FAMILT FRINGILLIDiE. SPARROAVS, FINCHES, CROSSBILLS, ETC. 



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Bill, dark; back, black; uuderparts, white, streaked sliai-ply with black. 

 Occurs ia Eastern Florida only. 



Dusky Sea-side Sparrow. 



Ammodrannis nigrescenx. 

 See No. 419. 



Bill, pale horn color ; sides ol head aud nap.i, tinged 

 with olive green. 



Henslow's Sparrow. 



Ammodramns hensJovii, 

 See No. 412. 



Part 2. The followmg species have the breast more or less streaked ; 

 carpal joint (bend of wing), not yellow: — 



Breast, very faintly streaked; middle tail feathers, 

 rufous brown, with black stripe in middle, includ- 

 ing the shaft; wing coverts and secondaries, edged 

 with rufous brown. 



Swamp Sparrow. 

 Melospiza georgiana. 



See No. 438. 

 Mclospiza georgiana. 



Breast, sharply streaked witli black; shafts 

 of tail feathers, not black. 



Lincoln's Sparrow. 



Melospiza lincolnii. 

 See No. 437. 



Melospiza lincolnii. 



Part 3. The following species have the breast not streaked (in the 

 adult*); carpal joint (bend of wing), edged with yellow: — 



Top of head, black with tawny stripe in centre ; an orange brown spot over, and 



somewh.at in front of, the eye. 



Yellow-winged Sparrow. 



Grasshopper Sparrow. 



Ammodramus savannarvm passerinus. 

 See No. 411. 



* In several species, very young birds in first plumage liavc tlie breast streaked. 



