lt‘th'lll‘lS, Sl’1\RRO\VS, ET I. 279 C Throat. and hreast slate-eolnr. like the haelt; holly and outer tuil- feathers white; hill tlesl1~eelor tllehls in the Middle Stutes only on the higher parts ot'the Alleghanies) . . . . . . . 567. JUNCO. 1). Under parts white or whitish. praetieally all one eolor. a.ll;1ut1ts \\'et111arsl1es. .ll111111ts alums salt 111:11sl1es,«renuallv near the sea; buck gray isl1 . , . . . . . . . . . 5130. 5L 1s111h SeARRow. 11‘. llaunts hoth salv and fresh—water nears s; hack brown, streaked with hlaek; eap and wings chestnut; song a loud, sharp, rapidly repeated ll‘t'tl-Ll'th»1L7L’L‘{, etc. 5114. SWAMP SPARROW. b. llaunts dry fields, pastures, roadsides, lawns thickets, etc. 31‘. ()uter tail—t atl1e1s white. 111iddle11t the hreast with a small bluek spot 1, not found east of the Alleghunies). 00:2. LARK FINCH.

0‘. Outer tail-feathers not white.

Upper parts 1'eddisl1d11u11v11, hill pinkish flesh-color; haunts hushy fields and pastures; song 11 1nusieul, plaintive c/wr— Il'ee, ("MP-(Ute, Che/”11TH, (f/Leeo—t/ee—tldc-dw—dec-dce.

5113, FIELD SPARROW. 03. Bill dark l1rown.;1 hutl‘y line through the eenter ot’ the ground, song 1111 insect-like [deli/l: Z(’<’*EU€—Z£’0'Z€€'z€e. 546. GRASSHOPPER SPARROW. c‘. Baek streaked with hlaek, cap chestnut, a white line our the eye, hill hlaek; song 11 1111111<1to11ous chippy— Chippy— c/u']1/1f/,ete. . . . . . 1 . 1'1 ,. CHIPHSG SI’ARRUW 4:". Larger, length nhout’: (in; e'rown black, with a white central stripe: throat not not1ee1lvl\ difierent from the breast: no yellow over the eye. (rare; nests north of \ew England). . . . . . 554. \VuirE—cnowxnn SPARROW.

514. Cocothraustes vespertinus (Vim/1.). EVEVING Glmsm-jAK. At]. (t .glVort-head yello\\',erown hlaek; sides of the headolive—hrown,ehang— ing to dull yellow on the rump: helly 11nd scapulars. wings and tail hlaek ; eonduries and their eorerts white. .llvl. 9.#l§rownisl1gray, lighter on the under parts. more or less tinged with yellow. espeeially on the

end halt‘ ot' the st

nape; wings hlaek. inner pri111aries white at the hase, secondaries edged with white: tail l1laek, the t'eathers tipped with white on the inner weh; upper tail-em‘erts hluek tipped with white. 11., 5-00: \V.. 4'50; 'l‘.,v;1l); 1)... 7'1. [fang/w. rilnteriut'nt‘ North .\n1eriea. from )lanitoha northward. southeast ward in winter to the upper 1\lis. ..ippi Valley and easually to the northern Atlantie States. (‘zunhridgm known to have oeeurred only in winter ul‘ [Sm-‘90.

.\1«.<t.knuw11 hut from t'ew speeilnens. eompused of small twigs lined with hark, hair. or rootlets, plaeed within twenty t'eet ot' the ground. [Hg/ya; three to four, greenish. lilotehed with pale hrnwn (see Davie).

This distinguished inhabitant of the far northwest is a common winter visitant in Manitoba and the, contiguous parts of the bordering