FINCHES, SPARROWS, ETC. 



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C. Tliroat and breast slate-color, like the biu'k ; belly and outer tail- 

 feathers white ; bill tlesli-eolor ( nests in tiie Middle States only on 

 the higher parts of tlie Allej,'lianies) &tJ7. Jlnco. 



D. Under parts white or whitish, praetiouUy uU one eolor. 

 a. Haunts wet marshes. 



a». Haunts always salt marshes, generally near the sea; back 



grayish &')0. Skasidk Si'ahkow. 



a*. Haunts both salt- and tVesh-water marslies; back brown, 

 streaked with bluek ; cap and wings chestnut; song u loud, 

 sharp, rapidly repeated weet'Weet-wett^ etc. 



684. Swamp Spauuow. 

 6. Haunts dry fields, pastures, roadsides, lawns, thickets, etc. 



i». Outer tail-feathers white, middle of the breast with a small 

 black spot (not found ea.st of the AUeghanies). 



552. Lahk Fiwch. 

 c>. Outer tail-feathers not wiiitc. 



c». Upper parts reddish-brown, bill pinkish ttcsh-color; haunts 

 bushy tields and pastures; song a musical, plaintive cher- 

 wee, cher-wee, cker-wee^ cheeo-dee-Uee-dee-dec-dee. 



5(i3. FiKLD Sparhow. 

 c». Bill dark brown, a butFy line through the center of tho 

 ground; song an insect-like /)/<-<mX-, zee-zee-zee-zee-zee, 



546. Gkasshoppkk ISpakrow. 



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



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



chippy, etc fiiW. Cmippino Sparrow. 



t*. Larger, length about 7'00; crown black, with u wliite 

 central stripe; throat not noticeably dirt'erent from the 

 breast; no yellow over tlie eye (rare; nests north of New 

 England) 5o4. WniTE-<;RoWNEi> Sparrow. 



614. Cocothraustes vespertinus (^onjt.). Kvenixo GKosrtKAR. 

 Ad. 4.— Forehead yellow, crown black; sides of the heail olive-brown, chang- 

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

 end half of the secondaries and their coverts white. A<i. 9 . — Brownish gray, 

 lighter on the under parts, more or less tinged with yellow, espcciallv on the 

 nape; wings black, inner prinuiries while at the base, secondaries etlged with 

 white; tail black, the feathers tipped with white on the inner web; iippiT 

 tail-coverts black tipi>ed v^ith white. L., S'OO; W., 4-r)0 ; T., ll-AO; B., 7'J. 



liiiiKje, — Interior of North America, from Matiitolta northward; soiitlieast- 

 ward in winter to the upper Mississippi \'alley and casually to the northern 

 Atlantic States. 



Cambridge, known to have occutred only in winter of lS89-'90. 



Nest, known but from few specimens, composed of small twigs lined with 

 bark, hair, or rootlets, placed witliin twenty feet of tlie ground, AV/y*, three 

 to four, greenish, blotched with pale lirown (see DaviiO. 



This distinguished inhabitant of the far northwest is a common 

 winter visitant in Manitoba and the contiguous parts of ":c bordering 



