. The birds of Illinois and Wisconsin. Birds; Birds. 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 buff enclosing a patch of gray behind the eye; heavy tawny buff superciliary stripe. Passerherbulus caudacutus nelsoni. Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow. See No. 253. Bill, pale horn color; sides of head and nape, tinged with olive green. Coturniculus henslowii. Henslow's Sparrow. See No. 251. PART 2. The following species have the breast more or less str
. The birds of Illinois and Wisconsin. Birds; Birds. 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 buff enclosing a patch of gray behind the eye; heavy tawny buff superciliary stripe. Passerherbulus caudacutus nelsoni. Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow. See No. 253. Bill, pale horn color; sides of head and nape, tinged with olive green. Coturniculus henslowii. Henslow's 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 and secondaries, edged with rufous brown. Melospiza georgiana. Swamp Sparrow. See No. 269. Breast, sharply streaked with black; shafts of tail feathers, not black. Melospiza lincolnii. Lincoln's Sparrow. See No. Melospiza lincolnii. PART 3, The following species have the breast not streaked (in the adult*); carpal joint (bend of wing), edged with yellow: — Top of head, black with tawny stripe in center; an orange brown spot over, and somewhat in front of, the eye; bend of wing, yellow. Coturniculus savannarum australis. Grasshopper Sparrow. Yellow-winged Sparrow. See No. 250. * In several species, very young birds in first plumage have the breast Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Cory, Charles B. (Charles Barney), 1857-1921. Chicago
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