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ZOOLOGY BIRDS. 



(Kansas ; Colorado City). COUES, Key N. A. Birds, 1872, 148. SNOW, Birds 

 Kan., 1872, 11. BD., BREW., & EIDG., 1ST. A. Birds, ii, 1874, 65, pi. xxviii, 

 figs. 11, 12. HENSHAW, Eop. Orn. Specs., 1873, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 

 119. ALLEN, Proc. Bust. Soc. Nat. Hist., Juue, 1874, 17, 29. COUES, Birds 

 Northwest, 1874, 164. 



The abundance of this bunting in Texas has been attested by several 

 observers. It extends through New Mexico, where it was found by Dr. 

 Woodhouse, and reaches the extreme southeastern portion of Arizona, where 

 I have taken it the past two seasons. In 1873, I supposed it to be a mere 

 straggler in this section, as I saw but a single individual ; but the past year 

 we found it occurring in small numbers, usually four or five together, asso- 

 ciated sometimes with other sparrows, in the canons and among the brush 

 of the rocky hill sides. 



HEDYMELES MELANOCEPHALUS (Swains.). 

 Black-headed Grosbeak. 



Gulraca melanocephala, SWAINS., Syn. Mex. Birds, Philos. Mag., i, 1827, 438. BD., Birds 

 N. A., 1858, 498. XANTUS, Proc. Acad. Nat, Sci. Plula., 1859, 192 (Fort 

 Tejon, Gal.). BD., Proc. Acad. Nat, Sci. Phila., 1859, 304 (Cape Saint 

 Lucas). COOP. & SUCKL., P. E. E. Rep., xii, pt. ii, 1860, 216. HAYD., 

 Trans. Am. Phil. Soc., xii, 1862, 168. COUES, Proc. Acad. Nat, Sci. Phila., 

 186<i, 88 (Fort Whipple, Ariz.). Id., ib., 1868, 84. COOPER, Birds Cal., i, 

 1870, 228. SNOW, Birds Kan., 1872, 11. MERRIAM, U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., 

 1872, 083. 



Cocciiborus melanocephalus, HEERM., P. E. E. Eep., x, pt. ii, 1859, 51. 



cit mi-la nocrphala, HENRY, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859. 107 (New Mex- 

 ico). ALLEN, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zoo'l., 1872, 178 (Middle Kansas; Colorado; 

 Ogdeii, Utah). COUES, Key N. A. Birds, 1872, 149. ALLEN, Proc. Bost. 

 Soc. Nat. Hist., June, 1874, 15, 17, 29. COUES, Birds Northwest, 1874, 167. 

 melanocephalus, BD., BREW., & EIDG., N. A. Birds, ii, 1874, 73, pi. 30, tigs. 

 1, 2. YARROW, Eep. Orn. Specs., 187t, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 35. YAR- 



