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3. Under parts i^ot white or whitish, all one color, without streaks. 



A. Length 8-50 inches; slate-color; cap and tail black; inhabits the 

 lower growth ; call-note, nasal ; song highly musical and varied; Apl. 

 25 to Oct Catbird, page 237. 



B. Length 7'20 inches; grayish brown; conspicuously crested; a black 

 line through the eye ; tail tipped with yellow ; generally seen in small 

 flocks ; note thin and weak Cedar Waxwing, page 21(;. 



C. Length 5-50 inclies ; under parts cream-buff; a conspicuous whitish 

 line over the eye; upper parts reddish brown; movements active; tail 

 carried erect ; Jiaunts lower growth ; notes loud and striking; resident 

 from New York city southward .... Carolina Wren, page 244. 



4. Throat and upper breast black or slate-color, very different from the 

 wliite or chestnut belly. 



A. Throat black. 



a. Belly and rump chestnut; head, wings, and tail black; length 7"30 

 inches ; haunts orchards and shade trees ; song highly musical ; May 

 to Sept Orchard Oriole, page 166 



h. Belly white ; sides reddish brown : tail black and white ; length 8-35 

 inches ; haunts undergrowths ; call-note, chewl/ik or towhh ; Apl. 25 

 to Oct TowHEE, page 204. 



B. Throat slate-color. 



a. Back and wings slate-color; outer tail-feathers and belly white; 

 length 6"25 inches ; haunts generally on or near the ground about 

 shrubbery ; Oct. to Apl Jinco, page 192. 



5. Throat streaked with black and white ; rest of under parts reddish brown ; 

 upper parts grayish slate-color; length 10-00 inches . Kobin, page 260. 



