PASSERES FEINGILL1DAE PEUCAEA CASSINI. 



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the species of which was left undetermined. It proves, however, to be the 

 young in the first plumage of this variety. 



Feathers above with dark-brown centers, and edged conspicuously with 

 fulvous ; brightest on the rump, where each feather is broadly tipped with 

 the same ; beneath pale ochraceous-yellow, becoming strong fulvous on the 

 flanks and under tail-coverts ; upper parts of breast and throat strongly and 

 sides less distinctly marked with longitudinal streaks of black; wing-coverts 

 edged and tipped with strong fulvous ; inner secondaries bordered with 

 same, but darker ; tail-feathers black, margined with dull rufous ; bend of 

 wing edged with light yellow ; bill above dark bro'wn, paler beneath. 



PEUCAEA CASSINI (Woodh.). 

 Cassia's Sparrow. 



Zonotrichia cassinii, WOODH., Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pbila., vi, April, 1852, GO (San 

 Antonio, Tex.). 



Passerculus cassinii, WOODH., Sitgreave's Exp. Zuni & Col. Riv., 1854, 85, pi. 4. 



Peuccca cassini, BD., Birds N. A., 1858, 485 (in part.) EEERM., P. li. 11. Rep., Parke's 

 Route, x, 1859, 12, pi. iv, f. 2. BD., U. S. & Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt, ii, 

 1850, Birds, 1C. COOPER, Birds Cal., i, 1870, 219. SNOW, Birds Kan., 1872, 

 11. BD., BREW., & RIDG., N. A. Birds, ii, 1874, 42, pi. 28, f. 5 COUES, 

 Birds Northwest, 1874, 140. Id., Check-List, app., No. 170 bis. 



Peuccea ccstivalis yar. cassini, ALLEN, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool.. 1872, 137 (Middle Kansas). 



There can, I think, be no question of the propriety of ranking this 

 sparrow as a valid species, not only from the difference of coloration, but 

 also the pattern of the markings, and the entire distinctness of its song and 



