Fauna Boreali-americana, Or, The Zoology of the Northern Parts of British America: The birds |
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aberrant affinity American analogy Arct bars base belly Bill black bill to rictus bird blackish-brown BONAP breast brown cere circle claw clove-brown colour CREE INDIANS curved DESCRIPTION DIMENSIONS Ditto dorsal edged equal Falco feet female Fissirostres flanks folded wing FORM.-Bill Fort Franklin Fringilla fur-countries genera genus head hind toe Hudson's Bay Inch inch shorter inner webs killed Lanius latter Legs Length of bill Length of middle lengthened lines shorter LINN liver-brown longest male mandible margins Melville Peninsula middle nail middle toe migr nearly neck nest nostrils notched ornithologists pale PENN plumage posterior quill feather remige ridge Rocky Mountains rounded rump Saskatchewan Scansores scapulars shafts short Shrikes sinuated slightly species specimen spots Strix SUB-FAMILY Sub-genus SWAINS Swainson tail coverts tail feathers tarsi tarsus Temminck TENUIROSTRES throat Thrushes tipped with white true Thrushes upper mandible upper plumage Vieillot Wilson winter wood-brown yellowish-brown Zool