378 FRINGILLIDA. 
in some marshy ground near the sea. ‘This bird was determined by Mr. Lawrence, to 
whom it was sent for that purpose %. — 
In the United States S. socialis is one of the most familiar species, being extremely 
abundant about houses, &c. %, and building in shrubberies, making a rough nest of 
coarse stems of grasses and other plants with a lining of hair. The eggs, five in number, 
are of a bluish-green colour, sparingly spotted towards the larger end with marks of 
umber, purple, and dark blackish brown mingled with lighter shadings of purple; they 
are said to vary greatly in size 8, 
Mr. Brewster has given a description of the young in the first plumage, in his 
valuable paper on the first plumage in various species of North American birds (Bull. 
Nutt. Orn. Club, iii. p. 121.) 
2. Spizella pinetorum. (Tab. XXVII. fig 3.) 
Spizella pinetorum, Salv. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 189'; Ibis, 1866, p. 193°; Ridgw. Ibis, 1884, p. 44°. 
S. social affinis sed supra multo obscurior, capite summo saturate castaneo nec clare rufo distinguenda; rostro 
corneo, mandibula pallida, pedibus carneis. Long. tota 5°3, ale 2°7, caude 2°4, rostri a rictu 0°4, tarsi 
0°65. (Descr. exempl. typ. ex Poctun, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 
Av. jun. capite summo sicut dorso striato. 
Hab. GUATEMALA, pine-ridges of Poctun (0. 8.12), Vera Paz (Hague). 
In our original description of this species we compared it with S. pusilla, but its 
affinities, as Mr. Ridgway has since pointed out*, are certainly with S. socialis. A 
single specimen only was obtained by Salvin during his expedition to Peten in. 1863. 
It was shot amongst tall grass growing in a savanna near the village of Poctun in the 
department of Peten. Our second specimen of this species was sent us from Vera Paz 
by Mr. Henry Hague. It is not so mature as the type, the head having streaks on the 
crown, as is the case in immature birds of the allied species S. socialis. 
3. Spizella pallida. 
Emberiza pallida, Sw. Faun. Bor.-Am. ii. p. 2511. 
Spizella pallida, Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 480°; Baird, Mex. Bound. Surv. il., Birds, p. 16°; ‘Sel, 
P.Z.8. 1859, p. 879"; Dresser, Ibis, 1865, p. 489°; Dugés, La Nat. i. p. 140°; Baird, 
Brew., & Ridgw. ii. p. 11%; Sennett, Bull. U.S. Geol. Surv. iv. p. 19°; Coues, Key N. Am. 
B. ed. 2, p. 881°. 
Fringilla pusio, Licht. Preis-Verz. Mex. Voég. p. 2; ef. J. f. O. 1863, p. 56 '°. 
Supra pallide fusca, undique nigricante striata, fascia verticali pallida ; alis et cauda nigricantibus pallide fusco 
limbatis, illis albido bifasciatis ; capitis lateribus, cervice laterali et hypochondriis fuscis, superciliis latis 
sordide albis, corpore toto reliquo subtus albido; rostro pallide corneo, pedibus carneis. Long. tota 5:2, 
alee 2-4, caudee 2°5, rostri a rictu 0-438, tarsi 0°65. (Descr. feminz ex Puebla, Mexico, Jan. 1866. Mus. 
nostr.) 
Hab, Norvu America, British America, Central U.S., Texas > 78 9.—Mexico 2 (Deppe "), 
Tamaulipas (Couch *), Guanajuato (Dugés °), Oaxaca (Boucard 4). 
