Wild Birds in City Parks / Being hints on identifying 145 birds, prepared primarily for the spring migration in Lincoln Park, Chicago

by Herbert Eugene Walter; Alice Hall Walter

Black; head, throat and breast, yellow; white wing patch; female dark brown, yellow markings duller, no wing patch; female smaller than male.

112. DICKCISSEL. 6 in.

(Spiza americana. 604.)

Streaked; ashy on head and neck; white chin; black throat patch; yellow breast; white belly; line over eye, yellow; wings show chestnut brown; female has less yellow and no throat patch. [Yellow-breasted Chat.] [Meadowlark.]

113. CONNECTICUT WARBLER. 5-1/2 in.

(Geothlypis agilis. 678.)

Olive-green; head ashy with throat darker; white ring around eye; belly yellow; wings long and pointed; low bushes and swampy places; penetrating call-note. [Mourning Warbler.]

114. RED-BELLIED WOODPECKER. 9-1/2 in.

(Centurus carolinus. 409.)

Black and white, back, wings and tail barred transversely and very evenly; below grayish-white, tinged with red; top of head and back of neck crimson; female, crown gray; rare. [Red-headed Woodpecker.] [Hairy Woodpecker.]