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A Northern Cardinal and a Rose-breasted Grosbeak Sitting on a Branch Among the Flowers
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Description: A Rose-breasted Grosbeak (lower) and a Northern Cardinal (upper) sit on branches among the flowers. "Zamelodia ludoviciana. Rose-breasted Song Grosbeak. Adult male with the head and neck all around and most of the upper parts black, the rump, upper tail-coverts and under parts white, the breast and under wing-coverts exquisite carmine rose-red; wings and tail black, variegated with white; bill white; feet grayish-blue; iris brown. Female above, streaked with blackish and olive-brown or flaxen-brown, with median white coronal and superciliary line; below, white, more or less tinged with fulvous and streaked with dusky; under wing-coverts saffron-yellow; upper coverts and inner quills with a white spot at end; bill brown." "Cardinalis virginianus. Cardinal Grosbeak. Cardinal Red-bird. Virginia Nightinggale. male, adult: Rich red, usually vermillion, sometimes rosy; pure and intense on crest and under parts, darker on back, where obscured with ashy-gray, as it is also on upper surfaces of wings and tail; the feathers of the wings fuscous on inner webs. A jet-black mask on the face, entirely surrounding the bill, extending on the throat. Bill coral-colored; feet brown." Elliot Coues, 1884
Source: Elliot Coues Key to North American Birds (Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1884) 394
Keywords: Cardinalis virginianus, Cardinal Grosbeak,Cardinal Red-bird, Virginia Nightinggale, North American birds, cardinals, Northern Cardinals, ground forager, granivorous birds, ornithology, migratory birds, Redbird, songbirds Zamelodia ludoviciana, Rose-breasted Song Grosbeak, grosbeak, Pheucticus ludoviciana, foliage gleaner, two birds, birds sitting on a branch, birds sitting among flowers, sketches of birds
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