Perching Birds Chiefly Gray, Black, or Black and White 



730a. #White-naped Nuthatch (S. p. hueonucba): 

 Similar to No. 730, but bill larger, crown grayer, back 

 less bluish gray, nape patch more conspicuous, under- 

 parts wiiite witti scarcely more than a trace of buffy. 

 (Ridgw.) 



Range.— Lower California. 



444. V.\nq\i'\ri3i (jyr annus tyrannus). L. 8.5. Tail 



tipped with white. Ads. Above slaty, crown blacker 

 with an orange patch. Yng. Similar, but no crown- 

 patch, l^otes. An unmusical, steely chatter. "A 

 soft and very pleasing song," heard only in the early 

 morning. (O. T. Miller.) 



Range. — North America, breeds from Hlorida north lo New Bruns- 

 wickand Manitoba, and from eastern Texas northwest to Utah, Ne- 

 vada, noritieast California and western British Columbia; winters 

 south of United States, to Central and South America. 



445. Gray Kingbird (Tyrunnus dominicemis.) L. 

 Q, Ads. No white tip on tail; an orange crown-patch; 

 under wing-coverts sulphur; ear-coverts black; above 

 gray; below white. Notes. A loud, chattering, 

 pitirri, pitirri. 



Rangt,— West Indies, bteedlng north through Plorlda along ths 

 coast 10 South Carolina; winters In Lesser Antilles, Mexko, and Cen- 

 tral America, 



70[. American Dipper; Water Ouzel {Cindus mexi- 

 emus). L. 8. Ads. Slaty gray, head and reck 

 browner. In winter more or less tipped with whitish. 

 Notes. Song, remarkably sweet and lively, in modula- 

 tion resembling somewhat that of Brown Thrashc;r, 

 but less powerful though sweeter in effect. (Ridg- 

 way.) Call, a sharp, pebbly cack-cack-cack. 



Range. — "The mountainous pans of central and western Norh 

 America, from the Yukon Valley and Unalaskj to Guatemala; east In 

 tlie United States, to the eastern base of the Rocky mountains. 

 Apparently resident thro ugliuut lt:i range," (A, O. U.) 



704. Catbird [GaUoscopt^s caroUnensis). L. 8.9. 

 Ads. Slaty gray, cap and tail black, under tail-coverts 

 reddish chestnut. Notes. Call, a whining, nasal tchay, 

 song, rich, musical, and varied. 



Range,— North America; west to British Columbia and rarely Pa- 

 cific coast states; breedsfrom the Gulf States north to New Bruns- 

 wick and the Saskatchewan; winters from Gulf States southward. 



754. 'Xo'tm^er\A%Q\\iSL\re{My<zdest£siownsendii'). L. 

 8.5. Ads. Brownish gray; eye-ring, tips of outer 

 tail-feathers, a narrow wing-bar white; wing with a 

 buff band showing in flight. Notes. Song, a rich, 

 flowing. Grosbeak-like warbling, sung with great 

 vigor and freedom and often for comparatively long 

 periods. 



Rane^,— -Western United Slates, from the Plains westward to the 

 Pacific coast, north to British Columbia and south In winter to the 

 southern border of Arizona and northern Lower California; breeds 

 from the mountains of New Mexico, southern Arizona, and central 

 CflUfornlanorthward." 



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