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

 by chestnut-brown ; a butfy line through the center of crown. 



542a. Savanna Sparrow. 



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

 ters bordered with cinnamon-brown and pale brownish gray. 



541. Ipswich Sparrow. 



d. Wing about 3-00 ; breast washed with yellow . . 604 Dickcissel. 



e. Wing about 3-00 ; sides brownish ; tliroat Avhite, quite different 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. Kump and flanks always heavily streaked with blackish. 



528. Eedpoll and races. 

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

 more or less white in the feathers of the back. 



527. Greenland Eedpoll. 527a. Hoary Eedpoll. 

 ^; 2. Tail-feathers without white or yellow patches, narrow and generally 



^ sharply pointed, the outer feathers always much shorter' than the middle 



pair. 



A. Crown of a different color from the back, or a buffy line over the eye, 

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



a^. 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 547. Henslow's Sparrow. 



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

 feathers of the back black, bordered by butfy whitish. 



548. Leconte's Sparrow. 

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

 Ji. Breast and sides distinctly streaked with black or blackish. 



549. Sharp-tailed Sparrow. 



&2. Breast and sides buffy or brownish, the former generally without 



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



. 549i. 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. 



fli. 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. 



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b. 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. 

 tfi. A broad cream- buft" bund across the breast. 



583. Lincoln's Sparrow, 

 c». No cream-buff band on the breast ; streaks on the breast tending 



to form a spot in its middle 581. Song Sparrow. 



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



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