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Pipilo clilorurm, BD., Birds N. A., 1858, 519. COOPER, Birds Cal., i, 1870, 248. 

 ALLEN, Bull. Mus. Coinp. Zool., 1872, 178 (Colorado; Utah). COUES, Key 

 N. A. Birds, 1872, 153. BD., BREW., & EIDG., N. A. Birds, ii, 1874, 131, pi. 

 xxxi, f. 4. YARROW, Eep. Orn. Specs., 1871, Wbeeler's Exped., 1874, 35. 

 YARROW & HENSHAW, Kep. Orn. Specs., 1872, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 

 15. IlENSHAW, An. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., xi, 1874, C. If?., An. List 

 Birds Utah, 1872, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 45. Id., Eep. Orn. Specs., 1873, 

 Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 63, 82, 121. COUES, Birds Northwest, 1874, 17G. 



Zonotrichia blandingiana, WooDn., Sitgreave's Exp. Zufii & Col. Riv., 1854, 85. 



This finch appears to vary little in respect to numbers in the different 

 portions of Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico visited by the survey, 

 but to be present in considerable numbers in the fertile valleys of the 

 mountains, attaining on them quite a high elevation. Following the 

 course of the streams, they will be found to inhabit the wooded portions 

 generally, though they are not so commonly diffused over the lowlands in the 

 breeding season as during the fall. Writers everywhere agree in attrib- 

 uting to them much more sprightliness of manner and activity than is seen 

 in the other members of this genus ; and, in this respect as well as their 

 notes, as suggested by Mr. Allen, their place seems much nearer the Zono- 

 tricliias than the Pipilos. In some localities, I have found it quite shy, and 

 anxious to evade scrutiny, hiding itself in the grass and among the bushes, 

 from Avhich it is often difficult to effect its dislodgment when it is inclined 

 to keep close. At other times, its ruling trait has appeared to be a lively 

 curiosity, impelling it to flit around the intruder from bush to bush, to 

 watch his actions and demeanor. In fall, they are sometimes found on 

 the dry sage plains, but this is a departure from its usual habits. It nests 

 both in bushes and on the ground. The nests I have examined are rather 

 carelessly made structures, composed of stalks of weeds and coarse grasses, 

 lined with rootlets and fine grass. Eggs usually four, more rarely five, in 

 number bluish-white, spotted with reddish-brown and purple. In one nest, 

 was found an egg of the Cow Bunting. 



