FINCHES, SPARROWS, ETC. 375 
bt. A buffy line over the eye and at the side of the throat, breast 
generally washed with buffy; haunts only salt marshes (rarely 
found far from the vicinity of the seashore). 
549. SHARP-TAILED SPARROW. 
b2. No buff on the sides of the head or breast; upperparts black- 
ish; song tstp-tstp-tstp’ sé-é-é-s'r-r-r; rarely breeds south of 
New York City; haunts both salt- and fresh-water marshes. 
542a. SAVANNAH SPARROW. 
b3. Back reddish, head and neck buffy olive; haunts generally 
wet pastures; song an inconspicuous see-wich (rather rare, 
living in small colonies of local distribution). 
47. HENSLOW’s SPARROW, 
2. Underparts not distinctly streaked or spotted. 
A. Underparts not white or whitish, all one color. 
a. Throat pure white, sharply defined from the grayish breast, a 
yellow spot over the eye; crown black, with a central stripe of 
white; haunts thickets or bushy woodlands; song a high, clear, 
musical whistle; call-note a sharp chink. . 
558. WHITE-THROATED SPARROW. 
b. Throat not white. 
a. ae and breast black. 
. Sides of the throat and belly white, crown ash, sides of the 
head chestnut . House SPARROW. 
a?, Length 8°00; sides of ‘the body light tufous, outer tail-feathers 
tipped with white; haunts thickets and bushy woodlands; 
call-note a vigorous towhee or chee-wink . . 587. TOWHEE. 
b. Throat and breast slate-color, like the back; belly and outer tail- 
feathers white; bill flesh-color (nests, in the Middle States, only 
on the higher parts of the Alleghanies) . . . 567. JUNCo. 
B. Underparts white or whitish, practically all one color. 
a. Haunts wet marshes. 
@,. Haunts always salt marshes, asnsrally near the sea; back 
grayish SEASIDE SPARROW. 
a. Haunts both ‘salt- and fresh-water eae back brown, 
streaked with black; cap and wings chestnut; song a loud, 
sharp, rapidly repeated weet-weet-weet, etc. 
584. Swamp Sparrow. 
b. Haunts dry fields, pastures, roadsides, lawns, thickets, etc. 
1, Outer tail-feathers white, middle of the breast with a small 
black spot (not found east of the Alleghanies). 
552. Lark SPARROW. 
oe. Outer tail-feathers not white. 
c?. Upperparts reddish brown, bill pinkish flesh-color; haunts 
bushy fields and pastures; song a musical, plaintive, cher- 
wee, cher-wee, cher-wee, cheeo-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee. 
563. Frrtp SPARROW. 
c3, Bill dark brown, a buffy line through the center of the 
ground; song an insect-like pit-tuk, zee-zee-zee-zee-zee. 
546. GRASSHOPPER SPARROW. 
c4, Back streaked with black, cap chestnut, a white line over the 
eye, bill black; song a monotonous chippy-chippy-chippy, etc. 
60. Cuippine SPARROW. , 
c, Larger, length about 7°00; crown black, with a white central 
stripe; throat not noticeably different from the breast; no yel- 
low over the eye (rare; nests north of New England). 
554, WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW. 
514. Hesperiphona vespertina vespertina (W. Coop.). EvENING 
GrosBEak. Ad. @.—Forehead yellow, crown black; upperparts olive- 
. brown, becoming dull yellow on rump; belly and scapulars yellow, wings and 
