31(5 KEY TO THE BIRDS OF EASTERN NORTH AMERICA. 



Upper plumage, ashy gray ; basal portion of primaries, white,, forming a 

 white wing patch ; uuderparts, ashy white, without streaks. 



Mocking-bird. 



See No. 533. 



Entire upper plumage, rufous brown ; 



uuderparts, huffy white, streaked with 

 dark brown; wing coverts, tipped with 

 white: tail, more than four inches 

 long. 



Brown Thrush. 



Brown Thrasher. 



Harporhynchus ritfm 

 See No. 535. 



Brown Thrush- 



FAMILY CERTHHD/E. 



Creepers. 



Bill, slender and decurved ; tail feathers, stiff and pointed ; nostrils, 

 exposed ; tarsus, scutellate ; first primary, very short. But one species 

 occurs in Eastern North America a small bird; wing, less than three 

 inches; length, less than six inches. 



Wjti'r** ^"^ 



Tail feathers, stiff and pointed ; bill, curved ; upper parts, streaked ; under- 

 part's, white; rump, dull rufous brown. Brown Creeper. 



Certhia familiar is aitifricana* 

 See No. 54G. 



