FAMILY FKINGILLIDJE. — SPARROWS, FINCHES, CROSSBILLS, 1.TC. 



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Crowu and back, brown without streaks; underparts. pale butt" brown, faintly 

 streaked on breast and sides. 



Indigo Bunting. 



Passcrhia ojanea (female). 

 See No. 446. 



Part 4. The following species have the underparts not marked w ith 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 niiddlt': ear covert?, tawny buff"; 

 nnddle back, blackl.*h: feathers. edo:ed with bnti : tail feathers, very pointed; 

 tail, less than 2.25 long. 



Grasshopper Sparrow. 

 YeIlow=winged Sparrow. 

 Ammodramns savannarnm passerinus. 

 See No. 411. 



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Crown, grayish, without tawny stripe in 

 middle; car coveits, gray; hack, olive and 

 gray; a distinct superciliary stripe of buff or 

 yellowish. 



Sharp-tailed Sparrow. 

 Ammodramus caudac^Uus, awl races. 

 See No. 414. 



Crown and back, rufous brown, tlie feathers, 

 more or less marked with black, and cd^^cd 

 with gray; not tawny stripe on middle of 

 crown; tail tVathers. not pointed; tail, over 

 2.25 lung. 



Pine-woods Sparrow. 

 Penciva lO'ticalis, a»d rn 

 See No. 434. 



