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almost the only ones who ever seek the neighborhood of man, 

 the Snow-birds are certainly entitled to our affections ; and 

 their liveliness cannot but afford pleasure, when brought di- 

 rectly in contrast at our very doors, so to speak, with the cold 

 and storms of midwinter. 



NOTE. According to Mr. William Brewster (Bulletin, Nutt- 

 all Ornithological Club, April, 1876, Vol. I, No. 1) a female 

 Oregon Snow-bird (Junco Oregonus) was " shot in Watertown, 

 Mass., March 25th, 1874." $ black; 9 browner. Lower 

 breast, etc., white. Back and wing-edgings, " dull reddish- 

 brown ;" sides paler. 



XVIII. PIPILO 



(A) ERYTHROPTHALMUS. Towhee Bunting. "Towhee" "Che- 

 winJc." " Ground Robin." " Marsh Robin." "Swamp Robin." 



(A common summer-resident in Massachusetts, but not com- 

 mon to the northward of this State.) 



Fig. 10. Towhee Bunting (). 



(a). 8-8^- inches long. (Iris, in the summer-season red, 

 except in the young ; otherwise, white or nearl^so.) $ , black ; 

 lower breast, belly, and nearly the whole of the outermost tail- 

 feathers, white. A conspicuous patch on the side of the breast, 

 chestnut (with paler traces of it behind). Wings and tail 



68 This name has been applied indiscriminately to several different birds. 



