368 FRINGILLID. 
hypochondriis murino tinctis, rostro et pedibus plumbeo-nigris. Long. tota 4°8, ale 2°35, caude 2:3, 
tarsi 0°7. (Descr. feminw ex La Paz, California. Mus. nostr.) 
do femine omnino similis. 
Av. jun. dorso medio vix striato, corpore subtus omnino albo, pectore murino vix striato. (Descr. exempl. ex’ 
Mexico. Mus. nostr.) . 
Hab. NortH America, Utah and Nevada ®, California® and Texas !’.—Mexico, 
Tamaulipas (J. H. Clark *), Guaymas (Belding ®). 
This well-defined Finch is not common in Mexico, and we have no specimens with 
definite localities from any place in Southern or Central Mexico, nor any records of its 
having been obtained in either district. Along the northern frontier it seems to be 
more frequently met with both in the Rio Grande valley and in that of the Gila and the 
adjoining country. Northwards it occurs in the middle province of the United States 
from the 40th parallel between the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevada, that is in 
the sage-brush chaparral. It also occurs in California, and is migratory in the northern 
part of its range®, The song of A. bilineata is described as simple but composed of 
very sweet notes*. Its nest is usually placed in a sage-bush near the ground and is 
built of straws and lined with fine roots. The eggs are of a rounded-oval shape, white, 
with a slight tinge of blue when fresh *. 
2. Amphispiza quinquestriata. (Zonotrichia quinquestriata, Tab. XXVII. 
fig. 2.) | , 
Zonotrichia quinquestriata, Scl. & Salv. P. Z.S. 1868, p. 323°. 
Amphispiza quinquestriata, Ridgw. Ibis, 1883, p. 400°. 
Schistacea, interscapulio vinaceo tincto; alis caudaque fusco-nigricantibus, secundariorum et tectricum 
majorum marginibus externis brunnescentibus ; superciliis, striga utrinque rictali et gula media albis ; 
gula superiori utrinque et inferiori tota cum pectore medio nigris; ventre medio, hypochondriis et crissi 
plumarum marginibus nigris ; rostro nigricanti-zeneo, mandibula flavo notata; pedibus corylinis. Long. 
tota 6°5, alee 28, caude 2°5, tarsi 0°7. (Descr. exempl. typ. ex Mexico. Mus. Brit.) 
Hab. Mexico }. 
The type of this well-marked species is still the only specimen we have seen up to 
the present time. It was for a long time in the late Mr. Gould’s possession, having 
been sent him with some Humming Birds from Mexico. Judging from the preparation 
of the skin, we believe that it was made by Floresi, who resided for some time in the 
mining districts of Central Mexico, and who corresponded with Gould. 
ZONOTRICHIA. 
Zonotrichia, Swainson, Faun. Bor.-Am. iii. p. 493 (1831) ; Baird, Brew., & Ridgw. N. Am. B.i. 
p. 565; Coues, Key N. Am. B. ed. 2, p. 381. 
This name was first used by Swainson, in a subgeneric sense, for several North- 
American Finches, which have been since removed into as many genera. One of these, 
Z. leucophrys, has been selected as the type of the genus Zonotrichia. Though several 
