FAMILY FRINGILLID-E. SPARROWS, FINCHES, CROSSBILLS, ETC. Za 
Bill, dark; back, black; underparts, white, streaked sharply with black. 
Occurs in Eastern Florida only. 
Dusky Sea-side Sparrow. 
Ammodramus nigrescens. 
See No. 419. 
Bill, pale horn color; sides of head and nape, tinged 
with olive green. 
Henslow’s Sparrow. 
Ammodramus henslow?. 
See No. 412. 
Part 2. The following species have the breast more or less streaked ; 
carpal joint (bend of wing), not yellow :— 
Breast, very faintly streaked; middle tail feathers, 
rufous brown, with black stripe in middle, includ- 
ing the shaft; wing coverts and secondaries, edged 
with rufous brown. 
Swamp Sparrow. 
Melospiza georgiana. 
See No. 438. 
Breast, Sharply streaked with black; shafts 
of tail feathers, not black. 
Lincoln’s Sparrow. 
Melospiza lincolnii. 
See No. 437. 
Melospiza lincolnii. 
Part 3. The following species have the breast not streaked (in the 
adult *); carpal joint (bend of wing), edged with yellow : — 
‘Top of head, black with tawny stripe in centre; an orange brown spot over, and 
somewhat in front of, the eye. : 
Yellow-winged Sparrow. 
Grasshopper Sparrow. 
Ammodramus savannarum passerinus. 
See No. 411. 
* In several species, very young birds in first plumage have the breast streaked. 
