FINCHES, SPARROWS, ETC. 



305 



Fig. 379. 



3'. Outer tail feathers not marked with white or yellow. 

 4. Upper parts streaked. 



5. Under parts more or less yellow . . Spiza, p. 377. 



5'. Under parts mainly gray ; 

 males with chin and throat 

 black . Passer, p. 324. pig. 330. 



4'. Upper parts not streaked. 



5. Nostrils concealed, plumage rose, or g-ray mixed with 



orange 



brown Pinicola, p. 308. 



Pig. 381. ^, ^^g^j..jg exposed, males blue . . Guiraca, p. 373. 



2'. Primaries exceeding secondaries by less than length of 



tarsus. 



3. Head crested. 



4. Upper mandible 



greatly curved. 

 Pyrrhuloxia, p. 370. Fig. 382. 



4 . Upper mandible only slightly curved. 

 ^ Cardiualis, p. 



3'. Head not crested. 



4. Tarsus longer than middle toe with claw. 

 5. Hind claw longer than its toe. 



6. Tail with white 

 outer tips (ex- 

 cept fuscus 

 group). 

 Pipilo. p. 3(i3. 



Fig. 383. 



% 



Fig. 384. 



6'. Tail with white edges, plumage largely gray o 

 black Juuco. p. 34: 



Fig. 385. 



5'. Hind claw shorter than its toe 



0. Tail black 



C Tail not black. 

 7. Tail olive green 

 7'. Tail brown. 



8. Tail deeply emarginate Spizella, p. lUl 



&'. Tail rounded or graduated 



Amphispiza. p. :'.5(). 

 Arremonops, p. 363. 



