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46 FIELD KEY TO THE LAND BIRDS.

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135. ruticilla.

wing

AMERICAN REDSTART.

— Length, 5 J inches.

bar,

and middle

of

Black



Setophaga

sides of breast,

tail-featliers

pink

136.

AMERICAN

—

PIPIT.

l)elly



brown

white. Female whitish instead of pink, and instead of black, being lighter on the throat.

TIT-LARK.

An-

tlms pennsylvanicus. Length, 6^ inches. Resembles a Water-thrush, but 1ms wing bars and outer tailfeathers spotted with white, and throat and belly not streaked. Hind toe-nail very long. In open fields near the seashore in large flocks.

THRASHERS AND WRENS.— Bill.

— Slender,

Troglodyiidae.

pointed,

hooked,

similar

Warbler's

The

chief point of difference

is

but not to

the

bill.

in the length of the

on each wing. In the Warblers the first three quills are of about the same length, while in the Troglodyiidae the first two are mucli shorter than the next few. The Thrashers are fine singers, and haunt the outer edges of woods, feeding on berries and insects. The Wrens inhabit stone walls and woodpiles, like ground squirrels, and hunt there for worms and insects. first

few

quills

The Marsh Wrens inhabit the All are summer birds except the Brown Creeper. 137.

CATBIRD.

reeds in river marshes. the Winter Wren and

G-aleoseoptes

caroUnensis.

—

Length, 9 inches. Slate gray cap and tail black under tail coverts chestnut. Besides making his cat;