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YELLOW- WINGED SPARROW^. 



tail wood-brown, slightly edged with paler, wing-coverts light brown, the 

 central parts of the feathers darker. There is a narrow white line over 

 the eye, and the minute feathers margining the eyelids are of the same 

 colour. The throat and fore-neck are white. A line of short brownish- 

 black streaks passes on either side from the base of the lower mandible, 

 separating a narrow portion of the white space, and margining the lower 

 part of it, although there the streaks are scattered ; the middle part of 

 the breast and abdomen are also greyish-white. 



Length 5| inches, extent of wings 9 ; bill along the ridge /^ ; tar- 



