KEY TO THK MIUDS OF EASTERN NORTH AMERICA. 



Crown, brown, like back; throat and underparts, pale brown; whitish on 

 belly; breast, usually with indistinct streaks ; back, brown, without streaks. 



Indigo Bird. 

 Indigo Bunting. 



Paxaerina cyat" \ / 

 See Xo. 44i;. 



Crown, black, with white stripe in centre; stripe over rye, white; usually 

 more or less yellow in trout of eye; throat, white; breast, grayish; carpal 



joint (bend of wing . pale yellow ; back, streaked. 



White-throated Sparrow- 



Zinntric.h in a 



See No. 



< 'r<>\\ n. black, with white stripe in centre; no distinct white patch on throat; 



carpal joint bend of wing), not yellow; back, streaked. 



White-crowned Sparrow 



y.miotrichia leucophnj*. 

 S.-I- Xo. 422. 



Crown, brown, witli grayish brown centre: nape, gray: bill, reddish brown; 



back, -freaked,- wing divert-:, lipped with white. 



White-crowned Sparrow. 



Se- No. 422. 



Crown, light chestnut brown <sireaked with black in \oung birds); rump, 

 slaty gray; bill, black; back, streaked. Young birds in fall have the bill 



brownish. 



Chipping Sparrow 



See No. 42:.. 



Crown, rufous brown; rump, pale olive brown; upper mandible, black; 



under mandible, pale, with dark tip; back, streaked. 



Tree Sparrow. 



See No. 424. 



