FIELD KEY TO THE LAND BIRDS.
46
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;
