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notes. Even in the small series taken there is considerable 

 variation in the depth of coloring. This may be due to age, 

 the darkest ones being the young of the previous year, as the 

 nesting female taken, which was presumably adult the previ- 

 ous year, is paler colored than any of the others. 



12. Stwnella magna hoopesi Stone. — Texas Meadowlark. 

 Three adult males, March 17, and March 29, two. One adult 

 female, March 29. These birds are typical S, magna hoopesi, 

 and this record extends their range, as given by Ridgway 

 (Birds of North and Middle America, part II, p. 361), from 

 southern Arizona to about 200 miles farther north. They 

 were first seen March 17 and became fairly common later. I 

 found these birds on a narrow neck of the Coconino plains, 

 and became certain at once that they were not Sturnella neg- 

 lecta. The song resembled that of our eastern Sturnella 

 magna very closely, and was nothing like that of S, neglecta. 

 These birds also had the same sputtering call-note of the east- 

 ern variety. In coloration the four specimens taken average 

 as light as S'. neglecta from Oklahoma, taken in January, and 

 from western Kansas, taken in October. The black bars on 

 the tertials and middle rectrices are separate in three speci- 

 mens and nearly so in the fourth. There is no yellow on the 

 maxillary region at all, and the yellow on the underparts is 

 deeper than in S. magna, having a slight orange tinge. The 

 female has the yellow of the under parts restricted to the me- 

 dian line and much obscured by the buffy tips of the feathers. 



The measurements are as follows, taken in millimeters: 



Exposed 

 Length. Wing. Tail, culmen. Tarsus. 



No. 2655, male adult, March 17 231 120 67 31 38 



No. 2715, male adult, March 29 228 115 66 31.5 36 



No. 2716, male adult, March 29 228 120 71 31 36 



No. 2717, female adult, March 29 221 109 61 30 35 



13. Carpodacus cassini Baird. — Cassin Finch. Five males, 

 adult and immature, March 11, March 19; March 31, three; 

 five adult females, March 11, four; March 19. One immature 

 male taken differs from the females in slightly darker olive 

 back with darker and more sharply defined streakings above 

 and below. Fairly common after March 11, on the side of 

 Bill Williams Mountain. They were usually a little wild and 

 difficult to approach. One day I found a flock of about fifty 

 scattered through the pines on a level bench high up on the 

 mountain, singing in chorus, as so many of the Fringillidx do. 



