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==Identification== | ==Identification== | ||
Medium-sized, long-tailed. Short, rounded wings. Bill size variable, often rather narrow and pointed. Brown lateral crown-stripes and a grey, paler median stripe, also grey head-side with brown stripes backwards from eye, along lower edge of ear-coverts and on throat-side. Distinct dark streaks below, on upper breast usually coalescing to form a small dark patch. | Medium-sized, long-tailed. Short, rounded wings. Bill size variable, often rather narrow and pointed. Brown lateral crown-stripes and a grey, paler median stripe, also grey head-side with brown stripes backwards from eye, along lower edge of ear-coverts and on throat-side. Distinct dark streaks below, on upper breast usually coalescing to form a small dark patch. | ||
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==Behaviour== | ==Behaviour== | ||
==External Links== | ==External Links== | ||
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[[Category:Birds]] | [[Category:Birds]] |
Revision as of 15:23, 26 May 2007
- Melospiza melodia
Identification
Medium-sized, long-tailed. Short, rounded wings. Bill size variable, often rather narrow and pointed. Brown lateral crown-stripes and a grey, paler median stripe, also grey head-side with brown stripes backwards from eye, along lower edge of ear-coverts and on throat-side. Distinct dark streaks below, on upper breast usually coalescing to form a small dark patch. L 13�15 cm. .
Distribution
N American species