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WHITE- THROATED SPARROW. 



each eye, and deepening into orange yellow between that and the 

 nostril; this is again bordered by a stripe of black proceeding from 

 the hind part of the eye; breast ash; chin, belly, and vent white; 

 tail somewhat wedged; legs flesh colored; bill a bluish horn co- 

 lor; eye hazel. In the female the white stripe on the crown is a 

 light drab; the breast not so dark; the chin less pm^e; and the 

 line of yellow before the eye scarce half as long as in the male. 

 All the parts that are white in the male are in the female of a light 

 drab color. 



