. Key to North American birds; containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary . nal Red-bird. Virginia Nightingale. Conspicuously crested;tail longer than the wings, both rounded. ^ rich vermilion or rosy red,obscured with ashy on the back, face black,1)111 reddish, feet brown. 9 ashy-brown,paler below, with evident traces of tiie redon the crest, wings, tail and under parts. Length 8-9; wing about 3|; tail 4; 9 yr ^^jig^^^ ~~ ~-^ rather less than the <?. Eastern L^iiitcdStates, some
. Key to North American birds; containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary . nal Red-bird. Virginia Nightingale. Conspicuously crested;tail longer than the wings, both rounded. ^ rich vermilion or rosy red,obscured with ashy on the back, face black,1)111 reddish, feet brown. 9 ashy-brown,paler below, with evident traces of tiie redon the crest, wings, tail and under parts. Length 8-9; wing about 3|; tail 4; 9 yr ^^jig^^^ ~~ ~-^ rather less than the <?. Eastern L^iiitcdStates, somewhat southern, seldom north tothe Connecticut Valley ; a bird of strikingappearance and brilliant vocal powers, resi-dent in thickets and undergrowth, rolling notes recall those of the Carolinawren, but are stronger. Wils., ii, 38, pi. =-°- Ked-bmi. (3, f. 1, 2; NuTT., i, 519; Aud., iii, 198, pi. 203; Bd., 509. virginianus.^ V;u\ KiNEUS. Like the last, but paler, with the black frontlet interrupted at thebase of the culmen, where the red comes down to the bill. Cape St. Lucas ; Colo-rado Valley. Bd., Proc. Phila. Acad. 1859, 305 ; Elliot, pi. IG ; Coop., 85. Genus PIPILO Vieillot. * Colors of the male black, white aud chestnut in definite No white on the scapulars or wing coverts. Sexes very unlike. TowJiee Bunting. Marsh liobin. Chewinh. (plate ii, tigs. 17, 18,17rt, 18«.) Adidt male black, belly white, sides chestnut, crissum fulvousbrown ; primaries and inner secondaries with white touches on the outerwebs; outer tail feather with the outer web and nearly the terminal half ofthe inner web, white, the next two or three with white spots decreasing insize ; bill blackish, feet pale brown, iris red in the adult, white or creamyiu the young, and generally in winter specimens; 9 rich warm brownwhere the $ is black, otherwise similar. Verij young birds are streakedbrown and dusky above, below whitish tinged with brown and streaked withdusky; b
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