FAMILY FRINGILLIDJE. SPARROWS, FINCHES, CROSSBILLS, KTC. 



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Crown aud back, brown without streaks; underparts, pale huff l)ro\vii, faintly 

 streaked on breast and sides. 



Indigo Bunting. 



Passerina cyanea (female). 

 See No. 446. 



Part 4. The following species have the underparts not marked with red, 

 blue, yellow, or green, and the breast not distinctly streaked, but have the 

 carpal joint (bend of wing), edged with yellow : 



Crown, black, with pale tawny buff stripe on middle; ear coverts, tawny buff; 

 middle back, blackish; feathers, edged with buff; tail feathers, very pointed; 

 tail, less than 2.25 long. 



Grasshopper Sparrow. 

 Yellow=winged Sparrow. 

 Ammodramns savannarum passerinus. 

 See No. 411. 



Crown, grayish, without tawny stripe in 

 middle; ear coverts, gray; back, olive and 

 gray; a distinct superciliary stripe of buff or 

 yellowish. 



Sharp-tailed Sparrow. 

 Ammodramus caudacutus, and races. 

 See No. 414. 



Crown and back, rufous brown, the feathers, 

 more or less marked with black, aud edged 

 with gray ; not tawny stripe on middle of 

 crown ; tail feathers, not pointed ; tail, over 

 2.25 long. 



Pine= woods Sparrow. 

 Peuccea (Kstivalis, and racrx. 

 See No. 434. 



