FAMILY FR1NGILLIDJE. SPARROWS, FINCHES, CROSSBILLS, ETC. 



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Crown, olive gray ; chin, white ; throat, 

 black; breast, yellow; belly, white; 

 shoulder (wing coverts), chestnut 

 brown; back, streaked with black; 

 more or less yellow over the eye. 



Black=throated Bunting. 

 Dickcissel. 



Spiza americana. 



See No. 451. 



LIndcrpiirts, dull huffy yellow ; more or less black streaks on sides ; crown, black- 

 ish, with tuwny buff stripe through centre; back, heavily streaked with black; 

 tail feathers, very pointed. (This bird belongs in Section 8, as it is not a 

 Tanager or a Finch, but the bill might appear Friugilline to beginners.) 



Bobolink. 



Dolichonyx oryzivorus (female), 

 See No. 370. 



General plumage, more or less blue. 



Blue Grosbeak. 



Guiraca ccerulea. 

 See No. 445. 



Underparts, brownish white, tinged with blue on the breast; head, rump, 

 and lesser wing coverts, usually tinged with blue. 



Blue Grosbeak. 



Guiraca ccerulea (female). 

 See No. 445. 



