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KEY AND DESCRIPTION 



feathers have large white patches at their tips, even the outer 

 webs having white at their bases. There is a yellow line over 

 the eye, and a black crescent-shaped mark under 

 the eye. The female sometimes lacks the 

 brown patch of the back, and the young 

 usually has the whole upper parts 

 ashy in shade. A shy inhabitant 

 of bushy fields and pastures. 



Length, 4-J ; wins, 2\ ; tail, 2 ; 

 culmen, ]. rnited States 

 from the Plains eastward ; 

 breeding from Florida 

 north to Michigan and 

 southern New England, 

 and wintering from Flor- 

 ida to the West Indies. 

 Prairie Warbler 



29. Oven-bird (674. 

 Seiiirus aurocapfllus). — A rather small, thrush-like, olive-greeu- 

 backed bird, with white under parts, spotted with Idack on the 

 breast and sides ; the crown is marked with bntwiiish-orange, 

 bordered with black stripes; wings and tail unmarked. Tliis is 

 a walking, tail-wagging bird, found mainly in wooded ground, 

 except in early sjtring, when 

 it may often be seen in the 

 shrubbery and gardens loudly 

 singing its notes, which seem 

 to say teacher, teacher, 

 TEACHER. (Golden-crowned 

 "Thrush.") 



Length, 6|; wing, 3 (23-3 J); 

 tail, 2 J ; tarsus, J ; culmen, \. 

 Eastern North America ; breeding 

 from Kansas and Virginia north- 

 ward, and wintering from Florida 

 south to Central America. 



Oven-bird 



30. Water-Thrush (675. Seila-us iioveboraahisiti). — A small, 

 olive-backed, thrush-like bird, with the under parts yellowish, 



