406 APPENDIX I. 



b. Length 6-00 ; dull, pinkish red, wings and tail brownish ; frequently 

 seen feeding on buds or blossoms ; call-note, a sharp chink, often ut- 

 tered during flight; song, a sweet, flowing warble. 



517. PURPLE FINCH. 



c. Length 6-00 ; dull red or green tinged with red ; mandibles crossed ; 

 generally seen in flocks feeding on pine cones . 521. AM. CUO.-M-.H ,i ,. 



d. Length 5-00; a red crown-cap ; buck >tn-akud black and brown; breast 

 rosy ; feeds on seeds or catkins; Nov. to Mch. . . . 528. REDPOLL. 



B. Throat bhiek. 



a. Length 8-00; breast rose-red, rest of plumage black and white; song 

 loud and musical ; call-note, peek . . 595. KOSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK. 



b. Length 8-00; a conspicuous crest; region about the base of the bill 

 black ; rest of the plumage and bill red ; song, a clear whistle. 



593. CARDINAL. 



c. Length 5-50 ; wings and tail banded with orange-red, showing con- 

 spicuously in flight; movements active; much in the nir; tail fre- 

 quently t-preud ; haunts woodland 6K7. KKHSTAKT. 



II. No red on the under parts. 



A. Length 9-00 ; black ; shoulders red ; haunts marshes ; migrates in flocks. 



498. KKD-WINOKD HI.ACKUHU). 



B. Length 5-25; crown-cap red ; chin black; rest of under parts streaked 

 with blackish ; feeds on seeds and catkins; Nov. to Mch. 



528. REDPOLL (Im.). 



C. Length 4-00 ; under parta whitish ; back olive-green ; a ruby crown- 

 patch ; eye-ring white ; movements restless, winus flitted nervously ; call- 

 note, cock; song remarkably loud and musical ; Sept. and Oct. ; A pi. and 

 May 749. Rrnv-c I:O\V.\KI> KINGLET. 



Third Group. With blue In the plumage. 



I. Length 11-50; a conspicuous crest; upper parta dull blue; under parts 



whitish ; a black patch on the breast 477. BLUE JAY. 



II. Length 7-00 ; upper parts bright blue ; under parte cinnamon-rufous. 



766. BLUEBIRD. 



III. Length 6-50 ; entire plumage indigo-blue . . . 598. INDIGO BUNTING. 



Fourth Group. Plumage conspicuously black, or black 

 and white. 



I. Black and white birds. 

 A. Throat black. 

 a. Length over 6-00. 



a>. Entire under parts black; nape buffy ; rump white; a musical 

 dweller of fields and meadows; frequently sings on the wing. 



494. BOBOLINK. 



a. Breast rose-red; rest of the plumage black and white: song rapid, 

 loud, and musical; call-note, peek; a tree dweller in rather open 



woodland 595. ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK. 



a*. Sides rufous; rest of the plumage black and white; call-note, 

 chewink or tow foe ; inhabits the undergrowth . . . 587. TOWHEK. 



