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upper branches of rows of elms and other shade trees ; song, a 

 rich, unbroken warble with an alto undertone. 



627. WABBLING VIREO. 



b*. No white line over the eye; eye-ring and wing-bare white; 

 length 4-00 ; a tiny, unsuspicious bird ; flits about the outer 

 branches of trees and shrubs ; wings twitched nervously ; note, 

 cock; song a remarkably loud, musical whistle. 



7 U'. RUBY-CROWNED KINGLET. 

 b. Back gray or bluish gray. 

 b 1 . Crown black ; checks white ; a tree creeper ; note, yank, yank. 



727. WHITE-BREASTED NUTHATCH. 



b*. A gray, crested bird; forehead black; no white in the tail ; note, 



a whistled peto, peto, or hoarse de-de-de-de . . 731. TUFTED TIT. 



e. Back cinnamon-brown ; length 4 - 75 ; a nervous, restless, excitable 



bird ; tail carried erect ; song sweet, rapid and rippling, delivered 



with abandon 721. HOUSE WI:KN. 



B, Under parts white or whitish ; length over 7'50. 



a. Upper parts grayish slate-color ; a white band at the end of the 

 tail ; a concealed orange-red cn-st ; a bird of the air, catching its 

 insect food on the wing, and occasionally sallying forth from its 

 exposed perch in pursuit of a passing Crow; note, an unmusical, 

 steely chatter 444. KINGBIRD. 



4. Length 12-00; slim, brownish birds with long tails; flight short and 

 noiseless; perch in a tree, not in an exposed position; note, tut- 

 tut, cluck-cluck, and cow-cow. 



887. YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO. 888. BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO. 



C. Dnder parts not white. 



a. Slate-color; cap and tail black; inhabits the lower growth; call-note, 

 nasal ; song highly musical and varied; length 8-50 . 704. CATBIRD. 



b. Grayish brown ; conspicuously crested ; a black line through the 

 eye; tail tipped with yellow; generally seen in small Hocks; note 

 thin and weak ; length 7'00 619. CEDAR WA.XWIM;. 



c. Under parts cream-buff; a conspicuous whitish line over the eye; 

 upper parts rufous-brown ; movements active ; tail carried erect ; 

 haunts lower growth ; notes loud and striking ; length 5-50. 



718. CAROLINA WREH. 

 1 Back streaked. 

 A. Crown rufous or chestnut without streaks. 



a. Length 5-25 ; bill black ; a whitish line over the eye ; a familiar bird 

 of lawns and door-yards ; song, a monotonous dUfff-Mfpy-ckigpf. 



560. CHIPPING SPARROW. 



b. Length 5-50 ; bill reddish brown, back rufous, or rufous-brown ; 

 wing-bars and eye-ring whitish ; haunts dry, bushy fields and pas- 

 tures ; song, a musical, plaintive cher-wee, cher-wee, cher-wee, cheeo, 

 dee-dee-dee-dee 563. FIELD SPARROW. 



c. Length 5-50; forehead black; crown and wings chestnut-rufous; 

 flanks palu grayish brown ; haunts marshes ; song, a rapidly repeated 

 weet-weet-weet, etc. 584. SWAMP SPARROW. 



