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across the jugulum with ochraceous or ashy ; jugulum streaked; a dusky “ bridle ” 
on each side of throat ; above it a maxillary stripe of ochraceous or white. Nest 
in tussock or on ground. 
1. A. caudacutus. Ad. Above olive, the dorsal feathers darker and edged 
with whitish-ochraceous ; superciliary and maxillary stripes deep ochraceous ; 
jugulum and sides tinged with the same, and sharply streaked with black. 
Juv. Wholly ochraceous, darker above; crown and back streaked with 
black, the former divided medially by a pale-brown stripe ; breast and sides 
streaked with black. Length, 5.00 ; wing, 2.30. Eggs greenish to whitish, 
thickly and uniformly sprinkled with fine rusty-brown dots. Fab. Atlantic 
coast of United States. ( Sharp-tailed Finch.') 
2. A. maritimus. Ad. Above ashy, the dorsal feathers obsoletely darker 
centrally ; superciliary stripe yellowish-ashy, bright yellow over the lores ; 
maxillary' stripe white; jugulum and sides tinged with ashy, the former 
obsoletely streaked with dark ashy. Juv. Above olivaceous, the crown and 
back streaked with black, the former not divided by a lighter median line ; 
breast and sides washed with ochraceous and distinctly streaked with black. 
Length, 6.00 ; wing, 2.50. Eggs grayish-white, coarsely and uniformly 
blotched with reddish-brown. Hob. Atlantic coast of United States. (Sea- 
side Finch.) 
g Genus CHONDESTES, Swainson. (Page 51.) g 
. Streaked on the back. Head with well-defined large stripes. Beneath white, with a 
pectoral spot. Only one species recognized. Nest on ground or on bushes. Eggs white, 
marbled, dotted, and with tangled waving lines of blackish, as in the Orioles. 
C. grammaca. Crown and auriculars chestnut, the former divided by a fulvous stripe ; 
forehead black, divided medially by white ; a loral bar, triangular spot on cheek, stripe on 
each side of throat, and spot on jugulum, black ; rest of head, and beneath, with broad 
ends of tail-feathers, and two bands on wing, white ; above grayish, the back streaked 
with black. Length about 7.00 ; wing, 3.30. Fab. Pacific coast of United States; east 
to Wisconsin, Illinois, and Michigan. (Lark Sparrow.) 
^ Genus ZOlfOTHICHSA, Swainson. (Page 51.) g 
Common Characters. Feathers of interscapular region blackish centrally, pass- 
ing into rufous-brown and edged with paler. Rump and upper tail-coverts 
uniform olivaceous-ashy brown. Two white bands on the wings ; the tertials 
edged with rufous. Beneath without streaks. Head above marked with black, 
and generally with white. Cheeks plumbeous. Length about 7 inches; wing 
-about 3.25. Nest, on ground. Eggs varied, usually greenish-white, thickly 
marked with dark blotches. 
A. Black of the crown divided by a median light stripe. Jugulum ashy. 
a. Throat ashy, uniform with the breast. 
1. Z. leucophrys. Median stripe of the crown white. A black 
stripe from behind the eye, and a white superciliary stripe. 
A black stripe from the eye to black of forehead, across 
lore. Fab. Eastern Province of North America, west through- 
out Rocky Mountains ; Cape St. Lucas in winter. ( White- 
crowned Sparroiu.) ...... var. leucophrys 
No black streak in front of eye, the lct*es being wholly 
ashy. Fab. Western Province North America, east to Rocky 
Mountains. ( QambeVs Finch.) .... var. gambel\ 
