FAMILY FEtlXGlLLID.E. SPARKOAVS, FINCHKS, CROSSBILLS, ETC. 



Crown, olive ^ray ; chin, white; throat, 

 black; breast, yellow; belly, white; 

 slioukler (wing coverts), chestnut 

 brown; back, streaked with black; 

 more or less yellow over the eye. 



Black=throated Bunting. 

 Dickcissel. 



Spiza americana. 



See Xo. 4.51. 



Undcrparts, dull huffy yellow ; more or less black streaks on sides ; crown, black- 

 ish, with tawny buff stripe through centre; back, heavily streaked with black; 

 tail feathers, very pointed. (This bird belongs in Section 8, as it is not a 

 Taaa^er or a Finch, but the bill might appear Friugilline to beginners.) 



Bobolink. 



Dolichomjx oryzivorus (female). 

 See No. 370. 



General j)luiiiage, more or less blue. 



Blue Grosbeak. 



Guiraca cccruha. 

 See No. 445. 



L'nderparts, brownish white, tinged with blue on the breast; head, rump, 

 and lesser wing coverts, usually tinged with blue. 



Blue Grosbeak. 



Ouiraca cccmlea {female). 

 See No. 445. 



