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KEV AND DESCRIPTION 



Brown Thrasher. 



3. Brown Thrasher (705. Harporhynchus rhfus). — A common, 

 large, long-tailed, brown-backed bird, with the white under 

 parts heavily spotted or streaked with dark-brown, except on 

 the throat and middle of the belly. The wings, tail, and crown 



have the same rufous color 

 as the back. It is an inhabit- 

 ant of the ground or the 

 lower growths along fences 

 and the borders of the woods. 

 It is a rich, sweet singer 

 of its own notes, but not a 

 mocker of the notes of other 

 birds. ^Vhen singing it 

 usually perches on a twig in 

 a prominent position as though it wished all to know how 

 melodious a vocalist it is. (Brown Thrush.) 



Length, \l\; wiiifr, 4\ (4-4i) ; tail, 5J ; tarsus, 1^ ; culmeii. 1. East- 

 ern United States, west to the Rocky Mountains, nortli to Ontario; 

 breeding throughout and wintering north as far as Virginia. Besides 

 this species and the Curve-bill Thrasher given in the Key, there can be 

 found in Texas Sennett's 

 Thrasher (7U<i. Ilarjn)- 

 rhyHclitishnu/irostrissf'n- 

 netti), a bird much like 

 the brown tlua-sher, but 

 with a darker -brown 

 back, blacker spoLs on 

 the lower parts, and a 

 longer (1 J-l { ) and .some- 

 what decurved bill. 



4. Carolina Wren 

 (718. Thrydthorus hi- 

 doviciilnns). — A ner- 

 vous, scolding wren, 

 distinctly barred, 



Carolina Wren 



rich-brown, with long curved bill, a very distinct whitish line 

 over the eye, and a tail the color of the back. It inhabits 

 uudergrowths in wet places, and has the ability to disappear 



