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FIELD KEY TO COMMON BIRDS. 83 
3. Under parts sof white or whitish, all ome color, without streaks. 
A. Length 850 inches; slate-color; cap and tail black; inhabits the 
lower growth ; call-note, nasal; song highly musical and varied; Api. 
Ww . 1 es ee ee os we » e © 6 Campane, page 176, 
B. Length 7°20 inches; grayish brown; conspicuously crested; » beck 
line through the eye; tail tipped with yellow; generally seem in small 
flocks; note thin and weak . . . . . Cepam Waxwiwe, page 16). 
C. Length 58 inches; under parts cream-buff; a con=piceaour whitieh 
line over the eye; upper parts reddish brown ; movements active; tall 
carried erect; haunts lower growth; notes loud and striking; resident 
from New York city southward . . . . Canottwa Waew, page ITT. 
4 Throat and upper breast black or alate-color, very different from the 
white or chestuut belly. 
A. Throat black. 
4. Belly and rump chestnut; head, wings, and tail black; length Too 
inches; haunts orchards and shade trees; song highly musical; May 
toSopt.. . . «+ © © © « « «© + Oncnanp Onsoie, page 122. 
b. Belly white; sides reddish brown; tail black and white; length #05 
inches; haunts undergrowths ; call-note, chewink or towhes; Apl 25 
UES. 5-5 5.0. =e) oe SOR SED 
B. Throat slate-color. 
@. Back and wings slate-color; outer ta:l-feathers and belly white; 
length 625 inches; haunts generally on or near the ground about 
; Oct. toApl.. . . . « + + + + SemCO, page 145, 
5. Throat streaked with black and white ; rest of under parts reddish brown ; 
upper parts grayish slate-color; length 1000 inches . Rostx, page 184, 
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