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KEY TO THE BIRDS OF EASTERN NOKTII AMERICA. 



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Underparts, white; breast, usually more or less tinged with pale brown in 

 winter. 



Snow Bunting. 

 Snowflake. 



ru-ctrophtnax nivalis. 

 See No. 403. 



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Head, chocolate brown ; rest of plu- 

 mage, greenish black (male) •, general 

 plumage, gray, palest on the throat; 

 no white on wing coverts ; crown and 

 rump, like ])ack (female) . This si^ecies 

 belongs in Section 10, under Family 

 Icteridre, but might be looked for 

 under this family by mistake. 



Cow Bird. 



Molothrus atrr. 

 See No. 371. 



Cow Bird. Seo Fumil^ Irtcridce. 



