)-tipped with white, which sometimes forms a pectoral band; there is a white baracross the feathers, at the base of the upper mandible, usually interrupted above;a white spot on the lower • eyelid, and a white line beginning on the cheeks, andrunning into a series of white spots in the feathers of the throat; the lower feathersof this are banded terminally with whitish; the feathers at the base of the bill,and the head, below the eyes and beneath, are pure-black; the quills are dark-brown, without any spots or bands, the outer edges only mottled with grayish; thet
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