274 FINCHES, SPARROWS, ETC. 



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



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



over 4-00 515. Pine Gkosbeak ( $ and im.). 



c2. Under parts brownish cream-buff; wing-coverts with broad 

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

 6-3. Under parts whitish ; wing without yellow and under 3-00, 



598. Indigo Bunting 9 . 

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



550. Seaside Spakkow. 

 B. Back distinctly streaked. 

 a. Bend of the wing yellow. 

 «!. Tail over 2-20. 

 a". A white throat-patch; breast gray; a yellowisb line over 



the eye 558. White-throated Sparrow. 



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



V 604. DiCKCISSEL. 



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

 feathers much the shortest. 



675. PiNE-w^ooDs 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-butf. 



549a. Nelson's Sparrow. 

 Z»3. Crown blackish, a creani-butf 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 without 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. 



^3. Cheeks and throat ashy, a narrow reddisli brown line from 

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



center of the breast 559. Tree Sparrow. 



K 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. 

 ci. 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.). 



cs. Crown with reddish brown ; rump ashy ; wing-bars butfy ; 



middle tail-feathers shortest. 560. Chipping Sparrow (Im.). 



