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c. Length 13 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. 



a\ Habits of a woodpecker ; breast 



brownish or bufFy whitish. Tail 

 short. 



Pygmy Nuthatch . 187 



b\ Tail long; a little bird of the trees 

 and bushes. 



a" . Forehead and a narrow line over 

 eye black in adult, but no mark- 

 ings on head in young plumage. 

 Outer tail-feathers broadly white. 

 Western Gnatcatcher . 196 



b" , No markings on head, and tail 

 black, with only the outer edge of 

 outer feathers white. 



Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 197 



b. Head and throat all around slaty 

 blackish; under parts from middle of 

 breast abruptly white; back brown. 



Junco . . . 127 



1 1 . Outer tail-feathers white or white tipped, 

 the rest of the tail plain brownish. 



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