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FIELD KEY TO THE LAND BIRDS.

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very long and white spotted. Generally hunts low. Tachjcineta hicolor. 96. TREE white Length, 6 inches. vSteel-blue black above Young brownish gray above. Originally below. nested in hollow trees, but now prefers barns and outside

Builds

tail-feathers

its

nest in barns.

SWALLOW.



boxes.

BANK SWALLOW.

97.

Clivlcola

— Length, 5i inches.

riparia.

LTpper parts and breast brownNest in colonies in ish gray throat and belly white. sand-banks, in which they dig holes three feet deep

for their nests.

ROUGH-WINGED SWALLOW. serripennis.

above quill

— Length,

throat and on the wing rough-edged.





Western

Stelgidopteryx

I>rownish gray inches. breast brown belly white ; outer

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A

Southern and

species.

WAXWINQS. — Amjjelidne.

— Short and notched at — Crested some feathers waxlike red Food. — Berries and Bell.

tip.

Head.



with

spots.

cherries.

CEDAR

98.

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BH^D.

WAXWING.

Ampelis

Length, Tj inches. Grayish red-brown cedronnn. above underparts whitish gray with a yellow tint tip of wing and tail-feathers lemon yellow, with or without a red spot in the centre resembling a drop of Mostly a northern bird, though occasealing-wax. He genersionally breeding in the United States. ally arrives in small flocks in the spring and fall, and He feeds stays off and on through the whole winter. on cedar berries, and if he is here at the right season, genuine tree bird, rarely seen on the on cherries. ground.

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BOHEMIAN WAXWING. Length, 8 inches.

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Ampelis garndus. Resembles the Cedar Bird in every-