214 APPENDIX. 
III. Coors. 
COLORS STRIKING OR BRIGHT. 
1. Blue backs. — Blue jay, bluebird (azure blue), nut- 
hatch (slate-blue), kingfisher (slate-blue), indigo-bird, black- 
throated blue warbler, barn swallow (steel-blue). 
2. Chestnut or red breasts. — Bluebird, robin, crossbills 
(male), scarlet tanager (male), chewink. 
3. Yellow or orange throats. — Blackburnian warbler, Ma- 
ryland yellow-throat, summer yellow-bird, yellow-throated 
vireo. 
4. Yellow or orange breasts. — Yellow - throated vireo, 
summer yellow-bird, goldfinch, oriole, meadow-lark, Black- 
burnian warbler, Maryland yellow-throat. 
5. Red patch on top or back of head in males. — Ruby- 
crowned kinglet, woodpeckers, kingbird. 
6. Red heads (entire head and neck red or madder pink). — 
Red-headed woodpecker, purple finch (old males), crossbills 
(males). 
7. Birds wholly or largely black (males). — Crow, black- 
birds, cowbird, redstart (salmon patches on breast, wings, 
and tail), bobolink (whitish patches on nape of neck and 
back), rose - breasted grosbeak (carmine patch on breast, 
belly white), chewink (white breast, brown sides), oriole 
(orange below). 
COLORS DULL OR PLAIN. 
1. Upper parts olive-green. — Breast unspotted: Kinglets 
(patch of red or yellow in crown), vireos (top of head un- 
marked), tanager (female), crossbills (females). Breast 
spotted : Oven-bird (crown patch orange-brown bordered 
with black). 
2. Upper parts olive-gray. — Cuckoos (tail very long, bill 
curved), great-crested flycatcher. 
3. Upper parts dusky grayish-olive. — Phebe (length about 
