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KEY TO THE BIRDS OF EASTERN NORTH AMERICA. 



Underparts, white; breast, usually more or less tinged with pale brown in 

 winter. 



Snow Bunting. 

 Snowflake. 



Plectrophenax nivalis. 

 See No. 403. 



Head, chocolate brown; rest of plu- 

 mage, greenish black (male) ; general 

 plumage, gray, palest on the throat; 

 no white on wing coverts ; crown and 

 rump, like back (female) . This species 

 belongs in Section 10, under Family 

 Icteridfe, but might be looked for 

 under this family by mistake. 



Cow Bird. 



Molothrus ater. 

 See No. 371. 



Cow Bird. See Family Icteridce. 



