Perching Birds Chiefly Gray, Black, or Black and White 



730a. White-naped Nuthatch (S. p. leuconucba). 



Similar to No. 730, but bill larger, crown grayer, back 

 less bluish gray, nape patch more conspicuous, under- 

 pays white with scarcely more than a trace of buffy. 

 (Ridgw.) 



Range. — Lower California. 



444. Kingbird (Tyrannus tyrannus). L. 8.5. Tail 

 tipped with white. Ads. Above slaty, crown blacker 

 with an orange patch. Yng. Similar, but no crown- 

 patch. Notes. An unmusical, steely chatter. "A 

 soft and very pleasing song," heard only in the early 

 morning (O. T. Miller.) 



Range. — North America, breeds from Florida north to New Bruns- 

 wick and Manitoba, and from eastern Texas northwest to Utah, Ne- 

 vada, northeast California and western British Columbia; winters 

 south of United States, to Central and South America. 



445. Gray Kingbird (Tyrannus dominie ensis.) L. 

 9. Ads. No white tip on tail; an orange crown-patch; 

 under wing-coverts sulphur; ear-coverts black; above 

 gray; below white. Notes. A loud, chattering, 

 pitirri, pitirri. 



Range. — West Indies, breeding north through Florida along the 

 coast to South Carolina; winters in Lesser Antilles, Mexico, and Cen- 

 tral America. 



701. American Dipper; Water Ouzel {Cinclus mexi- 



canus). L. 8. Ads. Slaty gray, head and neck 

 browner. In winter more or less tipped with whitish. 

 Notes. Song, remarkably sweet and lively, in modula- 

 tion resembling somewhat that of Brown Thrasher, 

 but less powerful though sweeter in effect. (Ridg- 

 way. ) Call, a sharp, pebbly cack-cack-cack. 



Range.— "The mountainous parts of central and western North 

 America, from the Yukon Valley and Unalaska to Guatemala; east in 

 the United States, to the eastern base of the Rocky mountains. 

 Apparently resident throughout its range." (A. O. U.) 



704. Catbird {Galeoscoptes carolinensis). L. 8.9. 

 Ads. Slaty gray, cap and tail black, under tail-coverts 

 reddish chestnut. Notes. Call, a whining, nasal te/iay; 

 song, rich, musical, and varied. 



Range. — North Americ? ; west to British Columbia and rarely Pa- 

 cific coast states; breeds from the Gulf States north to New Bruns- 

 wick and the Saskatchewan; winters from Gulf States southward. 



7 54. Townsend Solitaire (Myadestes townsendit) . L. 

 8.5. Ads. Brownish gray; eye-ring, tips of outer 

 tail-feathers, a narrow wing-bar white; wing with a 

 buff band showing in flight. Notes. Song, a rich, 

 flowing, Grosbeak-like warbling, sung with great 

 vigor and freedom and often for comparatively long 

 periods. 



Range. — "Western United States, from the Plains westward to the 

 Pacific coast, north to British Columbia and south in winter to the 

 southern border of Arizona and noithern Lower California; breeds 

 from the mountains of New Mexico, southern Arizona, and central 

 California northward." 



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