bo 
oo 
~1 
FAMILY FRINGILLIDA. — SPARROWS, FINCHES, CROSSBILLS, ETC. 
Crown and back, brown without streaks; underparts, pale buff brown, faintly 
streaked on breast and sides. 
Indigo Bunting. 
Passerina cyanea (female). 
See No. 446. 
Part 4. The following species have the underparts not marked with 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 middle; ear coverts, tawny buff; 
middle back, blackish; feathers, edged with buft: tail feathers, very pointed ; 
tail, less than 2.25 long. 
Grasshopper Sparrow. 
Yellow-winged Sparrow. 
Ammodramus savannarum passerinus. 
See No. 411. 
Crown, grayish, without tawny stripe in 
middle; ear coverts, gray; back, olive and 
gray; a distinet superciliary stripe of buff or 
yellowish. 
Sharp-tailed Sparrow. 
Ammodramus caudacutus, and races. 
See No. 414. 
Crown and back, rufous brown, the feathers, 
more or less marked with black, and edged 
with gray; not tawny stripe on middle of 
crown; tail feathers, not pointed; tail, over 
2.25 long. 
Pine-woods Sparrow. 
Peucea estivalis, and races 
See No. 434. 
