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b. Length about 10 Inches; bill moderately long and slender; 

 general color brownish gray above, dull whitish below; wings 

 dark brown with two white bars; three outer tail-feathers 

 wholly or largely white. 



Mocking-Bird 1 79 



c. Length, 1 3 inches. Color plain brown above, white below ; 

 tail black, broadly tipped with white; bill rather long and 

 curving. 



California Cuckoo 43 



10. Tail black and white. Length, 4 to 6 inches. 



a. General color bluish gray above, and grayish white or buffy 

 white below. Length about 4 inches. 



o- Habits of a woodpecker; breast brownish or buffy 

 whitish. Tail short. 



Pygmy-Nuthatch 1 93 



b'. Tail long; a little bird of the trees and bushes. 



a". Forehead and a narrow line over eye black in adult, 

 but no markings on head in young plumage. Outer tail- 

 feathers broadly white. 



Western Gnatcatcher 203 



b". No markings on head, and tail black, with only the 

 outer edge of outer feathers white. 



Female Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 205 



b. Head and throat all around slaty blackish ; under parts from 

 middle of breast abruptly white; back brown. 



Junco 1 30 



1 1 . Outer tail-feathers white or white tipped, the rest of the tail 

 plain brownish. 



a. Plumage streaked brown and gray; shoulder patch chestnut. 



Western Vesper-Sparrow 119 



b. Plumage dull brownish above and whitish below. 



Young Western Meadow-Lark. }0I 



Young Western Lark-Finch 1 24 



c. Outer tail-feathers white-tipped; back grayish brown; 

 breast white, conspicuously spotted with brown. 



Sage-Thrasher 1 78 



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