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white ; nape of neck ashy grey ; interscapular region with the 

 scapulars pure brown tipped with greyish white ; rump and tail 

 coverts greyish brown ; small wing coverts brown tipped with 

 white ; great wing coverts blackish brown margined broadly with 

 chesnut on the outer vanes and tipped with white ; primaries and 

 tail cinnamon brown ; outer vane of the lateral tail feathers pale ; 

 outer vanes of all the primaries edged with white, most conspicu- 

 ous on the 2nd and 3rd ; secondaries clove brown, broadly mar- 

 gined with chesnut on the outer vanes and tipped with white ; tail 

 square. 



Ventral aspect. Chin and belly white ; throat and breast ashy 

 grey ; flanks and tail coverts pale ochreous. 



3rd primary longest ; 2nd subequal to 3rd ; 1st shorter than 

 6th. Length 8 inches; alar breadth 11 inches; length of tarsus 

 and middle toe together 1 inch 10 lines. 

 F. graminea. Grass Finch. 

 F. graminea of Wilson ! 

 Pooecetes gramineus. Gmel. ! Baird ! 



V.S.P. Upper part of upper mandible brownish ; lower one, legs 

 and feet pale flesh colour ; irides hazel ; eggs 4 to 5, whitish 

 mottled and blotched with reddish brown at their larger ends. 



Dorsal aspect. Crown, neck, both scapulars, and rump clove 

 brown, margined and tipped with dusky brown ; smaller wing 

 coverts bay on their outer vanes ; primaries, secondaries and tail 

 brown ; the first edged with white on their outer vanes ; the lat- 

 eral tail feathers white except a brown streak on the inner vane ; 

 a white spot towards the tip of the second. 



Ventral aspect. Chin, belly, vent, and tail coverts pure white ; 

 throat, cheeks, breast and flanks streaked with brown. 



2nd primary longest; 1st and 3rd subequal, and very little 

 shorter. Length 6f inches ; alar breadth 10 inches ; tail sub- 

 furcate. 



F. tristis. American Goldfinch. (Chadronn^e). 

 Carduelis Americana of Edwards. 

 Chrysometris tristis. Linn.! Bon.! Baird! 

 v.s.p.ETv. Bill brownish orange; legs and feet pale flesh 

 colour ; irides deep hazel ; eggs 3 to 5, white, mottled at their 

 larger ends with yellowish brown and subdued lavender purple. 



Summer plumage. Dorsal aspect. Crown black ; neck, dorsal 

 region, rump and scapulars gamboge yellow; tail coverts and 



