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KEY TO TIIK HIUDS OF EASTERX NORTH AMERICA. 



Head ami back, black ; breast and 

 under wing coverts, rose red ; 

 belly, wbite (male). 



Rose=breasted Grosbeak. 



Ilahia ludovicinna. 

 See No. 44.3. 



Part 2. The following species have more or less yellow, orange, or 

 green on the underparts : — 



Forehead, yellow; crown, black; 



rump, greenish yellow; tertials, 

 heavily marked with white ; under- 

 parts, dark olive yellow on belly (male) . 



Evening Grosbeak. 



Coccothrmiiites respcrtimis. 

 See No. .S87. 



Underparts, gray, faintly tinged with 

 greenish yellow ; back, gray, more 

 or l(^ss tinged with green ; wings and 

 tail, black, marked with white. 



Crown and sides of head and chin, black; underparts, orange brown, or 



pale or.ingc chestnut; middle ol' belly and under wing eovoris, bright yellow ; 

 wings and tail, black, marked with white (male). 



Black°headed Grosbeak. 



Ilahin mclanocephaht. 

 See Xo. 444. 



I'nderparts, pale tawnj' yellow, more or less streaked with black on sides of 

 body; crown, Itlack, witli brownish hnfi strip*; in centre; tail feathers, sharp 

 pointed. [Tliis species l)elougs in Family Icterida', but niigiit be looked for 

 • indrr this section (female).] 



Bobolink. 



Dolochonyx orijzivurus. 

 See No. 370. 



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