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7. Tail rounded, the middle rectrices longest, or 

 equal to longest, and decidedly longer than 

 lateral pair; pileum largely black, or with two 

 broad lateral bands of chestnut and a median 

 one of buffy, or with a yellowish patch; larger 

 (wing not less than 68.58 mm., usually much 



more than 71.12 mm.) ZonotricMa (p. 329) 



qq. Tail emarginate or double-rounded, the middle 

 rectrices decidedly shorter than the longest, 

 usually shorter than lateral pair, never 

 longer; pileum, plain chestnut, rufous, or 

 gray, or narrowly streaked with black; 

 smaller (wing notmorethan 71.12 mm., usu- 

 ally less than 68.58) mm Spizella (p. 305) 



00. Upper parts grayish, including the back, the latter 

 usually unstreaked; tail shorter than wing. 



Amphispiza (p. 261) 



);(/;(. Tail shorter than distance from bend of wing to tip of 



secondaries; lateral rectrices without white; middle 



rectrices barred with black; Tjing tip shorter than 



exposed culmen Plagiospiza (p. 229) 



ik. Outermost (ninth) primary shorter than second (sometimes 

 shorter than secondaries), or else {Aimophila, part) the 

 tail graduated for as much as length of middle toe, with- 

 out claw, or more. 

 I. Back streaked, or else pileum and back plain purplish 

 grayish brown, passing into gray on rump, upper tail- 

 coverts, and tail Aimophila ^ (p. 230) 



U. Back not streaked, nor purplish grayish brown in color. 

 m. Tail more than three times (sometimes nearly four 

 times) as long as tarsus; outermost (ninth) primary 

 not distinctly, if at all, shorter than secondaries 



(sometimes longer) . _ Pipilo (p. 402), 



n. Tail not more than three times as long as tarsus, 

 usually less; outermost (ninth) primary distinctly 

 shorter than secondaries. 

 0. Eighth primary longer than secondaries. 

 p. Tibial feathers short (normal), not clear yellow. 

 q. Tail shorter than wing. 



/•. A white loral spot, or else outermost primary 

 edged with white; edge of wing white, or 

 else a yellow patch on side of neck and a 



white auricular spot Melozone (p. 437) 



rr. No white loral spot nor edging to outermost 

 primary; back olive-green, or if gray a 

 black or grayish brown band across chest; 

 edge of wing yellow or olive-green, or, 

 if white, a black or grayish brown band 

 across chest; no yellow patch on sides of 

 neck nor white auricular spot. 



'A very heterogeneous and probably unnatural genus, which, however, I am 

 unable to subdivide. ~ 



