Buntings. 51 



The Pileated Finch (Coryphospingus pileatus). 



The hen is altogether browner than the cock, and has a brown 

 instead of carmine crest ; it is also smaller. 



Red-crested Finch (Coryphospingus cristatus). 



The female is browner than the male, with all the crimson 

 replaced by rosy-vinous, very pale on the ear-coverts and under parts 

 of the body ; the lores ashy whitish ; crest brown instead of carmine. 



Diuca Finch (Diuca diuca). 



The female is, as usual, smaller than the male, and is " browner 

 where the latter is grey ; ear-coverts brown ; cheeks, throat, breast, 

 and abdomen white ; fore-neck, chest, and sides of body pale ashy 

 brown, inclining to reddish-brown on the flanks, and to orange on 

 the sides of the vent" (Sharpe, Catalogue of Birds, vol. xii. p. 801). 



Snow Bird (Junco hiemalis). 



More ashy in the female than in the male, but tending to ashy 

 blackish on the head and hind-neck ; the penultimate tail-feather 

 with a small brown edging to the end of the outer web, and the 

 white on the third feather reduced to an irregular mark on the 

 inner web. 



Chingolo Song-Sparrow (Zonotrichia pileata). 



The female is smaller than the male, and duller in colour. In the 

 Museum Catalogue the female is said to be larger, but this is 

 probably due to stretching of the skin ; Sclater and Hudson say that 

 it is smaller, which is far more likely. 



White-eyebrowed Song-Sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys). 



According to Ridgway " usually with the median crown-stripe 

 rather narrower and greyer (than in the male), the occipital portion, 

 and also the supra-auricular stripe distinctly grey " (Birds of North 

 and Middle America, vol. i. p. 337). Doubtless, when indistinguish- 

 able in plumage from the male, the outline of the beak would suffice 

 to distinguish it. 



Indigo Finch or Bunting (Cyanospiza cydnea). 



The female is smaller than the male, the winter plumage of which 

 it approaches more nearly than that of the summer ; it is brown 

 above, tinged with blue on the shoulders, edges of larger feathers, 

 and rump ; below whitish, indistinctly streaked with dull buff. 



Nonpareil Bunting (Cyanospiza ciris). 



The hen is duller than the cock ; above entirely olive-golden 

 green ; the under parts huffish-yellow instead of scarlet ; the absence 

 of blue from the head will always distinguish it even from those 

 cage-moulted cocks in which the red of the under surface has been 

 replaced by yellow ; in young cocks also there is usually a trace of 



