Perching Birds Marked With Chestnut or Reddish Brown. 
506. Orchard Oriole (Jcterus spurius) L. 7.3. Ad. 
od’. Black; breast, belly, rump, and lesser wing-cov- 
erts chestnut. 4d. 9. Above olive-green, below 
greenish-yellow, two white wing-bars. Ywg. Male. 
First fall like ¢; first spring like 2, but throat black. 
Notes. Song much richer.and more finished than that 
of the orange and blaek Orioles; the difference is inde- 
scribable but easily recognizable. 
Range.—Eastern North America, west to the Plains; breeds from 
Florida and Texas north to Massachusetts, Ontario, Michigan, and 
North Dakota; wintersin Central America and northern South Amer- 
Ica. 
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592.1. Green-tailed Towhee (Orcospiza chlorura). 
L. 7. <Ads.* Center and sides of breast grayish, 
middle of throat and abdomen white: above olive-green 
more or less washed with grayish; crown reddish 
chestnut. Notes. Call, a high, thin kitten-like mew; 
song, musical, suggesting that of the Thick-billed 
Sparrow. 
Range.—Mountains of western United States, from more eastern 
Rockies to Coast Range in California; north to central Montana, 
Idaho, and eastern Washington; south, at leastin winter, into Mex- 
ico. (Ridgw.) 
643. Lucy Warbler (Helminthophila lucie). L. 4.2. 
Ad. 3. Above gray; crown-patch and upper _tail-cov- 
erts chocolate; below whitish. Ad. 2. Chocolate 
areas smaller. Yng. No chocolate in crown; upper 
tail-coverts cinnamon. 
Range.—Northwestern Mexico; breeding north to Arizona and 
southwestern Utah. 
660. Bay-breasted Warbler (Dendroica castanea). 
L. 5.6. Ad. 3’. Throat, sides and crown rich chest- 
nut; cheeks black; sides of neck buff; back black and 
gray; wing-bars and tail-spots white. 4d. 9. Less 
chestnut; cheeks grayish. Yung. and Ad. in Winter. 
Above olive-green streaked with black; below buffy 
white, the flanks usually with a trace of chestnut. 
Notes. Song, a very sott warble, tse-chee, repeated five 
times, too liquid to admit of exactspelling. (Langille.) 
Range.— Eastern North America; breeds from northern New Eng- 
land and northern Michigan north to Labrador and Hudson Bay re- 
gion; winters in Central and northern South America. 
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