174 KEY TO TANAGERS 



Key to Adult Spring Male Tanagers. 



Common Characters. Entire body red. 

 1. Bill, wings, and tail black ; body bright 



scarlet. Found in northern woodlands. Call, 



chip-churr p. 170. SCARLET TANAGER. 



1'. Bill, wings, and tail not black ; body and tail rose-red ; 



bill and wings brownish. Found in southern woodlands. 



Call, chicky-tucky-tuck . . p. 173. SUMMER TANAGER. 



White-throated Sparrow : Zonotrichia albicollis. 

 (See Fig. 92, p. 176.) 



Adults, upper parts brown, streaked with black ; chin with a 

 squarish white patch ; breast gray ; belly whitish ; central 

 white crown stripe narrower than inclosing black stripes. 

 Young, white of throat duller ; black and white stripes re- 

 placed by gray and brown. Length, about Of inches. 



GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION. Eastern North America west to 

 the Plains ; breeds from Montana, northern Michigan, and 

 occasionally Massachusetts, northward to Labrador ; winters 

 from Massachusetts to Florida. Accidental on Pacific coast. 



Associated with the crisp, fresh mornings of 

 early spring is the sound of the clear, ringing 

 whistle of the White-throated Sparrow. /, I,pea- 

 bod-y, pea-bod-y the birds call so loudly that the 

 dogs sometimes look up in the evergreens to see 

 who is whistling. If they could recognize the 

 whistler they would see an attractive sight, for 

 the White-throat is a bird of distinction. He is 

 as much larger than the Song Sparrow as the Song 

 is larger than the Chipping Sparrow. (See Fig. 

 58, p. 117, and Fig. 55, p. 113.) Like the Chippy, 



