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Throat, white; crown, brown, with whitish stripe through middle; back, 

 streaked ; tail feathers, broadly tipped with white. 



Lark Finch. 



Chondestes ijrnin m <i<- us. 

 See No. 420. 



Throat, ashy white ; belly, white, tiuged with pale buff on sides ; crown, bright 

 rufous ; tail feathers, very narrowly edged with white; upper mandible, black- 

 ish ; lower mandible, pale yellowish white, with dark tip : back, streaked. 



Tree Sparrow. 



Spizella monticola. 

 See No. 424. 



Throat and underparts, pale buffy white or ashy white; crown and back, 

 dull brown; back, streaked with blackish; tail, very narrowly edged with 



buffy white ; bill, reddish brown ; rump, brownish. 



Field Sparrow. 



Spizella pusilla. 

 See No. 428. 



Throat, white ; crown, rufous ; a white stripe over the eye; outer tail feather, 

 very narrowly edged with whitish on inner web; bill, black; back, streaked; 



rump, slaty gray. 



Chipping Sparrow. 



Spizella socialis. 

 See No. 425. 



Part 4. The following species have no red, blue, green, or yellow on 

 the underparts ; throat or chin, not black, and the breast or sides, not 

 distinctly streaked; no white on the tail feathers :- 



Crown, green, like back; throat and uuderparts, pale hurt'; back, green, 



without streaks. 



Nonpareil. 



Painted Bunting. 



Passerina cms (immature'). 

 See No. 448. 



