FRINGILLIDZ, FINCHES, ETC.—GEN. 67, 68. ilsii 
in fields, etc., terrestrial, migratory, gregarious in the fall. Wruus., iv, 51, 
pl. 31, f. 5; Norr., i, 482; Aup., iii, 65, pl. 159; Bp., 447. GRAMINEUS. 
67. Genus COTURNICULUS Bonaparte. 
Yellow-winged Sparrow. Edge of wing conspicuously yellow; lesser 
wing coverts, and short line over eye, yellowish; below, not or not evidently 
streaked, but fore parts and sides, buff, fading to dull white on the belly. 
Above, singularly variegated with black, gray, yellowish-brown and a 
peculiar purplish-bay in short streaks and specks, the crown being nearly 
black with a sharp median brownish-yellow line, the middle of the back 
chiefly black with bay and brownish-yellow edgings of the feathers, the cer- 
vical region and rump chiefly gray mixed with bay ; wing coverts and inner 
quills variegated like the back; feet pale. Small; only 4§-5}$ long; wing 
24, much rounded; tail 2 or less, with very narrow pointed feathers, the out- 
stretched feet reaching to or beyond its end; bill short, turgid. Sexes alike ; 
young similar, not so buffy below, and with pectoral and maxillary dusky 
spots; but in any plumage known from other sparrows (except the next 
species) by amount of yellow on wings, and peculiar proportions of parts. 
United States ; abundant in tall grass and weeds of plains and fields ; strictly 
terrestrial, migratory, with a peculiar chirring note, like a grasshopper’s ; 
nests on the ground, eggs 4—5, white, speckled. Specimens from -dry 
western regions are paler and grayer (var. perpallidus Ripaway, Mss.). 
Wus., iii,-76, pl. 26, f.5; Avp., iii, 73, pl. 162; Noutt., i, 494; Bp., 450; 
SBOE SO Marae Seeker e2 | et kM te bis asc 3a ly S PASSERINUS: 
Henslow’s Sparrow. Resembling the last; smaller; more yellowish 
above, and with sharp maxillary, pectoral and lateral black streaks below ; 
tail longer, reaching beyond feet; bill stout. Eastern U. S., not very com- 
mon. AUD., iii, 75, pl. 163; Nurr., i, 2d ed. 571; Bp., 451. HENSLOwII. 
Leconte’s Sparrow. Like the last; bill much smaller; fore and under 
parts and sides of head buff, with black touches on sides; no yellow loral 
spot; median crown-stripe buff, white posteriorly ; 45; wing 24; tail 1%. 
Missouri region; Texas. <A long-lost species, rediscovered in No. 50, 222, 
Mus. S. I. (Lincecum.) Aun., vii, 338, pl. 488; Bp., 452. . LECONTEL. 
68. Genus AMMODROMUS Swainson. 
*.* Small streaked sparrows, remarkable for the slender lengthened form of the 
bill, and the narrow, acute tail feathers. Wing short, much rounded, its edge 
yellow ; tail short ; feet very large, reaching nearly to end of tail. Confined to salt- 
marshes of the Atlantic and Gulf States; abundant, migratory. 
_Sea-side Finch. Olive-gray, obscurely streaked on the back and crown with 
darker and paler; below, whitish, often washed with brownish, and shaded 
on the sides with the color of the back, with ill-defined streaks on the breast 
and sides; wings and tail plain dusky, with slight olivaceous edgings, wing 
coverts and inner quills somewhat margined with brown; a yellow spot over 
eye, and often some vague brownish and dusky markings on side of head ; 
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