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b. Length 6-00 ; dull, pinkish red, wmga and tail brownish ; frequently 

 Hcen feeding on buds or blosnonis; eall-note, a sharp fAtn^t, often ut- 

 tered during flight ; song, a sweet, flowing warble. 



517. Pi'RPLE Fmcri. 



c. Length G-00; dull red or green tinged with red; mandibles erossed ; 

 generally .seen in floeks feeding on pine eones . r>2\. Am. Ckos.sbii.l. 



d. Length 500; a red crown-eap ; buek streaked blaek and brown ; breast 

 rosy ; feeds on seeds or catkins ; Nov. to Meh. . , . 528. Redpoll. 



Ji. Throat blaek. 



a. Length 8-00; breast rose-red, rest of plumage black and white; song 

 loud and musical; call-note, ^yt(-;t. . 5!t5. Kose-bueasted Gkosbeak. 



b. Length 8-OU; a conspicuous crest; region about the base of the bill 

 black ; rest of the iilumage and bill red ; song, a clear wiiistle. 



5'J3. Cardinal. 



c. Length 5-50 ; wings and tail banded with orange-red, showing con- 

 spicuously in flight; movements active; much in the air; tail fre- 

 quently spread ; haunts woodland 687. Redstart. 



IL No red on the under parts. 



A. Length 9-00 ; black ; shoulders red ; haunts marshes ; migrates in flacks. 



498. Red-winoed Blackbird. 



B. Length 5-25; crown-cap red ; chin black; rest of under parts streaked 

 witli blackish ; feeds on seeds and catkins; Nov. to Mch. 



528. Redpoll (Im.). 



C. Length 4-00; under parts whitish; back olive-green; a ruby crown- 

 patch ; eye-ring white ; movements restless, winL's flitted nervously ; call- 

 note, cack ; song remarkably loud and musical; Sept. and Oct.; A pi. and 

 May 749. Rlby-crowned Kinglet. 



Third Group.— With blue in the pluma^. 



L Length ll-.W; a conspicuous crest; upper parts dull blue; under parts 



whitish; a black patch on the breast 477. Blue Jay. 



II. Length 7'00; upper parts bright blue; under parts cinnamon-rufous. 



7CG. Bluebird. 

 III. Length 5-50; entire plumage indigo-bluo . . . 598. Indigo Bunting. 



Fourth Group.— Plumage conspicuously black, or black 



and white. 



I. Black and white birds. 

 A. Throat black. 

 a. Length over 6-00. 

 a*. Entire under parts black; nape buffy ; rump white; a musical 

 dweller of fields and meadows; frequently sings on the wing. 



494. Bobolink. 



a'. Breast rose-red ; rest of tlie plumage black and white : song rapid, 



loud, and musical; call-note, peek; a tree dweller in rather open 



woodland 595. Rose-breasted Grosbeak. 



as. Sides rufous; rest of the plumage black and white; call-note, 

 chew i nk ot tow hee ; inhabits the undergrowth . . . 587. Towhee. 



