BIRD NOTES AFIELD 



7. A white or pale buffy line over the eye In contrast to the color 

 of the top and sides of head. 



a. Wrens, generally holding their tails erect; bill slender; 

 brown colorings; song vivacious. 



a. Length, 6 inches; back grayish brown; rump cinnamon; 

 breast whitish ; belly pale cinnamon. 



Rock-Wren 184 



b'. Length, 5 inches; back dark brown, blackish in the 

 middle, with white streaks; rump rusty brown; breast 

 whitish; belly pale rusty. 



TuleWren 189 



c. Length, 5.5 inches; color dark brown above, paler 

 below; tail barred. 



Vigor's Wren 1 86 



d'. Length, 7 inches. Back brown, conspicuously streaked 

 with black and white. Under parts white, conspicuously 

 spotted with black. 



Cactus- Wren 1 83 



b. Back streaked brown and gray; bill long and slender; an 

 obscure little bird clinging to the bark of trees. 



Brown Creeper 1 90 



c. Back streaked with brown and gray; bill short and stout; 

 cap of rufous. 



Chipping-Sparrow 127 



d. Back not streaked; plain olive-grayish; the breast grayish 

 white; bill moderately slender; an active little summer 

 songster. 



Warbling Vireo 1 59 



8. A white ring around the eye. A small olive-green bird, dull 

 bluish gray on head, whitish on breast, olive-grayish or greenish 

 on sides. 



Cassin's Vireo 1 60 



9. Tail conspicuously black and white. Length, 1 to 13 inches. 

 a. Length nearly or quite I 3 inches ; bill long and stout ; general 



color gray above and below; wings glossy black with con- 

 spicuous patch of white; all but two middle tail-feathers 

 largely or wholly white. 



Clarke's Nutcracker 95 



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