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KEY TO THE BIRDS OF EASTERN NORTH AMERICA. 



Part 2. The following species have no red, blue, yellow, or green on 

 the underparts:- 



I'ndei -part-, brownish white; crown and back, brownish gray, usually tinged 

 with more or less blue <n the head, niinp, and lesser wing coverts; middle 

 wing coverts, edged with rufous brown. 



Blue Grosbeak. 



i; iiii;ii->i en ritli-a (hmnnl nr, I. 

 Sec No. -145. 



AS 



Towlicc Bunting. 



Crown and back, black ; throat, black ; sides of body, rufous brown ; belly, 

 white. 



Towhee Bunting. 

 rtjiiJit erythrophthalmua (?ua?e). 

 See No. 440. 



Head .mcl entire undcrparts, black; a 

 tawny white patch on the back of the 

 neck; back, black; rump, whitish. 

 (This species belongs in the family 

 Icterid;e (see Section S), but to the 

 uninitiated the bill has a slight re- 

 semblance to birds in this class.) 



Bobolink. 



Dolichonyx oryzivorns. 

 See No. 370. 



CP>UII, black, mixed with bully \\hile; a nuchal collar (back of neck), chestnut : 

 back. -I i-i-aked ; brea-t, m<>r ' 1688 marked \\ilb black; belly, white; hind 



toe nail, long. 



Lapland Longspur. 



Calca rius lappo n i<- u .s- . 

 See No. 404. 



