Perching Birds Chiefly Gray, Black, or Black and White. 



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

 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 dominicensis.) 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 Norh 

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

 the L^nited 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 U/iay; 

 song, rich, musical, and varied. 



Range.— North America; 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. 



754. Townsend Solitaire (Myadestes townsetidii) . 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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