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tlie ground. I have never heard but a single style of call note, and this 

 differs in toto from that of the Eastern Towhee, bearing no resemblance to 

 the familiar and oft repeated clicwink of that bird, but is so exactly like 

 the drawling mew of our common Catbird as to readily deceive one. The 

 song is quite varied, now bearing little resemblance to the notes of erythro- 

 pWialmus, and again being quite an exact imitation of the trilling love song 

 of this species. 



PIPILO FDSCDS, Swains., var. MESOLEUCDS, Bd, 



Caiion Finch. 



ripilo mesoleucus, BD., Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pliila., vii, June, 1854, 119 (Rocky Mount- 

 ains). Id., Birds N. A., 1858, 518, pi. xxix. Id., U. S. & Mex. Bound. Snrv., 

 ii, pt. ii, 1859, Birds, 18. HEEEM., P. R. R. Rep., Parke's Route, x, 1859, 

 15. KENNERLY, P. R. R. Rep., WLipple's Route, x, 1859, 30, pi. xxix. 

 HENRY, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Puila., 1859, 107 (New Mexico). COUES, 

 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila,, 1866, 90. Id., ib., 1868, 84. If/., Am. Nat., vii, 

 1873, 324. 



Pipilo fuscus, COUES, Key N. A. Birds, 1872, 152. 



Pipilo fuscus var. mesoleucus, BD., BREW., & RlDG., N. A. Birds, ii, 1874, 125, pi. xxxi, 

 f. 10. HENSHAW, Rep. Orn. Specs., 1873, Wheeler's Expecl., 1874, 120. 



I did not detect this species on the Gila, where Abert's Finch was very 

 numerous. When Hearing Camp Grant, Ariz., my attention was attracted 

 by hearing notes issuing from a thicket on the sides of a rocky canon, which 



