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YELLOW-WINGED SPARROW.
tail wood-brown, slightly edged with paler, wing-coverts light brown, the
central parts of the feathers darker. There is a narrow white line over
the eye, and the minute feathers margining the eyelids are of the same
colour. The throat and fore-neck are white. A line of short brownish-
black streaks passes on either side from the base of the lower mandible,
separating a narrow portion of the white space, and margining the lower
part of it, although there the streaks are scattered ; the middle part of
the breast and abdomen are also greyish-white.
Length 5| inches, extent of wings 9 ; bill along the ridge /^ ; tar-
