Female streaked. Nest in a tree or bush ; eggs greenish, thickly 
spotted. (Page 64.) 
Guiraca. Upper mandible flat laterally. Colors : $ deep blue, with 
two rufous bands on wings ; no white patches on wings or tail ; axiflars 
and lining of wing blue; 9 olive-brown without streaks. Nest in a 
bush ; eggs plain bluish-white. (Page 64.) 
b. Size very small (wing less than 3.00 inches ). 
Cyanospiza. Similar in form to Guiraca , but culmen more curved, 
mandible more shallow, the angle and sinuations of the commissure 
less conspicuous. Color: $ more or less blue, without any bands on 
wing (except in C. amcena in which they are white) ; 9 olive-brown. 
Nest in a bush; eggs plain bluish- white (except in C. ciris, in which 
they have reddish spots). (Page 64.) 
B. Wing and tail about equal. The smallest of American Conirostres. Nest in 
bushes. Eggs white, spotted. 
Spermophila. Bill very short and broad, scarcely longer than high, 
not compressed ; culmen greatly curved. Color : chiefly black and 
white, or brown and gray. (Page 65.) 
Phonipara. Bill more triangular, decidedly longer than deep, much 
compressed ; culmen only slightly curved, or perfectly straight. Colors : 
dull olive-green and blackish, with or without yellow about the head. 
Co Wing much shorter than the tail. (Page 65.) 
a. Head crested. Prevailing color red. Bill red or whitish. 
Pyrrliuloxia. Bill pyrrhuline, very short, and with the culmen greatly 
convex ; shorter than high. Hind claw less than its digit ; not much 
larger than the middle anterior one. Tarsus equal to the middle toe. 
Nest in bush or low tree ; eggs white, spotted with lilac and olive. 
(Page 66.) 
Cardinalis. Bill coccothraustine, very large ; culmen very slightly 
convex. Wings more rounded. Feet as in the last, except that the 
tarsus is longer than the middle toe. Nest in bush or low tree ; eggs 
white, spotted with lilac and olive. (Page 66.) 
5. Head not crested. Colors black, brown, or olive, without red. Bill dusky, 
or bluish. 
Pipilo. Bill moderate ; culmen and commissure curved. Hind claw 
very large and strong ; longer than its digit. Tarsus less than the 
middle toe. Nest on ground or in low bush ; eggs white sprinkled with 
red, or pale blue with black dots and lines round larger end. (Page 66.) 
Genus CALAMOBPIZA, Bonap. (Page 62 .) 
C. bicolor. Male black ; a broad band on the wing (covering the whole of the greater 
coverts), with the outer edges of the quills and tail-feathers, white. Female pale brown, 
streaked with darker above ; beneath white, spotted and streaked rather sparsely with 
black on the breast and sides. A maxillary stripe of black, bordered above by white. A 
broad fulvous white band across the ends of the greater wing-coverts; edge of wing 
white. Length, 6.50; wing, 3.50; tail, 3.20. Nest on ground, of loose grass; eggs light 
blue, usually unspotted. Young. Similar to the female. (Lark Bunting . ) 
Hab. High Central Plains to the Rocky Mountains. 
