FIELD KEY TO COMMON BIRDs, 79 
Il. With red in the plumage. 
1, With red on the under parts. 
A, Throat red. 
a. Length 7°25 inches; wings and tail black; rest of plumage bright 
scarlet; call-note, chip-chirr; May to Sept. 
Scartet Tanaoer, page 156. 
6. Length 620 inches; dull. pinkish red, wings and tail brownish ; fre- 
quently seen feeding on buds or blossoms; call-note, a sharp chink, 
often uttered during flight; song, a sweet, flowing warble. 
Porrre Frixon, page 149. 
« Length 620 inches; dull red or green tinged with red; mandibles 
crossed ; generally seen in flocks; feeds on pine cones, 
Am. Crosssit, page 147. 
d. Length 530 inches; a red crown-cap; back streaked black and 
brown; breast rosy; feeds on seeds or catkins; Nov. to Mch. 
Repro, page 146. 
& Throat black. 
a. Length 800 inches; breast rose-red, rest of plumage black and 
white; song loud and musical ; call-note, peek; May to Sept. 
Rose-sreastep Grosseak, page 150, 
6. Length 8-00 inches; a conspicuous crest; region about the base of 
the bill black; rest of the plumage and bill red; song, a clear 
whistle ; resident from New York city southward. . 
~ CARDINAL, page 153. 
¢ Length 5-40 inches ; wings and tail banded with orange-red, showing 
conspicuously in flight: movements active; much in the air; tail 
frequently spread ; haunts woodland; May to Oct. 
Repstaxt, page 169. 
2 No red on the under parts. 
A. Length #50 inches; black ; shoulders red; haunts marshes; migrates 
in flocks; Mch. to Oct. . . . . Rep-wixerp Bracxsirp, page 132. 
B. Length 5°25 inches: crown-cap red; chin black; rest of under parts 
streaked with blackish ; feeds on seeds and catkins; Nov. to Mch. 
Reppott (im.), page 146. 
C. Length 400 inches; under parts whitish; back olive-green; a ruby 
crown-patch ; eye-ring white ; movements restless, wings flitted nerv- 
ously ; call-note, cack; song remarkably loud and musical; Sept. and 
Oct.; Apl.andMay..... Runy-crowngp Kixouet, page 182. 
«Il, With blue in the 
A. Length 11°50 inches; a conspicuous crest; upper parts dull blue; 
under parts whitish ; a black patch on the breast. 
Buve Jay, page 130. 
B. Length 7:00 inches; upper parts bright blue; under parts cinnamon- 
brown . 2. 2 +s © 2 © © © oo + oe + + 6BEEBIRp, page 186. 
C. Length 5°50 inches ; entire plumage indigo-blue ; May to Oct. 
lxpico Bowtie, page 152. 
D. Length 1800; bluish gray; haunts near water; feeds on fish, which 
it catches by darting on them at the surface . Krvorisnen, page 114. 
