FAMILY FKINOILLin.K. — SI'AUKOWS, FINCHES, rUOSSUrf-IS, KTC 



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Bill, dark; back, black; uii.liTparts, white, slrcaked sli:iri>ly uiili black. 

 Ooi'urs in Kastorn Florida only. 



Dusky Sea-side Sparrow. 

 Ammodram im nigri'itvnis. 

 Sei- No. 419. 



>r^y^*?» Bill, pale horn color; side-, of head and nap.'. Iin<;fd 

 with oiivf ^rccn. 

 '*^'^~ i:-i>i>^ Henslow's Sparrow. 



,^_,_. AiinHnilriinni.t hrnsloirii, 



^^^^ See No. 412. 



Part 2. The followmgf species have the breast more or less streaked ; 

 carpal joint (bend of wing), not yellow: — 



Breast, very faintly streaked; middle tail featliers, 



rufous brown, with black stripe in middle, includ- 



infj the shaft; wing coverts and secondaries, edged 



with rufous browu. 



Swamp Sparrow. 



Melospiza (iforrjinna. 



See No. 438. 

 Melospiza jrcorgiaua. 



Hn-ast, sharply streaked with hlacU; shafts 

 of tail feathers, not black. 



Lincoln's Sparrow. 

 Melospiza Unrolnii. 

 See No. 437. 



Melospiza lincoloii. 



Part 3. The following species have the breast not streaked (in the 

 adult*); carpal joint ( bend of wing), edged with yellow: — 



Top of head, black with tawny stripe in centre; an orange brown spot over, and 



somewhat in front of, the eye. 



Yellow-winged Sparrow. 



Grasshopper Sparrow. 



Ammndramns anrnnnannn passerinus. 

 See No. 411. 



In several speclce, very youug birds In fli>t jiluningc have the brcaat streaked. 



