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Resembles conimon Junco, but sides, pinkish brown; head, neck, 

 and chest, slate gray. Junco hyemalis montanus. 



Montana Junco. 

 ■ See No. 264. 



Similar to last, but has head, neck, and chest, black or blackish; 

 sides, pinkish brown. Junco oregonus shufeldti. 



Shufeldt's Junco. 

 See No. 265. 



Throat, white ; crown, brown, with whitish stripe through middle ; 

 back, streaked; tail feathers, broadly tipped with white. 



Chondestes grammacus. 

 Lark Sparrow. 



See No. 254. 



Throat, ashy white; belly, white, tinged with pale buff on sides; 

 crown, bright rufous; tail feathers, very narrowly edged with white; 

 upper mandible, blackish; lower mandible, pale yellowish white, 

 with dark tip; back, streaked. Spizella monticola. 



Tree Sparrow. 

 See No. 259. 



Throat and under parts, pale buffy white or ashy white ; crown and 

 back, dull brown; back, streaked with blackish; tail, very narrowly 

 edged with bufEy white; bill, reddish brown; rump, brownish. 



Spizella pusilla. 

 Field Sparrow. 

 See No. 262. 



Throat, white ; crown, rufous ; a white stripe over the eye ; outer 

 tail feather, very narrowly edged with whitish on inner web; bill, 

 black; back, streaked; rump, slaty gray. Spizella passerina. 



Chipping Sparrow. 



See No. 260. 



PART 4. The following species have no red, blue, green, or yellow 



on the under parts ; throat or chin, not black, and the breast 



or sides, not distinctly streaked; no white on 



breast or the tail feathers : — 



Crown, green, like back; throat and under parts, pale bufE; back, 

 green, without streaks. Passerina ciris {immature ) . 



Painted Bunting. Nonpareil. 



See No. 277. 



