APPENDIX. 709 



SPIZELLA MONTICOLA. 



'1'ree Sparrow. 

 DESCRIPTIOISI. 



Sp. Cii. Form, robust. Size, medium. Color. Adult. Ashy brown above, becoming darker on the 

 wings ami tail. Grown, maxillary spot, middle back, which is streaked with whitish, wing coverts, and 

 ed^ti of tei tiaries, bright rufous. Beneath, ashy white, tinged, especially on sides, with yellowish, with a 

 single brown spot "U brea.^t. Young, similar but darker. Known by the rufous crown and bright spot on 

 breast. Breeds from Northern New England, northward, wintering from Massachusetts to the Carolinas. 

 Dimensions. Length. (5.50; stretch, 9.50; wing, 3.00; tail, 2.60; bill, .45; tarsus, .85. Nests, placed in 

 bushes, composed of mud, grass, and hair. Eggs, four or five in number, oval in form, greenish ash in 

 color, spotted with reddish brown. Dimensions from .55 by .70 to .56 by .74. 



HABITS. 

 The Tree Sparrow- is among the most abundant of our spring and autumn migrants, 

 iuiil during s)ine winters, is very conunoii in Eastern Massachusetts, but usually the greater 

 portion go south of us. 



SPIZELLA BREWERII. 

 Brewer's Sparrow. 

 DESCRIPTION. 

 Sp. Cii. Size, form, and general coloration of the Chipping Sparrow, but differs in being paler, with all 

 the markings indistinct, and in liaving no chestnut crown, this being permanently streaked all over with 

 narrow lines of dusky. South western United States, accidental in Massachusetts. 



SPIZELLA PALLIDA. 

 Clay-colored Sp..rrow. 

 DESCRIPTION. 

 Sp. Cii. Differs from Brewer's Sparrow in being more distinctly streaked, but the lines of the back 

 are distinctly separated from those on the crown by a collar of ashy. There is a dusky line of ashy on the 

 crown, a dark line behind eye, and another on the lower jaw. Interior of North America, casual in Wis- 

 consin. 



JUNCO CAROLINENSIS. 

 Carolina JrN<:o. 



DESCRIPTION. 

 Sp. Ch. Foi-m and general coloration of the common Snow Bird but larger, and with the dark of the 

 head tingeil with pinkish or reddish. Breeds in the Southern Alleghanies, wintering somewhat north of 

 this point. 



JUNCO HYEMALIS OREGONUS. 



Oregon J unco. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Sub Sp. Ch. Similar in form, size and general coloration to the common Snow Bird but darker on 



head and breast, with a square patch of reddish brown on the back and tinged with pinkish on sides and 



breast. Pacific coast of North America, straggling eastward even as far as Massachusetts. 



MELOSPIZA LINCOLNI. 

 Li.\coln's Sparrow. 

 DESCRIPTION. 

 Sp. Cii. Form, slender. Size, small. Color. Adult. Above and on sides, yellowish, ash, becom- 

 ing buff in a band across breast and on under wing and tail coverts. Two bands on crown, rufous, streaked 



