82 FIELD KEY TO COMMON BIRDS. 



b. Crown not rufous or chestnut. 

 h^. Lcn^rth 0-75 inches; crown blackish, with a central whitish stripe; 

 throat white; breast gray; a yellow spot before the eye; haunts 

 ill and about thickets and bushy woodlands; song, a high, clear, 

 musical whistle; call-note, chink. 



WllITE-Tl-lKOATED SPAKllOW, pagC 18S. 



J2. Length 5'20 inches; bill slender; a white line over the eye; 

 tail carried erect ; haunts reedy marshes ; call-note scolding ; 

 song rippling ; May to Oct. 



Long-killed Maesh Wren, page 244. 

 2. Under parts white or whitish, streaked or spotted. 



A. Back streaked. 



a. Length 6d0 inches ; outer tail-feathers white, showing conspicuously 

 when the bird Hies; haunts dry fields and roadsides; song musical ; 

 Apl. to Nov Vesper Sparrow, page 184. 



h. CUitcr tail-feathers not \^■hite. 

 h^. Length 6*30 inches ; breast with numerous spots tending to form 

 one large spot in its center; haunts on or near the ground, generally 

 in the vicinity of bushes ; call-note, clump ; song musical ; a per- 

 manent resident ISong Sparrow, page 178. 



^2. Lengtli (i'35 inches; breast grayish with one spot in its center; 

 Oct. to Apl Tree Sparrow, page 194. 



B. Back no^ streaked; breast spotted. 



a. Length 11-40 inches; tail o'OO inclies ; wing-bars white; upper parts, 

 wings, and tail bright cinnamon-brown; haunts undergrowth; sings 

 from an exposed and generally elevated position ; song loud, striking, 

 and continuous; Apl. 25 to Oct. . . Brown Thrasher, page 240. 

 h. Length under 9-00 inches; tail under 3-00 inches; no wing-bars; 

 back reddish or cinnmnon-'brown. 



h^. Length 8-25 inches; breast and sides heavily marked with large, 

 round., blaek spots ; head and upper back hri(jli.ter tiian luwer back 

 and tail ; call-note, a sliarp pit or liquid quirt ; filav to <_)ct. 



Wood Thrtsh, page 256. 



h-. Length 7'15 inches; breast with wedge-shaped black spots; sides 



unspotted., washed with broicnls]) ashy : tail reddish brown, hrlglder 



than back; call-note, a low chuck; Apl. 10 to May 10; tJet. and 



Nov Hermit Thrush, page \Lo^. 



h^. LciiLCth 7'50 inches ; upper breast lightly spotted with small, wedge- 

 shaped, brownish spots ; tail the same color as the back ; sides irhlte ; 

 call-note, a clearly whistled whel'ii ; May to Sept. 



Wilson's Thrush, page 254. 

 c. Length under 0-00 inches ; tail under 3-00 inches ; no wing-bars ; back 

 oltDe-greeii. 



c^. Length (MO inches; center of crown pale brownish bordered by 

 black; haunts on or near the ground in woodland; a walker; 

 song, a ringing crescendo, teacher, teacher, teacher, TEACHER, 

 TEACJIEIi; May to Sept Oven-bird, page 232. 



