Plate CCCXC. Fig. 4. Male.
Hind claw and toe of equal length; upper parts brownish-grey tinged
with olivaceous, streaked with dark reddish-brown; three longitudinal
bands of bluish-grey on the head; secondaries and their coverts
broadly margined with dull chestnut; tail-feathers with a fainter tint
of the same; on the cheek a whitish line, and beneath it a dusky brown
band; throat and fore part of the neck white, with longitudinal dark
reddish-brown streaks; the middle of the breast yellowish-white, the
sides dark yellowish-brown, streaked with dark reddish-brown; lower
tail-coverts brown, broadly margined with pale yellowish-grey.
_Male_, 6, 8.
Platte River, North California, and Columbia River. Common. Migratory.
Fringilla cinerea, Gmel. Syst. Nat. v. i. p. 922.
Cinereous Finch, Arct. Zool. v. ii. N. 260.
Brown Song Sparrow, Fringilla cinerea, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. v.
p. 22.