276 FINCHES, SPARROWS, ETC. 



b. Wing generally under 2-90 ; feathers of the crown black, bordered 

 by chestnut- brown; a bufty line through the center of crown, 



o42a. Savanna Sparrow. 



c. Wing generally over 2-90 ; feathers of crown with small black cen- 

 ters bordered with cinnamon-brown and pale bi'ownish gray. 



541, Ipswich Sparrow. 



d. Wing about 3"00 ; brciist washed with yellow . . 604 Dickcissel. 



e. Wing about 3'00 ; sides brownish ; throat white, quite ditierent from 

 the grayish breast 558. White-throated Sparrow. 



C. A bright red crown-cap ; no yellow before the eye or on the bend of 

 the wing. 

 a. Eump and flanks always heavily streaked with blackish. 



528. Redpoll and races. 

 h. Rump white, generally without streaks ; flanks lightly streaked ; 

 more or less white in the feathers of the back. 



527. Greenland Redpoll. 527a. Hoary Redpoll, 



2. Tail-feathers without Avhite or yellow patches, narrow and generally 

 sharply pointed, t?ie outer feathers always much shorter than the middle 

 pair. 



A. Crown of a diflFerent color from the back, or a buff'y line over the eye. 



a. Center of crown with a more or less distinct brownish or buify line. 

 «!. Nape dull, pale olive-green, of the same color as the line over the 



eye, but finely streaked with black ; back rufous-brown, streaked 



with black 647. IIenslow's Sparrow. 



a'. Nape bright rufous-brown, the feathers bordered by gray ; the 

 feathers of the back black, bordered by buify whitish. 



548. Leconte's Sparrow. 



b. Center of crown with a more or less distinct stripe of ashy blue. 

 b^. Breast and sides distinctly streaked with black or blackish. 



549. Sharp-tailed Sparrow. 



Z)2. Breast and sides bufi^y or brownish, the former generally without 



distinct black streaks . 549a. Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow. 



5496. Acadian Sharp-tailed Sparrow. 



B. Crown of the same color as the back ; no buffy line over the eye. 

 a. A yellow spot before the eye and on the bend of wing, 



a^. Upper parts very dark brown or black ; the feathers edged with 

 olive-gray or ashy, breast generally with black streaks. (Florida.) 

 550a. Scott's Seaside Sparrow, 551. Dusky Seaside Sparrow. 

 a^. Back olive-gray ; breast with grayish brown streaks. 



550. Seaside Sparrow. 

 h. No yellow before the eye ; bend of the wing yellow. 



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



c. No yellow before the eye or on the bend of the wing. 

 c-». A broad cream- buft' band across the breast. 



583, Lincoln's Sparrow. 



(3. No cream-buff band on the breast ; streaks on the breast tending 



to form a spot in its middle 581. Song Sp.^rrow. 



3. Tail with white patches or base of tail yellow. 



