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TEENS. 



folded wing and its outer web is dusky, inner, white ; outer 



web of outer primary, 

 black ; beneath, tinged 

 with pearly on abdomen 

 only; bill, red, black on 

 terminal half, plate 3 ; 

 feet, rather light red. In 

 winter the crown is more 

 or less white but the oc- 

 ciput is always black. 

 Young, line along fore- 

 arm, dusky ; r u m p and 

 upper tail coverts, gray ; 

 tail shorter, tips of f eath- 



Fig. 63. 



^■,0,(1, 2. 1-10. 



ers, not much narrowed, fig. 63; bill, black, yellow at base 

 of lower mandible; pure white beneath. Downy young; 

 buff above of varying shades marbled with dusky; white b^'e- 

 ^ig- 64. neath ; throat, more 



S? or less dusky. Cry, 

 ''Te a r }'"''' with the 

 last syllable pro- 

 s'^, C, d, 3. longed; alarm note, 

 "A"/" repeated rapidly many times. Greater part of northern 

 hemisphere and Africa; in N. A. breeds along the coast and 

 in suitable places in the interior, but east of the Plains, from 

 Fla., Texas, and Arizona to the Arctic regions in May and 

 June; comes north in early May; goes south in Sep., but a 

 few linger as far north as Mass. until the middle of Oct. ; 

 winters south of the U. S. Abundant. 



3. FOSTER'S TEEN, S. fosteki. Differs from 2 in hav- 

 ing the bill black, yellow at tip only; with the outer web 

 of the outer primary, hoary; outer web of outer tail feather, 

 white. In winter the whole of the black cap is overwashed 

 with whitish thus including the occiput, but there is a patch 

 of black on either side of head surrounding eye and extend- 

 ing over ear coverts, fig. 65 ; this mark also characterizes the 



