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NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



larger than in the rniiilarutiix. There is, imlred, no .similarity between the 

 two eggs. They measure .88 by .68 of an inch. 



Genus CHONDESTES, Sw.mnson. 



Choiidesles, Svvain.son, I'hil. Mag. 1, 1S27, 43.'). — In. Fiiiina Hor.-Aiii. 

 Chondextts strUjalus, Sw., in\\\a\\,o FringiUa ijrammaca. Say.) 



Okn'. Ohah. 



11, 1831. (Tyiw, 



>.->.) 7 5 



Bill swollen : both outlines u'cntly curved ; the lower niandilile as high as 



the upper; the commissure angu- 

 hited at the base, and then slightly 

 sinuuted. Lower mandible rather 

 narrower at the base than the length 

 of the gonys : broader than the 

 upper. Tarsi moderate, about equal 

 to the middle toe ; lateral toes equal 

 and very short, reaching but little 

 beyond the middle of the peuulti- 

 mato joint of the middle toe, and 

 falling coniiiderably short of the 

 base of middle claw. Wings, long, 

 pointed, reaching nearly to the mid- 

 dle of the tail ; the tertials not 

 longer than the secondaries ; the 



first quill shorter than the second and third, which are equal. The tail is njoderately 



long, considerably graduated, the feathers rather narrow, and elliptically rounded at the 



end. 



Streaked on the back. Head with well-defined large stripes. Beneath white, with a 



pectoral spot. Only one species recognized. 



Chon/hstrs sirummara. 



Chondestes grammacaj Bon.\p. . 



LARK SPARROW. 



Fringilla gmmviacn, Say, in l,ong's E.\-ped. R. Mts. I, 1823, 139. -Box. Am. Orn. 1, 

 1825, 47, pi. V, f. 3. — AUD. Orn. Biog. V, 1839, 17, pi. cccxc. Chonikstcs gmmnuca, 

 BoN. List, 1838. —Ib. Con.spectHS, 1850, 479. — Baiud, Birds N. Am. 185S, 456.— 

 Cooper & Sucklicy, 200. — May.vard, Birds E. Muss. 1870, 112 (Mas.sachusetts). — 

 CooPEK, Orn. C'al. I, 193. Emberiza grammata, AuD. Synopsis, 1839, 101. — Ib. 

 Birds Am. Ill, 1841, 6-3, pi. dviii. — Max. Cab. .Jour. VI, 1858, 343. Chondestes 

 slrigatus, Swai.vson, I'hilos. Mag. I, 1827, 435. 



Sp. Ciiau. Hood chestnut, tinged with black towards the forehead, and with a median 

 stripe and superciliary stripe of dirty whitish. Rest of upper parts pale grayish-olive, the 

 interscapular region alone streaked with dark brown. Beneath wliite, a round spot on the 

 upper part of the breast, a broad nia.xillary stripe cutting ofl' a white stripe above, and a 

 short line from the bill to the eye, continued faintly behind it, black. A white crescent 

 under the eye, bordered below by black an<l tiehind by chestnut, on the ear-coverts. Tail- 

 feathers dark brown, the outermost edged externally and with more than terminal third 

 white, with transvei'se outline ; the white decreasing to the next to innermost, tipped 

 broadly with white. Length, G inches ; wing, 3,30. 



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