864 THE STUDY OF BIRDS IN THE FIELD 



A. With decided red in the plumage. (I.) 

 A. With decided blue. (H. ) 



A. Black bird, with a brown head and neck *. Cowbird, p. 144. 



A. With large amounts of both black and white, but no bright red. (G.) 

 A. Not as above. (B. ) 



B. With head, back, and tall black, and belly chestnut 



Orchard Oriole, p. 147. 



B. Slate-colored bird, with chestnut patch under the tail . . . Catbird, p. 6u. 

 B. Winter bird, mainly white in color, but more or less washed with 



brown Snowflake, p. 121. 



B. Ground bird, with pinkish-brown back, white belly, and black cres- 

 cent on breast Horned Lark, p. 156. 



B. Brown to olive, unstreaked birds, with gray breasts. These birds have 

 the habit of sitting on a perch, watching for insects, which, when seen, 

 are captured on the wing with a characteristic click of the bill, the 

 bird returning to the old perch. (F. ) 

 B. Streaked, brownish, heavy-billed, sparrow-like birds. (C.) 



C. With acute-pointed tail feathers,' and no white anywhere 



Bobolink, p. 144. 



C. Outer feathers of the tail with much white 



The Longspurs, pp. 121, 122. 



C. Tail feathers not acute, and the outer ones not white. (D.) 

 D. Head without stripes ; body and wings with much chestnut ; breast 



decidedly spotted Fox Sparrow, p. 1.35. 



D. Head without stripes ; no chestnut on body or wings ; head and back 



blackish streaked ; under parts conspicuously streaked 



Red-winged Blackbird, p. 146. 



D. Head decidedly striped ; throat with a distinct patch of white; breast 

 grayish. (E.) 



E. A yellow spot in front of eye White-throated Sparrow, p. 129. 



E. No yellow spot in front of eye. . . .White-crowned Sparrow, p. 128. 



F. Slightly crested bird, with much chestnut on the wings and tail ; 



throat and breast pearl-gray ; belly yellow . Crested Flycatcher, p. 161. 



F. Olive-brown-backed, nearly black-crowned bird, with the under parts 



yellowish-white, and the bill black Phoebe, p. 162. 



F. Blackish-olive-backed flycatcher, with the side olive-colored and only 



the central line of the lower parts white. Olive-sided Flycatcher, p. 163. 



F. Grayish-slate-colored bird, with a white band across the tips of the tail 



feathers ; belly and throat white ; breast grayish Kingbird, p. 160. 



G. At a distance the bird above given (last F.) might be considered 

 mainly black and white. It can be known by the white tips to the 



blackish tail feathers Kingbird, p. 160. 



G. Entire under parts black ; back of head buffy ; rump white. A 



musical bird of meadow and field in spring Bobolink, p. 144. 



G. Head and back black ; belly and outer tail feathers white ; sides 

 chestnut. A thicket-living bird Towhee, p. 136. 



