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KEY TO THE BIKDS OF EASTERN NORTH AMERICA. 



Head :md back, black ; breast and 

 under wing coverts, rose red ; 

 belly, white (male). 



Rose=breasted Grosbeak. 



Hahia hidoviciana. 

 See No. 443. 



Part 2. The following species have more or less yellow, orange, or 

 green on the underparts : — 



Forehead, yellow; crown, black; 



rump, greeuish yellow; tertials, 

 heavily marked with white ; uuder- 

 parts, dark olive yellow on belly (male) . 



Evening Grosbeak. 



Coccothraustes respertinns. 

 See No. 387. 



Underparts, gray, faintly tinged with 

 greenish yellow ; back, gray, more 

 or less tinged with green ; wings and 

 tail, black, marked with white. 



Crown and sides of head and chin, black; underparts, orange brown, or 



pale orange chestnut; middle of belly and under wing coverts, bright yellow: 

 wings and tail, black, marked with white (male). 



Black°headed Grosbeak. 



Ilahia melanocephala. 

 See No. 444. 



Underparts, pale tawny yellow, more or less streaked with black on sides of 

 body; crown, black, witli brownish buff stripe in centre; tail feathers, sharp 

 pointed. [Tiiis species belongs in Family Icteridj\3, but miglit be looked for 

 under this section (female).] 



Bobolink. 



Dolochomjx onjzivorus. 

 See No. 370. 



