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Wings and tail, dark brown, 

 more or less margined with yellow ; 

 the bases of the feathers, pale 

 yellow; under parts, heavily 

 streaked with brownish black; 

 crown and back, brownish olive, 

 heavily streaked with black. 



Spinus pinus. 

 Pine Siskin. 

 See No. 243. 



Crown and back, brown, without streaks; under parts, pale buff 

 brown, faintly streaked on breast and sides. 



Passerina cyanea (female}. 

 Indigo Bunting. 

 See No. 276. 



PART 4. The following species have the under parts 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. 



Coturniculus savannarum australis. 

 Grasshopper Sparrow. Yellow-winged Sparrow. 



See No. 250. 



Crown, grayish, without tawny stripe 

 in middle; ear coverts, gray; back, 

 olive and gray; a distinct superciliary 

 stripe of buff or yellowish. 



Passerherbulns caudacutus nelsoni. 

 Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow. 

 See No. 253. 



Crown and back, rufous brown, the feathers, more or less marked 

 with black, and edged with gray; no tawny stripe on middle of crown; 



