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Title: Illustrations of the birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British and Russian America. : Intended to contain descriptions and figures of all North American birds not given by former American authors, and a general synopsis of North American ornithology.
Year: 1862 (1860s)
Authors: Cassin, John, 1813-1869 J.B. Lippincott & Co., publisher White, George G. (George Gorgas), d. 1898, ill Hitchcock, William E., lithographer Bowen, John T., ca. 1801-1856?, lithographer
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Philadelphia: : J.B. Lippincott & Co.
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Pittsburgh Library System

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, below ashywhite, with a purplish tinge, bill and legs dark. Female, with the ears brown. Hab. Texas and Mexico. Spec, in Mus. Acad. Philada. Obs. This pretty little bird has the bill longer and more compressed than either thepreceding species, or Psaltria exilis, Temm. It is, however, we think, a true Psaltria, inwhich respect we coincide with Prof. Westerman, who gives a description and excellent figureof it in Contributions to Zoology, (Bijdragen tot de Dierkunden,) Amsterdam, 1851. . A few other names have been given to American species of the old genus Parus by theearlier authors, all of which are undoubtedly synonymes for those of species previouslydescribed, and which we have enumerated. We have in all cases given the authority for thefirst description and its date. Champa fasciata. (Gambel) a bird of California—though described originally, but as Dr.Gambel expressly states provisionally only, as a Parus, we regard as properly belonging tothe family of Wrens (Troglodytidse.)
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CYRTONYX MASSENA.—(Lesson.) The Massena Partridge. PLATE IV.—Male and Female. ±His singularly, we had almost said, fantastically colored, though veryhandsome Partridge, is an inhabitant of Texas and Mexico. No otherspecies presents such a remarkable arrangement of colors, and the blacklines in the face of the male bird, as the eminent English Ornithologist,Mr. Gould, very appropriately observes, forcibly remind one of the paintedface of the clown in a pantomime. It has, until recently, been an exceedingly rare and highly prized bird incollections, a few specimens only having reached Europe or the cities on theAtlantic seaboard of the United States. Those have received names, andhave been described by various European authors, as will appear fromthe synonymes included in the present article; but neither of them havepublished any information relative to the habits or history of this curiousbird, nor have indicated the district of Mexico from which it had beenreceived. It has been k

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