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
—
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.
—
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.
—
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
