Plate CCCLXXIII. Fig. 1. Male.
Plate CCCCXXIV. Fig 5. Female. Fig. 6. Young Male.
Male with the upper part of the head and hind neck black, bounded
anteriorly by a broadish band of bright yellow passing over the eyes;
a narrow line of black margining the base of the bill; cheeks, lower
part of hind neck, and throat, dark yellowish-olive, this colour
gradually brightening on the body, until, on the outer edges of the
scapulars, the rump, the axillars, lower wing-coverts, abdomen, and
lower tail-coverts, it becomes pure yellow; smaller wing-coverts,
alula, primary coverts, primaries, outer three secondaries, outer web
of the next, and the bases of the inner secondaries black, as is the
tail; six inner secondaries, and their coverts, the basal part
excepted, black. Female with the upper parts brownish-grey, the head
and cheeks darker, the lower parts pale grey, the throat white, with
two longitudinal black bands; a band of greenish-yellow across the
fore part of the back, axillars and lower wing-coverts light yellow;
wings and tail, with their coverts, brownish-black, secondary coverts,
and quills edged with yellowish-white, bases of some of the primaries,
tips of the tail-coverts, and inner webs of all the tail-feathers at
the end, white. Young male similar to the female, but without the
black bands on the throat.
_Male_, 8, wing 4-3/4. _Female_, 7-1/2, wing 4-1/4.
Michigan. Columbia River. Saskatchewan. Common. Migratory.
Fringilla vespertina, Cooper, Ann. Lyc. New York, v. i. p.
220.
Evening Grosbeak, Fringilla vespertina, Bonap. Syn. p. 113.
Evening Grosbeak, Fringilla vespertina, Bonap. Amer. Orn. v.
ii. pl. 14.
Coccothraustes vespertina, Evening Grosbeak, Swains. & Rich.
F. Bor. Amer. v. ii. p. 269.
Evening Grosbeak, Nutt. Man. v. i. p. 594.
Coccothraustes Bonapartii, Lesson, Young Male.
Evening Grosbeak, Fringilla vespertina, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. iv.
p. 515; v. v. p. 235.
GENUS XVIII. PYRANGA, Vieill. RED-BIRD.
Bill of moderate length, robust, tapering, compressed toward the end,
acute; upper mandible with its dorsal line declinate and considerably
convex, the ridge rather narrow, nasal sinus very short and wide, the
sides convex, the edges sharp, slightly arched, with a festoon about
the middle, the notches distinct, the tip very slender, declinate;
lower mandible strong, with the angle short and rounded, the dorsal
line straight, the sides convex, the edges direct, the tip acute.
Nostrils basal, round. Head ovate; neck short; body compact. Tarsus
short, with seven scutella; toes rather small, the first moderate, the
outer slightly longer than the inner, and adherent at the base. Claws
moderate, well arched, much compressed, laterally grooved, acute,
those of the first and third toes equal. Plumage soft and blended;
distinct bristles at the base of upper mandible. Wings rather long,
with the second and third quills longest, the first a little shorter.
Tail of moderate length, emarginate. Upper mandible concave, with
three longitudinal ridges; tongue somewhat triangular, convex above,
with the point thin-edged and lacerated; œsophagus dilated about
the middle; stomach broadly elliptical, small, its lateral muscles
rather small; epithelium thin, longitudinally rugous; intestine short;
cœca extremely small. Inferior laryngeal muscles four on each side,
but very small.