Very dark olive-brown; below yellowish white, thickly streaked; pale stripe over the eye; skulks along the very edge of the water; tilts its tail; brilliant song. [Louisiana Water-Thrush.] [Ovenbird.] [Palm Warbler.]
52. CATBIRD. 8-3/4 in.
(Galeoscoptes carolinensis. 704.)
Slate-gray; bill, crown and tail, black; chestnut patch under tail; about shrubbery; willing to be looked at; calls like a cat; song, greatly varied.
53. PINE WARBLER. 5-3/4 in.
(Dendroica vigorsii. 671.)
Olive-green; yellow breast; sides of head suffused with yellowish—sometimes forming a yellow line over eye; two dull white wing-bars; song, a loud, penetrating trill. [Yellow-bellied Flycatcher.] [Female Western Yellow-throat.] [Female Wilson Black-cap.]
54. RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH. 4-3/4 in.
(Sitta canadensis. 728.)
Bluish-gray; crown and stripe through eye, black, with a white line over the eye; below rusty-red, throat white; climbs up and down and around trees; note, “cark, cark, cark.” [White-breasted Nuthatch.]