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6. Length under (3'00.

111. Crown black: cheeks white; hack ushy; unstreaked; eall, chick—a- 1/1z1l;11r 11 musiezil; double—noted whistle . . . . . 735. (31110111111135.

b2. Conspicuously streaked with black 111111 white; a tree creeper. 0313. BLACK AND wumc \VARBI.ER.

B. Under parts white or whitish.

(1. Length 8'00; upper parts grayish slate~eolor; tail tipped with white; a bird of the air; eutehing its inseet food on the, wing; and (weasionally Bullying forth from its exposed pereh in pursuit of a passing Crow;

note; 1111 uninusieal; steely ehutter . . . . . . . . 444.1(1xc1111m. 1). Length 5'75; erown l1laek;l)aek bluish 1V1 .11 :1 tree creeper; (-1111 note, yanhg/unk . . . . . . . . . 727. \\ lll’l‘E-BREASTED N1T11ATCH. 0. Length 6'50; upper parts washed with rusty ; generally seen in flocks; terrestrial; Nov. to .\leh. . . . . . . . . . . 534. SNOWFLAKE.

II. No white in the plumage. A. Length 111-00: jet 111111-11 . . . . . . . . . . . 4% AM. Chow.

13. Le11gtl112'00;l1l1iek with metallic refleetious; iris yellowish; migrates in flocks; nests usually in colonies in eoniferous trees; voice cracked and reedy; tail " keeled " in short flights: 11 walker.

5H. P11111111: 611.1111; 511b. BRUNZED GRACKLE.

C. Length 9‘50; shoulders red; haunts marshes: call, l‘ong-quér-rée.

498. Ken—wrxorzn BLACKBIRI)

1). Length 7'50; head and neck eoffee—brown; frequently seen on the ground near cattle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495. COWBIRD.

Fifth Group—Without either yellow, orange, red, or blue in the plumage ; not conspicuously black, or black and white.

I. Under parts all one color, u'z't/mut streaks or spots.

1. Back wit/rout streaks or spots. .4. Under parts white 01' whitish ; length under 7'50. a. Back olive, olive—green; or sluty fuseous.

(1‘. No white line over the eye: t'lyeatehers. capturing their prey on the wing and returning to their perch; where they sit quietly until making a fresh sally.

a”. Crown blackish: frequently found nesting under bridges or about buildings; tail wagged nervously; note; [Jezvit—p/wae.

45!}. PHCEBE.

as, Wing—burs whitish ; haunts orchards, la11'ns;nnd open woodland;

note. elm/[e ('lltll't‘. . . . . . . . 4137. L121s'r F11‘171're1151z. .ll1uu1ts 11 oodlamls genelally f1er1uents the upper branches; note 1'111111i11ti1e 1111’ a— we . . . . . .4I‘11 \\ 0011 P111111.

[11. A white line 01' er the 01 e or wing—bars white; gleaners: patiently exphniner the f11li11_1_re for 1111111 orllittine'11lmuttl1e outer brunehes. M. White line over the eye bordered by 11 narrow black one; cap

gray; iris red; 50111:; a rambling re1-it11ti1'e: “You see it—you know itrido you hear me 3" etc. . . . 6:34. RED—EYE!) erjo. ()9. White line over the eye not bordered by black; prefers the