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Prevailing colors pale greenish olive and gray ; throat 

 white, Clapper Rail. 



Prevailing colors dark green and brown; throat 

 not white, Green Heron. 



Prevailing colors brownish-yellow and some, dark 

 shade, Least Bittern. 



Prevailing colors grayish-brown and buff, streaked 

 with black, Hudsonian Curlew. 



-iia. Length 9 to 12 inches ; bill long, 1| inches or 

 more ; legs not notably long and bare. 

 Prevailing tints dark brown, tawny-olive and espec- 

 ially cinnamon-red ; diflScult to flush ; flight weak, 



Virginia Rail. 



Prevailing tints black, gray, russet and especially pale 



brown ; flight powerful, rapid and zigzag, Woodcock. 



aaa. Length 6 to 9 inches ; bill short, less than an 



inch ; legs rather short. 



Length over 8 in. ; black, olive-brown, slate gray 

 and white, Carolina Rail. 



Length under 7 in. ; black, pale brownish-yellow and 

 white. Yellow Rail. 



.-3. Raptorial Birds, with stout, hooked beak and powerful 

 claws. 

 A. Eyes in front ; face flat ; bill short, 

 a. Length over 1 foot. 



Tufts of feathers, like ears, present, conspicuous ; 

 brownish-black, grayish-white and tawny, 



LONG-EARED OWL. 



Ear-tufts present, very small ; dark brown and pale 

 ochrey, Short-eared Owl. 



Ear-tufts wanting; almost black and white. 



Hawk Owl. 



..aa. Length less than 10 inches. 



Ear-tufts present. Screech Owl. 



Ear-tufte wanting, Saw-whet Owl. 



