SPARROWS AND FINCHES. 



4. GRAY-HEADED JUNCO, J. CANICEPS. Differs from 

 1 in being uniform gray above ; patch of reddish-cinnamon on 

 back. Breeds in the mountains of southern Wyo., Utah, 

 Nev., and northern N. M. ; winters in surrounding lowlands 

 and southward to northern Mexico ; accidental in Mich, 

 h. Woodland Sparrows. Peucaea. 



Small or medium sparrows with short, often truncate, 

 wings and rather long, graduated tails ; streaked above, but 

 unstreaked below. 



1. PINE-WOODS SPARROW, P. ASTIVALIS. 6.70 ; gray 

 above thickly streaked with chestnut, darkening to brown on 

 middle of back; white below; throat, breast, and sides, dull 

 buff, fig. 284. Young, more reddish above and narrowly 

 streaked on breast with dusky. Partly resident, but many 

 migrate southward in winter. Frequents the flat, grassy pine 

 woods. Flight, low, fluttering and erratic ; keeps much in 

 the grass, through which it runs nimbly, and is quite diffi- 

 cult to start. Song, given when perching on the lower limb 

 of a tree, or on a stump, a prolonged, rather swee,t trill end- 

 ing with a series of chirps or a harsh tiill. 



1*. BACHMAN'S SPARROW, P. A. BACHMANI. A lit- 

 tle larger than 1, more buffy above ; streakings more reddish , 

 and clearer buff beneath. Breeds from S. C., northern Ga. 

 and the Gulf Coast west of Fla. north to southern Va., south 

 ern Ind., and southern 111. ; south in winter to Fla. 

 i. Buffy Sparrows. Coturniculus. 



Small sparrows with short, truncated wings, short, grad- 

 uated tails with narrow, pointed feathers, with ab.uffy under 

 tint; crown, with central stripe of buff. 



1. GRASSHOPPER SPARROW, C. PASfeERiNUS. 5.15; 

 ashy above streaked with reddish and brown; edge of wing 

 and line over eye to bill, yellow; middle lower parts, white, 

 fig. 285. Young, and winter adults narrowly and obscurely 

 streaked across breast with reddish. Breeds in eastern U. S. 



