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Crown, olive gray; chin, white; throat, 

 black; breast, yellow; belly, wliite; 

 shoulder (wing coverts), chestnut 

 brown; back, streaked with black; 

 more or less yellow over the eye. 



Black-throated Bunting. 

 Dickcissel. 



Spiza americana. 



See No. 451. 



Undcrparts, dull buffy yellow; more or less black streaks on sides; crown, black- 

 ish, with tawny iMff stripe through centre; back, heavily streaked with black; 

 tail feathers, very pointed. (This bird belongs in Section 8, as it is not a 

 Tanager or a Finch, but the bill might appear Priugilline to begiimers.) 



Bobolink. 



Dolichonyx onjzivorus {female). 

 See No. 370. 



General plum.age, more or less blue. 



Blue Grosbeak. 



&uiraca ccerulea. 

 See No. 445. 



Underparts, brownish white, tinged with blue on the breast ; head, rump, 

 and lesser wing coverts, usually tinged with blue. 



Blue Grosbeak. 



Ouiraca ccerulea {female). 

 See No. 445. 



