Perching Birds Marked With Chestnut or Reddish Brown 



506. Orchard Orio\e (Icterus spurius] L. 7. 3. Ad. 

 t^. Black; breast, belly, rump, and lesser wing-cov- 

 erts chestnut, j^d. 9- Above olive-green, below 

 greenjsh-yellow; two white wing-bars. Yng. Mak. 

 Fir5it fall like V; first spring like S^,but throat black. 

 Woto, Song much richer and more finished than that 

 of the orange and black Orioles; the difference is hide- 

 scribable but easily recognizable. 



Range.— Eastern North Americii, west to the Plains; breads from 

 Florida and Texasnnrth to .Massarhii^etts. Ontario, Michigan, and 

 North Dakota; winters In Central America and northern Soulh Ain«r* 

 lea. 



592.1, Green-tailed Towhee [Oreospi^a. eUomrd). 

 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. Noh^. Call, a high, thin kitten-like mew; 

 song, musical, suggesting that of the Thick-billed 

 Sparrow. 



Range. Mountains of western United States, from more ejaicrn 

 Rockies to Coast Range in California; north to cenlrai Montana, 

 Idaho, and eastarn Washington; south, at least in winter, into Mck- 

 ieo. (Rldgw.) 



643. Lucy Warblef {Helwirdhophila Incite). L. 4.2. 

 Ad, cf. Above gray, crown-patch and upper tail-cov- 

 erts chocolate; below whitish. Ad. ?. Chocolate 

 areas smaller. Yng. No chocolate in crown; upper 

 tail-coverts cinnamon; 



Ranee.— Northwestern Mexico; 

 Si?Ulhw«$tern Utah. 



breeding nonii to Arizona and 



660. Bay-breasted Warblei- {Dmdroiea easiama), 

 L, 5.6. Ad. (^. Throat, sides and crown rich chest- 

 nut; cheeks black; sides of neck buff; back black and 

 gray; wing-bars and tail-spots white. Ad. $. Less 

 chestnut; cheeks grayish. Yng. and Ad. in iVintir. 

 Above olive-green streaked with black; below huffy 

 white, the flanks usually with a trace of chestnut. 

 hlotes. Song, a very Soft warble, tss-cbes, repeated five 

 times, too liquid to admit of exactspelling, (Langille.) 



Range.— Eastern North A inert ca; breeds from northern New EnE- 

 Jand and northern Michigan north to Labrador and Hudson Bay re- 

 lion; winters in Central and northern South America. 



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