ISO 



SINGING BIRDS — OSCINES. 



tertials nearly or quite as long as tlie primaries ; tlie first primary longest. Tlie tail is 

 quite short, considerably shorter than the wings ; as long as from the carpal joint to the 

 end of the secondaries. It is emarginate, and slightly rounded ; the feathers pointed and 



P. Sax-anna 



naiTow. Entire plumage above, head, neck, back, and rum]), streaked. Tliickly streaked 

 beneath. 



All the specios are very similar in color, dill'ering mainly in size and 

 intensity of tint ; scarcely at all in pattern. 



Passerculus Sandwicliensis, Gmelix. 



THE AONALASKA SPARROW. 



Emberiza Samhcichensis, Gmelin, I. 1788, 875. — Paxserciilns Snndu^irhensis, Bated, P. R. 



Rep. IX. Birds, 444. — Cooper and StCKLET, XII. iii. Zool. of W. T. 199 ; pi. xxviii. 



f. 2. 

 Emherha chiysops, PALL.iS, Zoog. IJosso-As. II. 1811, 4J ; tab. xlviii. C\g. 1. (Aon.ilaska.) 



Sp. Cll.\R. Feathers of the U])|)er ]iarts gener.ally with a central streak of blackish- 

 brown ; the streaks of the back with a slight rufous suffusion laterally ; the feathers edged 



