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coverts chesnut on the outer vanes, black on the inner and broadly 

 tipped with white, causing an appearance of a couple of bars ; 

 primaries and secondaries brown, edged with white on the outer 

 vanes of the former, and with pale brown on the outer vanes of 

 the latter; tail square, brown, minutely edged with white on both 

 outer and inner vanes. 



Ventral aspect. A line from eye to nostrils white, changing 

 above the eye to grey, which passing between the auriculars and 

 chesnut crown, is lost over the sides of the neck ; chin and upper 

 part of throat, belly, vent, inner wing and tail coverts white ; re- 

 mainder of the throat and breast ashy grey ; in the centre of the 

 breast a black spot, most conspicuous when the feathers are a 

 little removed. 



1st and 6th subequal ; 2nd and 4th equal; 3rd longest and 

 very little longer than 2nd and 4th. Length 6j inches ; alar 

 breadth 9 inches ; length of the tail 2f inches. 



F. socialis. The Chipping Sparrow. 

 Spizella socialis. Wils. ! Buon. ! Baird ! 

 v.s.p. Bill black ; legs and feet pale flesh colour ; irides deep 

 hazel ; eggs 4 to 5, greenish blue mottled with dark and light 

 brown. 



Dorsal aspect. Frontlet black ; crown bright chesnut ; back, 

 scapulars and wing coverts black, broadly margined and tipped 

 with brown ; on the scapulars the brown partakes of a chesnut 

 tinge ; rump grey ; primaries, secondaries and tail brown ; the 

 secondaries edged with chesnut brown on the outer vanes, and 

 the primaries with white on the outer vanes ; tail minutely edged 

 with faint white. 



Ventral aspect. Chin, throat, belly and vent white ; breast, 

 sides of neck and cheeks ashy grey; a line from the nostrils 

 above the eye white ; flank whitish grey. 



2nd primary longest ; 3rd next; 1st shorter than 4th but con- 

 siderably longer than 5th. Length 5 inches; alar breadth 7 J 

 inches. 



F. leucophrys. White-crowned Finch. 

 F. leucophrys of Wilson. 



Zonotrichia leucophrys. Forster ! Sw. ! Baird ! 

 v.s.p. Bill, legs and feet pale brown ; irides hazel ; eggs 4 to 

 5, chocolate or dusky colour. 



Dorsal aspect. Crown of head white, bordered laterally, an- 

 teriorly and posteriorly by a broad black line ; a line over the We 



