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ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK 



Fig. 89. 



Rose-breasted Grosbeak : Zamelodia ludoviciana. 



Male, head, throat, and back black ; under parts, rump, and 

 marks on wing's and tail white ; breast and under wing' coverts 

 with patches of rose-red. Female^ brownish, sparrow y-look- 

 ing bird, with white line through crown and over eye. Saffron 

 yellow under wings. Length, about 8 inches. 



Geographic Distribution. — Eastern North America ; breeds 

 from Eastern Kansas and the higher altitudes of Virginia and 

 North Carolina northward to Maine and Manitoba ; winters in 

 Central and South America. 



In June the New England villages ring with 

 the songs of birds — the merry bubbling of 

 Wrens, the monotonous short sentences of the 

 Red-eye, the smooth-flowing roundelay of the 

 Warbling Vireo, the che-heck of the Least Fly- 



