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Analysis [partial) of Genera. 



Bill rrbetag7iathou8i both mandibles falcate, their points crossed. J ^^d, 9 darl£ and yellowisli . Loxia 66 

 Bill enormous, nearly ^tarsus, ^ree»isA-yeWoi«. Wings blaclc and white ; tail and tibise black. (Western.) 



Sesperoplwna 61 

 Bill parrot-like, whitish. Head conspicuously crested. ,} $ gray and carmine, face not blacls. Lengtli 



7.50 or more. (S. W. U. S.) Pyrrhulosda 94 



Bill reddish. Head conspicuously crested. <} vermilion, face black. 9 gray and reddish. Length 7.50 



or more. (E. andS. XT. S.) ... . Ca/rdimalis 96 



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



Length 8.00 or more. J i-eri and gray, J gray and yellowish, uncreated. SiWtwgid, hooked. (Boreal.) 



Pinicola 62 

 — under 8.00. — Bluish-gray, below reddish-gray, crown, wings, and tail black. (Alaska.) 



— White, with black on back, wings, and tail ; or washed with clear brown. (Boreal.) 



Plectroplicmes 72 



— ChocOlate-brovm, unstreaked, with rosy edgings ; black or clear ash on head. 



(Western.) Leucosticte 67 



— Streaky ; no yellow ; J extensively red: $ dark and white. Bill turgid. (E. and 



W. U. S.) . . . . . . . • . Carpodacus 65 



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



(Boreal.) . . . . . .Mgiothus 68 



— Streaky everywhere, tco red or pure black, some yellowish. Bill acute. (N. Am.) 



Chrysomitris 70 



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



Astragalinus 71 

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

 Bill without mff; nostrils exposed. 



Hind claw lengthened, s^raigfA^ened. — BiU moderate ; (J with a aolov^ cervical collar ; oblique white 



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



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

 ern.) Rhynchcphanes 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.) 



Passerella 86 



— Black, white and chestnut, m masses. (A Western species of) .... Pipilo 96 

 Hind and fore claws not peculiar. 



Length 4.50 or less. — cf Black and white, 9 olivaceous and yellowish. (Texas.). . Spermophila 92 

 J Greenish blackening on head, 9 greenish. (Florida.) . . . Phonipara 93 

 Length7,50ormore. — Tail longer thorn, wings. Plain brown, etc. , or black, white, and chestnut. 



(TT. S.) . . Pipilo 96 



— Tail shorter than wings. (^ breast rose or orange ; 9 sulphur or sailron 

 under wings (U. S.) ..... ZamelodM 89 



Length over 4.50, under 7.50. 



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



Eiribemagra 97 

 — Crown chestnut, breast ashy. (West- 

 ern species of) . ... . . Pipilo 96 



— on all under parts — no head markings- (9 of a southern, spe- 

 cies of) Passerina 91 



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



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



(Western.) Calamospiza 87 



Bbce, with chestnut on wings, (J ; plain brown, 9 ; over 6.00 long. (U. S.) Guiraca 90 

 Blue, with red, purple, gold, white, or not, (f ; brown, with white or not, 9 ; under 



6.00 long. (U.S.) .... Passerina 91 



5ia«e or ashy, red-backed or not, belly and 1-3 tail-feathers toftiie. (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 wvng-patch. Upper parts much streaked, ( 9 of ) . Calanu>spiza 87 

 Bend of wing chestrmt ; outer tail-feather white ; no yellow anywhere. (N. Am. ) 



Pocecetes 76 

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



Passerculus 76 



