Perching Birds Marked With Red 



750. Dusky Kinglet {Regulus obscurus) . Similar to 

 No. 749, but above sooty olive, ^d. c?. With cruwii- 

 ^latch pinkish or purplish vermilion-red. CRldgw.) 

 (See page 176.) 



Range.— Guadalupe Island, Lower California, 



—European Goldfinch {Carduelis carduelis) . L. 5.50. 

 Feathers ut base of bill red; crowd and neck-stripe 

 black; back brownish; wings with a yellow band; 

 inner webs of tail-feathers tipped with white; below 

 white tinged with brownish. Wo/^s. Call, ;w, song, 

 'sweet and varied." i,See page 176.} 



Range. — Introduced In lllls tuulitry near Hubukeii, N. J, in 1S7S; 

 now not uHioiumOrt near New York City. 



443, Scissor-tailed Flycatcher (Muscivora forfica- 

 , ), L. 14.5. Ad. (^. Above gray, back washed 

 with red or yellow; crown-patch red. Ad. 9- Similar, 

 but tail shorter, red less bright, back grayer. Notes. 

 Loud, harsh, chattering; notes uttered on the wing, 



R.iftgt. — Central America and Me:^ico; breeds through Te^as iiurUl 

 tn Bouthem Kansas and westsfn Louisiana, and winters south to Cen- 

 tral America: accidental in Florida and as far north as Connecticut 

 and Hudson Bay, 



47 1 . Vermilion Flycatcher {Pjirocephalus ruhineus 

 mexieaHus). L. 6. Ad. J^. Crown and underparts 

 red; back grayish brown. Ad. ?. Above brownish, 

 below white, breast streaked with dusky, belly red or 

 yellow. Yng. (^. Similar to 9 but spotted with red 

 below and on crOwn. Noti;:>. A shrill li-bree, p-hrie, 

 uttered while the bird hovers twenty or thirty feet up 

 in the air. (Bendire.) 



Riinge — Cintral America and j\li);lco, breeding north lo soutliatn 

 Texa;. New Mexico, Arizona. southwe!tern Utah Crarely);'"winter¥is- 

 itdnl in siiulhern Califnrnia." (fitinnell.) 



688. Painted \{iAs'tar\ {Setopkuga pida). L. 5.4. 

 Ads. Black; center of breast and belly deep red, patch 

 in wings and outer tail-feathers white. 



Range— Mexlcar > lateau north to southwest New Mextcoand Arizona, 



690. Red-faced Warbfer (Carddlina rubrifrons). 

 L. S.2. Ads. Forehead, face, throat and sides of neck 

 red, crown and ear-covcrts black, nape band and rump 

 whitish; back gray; no white in wings or tail. Notes. 

 A prolonged, very clear, whistSed song. (Scott.) 



Range.— From Guatemala north over the Mexican Plateau to south- 

 em Arizona and western New Mexico, 



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