Wood Pewee 

 White-throated Sparrow 

 Night songs or notes : 

 Barred Owl 

 Great Horned Owl 

 Screech Owl 

 Whip-poor-will 

 Nighthawk 



BRIGHTLY COLORED BIRDS 



NOTE— The FEMALES of most of these are 

 comparatively DULL-COLORED ; see descriptions 

 here given. 



Group i — Birds in Which Red or Orange is 

 Prominent (page 16). 



Group 2 — Birds in Which Yellow Is Prominent 

 (page 20). 



Group 3 — Birds in Which Blue Predominates 

 (page 22). 



Group 4 — Small Birds in Which No One Color 

 Greatly Predominates (page 24). 



GROUP 1-RED OR ORANGE 



406. Red-headed Woodpecker — Melanerpes 

 erythrocephalus. 



Length 9^4 inches. 



Entire head red, underparts white (see frontis- 

 piece). 



498. Red-winged Blackbird (see page 33). 



507. Baltimore Oriole — Icterus galhula. 



Length j l / 2 inches. 



Male — Orange and black (see frontispiece). 

 Female — Upper parts brownish orange; head and 

 back mottled with black; wings blackish, trimmed 

 with white, under parts dull orange, sometimes 

 spotted with black on throat; tail paler and duller 

 than in male (see frontispiece). 



*Chiefly winter visitants, but irregular in their 

 occurrence. 



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