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3. Under parts not white or wliitish, all one color, witJioitt streaks. 



A. Length 8-50 inches ; slate-color : cap and tail black ; inhabits the 

 lower growth ; call-note, nasal ; song highly musical and varied; Apl. 

 25 to Oct Catbird, page 173. 



B. Length 7"20 inches; grayish brown; conspicuously crested; a black 

 line through the eye; tail tipped with yellow; generally seen in small 

 flocks ; note thin and weak Cedar Waxwing, page IGl. 



C. Length 5'50 inches; under parts cream-buff; a conspicuous. whitish 

 line over the eye; upper parts reddish brown; movements active; tail 

 carried erect ; liaunts lower growth ; notes loud and striking; resident 

 from New York city southward .... Carolina Wren, page 177. 



4. Throat and upper breast black or slate-color, very different from the 

 white or chestnut belly. 



A. Throat black. 

 a. Belly and rump chestnut; head, wings, and tail black; length l-.'.O 

 inches; haunts orchards and shade trees; song highly musical ; May 



to Sept Orchard Oriole, page 13;i. 



h. Belly white; sides reddish brown; tail black and white; length 8-35 

 inches; haunts undergrowths ; call-note, cheivink or towhee; Apl. 25 



to Oct Towhee, page 151. 



j6. Throat slatc-color. 

 a. Back and wings slate-color; outer tail-feathers and belly white; 

 length 6-25 inches; haunts generally on or near the ground about 

 shrubbery ; Oct. to Apl Jvnco, page 145. 



5. Throat streaked with black and white ; rest of under parts reddish brown ; 

 upper parts grayish slate-color; length 10-00 inches . Robin, page 186. 



