The Birds of North and Middle America; A Descriptive Catalogue of the Higher Groups, Genera, Species, and Subspecies of Birds Known to Occur in North America, from the Arctic Lands to the Isthmus of Panama, the West Volume 50, No. 2 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ...without involving the outer webs.1 The legs are stouter than in either, the tarsus decidedly longer (17.8 in six specimens). In one specimen the white of superciliary stripe is confluent across the forehead, but not in the others. Young specimens have this stripe yellow, white behind, the throat feathers edged with olivaceous-green." Professor Baird gives the measurements of No. 39380, male adult (no longer to be found in the National Museum collection), as follows: Length (skin), 109.2; wing, 63.5; tail, 44.5;2 exposed culmen, 16.8; tarsus, 17.8; middle toe, 9.9. measurements differ somewhat, as may be seen below, though not more than do specimens of one form, in other eases, from the same island. In coloration they are closely alike except the back and wings, which in the St. Vincent specimen are blacker and less brown than in the Grenada example. The latter is clearly not C. luteola, the only yellow-breasted species accredited to Grenada by Mr. Cory, and if not C. saccharina is unquestionably most nearly related to the latter form. The two specimens compare in measurements as follows: Island of St. Croix, Greater Antilles. Certliiola Jlareola (not Certhvi flaveola Linn us) Newton (A. and E. ),, 1850, 67, pl. 12, iig. 3, egg (St. Croix).--Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 54, part (St. Croix).--Sundevall, CEfv. k. Vet.-Ak. Forh. Stoekh., 1869, 023, part (St. Croix). Certliiola' iii'irtoiii Baird, Am. Nat., vii, Oct., 1873, 611 (St. Croix, Greater Antilles; coll. U. S. Nat. Mns.); in Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 427.--Coky, List Birds West Indies, 1885, 9. Certliiola lu'irluni Baiki), Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. X. Am. Birds, iii, 1874, 508.--Ridgway, Proc. U. S.Nat. Mus., viii, 1885, 30...