- Melospiza melodia
Identification
- Medium-sized, long-tailed
- Short, rounded wings
- Bill size variable, often rather narrow and pointed
- Brown lateral crown-stripes and a grey, paler median stripe
- Greyish on the side of the head with brown stripes back from eye, along lower edge of ear-coverts and malar
- Distinct dark streaks below, on upper breast usually coalescing to form a small dark patch
L 13-15 cm
Distribution
N American species
