FBINGILLID^ : FINCHES, BUNTINGS, SPARROWS, ETC. 341 



Analyah (partkU) of Genera. 

 BiU metagnathous, botli mandibles falcate, their points crossed. ^ red, ? dark and yellowish . Loxia 66 

 Bill enormous, nearly = tarsus, greenlsh-yeKow. Wings black and white ; tail and tibiae black. ( Western. ) 



Ifesperophona 61 

 Bill parrot-like, whitish. Head conspicuously crested. (f $ gray and carmine, face not black. Length 



7.50 or more. (S. W. U. S.) /'urr/mloxla 94 



Bill reddish. Head conspicuously crested. cf vermilion, face black. ? gray and reddish. Length T.50 



or more. (E. and S- U. S.) Cardinalls 95 



Bill with a ruff, or pair of nasal tufts, of antrorse r-lumules, at base of upper mandible. 



J.ength 8.00 or more, cf jv'^/ and gray, $ gray and yellowish, uncrested. Bill /urjyu/, hooked. (Boreal.) 



J'inicola 62 

 — under SW. — Bluish^gray, below reddish-gray, cro\vn, wings, and tail black. (Alaska ) 



I'l/ rrlmla 63 



— fr/ii/e, with black on back, wings, and tail ; orwashed with clear brown. (Boreal.) 



J'kctrop han es 72 



— Chocolate-brown, unstreaked, with rosij edgings ; black or clear ash on head. 



(Western.) Leucostlcte 67 



— Streaky ; no yellow ; cf extensively red : ? dark and white. Bill turgid. {E. and 



W. U. S.) f'arpodacus 65 



— Streaky, with dusky or flaxen-brown and white ; crown crimson. Bill acute. 



(Boreal.) yEgiothus 08 



— Streaky everywhere, no red or pure black, some yelloioish. Bill acute. (N. Am.) 



Chrysomitria 70 



— Streaky or not ; much yellow, wings and tail black, no red. Bill moderate. (U.S.) 



Astragalinus 71 

 [Intermediate between Nos. 68 and 70] . . Llnota 69 

 Bill without ruff; nostrils exposed. 



Hind claw lengthened, .s^rai.£//i^enerf. — Bill mof/era^c; (f with a ccAov^d cervical collar ; oblique white 



on tail. (N. and W. N. A.) Centrophanes 73 



— Bill turgid; no cervical collar : transverse white on tail. (West- 

 ern.) Rhynchophaiies 74 



Hind and fore claws lengthened ; all much curved ; inner reaching at least ^ way to end of middle 



one — 



— Spotted and streaked foxy or slaty sparrows, about 7.00 long. (N. Am.) 



Passe.rella 86 



— Black, white and chestnut, m masses. (A Western species of) .... Pipilo 90 

 Hind and fore claws not peculiar. 



Length 4.50 or less. — J" Black and white, $ olivaceous and yellowisli. (Texas) . . Spermophlla 92 

 (J Greenish blackening on head, ^ greenish, (Florida.) . . . Phonipara 93 

 Length 7.50 or more. —Tail longer ^Accti wings. Plain brown, etc., or black, white, and chestnut. 



(IT. S.) PipUo 96 



— Tail shorter than wings. iS breast rose or orange ; $ sulphur or satt'ron 



under wings (U. S.) Zamdodla 89 



Length over 4.50, under 7.50. 



Colors greenish ■— with yellow — on edge of wing, and — 2 rufous crown-stripes. (Texas. ) 



Emhernagra 97 

 — Crown chestnut, breast ashy. (West- 

 ern species of) Pipilo 96 



— on all under parts — no head markings. ($ of a southern spe- 

 cies of) Passerina 91 



Colors not greenish, and not extensively and decidedly spotted or streaked. 



Black, with great white wing-patch ; longest secondary about = longest primary. 



(Western.) Calamospnza 87 



Bhie, with chestnut on wings, <f ; plain brown, $ ; over 6.00 long. (U. S.) Guiraca 90 

 Blue, with red, purple, gold, white, or not, J" ; brown, with white or not, 9 '■> under 



6.00 long. (U. S.) Passerina 91 



Slate or ashy, red-backed or not, belly and 1-3 tail-feathers white. (N. Am.) Junco 82 

 Gray, throat and tail black, head with 2 white stripes, belly white. (Western. ) 



Amphispiza 81 

 Colors not greenish, but somewhere or everywhere spotted or streaked. 



Inner secondaries lengthened, about equalling primaries in the closed wing, 



A large white wing-patch. Upper parts much streaked. ( 9 of) . . Calamospiza 87 

 Bend of wing chestnut ; outer tail-feather wH^e; no yellow anywhere. (N. Am.) 



Po(£cet€S 76 

 Ifo white or chestnut area on wing, its edge (usually) yellowish. (N. Am. ) 



Pccsserculus 75 



