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long. Adults: Top of head plain chestnut, back 

 and rump brown, streaked with black, and brown- 

 ish-gray, wings and tail-feathers edged with bay ; 

 below, ashy, tinged with brown. Young : Streaked 

 above and below with blackish. 



185. Fox Sparrow. 



Length about 7 inches, tail about 3 inches long. 

 Above, deep-rusty and brownish-gray, wings with 

 two whitish bars ; below, white, thickly marked 

 with triangular spots of deep-rusty on chest, the 

 sides and flanks streaked with the same colour. 

 Young : Similar to adults. 



186. Red-breasted Grosbeak. 



Length about 7J inches, tail about 3J inches 

 long ; bill thick. Adult male : Above, black, varied 

 with white on wings and tail, rump white ; below, 

 white, with breast and under wing-ceverts rose-red. 

 Adult female: Above brownish, streaked with 

 dusky ; below, brownish-white, streaked with 

 dusky, under wing coverts yellowish. Young male : 

 Similar to adult male, but more brownish, streaked 

 with black. 



187. Indigo Bunting. 



Length about 5 inches, tail about 2J inches long. 

 Adult male: General colour of plumage rich ultra- 

 marine-blue to rich cerulean -blue. Adult female : 



