Photometric comparisons of the NIRSPEC sample with all spectroscopically confirmed ﹩U_{n}G\mathstrut{\cal R} ﹩‐selected galaxies in the same fields and redshift range. The top panels compare the rest‐frame UV photometry: ﹩\mathstrut{\cal R} ﹩ vs. ﹩G-\mathstrut{\cal R} ﹩ at top left, and ﹩G-\mathstrut{\cal R} ﹩ vs. ﹩U_{n}-G﹩ at top right. From top to bottom, the shaded regions show selection criteria for the ﹩z\sim 3﹩ LBGs (C/D and MD, Steidel et al. 2003) and for BX and BM galaxies (Steidel et al. 2004). Objects that fall outside the selection windows were selected using either earlier photometry or criteria extending slightly blueward in ﹩U_{n}-G﹩. In the bottom panels we compare the near‐IR photometry: ﹩K_{s}﹩ vs. ﹩\mathstrut{\cal R} -K_{s}﹩ at bottom left, and ﹩K_{s}﹩ vs. ﹩J-K_{s}﹩ at bottom right. The dashed lines show ﹩K_{s}=20﹩ and ﹩J-K_{s}=2.3﹩ in the left and right panels, respectively. We include objects with ﹩1.4< z< 1.9﹩; 6 of the 114 objects in the NIRSPEC sample are in this redshift range.