Color Key to North American Birds with bibliographical appendix

1872. AIKEN, C. E., and HOLDEN, C. H. Jr. (See Wyoming).--1873. RIDGWAY, R. The Birds of Colorado. Bull. Essex Inst. V, pp. 174-195. Distribution tables and 243 species. Based o...

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 b...

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 C...

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 spe...

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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; ter...

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...

=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 u...

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 th...

=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 o...

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 southe...

=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...

=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. l...

=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...

=--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...

=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. _Not...

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 o...

=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._...

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 nor...

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, possibl...

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 n...

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 traci...

=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...

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 Woodp...

=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...

=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;...

=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 oliv...

=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_...

=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 a...

=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 externall...

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...

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 Helmithero...

327 Swallow-tailed Kite Elanoides forficatus 130 328 White-tailed Kite Elanus leucurus 130 329 Mississippi Kite Ictinia mississippiensis 130 330 Everglade Kite Rostrhamus sociab...

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 Malla...

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_ Br...

Dendroica æstiva 196 æstiva brewsteri 299 æstiva rubiginosa 196 æstiva æstiva sonorana 196 auduboni 190 auduboni nigrifrons 199 blackburniæ 187 bryanti castaneiceps 196 cÃ...

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 R...

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...

Parus atricapillus 245 " occidentalis 245 " septentrionalis 245 carolinensis 245 " agilis 245 cinctus alascensis 244 gambeli 244 hudsonicus 244 " columbianus 244 " littoralis 24...

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 Gu...