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Upper plumage, ashy gray; basal portion of primaries, white, 

 forming a white wing patch; under parts, ashy white, without streaks. 



Mimus polyglottos. 

 Mockingbird. 



See No. 339. 



Entire upper plumage, rufous 

 brown; under parts, buffy white, 

 streaked with dark brown; wing co- 

 verts, tipped with w^hite; tail, more 

 than four inches long. 



Toxosioma rufum. 

 Brown Thrasher. Brown Thrush. 

 See No. 341. 



Brown Thrasher. 



Family CERTHIIDi^. Creepers. 



Bill, slender and decurved; tail feathers, stiff and pointed (see 

 cut ) ; nostrils, exposed ; tarsus, scutellate ; first primary, very short. 

 But one species occurs in Eastern North America — a small bird ; 

 wing, less than three inches ; length, less than six inches. 



Brown Creeper. 



