31G 



KEY TO THE BIRDS OF EASTERN NORTH AMERICA. 



Upper plumage, ashy gray ; basal portion of primaries, white, forinini^ a 



white wing patch ; uuderparts, ashy white, without streaks. 



Mocking=bird. 



3Ihnus pohj</Iottos. 



See No. 533. 



Entire upper plumage, rufous brown ; 



uuderparts, bufly wliite, strealied with 

 darli brown ; wing coverts, tipped with 

 more than four inches 



white: tail, 

 long. 



Brown Thrush. 

 Brown Thrasher. 



Harporhynchus rvfoy.^ 

 See No. 535. 



Brown Tlirusli. 



FAMILY CERTHIID^. 



Creepers. 



Bill, slender and decurved ; tail feathers, stiff and pointed; 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. 



Tail feathers, stiff and pointed; bill, curved; upper parts, stieaked; uudei- 

 parts, white; rump, dull rufous browu. Brown Creeper. 



Certhia familiaris aincricana. 

 See No. 54G. 



