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Rh FIELD KEY TO THE LAND BlUDS.

TUFTED TITMOUSE.

49

— Length,

Parus hicolor.

6 inches. Only forehead black and a gray tuft, otherwise like 146. common Southern bird.

KINGLETS AND GNATCATCHERS.—

^

— Slender,

Bill.

^^"^ X,

—

ward

%^r?trfae.

warbler-like, Avith an upturn.

Food. Insects, grubs, First quill very short.

and cocoons on trees.

These birds rarely visit the ground, though they found on low bushes.

are often

147.

KUBY-CROWNED KINGLET.

Reyu-

— Length, 4 J inches.

U])perparts greenish gray, with a bright red spot on the top of the head underparts a grayish, soiled white wing and Female simitail blackish, wing with two white bars. lar, but without the red spot. The Ruby-crown visits chiefly evergreen woods, but travels with and like the northChickadees through all kinds of brushwood. lus calendula.





A

ern bird, found here only in winter.

148.

GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLET.

—

Rey-

ulus satrapa. Length, 4 inches. Top of head bright yellow, with an orange line in the middle, and a broad upperblack line above the forehead and the eye underparts brownish green wing and tail blackish •