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. Analysis (partial) of Genera. 
Bill metagnathous, both mandibles falcate, their points crossed. gi red, 9 dark and yellowish . Lowia 
Bill enormous, nearly = tarsus, greenish-yellow. Wings black and white; tail and tibiz black. (Western.) 
Hesperophona 
Bill parrot-like, whitish. Head conspicuously crested. gf 9 gray and carmine, face not black. Length 
7.50 or more. (S.W.U.S.) 2... 2. eee SG Pay aor . » « » Pyrrhuloxvia 
Bill reddish. Head conspicuously crested. gf vermilion, face black. ¢ gray and reddish. Length 7.50 
or more. (E.andS.U.8.).... . . . Cardinalis 
Bill with a ruff, or pair of nasal tusts, of niiieatee plumules, at base of upper mandible, 
Length 8.00 or more. ¢g red and gray, 9 gray and yellowish, uncrested. Bill twrgid, hooked. (Boreal.) 
Pinicola 
—under 8.00.— Bluish-gray, below reddish-gray, crown, wings, and tail black. (Alaska.) 
Pyrrhula 
— White, with black on back, wings, and tail ; or washed with clear brown. (Boreal.) 
: Plectrophanes 
— Chocolate-brown, unstreaked, with rosy edgings ; black or clear ash on head. 
(Western.) Leucosticte 
— Streaky ; no yellow; ¢ extensively red; 9 dark and white. Bill turgid. (E. and’ 
WiSY)) ee ae ies : Carpodacus 
— Streaky, with dusky or flaxen-brown and ‘white; crown crimson. Bill acute. 
(Boreal. ) ww . . . Afgiothus 
— Streaky everywhere, no paca or eure black, some yellowieh, Bil acute. (N. Am.) 
Chrysomitris 
— Streaky or not ; much yellow, wings and tail black,no red. Bill moderate. (U.S.) 
Astragalinus 
{Intermediate between Nos. 68 and 70]. . Linota 
Bill without ruff; nostrils exposed. 
Hind claw lengthened, straightened. — Bill moderate; g with a colored cervical collar ; oblique white 
on tail, (N.and W.N.A.). . . . . . Centrophanes 
_ Bil turgid; no cervical collar transverse white on tail. (West- 
erm.). . : . Rhynchophanes 
Hind and fore claws lengthened; all much curved ; inner aenahins ‘et least 4 way to end of middle 
one — 
— Spotted and streaked foxy or slaty sparrows, about 7.00 long. (N. Am.) 
Passerella 
— Black, white and chestnut, in masses. (A Western species of) . . . . Pipilo 
Hind and fore claws not peculiar. 
Length 4.50 or less. — gf Black and white, 9 olivaceous and yellowish. (Texas.). . Spermophila 
od Greenish blackening on head, ? greenish. (Florida.). . . Phonipara 
Length 7.50 or more. — Tail longer than wings. Plain brown, etc.,or black, white, and chestnut. 
(U.S.) . io Sees Hie, otis ang Se . ; - . Pipilo 
— Tail shorter than wings. of breast rose or ‘orange ; ; 9 sulphur or saffron 
under wings. (U.S.) Ss Bewtibe Cpe ete . Zamelodia 
Length over 4.50, under 7.50. 
Colors greenish —with yellow —on edge of wing, and —2 rufous crown-stripes. (Texas.) 
Embernagra 
— Crown chestnut, breast ashy. (West- 
ern species of) . . . Pipilo 
—on all under parts no head markings. (9 of asouthern spe- 
ciesof) . . . . Passerina 
Colors not greenish, and not extensively and dectdedly spotted « or streaked. 
Black, with great white wing-patch ; longest Baie about = longest ‘primary. 
(Western.) . .. . ‘i - . « Calamospiza 
Blue, with chestnut on wings, or sais brown Q 3 over 6.00 long. (U.S.) Guiraca 
Blue, with red, purple, gold, white, or not, g ; brown, with white or not, 2 ; under 
6.00 long. (U.S)... . Passerina 
Slate or ashy, red-backed or not, belly and 1- 3 tail-feathers anita. ww. Am.) Junco 
Gray, throat and tail black, head with 2 white stripes, belly white. (Western.) 
Amphispiza 
Colors not greenish, but somewhere or everywhere spotted or streaked. 
Inner secondaries lengthened, about equalling primaries in the closed wing. 
A large white wing-patch. Upper parts much streaked. (Q of) . . Calamospiza 
Bend of wing chestnut ; outer tail-feather white; no yellow anywhere. (N. Am.) 
Poecetes 
No white or chestnut area on wing, its edge (usually) yellowish. (N. Am.) 
Passerculus 
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