260 KEY TO THE BIRDS OF EASTERN NORTH AMERICA. 
Head and throat, dull chocolate brown; rest of plumage, greenish black; no 
white on wings or tail. (See Section 9, Family Icteridie, where it belongs. ) 
Cow Bird. 
Molothrus ater (mate). 
See No. 371. 
General plumage, brownish gray; no white on wing coverts or tail feathers. 
(This species belongs in Family Icteridie, but the bill is somewhat Finch-like 
in appearance, and the bird might be looked for under this section.) 
Cow Bird. 
Molothrus ater (female). 
See No. 371. 
Head, with crest ; breast, grayish buff or light tawny 3 back, olive gray, without 
streaks; rump and upper surface of tail, not rufous brown. 
Cardinal. 
Cardinales cardinalis (female). 
See No. 442. 
Crown, brown, with white stripe in middle; a black stripe on each side of 
throat; underparts, soiled white; tail feathers, broadly tipped with white; rump 
and upper surface of tail, not rufous brown. 
Lark Sparrow. 
Lark Finch. 
Chondestes grammicus. 
See No. 420. 
Rump and upper surface of tail feathers, rufous brown; underparts, white, 
more or less spotted or streaked with brown. 
Fox Sparrow. 
Passerella iliaca. 
See No. 439. 
Entire head and back, brown or black; belly, white; sides of body, bright, 
rufous brown. 
Towhee Bunting. 
Pipilo erythrophthaimus. 
See No. 440. 
Underparts, white, often 
tinged with light brown on 
the breast; greater part of 
outer tail feathers, white. 
Snow Bunting. 
Snow Flake. 
Plectrophenax nivalis. 
See No. 403. 
Snow Bunting. 
