FINt 'I IKS. Sl'.YKi;\VS. KTC. 279 



C. Throat and breast slate-color, like the back ; belly and outer tail- 

 feather* whito ; bill tic.th -<..!. >r (ncsU in the Middle SUtes only on 

 the higher part* of the Alloghanic*) 667. JONOO. 



D. UndorparU white or whitish, practically all one color. 



a. Haunts wet marshes. 



>. HaunU always null marshes, generally near the sea; back 

 grayish 550. SEASIDE SPABBOW. 



a*. HaunU both aalt- and Crush-water marshes; back brown, 

 atreaked with black; cap and wings chestnut; song a loud, 

 sharp, rapidly repeated wtt-wtt-ic*t, etc, 



684 SWAMP SPABBOW. 



b. HaunU dry field*, pastures, roadsides, lawns, thickets, etc. 



fr>. Outer tail-feather* white, middle of the breast with a small 

 black spot (not found cart of the A Mechanics). 



652. LARK FINCH. 

 c". Outer tail-feathers not white. 



A Upper part* reddish-brown, bill pinkish flesh-color, haunU 

 bunny fields and pasture*; song a musical, plaintive chtr- 

 rr, cher-vitt, chtr-wtt, cktto-dtt dt-d-det-d44, 



568. FIELD SPARROW. . 



c*. Bill dark brown, a butty line through the center of the 

 ground ; song an insect-like pit-tut, let tte t ttt. 



646. GRASSHOPPER SPABROW. 



c*. Back streaked with black, cap chestnut, a white line 

 over the eye, bill black ; song a monotonous chippy-chippy- 

 chippy, etc 560. CHIPPING SPARROW. , 



<*. Larger, length about 7*00; crown black, with a white 

 central stripe; throat not noticeably different from the 

 breast; no yellow over the eye (rare; ne*U north of New 

 England) 554. WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW. 



614. Cocothrauates vespertinua i ''<,/,.). KVENINO GROSBEAK. 

 Ad. 6 . Forehead yellow, crown black ; sides of head olive-brown, becoming 

 dull yellow on rump; belly and scapulars yellow, wings and tail black; 

 end half of the secondaries and tlu ir rove its white. Ad. 9 . Brownish gray, 

 lighter ->n the uiulcr juirt.t. more or lew tinged with yellow, especially on the 

 nape ; wings black, inner primaries white at the base, secondaries edged with 

 white; tail black, the feathers tipped with white on the inner web; U|>|HT 

 tail-covert* black tij>|H-l with white. L., 8-00; W., 4-50; T., 8-50; B n 78. 



Range. Interior >f North America, from Manitoba northward; southeast- 

 ward in winter to the upper Mis*i.4Mppi Valley and casually to the northern 

 Atlantic States. 



Cambridge, known to have occurred only in winter of 1889-TK). 



Nut, known but from few >] .-'uni n*. com|r.<-il "('small twigs lined with 

 bark, hair, or pallets, plawl within twent\ tVet nf the ^n>und. /.';/</*, three 

 to four, greenish, blotched with pale brown (see Da 



This <iistinui-hr<l inhabitant of the far northwest is a common 

 wjnter vi-iunt in Manitoba and the contiguous parts of the bordering 



