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FRINGILLIDiE, FINCHES, ETC. GEN. 69. 



bill plumbeous, feet dark; 5-f-6-| ; wing 2^-2 J ; tail about 2. WiLS., iv, 

 68, pi. 34, f. 2; Nutt., i, 2d ed. 592, 593; Aud., iii, 103, 106, pi. 172, 



m {macgilUvrayi) ; Bd.,,454 makitimus. 



1 ;■ Sharp-tailed Finch. Olive-gray, sharply streaked on the back with 

 ' blackish and whitish ; crown 



darker than nape, with brown- 

 ish-black streaks and obscure 

 median line ; no yellow loral 

 spot, but long line over eye and 

 sides of head rich buif or orange- 

 brown enclosing olive-gray 

 auriculars and a dark speck 

 behind these ; below, white, the 

 fore parts and sides tinged with 

 yellowish brown or buif of vari- 

 able intensity, the breast and 

 sides sharply streaked with 

 dusky. Eather smaller than the 



FIG. 84. DetailB of Btruoture in Sharp-tailed Finch. ]j^g(. . |jj]J g^iH slenderer, and 



tail feathers still narrower and more acute. Wils., iv, 70, pi. 34, f. 3; 

 Nutt., i, 504; Aud., iii, 108, pi. 174; Bd., 453. . . . caudacutus. 



69. Genus MELOSPIZA Baird. 



*Breast streaked, and with a transverse belt of brownish-yellow ; tail nearly 

 equal to wings. 



Lincoln's Finch. Below, white, breast banded and sides often shaded 



\\o with yellowish, everywhere except on the belly thickly and sharply streaked 

 with dusky; above grayish-brown, crown and back with blackish, brownish 

 and paler streaks ; tail grayish-brown, the feathers usually showing blackish 

 shaft lines ; wings the same, the coverts and inner quills blackish with bay 

 and whitish edgings ; no yellow on wdngs or head ; 5 J ; wing and tail about 

 2^. North America; not common in the Eastern States. Aud., iii, 116, 

 pi. 177 ; Nutt., i, 2d ed. 569; Bd., 482; Coop., 216. . . lincolnii. 

 ** Breast ashy, unbelted, with few streaks, or none ; tail about equal to wings. 

 "V^ Swamp Sparrow. Crown bright bay, or chestnut, blackening on the fore- 



^^"^ head, often with obscure median ashy line, and usually streaked with black ; 

 cervix, entire sides of head and neck, and the breast, strongly ashy, with 

 vague dark auricular and maxillary markings, the latter bounding the whitish 

 chin, the ashy of the breast obsoletely streaky ; belly whitish ; sides, flanks and 

 crissum strongly shaded with brown, and faintly streaked; back and rump 

 brown, rather darker than the sides, boldly streaked with black and pale 

 brown or grayi.sh. Wings so strongly edged with bright bay as to appear 

 almost uniformly of this color when viewed closed, but inner secondaries 

 showing black with whitish edging; tail likewise strongly edged with bay. 



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