Perching Birds Marked With Chestnut or Reddish Brown 



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506. Orchard Oridle (Icterus spurius) L. 7. 3. /4^. 



. Black; breast, belly, rump, and lesser wing-cov- 

 erts chestnut. Ad. ?. Above olive-green, below 

 greenish-yellow; two White wing-bars. Yng. Male. 

 Ffrst fall like 9; first spring like ?, but throat black. 

 Notes. Song much richer and more finished than that 

 of the orange and black Orioles; the difference is inde- 

 scribable but easily recognizable. 



Range. Eastern North America, west to the Plains; breeds from 

 Florida and Texas north to Massachusetts, Ontario, Michigan, and 

 North Dakota; winters in Central America and northern South Amer- 

 ica. 



592.1. Green-tailed Towhee (Oreospi^a chlorura). 

 L. 7. Ads. Center and sides of breast grayish, 

 middle of throat and abdomen white; above olive-green 

 more or less washed with grayish; crown reddish 

 chestnut. Notes. Call, a high, thin kitten-like mew; 

 song, musical, suggesting that of the Thick-billed 

 Sparrow. 



Range. Mountains of western United States, from more eastern 

 Rockies to Coast Range in California; north to central Montana, 

 Idaho, and eastern Washington; south, at least in winter, into Mex- 

 ico. (Ridgw.) 



643. LucyWarbtertHelmmthopbtlaluctce). L. 4.2. 

 Ad. tf. Above gray; crown-patch and upper tail-cov- 

 erts chocolate; below whitish. Ad. . Chocolate 

 areas smaller. Yng. No chocolate in crown; upper 

 tail-coverts cinnamon. 



Range. Northwestern Mexico; 

 southwestern Utah. 



breeding north to Arizona and 



660. Bay-breasted Warbler (Dendroica castanea). 

 L. 5.6. Ad. c?. Throat, sides and crown rich chest- 

 nut; cheeks black; sides of neck buff; back black and 

 gray; wing-bars and tail-spots white. Ad. ?. Less 

 chestnut; cheeks grayish. Yng. and Ad. in Winter. 

 Above olive-green streaked with black; below huffy 

 white, the flanks usually with a trace of chestnut. 

 Notes. Song, a very soft warble, tse-cbee, repeated five 

 times, too liquid to admit of exact spelling. (Langille.) 



Range. Eastern North America; breeds from northern New Eng- 

 land and northern Michigan north to Labrador and Hudson Bay re- 

 gion; winters in Central and northern South America. 



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