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Rh FIELD KEY TO THE LAND BIRDS. like calls he

a beautiful siuger

is

47

He

and not shy.

is

fond of orardens and shrubbery.

BROWN

138. THRUSH. THRASHER. Harporhynchus riifus. Length, 11 J inches. Red-brown above white with black streaks below tail long and rounded. Lives in the undergrowth and bushes, feeding on the ground on berries and insects under the

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leaves.

139.

He

too has a beautiful voice.

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HOUSE WREN.

aedon. Troglodijtes inches. Cinnamon brown above white below finely barred with black all over. 140. Troglodytes^ hyemalis. Length, 4 inches. Dark cinnamon brown above

Length,

5





WINTER WREN.

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brownish below heavily barred with black. 141. SHORT-BILLED MARSH WREN. CisLength, 4 inches. Upperparts black, tothonis sfellaris. white, and buff, streaked white underneath wing and tail barred.

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14'^.

LONG-BILLED MARSH WREN.

totho7'us palustris.

— Length, SJ inches.

Ois-

Head brown

above, with a white line over the eye back black with white streaks u[)per tail coverts cinnamon under;



l)arts

white

143.



wing and



tail

barred.

BROWN CREEPER.

amerieana.

— Length, 5| inches.

Oerthia familiaris

The Creeper

differs