DIKECTOKY TO BIRDS OF EASTERN NORTH AMERICA. 



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blackish and streaked below on neck, breast, and sides with 



Fig. 103. 



G, D, r, 1. 1- 



the same; bill, brown, yellow at base of lower mandible; 

 feet, brown ; no buffy central or supercilliary stripes on 

 head; axillaries, unhanded, fig. 103. Downy Young, buffy 

 yellow, darker above tinged with sulphur yellow beneath, 

 coarsely and irregularly marbled above with black ; bill 

 straight. Breeds through the interior of temperate N. A. 

 north into the British Provinces ; at this season frequents 

 alike dry prairies and moist situations ; njigrates southward 

 in Sep., when formerly was not uncommon on the coast of 

 X. E. ; now probably never occurs there: winters largely in 

 Guatemala; formerly, up to 1877 and somewhat later, was 

 abundant at this season from the Carolinas to middle Fla., 

 now none occur in this section, nor is it probable that it is 

 very common anywhere ; comes north in April. Note, a shrill 

 whistle sounding almost like a scream, also utters a mellow, 

 undulating whistle as it flies. Flight, slow with long rather 

 sweeping wing-beats. 



