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KEY TO TIIK BIRDS OF EASTERN NORTH AMERICA. 



Head and throat, dull chocolate hrowu ; rest ot phiiiiage, greenish hlack ; no 

 white on wings or tail. (See Section 9, Family Icterid:e, where it belongs.) 



Cow Bird. 



Mololhrus (iter (finale). 

 See No. 371. 



General plumage, lirowuish gray; no white on wing coverts or tail feathers. 



(This sp(;eic'S lii'longs in Family Ictoriihe, but the bill is somewhat Finch-like 

 in apx^earancc, and the bird might be looked for under this section.) 



Cow Bird. 



Molothrus alar (female). 

 See No. 371. 



Head, with crest ; breast, grayish buff or light tawny ; back, olive gray, without 

 streaks ; rump and upper surface of tail, not rufous browu. 



Cardinal. 



Cardinales canlinalis (female). 

 See No. 442. 



Crown, brown, with white stripe in middle; a black stripe on each side of 

 throat ; underparts, soiled white ; tail feathers, broadly tipjied with white ; rump 

 and upper surface of tail, not rufous browu. 



Lark Sparrow. 

 Lark Finch. 

 Chondestes grammicus. 

 See No. 420. 



Rump and upper surface of tail feathers, rufous brown; underparts, white, 

 more o)- Icis spotted or streaked with brown. 



Fox Sparrow. 



Passerella iliacn. 

 See No. 439. 



Entire head and back, brown or black; belly, white; sides of body, bright, 

 rufous brown. 



Towhee Bunting. 



, Pipilo erythrophthalmns. 



See No. 440. 



Underparts, white, often 

 tinged with light brown on 

 the breast; greater part of 

 outer tail feathers, white. 



Snow Bunting. 

 Snow Flake. 



Plectrophenax nivalis. 

 See No. 403. 



Snow Bunting. 



