274 FINCHES, SPARROWS, ETC. 



c. Back brown or brownish, ashy, or slate-color. 



c. Head and rump yellowish or reddish ; wing-bars white ; wing 



over 4-00 515. PINE GROSBEAK ( 9 and im.). 



A Under parts brownish cream-buff ; wing-coverts with broad 

 chestnut tips ; wing over 3-00 . . . 597. BLUE GROSBEAK 9 . 

 <*. Under parts whitish ; wing without yellow and under 3-00. 



598. INDIGO BUNTING 9 . 

 c 4 . Back ashy ; spot before the eye and on bend of wing yellow. 



550. SEASIDE SPARROW. 

 B. Back distinctly streaked. 

 o. Bend of the wing yellow. 

 a>. Tail over 2-20. 



a A white throat-patch; breast gray; a yellowish line over 

 the eye ....... 558. WHITE-THROATED SPARROW. 



>. A black spot on the throat ; breast yellow, or both. 



604. DICKCISSEL. 



a 4 . No yellow over the eye ; breast ashy or buffy ; outer tail- 

 feathers much the shortest. 



575. PINE-WOODS SPARROW. 575a. BACHMAN'S SPARROW. 

 b 1 . Tail under 2--20, the feathers narrow and sharply pointed. 

 b*. Crown olive-brown, a blue-gray line through its center; 

 cheeks and breast ochraceous-butf. 



549a. NELSON'S SPARROW. 

 b 3 . Crown blackish, a cream-buff line through its center. 



546. GRASSHOPPER SPARROW. 

 5. Bend of the wing not yellow. 

 b 1 . Crown bright reddish brown, the feathers sometimes tipped 



with ashy or brownish, but without Hack streaks. 

 b 3 . No white or whitish wing-bars; outer tail-feathers much 

 shorter than middle ones; lesser wing-coverts, upper tail- 

 coverts, and margins of most of the tail-feathers rufous; wing 



under 2-50 584. SWAMP SPARROW. 



b 9 . Cheeks and throat ashy, a narrow reddish brown line from 

 back of the eye to the nape, an indistinct black spot in the 



center of the breast 559. TREE SPARROW. 



J 4 . Eye-ring whitish, entire bill brownish flesh-color. 



563. FIELD SPARROW. 



b 6 . Kump slaty gray; under parts generally all grayish white; 

 forehead black, with a narrow grayish line in its middle, a 

 narrow black line from back of the eye to the nape. 



560. CHIPPING SPARROW. 



c 1 . Crown streaked or spotted with black or black and white. 

 c 9 . Crown with chestnut streaks, and sometimes a slight ashy 

 line through its center; no white or whitish wing-bars ; outer 

 tail-feathers much shorter than middle ones. 



584. SWAMP SPARROW (Im.). 



c*. Crown with reddish brown ; rump ashy ; wing-bars bulfy ; 

 middle tail-feathers shortest. 560. CHIPPING SPARROW (Im.). 



