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c. Back brown or brownish, ashy, or slate-color. 



0-. Head and rump yellowish or reddish ; wing-bars white ; wing 



over 4'00 515. Pine Grosbeak ( 9 and im.). 



c-a. Under parts brownish cream-buff; wing-coverts with broad 

 chestnut tips ; wing over 3-00 , . . 597. Blue Grosbeak 9 . 

 c-3. Under parts whitish ; wing without yellow and under S'OO. 



598. Indigo Bunting 9 . 

 c*. Back ashy ; spot before the eye and on bend of wing yellow. 



550. Seaside Sparrow. 

 B. Back distinctly streaked. 

 a. Bend of the wing yellow, 

 fli. Tail over 2-20. 

 a^. A white throat-patch ; breast gray ; a yellowish line over 



the eye 558. White-throated Sparrow. 



a3. A black spot on the throat ; breast yellow, or both. 



604. Dickcissel. 

 a*. No yellow over the eye; breast ashy or buffy ; outer tail- 

 feathers much the shortest. 



575. Pine-woods Sparrow. 575a. Bachman's Sparrow. 

 b^. Tail under 2*20, the feathers narrow and sharply pointed. 

 b"^. Crown olive-brown, a blue-gray line through its center; 

 cheeks and breast ochraceous-buff. 



549«. Nelson's Sparrow. 

 b^. Crown blackish, a cream-buff line through its center. 



546. Grasshopper Sparrow. 

 h. Bend of the wing not yellow. 



b^. Crown bright reddish brown, the feathers sometimes tipped 

 with ashy or brownish, but ivitliont black streaks. 

 b"^. No white or whitish wing-bars; outer tail-feathers much 

 shorter than middle ones; lesser wing-coverts, upper tail- 

 coverts, and margins of most of the tail-feathers rufous ; wing 



under 2*50 584. Swamp Sparrow. 



b^. Cheeks and throat ashy, a narrow reddish brown line from 

 back of the eye to the nape, an indistinct black spot in the 



center of the breast 559. Tree Sparrow. 



ft*. Eye-ring whitish, entire bill brownish flesh-color. 



563. Field Sparrow. 

 b^. Rump slaty gray; under parts generally all grayish white; 

 forehead black, with a narrow grayish line in its middle, a 

 narrow black line from back of the eye to the nape. 



560. Chipping Sparrow. 

 c*. Crown streaked or spotted with black or black and white. 

 c^. Crown with chestnut streaks, and sometimes a slight ashy 

 line through its center ; no white or whitish wing-bars ; outer 

 tail-feathers much shorter than middle ones. 



584. Swamp Sparrow (Im.). 



<^. Crown with reddish brown ; rump ashy ; wing-bars buffy ; 



middle tail-feathers shortest. 660. Chipping Sparrow (Im.). 



