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SYSTEM A TIC SYNOPSIS. — PASSERES — OSCTXES. 



Fig. 300. — Slate-colored Fox Sparrow. (From The Osprey.) 



7.00-7.50; wing 3.05-3.45 ; tail 3.00-3-30 ; bill 0.45 along culinen, 0.30 deep at base; tarsus 

 0.90. Eggs 0.85 X 0.C5, with the same tendency to distinct spotting seen in those of all the 

 other Western Fox Sparrows. Kocky Mt. region, chiefly, but noted from Kansas to California. 



