274: FINCHES, SPARROWS, ETC. 



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

 c 1 . Head and rump yellowish or reddish ; wing-bara white ; wing 



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



c*. Under parts brownish cream-buff ; wing-coverts with broad 

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

 c. Under parts whitish ; wing without yellow and under 3'00. 



598. INDIGO BUNTING . 

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



550. SEASIDE SPARROW. 

 S. Back distinctly streaked. 



a. Bend of the wing yellow. 

 a 1 . Tail over 2-20. 



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



I the eye 558. WHITE-THROATED SPARROW. * 



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



604. DICKCISSEL. 



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

 feathers much the shortest. 



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

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

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

 cheeks and breast ochraceous-butt'. 



549a. NELSON'S SPARROW. 

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



546. GRASSHOPPER SPARROW. ^- 



b. Bend of the wing not yellow. 



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



with ashy or brownish, but without black streaks, 

 b*. 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*. 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. 



b*. Eye-ring whitish, entire bill brownish flesh-color. 



53. FIELD SPARROW. 



i 8 . Rump 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>. 'Crown streaked or spotted with black or black and white, 

 c*. 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 buffy; 

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



