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The wings and tail are dusky, and the shoulders reddish brown. There is a 

 yellow stripe over the eye, one on either side of the throat, and the breast is 

 yellow back to the white belly. The upper throat is white, and below this is 

 a black patch reaching the yellow of the breast. 



The female differs in having the head streaked with dusky brown, and 

 lacks the black throat patch, though this feature is indicated obscurely in 

 some individuals. There is also less yellow on the breast. In fall the birds 

 appear more highly colored, there being a suffusion of reddish brown about 

 the head and back. 



The nest is made of leaves, plant fibres, and grass, and lined with finer 

 material and some horse hairs. The eggs are pale blue, unmarked, and vary 

 in number from three to five. They are about four fifths of an inch long, 

 and three fifths of an inch in their median diameter. 



The Lark Bunting, or White-winged Blackbird, is a finch which is com- 

 mon from Middle Kansas westward, ranorino- in winter into Te.xas. It is 

 a bird of the central regions of North America north to 

 caiamospiza mcianoco'rys our uorthem bounclary, and has been recorded from South 

 ^*^-'"' Carolina, Long Island, and Massachusetts. 



The adult male is black with a large white patch on the shoulders. The 

 female is grayish brown above, streaked with dusky, and having a smaller 

 white wing patch. Below she is white on the belly, streaked on the breast 

 and sides with dusky brown and blackish. The male in winter is not unlike 

 the female in summer. 



The Grassquits are small, and generally plain olive green finches above, 

 Grassauit ^^''"'^ ^^^ under parts varying from black to almost 



Euethciabicoior(Linn.). whitc iu color. The two kinds recorded from the East- 

 Melodious Grass- ^^^ United States have been found on the Florida Keys 



quit. only once. 



EuethciacanoracGmei.). They arc betweeu four and five inches in length, and 



are inhabitants of the Bahamas and the West Indies. 



This finch is one of our Southern birds, and the male is among the 

 most gaily colored of our native birds. Not quite as large as the Indigo 



