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3. Under parts not white or whitish, all one color, without streaks. 



A. Length 8-50 inches ; slate-color ; cap and tail black ; inhabits the 

 lower growth ; call-note, nasal ; song highly musical and varied ; Apl. 

 25 to Oct CATBIRD, page 237. 



B, Length 7-20 inches; grayish brown; conspicuously crested; a black 

 line through the eye ; tail tipped with yellow ; generally seen in small 

 flocks ; note thin and weak CEDAR WAXWING, page 216. 



G. Length 5-50 inches; under parts cream-buff'; a conspicuous whitish 

 line over the eye ; upper parts reddish brown ; movements active ; tail 

 carried erect ; haunts lower growth ; notes loud and striking; resident 

 from New York city southward .... CAROLINA WREN, page 244. 



4. Throat and upper breast black or slate-color, very different from the 

 white or chestnut belly. 



A. Throat black. 



a. Belly and rump chestnut; head, wings, and tail black; length 7*30 

 inches ; haunts orchards and shade trees ; song highly musical ; May 



to Sept ORCHARD ORIOLE, page 166 



b. Belly white; sides reddish brown; tail black and white ; length 8*35 

 inches ; haunts undergrowths ; call-note, chewink or towTiee ; Apl. 25 

 to Oct TOWHEE, page 204. 



. Throat slate-color. 



a. Back and wings slate-color; outer tail-feathers and belly white; 

 length 6-25 inches ; haunts generally on or near the ground about 

 shrubbery ; Oct. to Apl JUNCO, page 192. 



5. Throat streaked with black and white ; rest of under parts reddish brown ; 

 upper parts grayish slate-color ; length 10-00 inches . KOBIN, page 260. 



