. The birds of Illinois and Wisconsin . Jan., 1909. Birds of Illinois and Wisconsin—-Cory. 193. GROUP 2. Wing, to inches long. PART 1. The following species have the breast more or less streaked;carpal joint (bend of wing), edged with yellow: — Bill, dark; sides of head, tawny bufif enclosing a patch of gray behind the eye; heavy tawny buff superciliary stripe. Passerherbulus caudacutus nelsoni. Nelsons Sharp-tailed Sparrow. See No. 253. Bill, pale horn color; sides of head and nape, tinged with olivegreen. Coturniculus henslowii. Henslows Sparrow. See No. 251. PART 2. The following


. The birds of Illinois and Wisconsin . Jan., 1909. Birds of Illinois and Wisconsin—-Cory. 193. GROUP 2. Wing, to inches long. PART 1. The following species have the breast more or less streaked;carpal joint (bend of wing), edged with yellow: — Bill, dark; sides of head, tawny bufif enclosing a patch of gray behind the eye; heavy tawny buff superciliary stripe. Passerherbulus caudacutus nelsoni. Nelsons Sharp-tailed Sparrow. See No. 253. Bill, pale horn color; sides of head and nape, tinged with olivegreen. Coturniculus henslowii. Henslows Sparrow. See No. 251. PART 2. The following species have the breast more or less streaked;carpal joint (bend of wing), not yellow: — Breast, very faintly streaked; middle tail feathers, rufous brown,with black stripe in middle, including the shaft; wing coverts andsecondaries, edged with rufous brown. Melospiza georgiana. Swamp No. 269. Breast, sharply streaked with black; shafts of tail feathers, not black. Melospiza lincolnii. Lincolns Sparrow. See No. 268.


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