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ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK 



FIG. 89. 

 . Rose-breasted Grosbeak : Zamelodia ludoviciana. 



Male, head, throat, and back black ; under parts, rump, and 

 marks on wings and tail white ; breast and under wing 1 coverts 

 with patches of rose-red. Female, brownish, sparrowy-look- 

 ing bird, with white line through crown and over eye. Saffron 

 yellow under wings. Length, about 8 inches. 



GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION. Eastern North America ; breeds 

 from Eastern Kansas and the higher altitudes of Virginia and 

 North Carolina northward to Maine and Manitoba ; winters in 

 Central and South America. 



In June the New England villages ring with 

 the songs of birds the merry bubbling of 

 Wrens, the monotonous short sentences of the 

 Red-eye, the smooth-flowing roundelay of the 

 Warbling Vireo, the che-beck of the Least Fly- 



