APPENDIX. 



SOME GROUPS OF BIRDS. 



(1) Thrushes and allies. — Bluebird, robin, catbird, brown thrush, and mocking bird. 



(2) Nuthatches, titmice, creepers, and ivrens. 



Nuthatches. — "White-breasted and red-breasted. 



Titmice. — Chickadee or black-capped titmouse, long-tailed chickadee, and Caro- 

 lina titmouse. 

 Creepers. — The brown creeper. 

 Wrens. — House wren, long-billed marsh wren, short-billed marsh wren. 



(3) Warblers and vireos. 



"Warblers. — Blue yellow-backed warbler, Nashville warbler, Tennessee warbler, 

 yellow warbler or summer yellow bird, black-throated green warbler, Ameri- 

 can redstart, Maryland yellow throat. 



Vireos. — Red-eyed, warbling, yellow-throated, and white-eyed. 



(4) Shrikes, waxwings, sivallows, and tanagers. 



Shrikes or butcher birds. — Great northern shrike, loggerhead shrike. 



Waxwings. — Cedar waxwings or cedar bird. 



Swallows. — Barn swallow, eaves or cliff swallow, white-bellied swallow, brink 



swallow, and purple swallow. 

 Tanagers. — Scarlet tanager, rose tanager or summer redbird. 



(5) Finches and sparrows. 



Finches. — Evening grosbeak, pine grosbeak, purple finch, goldfinch or thistle 

 bird, snowbird or snow bunting, and rose-breasted grosbeak. 



Sparrows. — Vesper sparrow or grass-finch, tree sparrow, white-crowned, white- 

 throated, field sparrow, Savanna sparrow, chipping sparrow, junco, or black 

 snowbird, song sparrow, dickcissel (small "field lark"), and English sparrow. 



(6) Blackbirds, crows, and jays. 



Blackbirds. — Purple grackle, bronzed grackle, red-winged blackbird, cowbird, 



bobolink, and meadow lark. 

 Crows. — Common, magpie. 

 Jays. — Blue. 



(7) Fly catchers, humming birds, swifts, and night hawks. 



Fly catchers. — Phoebe or pewee, kingbird, great crested pewee, least crested 



pewee, and wood pewee. 

 Humming birds. — Ruby throat. 

 Swifts. — Chimney swift or chimney swallow. 

 Nighthawks. — Wliippoorwill, nighthawk or bullbat. 



(8) V/oodpeckers, kingfishers, and cuckoos. 



Woodpeckers. — Ivory-billed, pileated woodpecker, hairy, downy, flicker, red- 



headed, and yellow-bellied sapsucker. 

 Kingfishers. — Belted kingfisher. 

 Cuckoos. — Yellow-billed, black-bellied. 



(9) Owls. 



Barn owl, short-eared owl, barred owl, screech owl, long-eared owl, Acadian or 

 saw-whet, elf, groat horned, snowy owl, and burrowing owl. 



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