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Analysis (partial) of Genera. 
Bill metor/na^AoMS, both mandibles falcate, their points crossed, red, $ dark and yellowish . Loxia 66 
Bill enormous, nearly = tarsus, greenish-yellow. Wings black and white; tail and tibiae black, (Western.) 
Hesperophnna 61 
Bill parrot-like, whitish. Head conspicuously crested. cT ? gray and carmine, face not black. Length 
7.50 or more. (S. W. U. S.) I'yrrhuloxia 94 
Bill reddish. Head conspicuously crested, cf vermilion, face black. ? gray and reddish. Length 7.50 
or more. (E. and S U.S.) Cardinalis 95 
Bill with a ruff, or pair of nasal tuffs, of antrorse plumules, at base of upper mandible. 
Length 8.00 or more, cf red and gray, ? gray and yellowish, uncrested. Bill turgid, hooked. (Boreal.) 
Pinicola 62 
— under 8.00. — Bluish-gray , below reddish-gray, crown, wings, and tail black. (Alaska.) 
Pyrrhula 63 
— White, with black on back, wings, and tail ; or washed with clear brown. ( Boreal.) 
Plectrophanes 72 
— Chocolate-brown, unstreaked, with rosy edgings ; black or clear ash on head. 
(Western.) Leucosticte 67 
— 5'^rea7j?/ ; no yellow ; cf extensively re<Z/ 9 ^l^'^'^k and white. Bill turgid. (E. and 
W. U. S.) Carpodacus 65 
— Streaky, with dusky or flaxen-brown and white ; crown crimson. Bill acute. 
(Boreal.) uEgiothus 68 
— Streaky everywhere, no red or pure black, some yellowish. Bill acute. (N. Am.) 
Chrysomitris 70 
— Streaky or not ; much yellow, wings and tail black, no red. Bill moderate. (U.S.) 
Astragalinus 71 
[Intermediate between Nos. 68 and 70] . . Linota 69 
Bill loithout ruff ; nostrils exposed. 
Hind claw lengthened, s^rair/Zi^enef?. — Bill mof/era^e ; cf with a coIovqCL cervical collar ; oblique white 
on tail. (N. and W. N. A.) Centrophanes 73 
— Bill turgid; no cervical collar : transverse white on tail. (West- 
ern.) Rhynchophanes 74 
Hind and fore claws lengthened ; all much curved ; inner reaching at least ^ way to end of middle 
one — 
— Spotted and streaked foxy or slaty sparrows, about 7.00 long. (N. Am.) 
Passerella 86 
— Black, white and chestnut, in masses. (A Western species of) .... Pipilo 96 
Hind and fore claws not pecidiar. 
Length 4.50 or less. — cf Black and white, $ olivaceous and yellowish. (Texas ) . . Spermophila 92 
cf Greenish blackening on head, 9 greenish. (Florida.) . . . Phonipara 93 
Length 7.50 or more. — Tail longer than wings. Plain brown, etc. , or black, white, and chestnut. 
(U.S.) Pipilo 96 
— Tail shorter than wings, cf breast rose or orange ; 9 sulphur or saft'ron 
under wings. (U. S.) Zamelodia 89 
Length over 4.50, under 7.50. 
Colors greenish — with yellow — on edge of wing, and — 2 rufous crown-stripes. (Texas. ) 
Embemagra 97 
— Crown chestnut, breast ashy. (West- 
ern species of) Pipilo 96 
— on all under parts — no head markings. ( ? of a southern spe- 
cies of) Passerina 91 
Colors not greenish, and not extensively and decidedly spotted or streaked. 
Black, with great white wing-patch ; longest secondary about = longest primary. 
(Western.) Calamospiza 87 
Blue, with chestnut on wings, cf ; plain brown, 9 ; over 6.00 long. (U. S.) Guiraca 90 
Bhie, with red, purple, gold, white, or not, cf ; brown, with white or not, 9 ! under 
6.00 long. (U. S.) Passerina 91 
Slate or ashy, red-backed or not, belly and 1-3 tail-feathers white. (N. Am.) Junco 82 
Gray, throat and tail black, head with 2 white stripes, belly white. (Western. ) 
Amphispiza 81 
Colors not greenish, but somewhere or everywhere spotted or streaked. 
Inner secondaries lengthened, about equalling primaries in the closed wing. 
A large white iving-patch. Upper parts much streaked. ( 9 of ) . . Calamospiza 87 
Bend of wing chestnut ; outer tail-feather white ; no yellow anywhere. (N. Am. ) 
Pooecetes 76 
No white or chestnut area on wing, its edge (usually) yellowish. (N. Am. ) 
Passerculus 75 
