Smooth snuff-brown; crested; chin and line from bill to crest, black; end of tail banded with yellow; in flocks; “monotonous lisping note.”
42. WILSON THRUSH. 7-1/4 in.
(Hylocichla fuscescens. 756.)
Uniform tawny brown; no ring about the eye; below white, faintly tinged and lightly spotted; shy, about bushes; sometimes sings in Lincoln Park. [Other Thrushes.]
43. AMERICAN SPARROW HAWK. 10-1/2 in.
(Falco sparverius. 360.)
Reddish-brown, usually barred or spotted with black; head bluish, marked on sides with black; tail white-tipped with one broad black bar; below white, more or less spotted; narrow pointed wings; female, much more barred, darker and streaked below. The smallest hawk.
44. BARN SWALLOW. 7 in.
(Hirundo erythrogastra. 613.)
Blue-back; chestnut shading to white below; deeply forked tail. [Tree Swallow.]