DICKCISSEL 



14. Spiza americana (Gmelin) 

 Dickcissel 



Length 146 mm. (5.80 in.); tail 55 mm. 

 (2. 20 in.). 



Male. Head, hindneck and sides of neck 

 pale gray, the forehead tinged with yellow; 

 back grayish brown streaked with black; rump 

 light grayish; wings and tail dusky, the former 

 varied with cinnamon rufous and pale buffy 

 grayish; a line over eye and one on each side of 

 throat yellow; chin white; a black throat patch; 

 breast yellow passing to white on abdomen. 



Female. Resembling male but duller; head 

 browner and usually streaked with dusky; with 

 less yellow on the breast and no black patch 

 on the throat. 



Young, in first winter. Similar to female, 

 but everywhere tinged with pale clay color 

 or dull buffy. 



A migrant. 



15. Arremonops striaticeps striaticeps 



(Lafresnaye) 

 Lafresnaye's Sparrow 



Arremonops conirostris conirostris RIDGWAY, Birds of 

 N. and M. Amer., II, p. 453, 1901; STONE, Proc. Phila. 

 Acad. Nat. Sci., 1918, p. 276. 



Sexes alike. Length 161 mm. (6.30 in.); 



tail 69 mm. (2.70 in.). Head gray with two broad, 



lateral stripes of brownish black, a triangular 



spot in front of, and a line in continuation of, eye 



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