274: FINCHES, SPARROWS, ETC. 



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

 £». Head and rump yellowish or reddish; wing-bars white; wing 



over 4*00 515. Pine Gbosbeak ( 9 and ini.). 



c*. Under parts brownish creain-butf ; wing-coverts with broad 

 chestnut tips ; wing over 300 . . . 597. Blie Gkosbeak t . 

 c». Under purta whitish ; wing without yellow and under 3-00. 



598. iNnioo Blntino 9 . 

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



550. Seasiujc iSpauuow. 

 £. Back distinctly streaked. 

 a. Bend of the wing yellow, 

 a>. Tail over 2'20. 

 a\ A white throat-patch ; breast gray ; a yellowish line over 



the eye 558. Wiiite-thkoated Sparrow, 



a». A black spot on the throat ; breast yellow, or y)oth. 



604. DiCKCISSEL, 



o*. No yellow over the eye ; breast ashy or butfy ; outer tail- 

 feathers much the shortest. 



575, Pine-woods Sparrow. 575rt. Baciiman's Sparrow. 

 6*. Tail under 2'20, the feathers narrow and sharply pointed, 

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

 cheeks and breast ochraceous-buff. 



540a. Nelson's Sparrow, 

 h*. Crown blackish, a crcaiii-butFlinc through its center. 



540. Grasshopper Sparrow. 

 h. Bond of the wing not yellow. 

 J*. Crown bright reddish brown, the feathers sometimes tipped 

 with ashy or brownisli, but without hhick streah. 

 ft'. 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 250 584. Swamp Sparrow. 



ft». Cheeks and throat ashy, a narrow reddish brown line from 

 back of the eye to the nape, an indistinct black spot in tlio 



center of the breast 559. Tree Sparrow. 



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



563. Field Sparrow. 

 ft». Rump slaty gray; under parts generally all grayish white; 

 foreliead black, with a narrow grayish line in its middle, u 

 narrow black line from back of the eye to the nape. 



560. CinppiNo Sparrow. 

 c>. Crown streaked or spotted with black or black and wliite. 

 t*. Crown with chestnut streaks, and sometimes a slight asliy 

 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 butfy; 



middle tail-feathers shorti'st. 500. Chippinu Sparrow (Im.). 



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