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138 FRINGILLIDH, FINCHES, ETC.—GEN. 69. 
bill plumbeous, feet dark; 53-64; wing 24-24; tail about 2. Wuts., iv, 
. 68, pl. 34, f. 2; Nurr., i, 2d ed. 592, 593; Auvp., iii, 103, 106, pl. 172, 
WSiCnacgillevrayt) = BD., 404.6. 2. ete) ey eh. ARN 
Sharp-tailed Finch. Olive-gray, sharply streaked on the back with 
blackish and whitish; crown 
darker than nape, with brown- 
ish-black streaks and obscure 
median line; no yellow loral 
spot, but long line over eye and 
sides of head rich buff or orange- 
brown enclosing olive-gray 
auriculars and a dark speck 
behind these ; below, white, the 
fore parts and sides tinged with 
yellowish brown or buff of vari- 
able intensity, the breast and 
sides sharply streaked with 
dusky. Rather smaller than the 
Fic. 84. Details of structure in Sharp-tailed Finch. last ; bill still slenderer, and 
tail feathers still narrower and more acute. Wd1sS., iv, 70, pl. 34, f. 3; 
Nortt., i, 504; Aup., iii, 108, pl. 174; Bp., 453. . . . CAUDACUTUS. 
69. Genus MELOSPIZA Baird. 
*Breast streaked, and with a transverse belt of brownish-yellow; tail nearly 
equal to wings. 
Lincoln’s Finch. Below, white, breast banded and sides often shaded 
with yellowish, everywhere except on the belly thickly and sharply streaked 
with dusky ; above grayish-brown, crown and back with blackish, brownish 
and paler streaks; tail grayish-brown, the feathers usually showing blackish 
shaft lines; wings the same, the coverts and inner quills blackish with bay 
and whitish edgings ; no yellow on wings or head; 5$; wing and tail about 
24. North America; not common in the Eastern States. AuwD., iii, 116, 
pl. 177; Nurr., i, 2d ed. 569; Bp., 482; Coop., 216. . . LINCOLNII. 
** Breast ashy, unbelted, with few streaks, or none; tail about equal to wings. 
Swamp Sparrow. Crown bright bay, or chestnut, blackening on the fore- 
head, often with obscure median ashy line, and usually streaked with black ; 
cervix, entire sides of bead and neck, and the breast, strongly ashy, with 
vague dark auricular and maxillary markings, the latter bounding the whitish 
chin, the ashy of the breast obsoletely streaky ; belly whitish ; sides, flanks and 
crissum strongly shaded with brown, and faintly streaked; back and rump 
brown, rather darker than the sides, boldly streaked with black and pale 
brown or grayish. Wings so strongly edged with bright bay as to appear 
almost uniformly of this color when viewed closed, but inner secondaries 
showing black with whitish edging; tail likewise strongly edged with bay, 
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