274 PINCHES, SPARROWS, ETC. 



c. Back trown or brownish, ashy, or slate-color. 

 C. Head and rump yellowish or reddish ; wing-bars white ; wing 



over 4-00 515. Pine Gkosbeak ( 9 and im.). 



c'. Under parts brownish cream-buff; wing-ooverts with broad 

 chestnut tips ; wing over 3-00 . . . 597. Blue Grosbeak 9 . 

 0=. Under parts whitish ; wing without yellow and under 3-00. 



598. Indigo Buntino 9 . 

 c*. Back ashy ; spot before the eye and on bend of wing yellow. 



550. Seaside Bpaekow. 

 £. Back distinctly streaked. 

 c4. Bend of the wing yellow, 

 a'. Tail over 2-20. 

 a!'. A white throat-patch ; breast gray ; a yellowisb line over 

 the eye . . . . 558. White-thkoated Spakrow. 



a'. A black spot on the throat ; breast yellow, or both. 



604. DiCKOISSEL. 



a*. No yellow over the eye; breast ashy or buffy; outer tail- 

 feathers much the shortest. 



575. PiNE-wooDs Spaerow. 575a. Baohman's Sparrow. 

 4>. Tail under 2'20, the feathers narrow and sharply pointed. 

 63, Crown olive-brown, a blue-gray line through its center; 

 checks and breast ochraceous-buff. 



549a. Nelson's Sparrow. 

 Js. Crown blackish, a oream-buff line through its center. 



546. Grasshopper Sparrow. 

 i. Bend of the wing not yellow. 

 J'. Crown bright reddish brown, the feathers sometimes tipped 

 with ashy or brownish, but witlwut hlach streah. 

 {a. No white or whitish wing-bars ; outer tail-feathers much 

 shorter than middle ones; lesser wing-coverts, upper tail- 

 coverts, and margins of most of the tail-feathers rufous; wing 



under 2'o0 584. Swamp Sparrow. 



J'. Cheeks and throat ashy, a narrow reddish brown line from 

 back of the eye to the nape, an indistinct black spot in the 



center of the breast 559. Tree Sparrow. 



t*. Eye-ring whitish, entire bill brownish flesh-color. 



563. Field Sparrow. 

 J». Eump slaty gray; under parts generally all grayish white; 

 forehead bliok, with a narrow grayish line in its middle, a 

 narrow black line from back of the eye to the nape. 



560. Chipping Sparrow. 

 c'. Crown streaked or spotted with black or black and white. 

 6*. Crown with chestnut streaks, and sometimes a slight ashy 

 line through its center ; no white or whitish wing-bars ; outer 

 tail-feathers much shorter than middle ones. 



584. Swamp Sparrow (Im.). 



(!>. Crown with reddish brown ; rump ashy ; wing-bars butfy ; 



middle tail-feathers shortest, 560. Chipping Sparrow (Im.). 



