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NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



brinos lis to the same conclusiou as that reached in 1S58, namely, that, 

 granting a single species extending over the whole of Xorth America, there 



are several geographical races in different 

 regions. Thus, taking the eastern bird 

 as the standard, with its dark colors, 

 reddish wings, and deep yellow super- 

 ciliary stripe, and the comparative or 

 entire absence of spots on the lower part 

 of breast, we have in the middle prov- 

 ince, and to some extent in tlie western, 

 a race ratlier smaller, with more attenu- 

 ated and longer bill, and paler colors ; 

 the wings grayish, the yellow of head 

 being scarcely appreciable (var. ulaiuli- 

 mw). On the coast of California, an- 

 other series of the size and proportions of the last, but with dark yeUow 

 superciliary stripe, — the vertex-stripe even yellowish, — dark colors, and 

 the lower part of breast, as well as the throat, decidedly streaked, as well 

 as tlie jugulum (var. anthinva) ; and finally on the northwest coast, from 

 Paget Sound to Kodiak, a fourtli race, ranch larger than typical P. savanna, 

 but absolntely undistinguishable in color, proportion of Ijill, etc. (var. sand- 

 wirhmsis). P. anthinus is not found north of (California, Init the other two 

 of the western race may occur together at any point of the coast north, 

 perhaps, of the Columbia River. 



Passercvlns savanna. 



Passerculus savanna, Bonap. 



SAVANNA SPARROW. 



Fringilla savanna, Wilson, Am. Orn. Ill, 1811, 55, pi. xxii, f. 2. — Ib. IV, ISll, 72, 

 1)1. x.xxiv, f. 4. — AuD. Orn. Biog. II, 1834, 63; V, 1839, 516, pi. cix. Passerculus 

 savanna. Box. Li.st, 1838. — In. Conspectus, 1850, 480. — Cab. Mus. Hein. 1851, 131. 

 — Baikd, Birds N. Am. 1858, 442. — CouES, P. A. N. S. 1861, 223. — Samuels, 

 301. Emberiza savanna, AuD. Syn. 1839, 103. — Ib. Birds Am. Ill, 1841, 68, pi. 

 clx. I Friwjilla kyemalis, G.M. I, 1788, 922. — Licirr. Vcrzi-i.-hniss, 1S23, No. 250. 

 Gmelin's description, based on Pennant Arctic Zool. II, 376 (winter Finch), applies 

 eipKilIy well to a large; number of species. Linaria savanna, RlcnARDSox, List, 1837. 



Sp. Chau. Feather.'! of the upper parts prenerally with a central streak of blackish- 

 brown ; the streaks of tlie back with a slisiht rulbus suflusion laterally ; the feathers 

 edged with gray, which is lightest on the scapulars, and forms there two gray stripes. 

 Crown with a broad median stripe of yellowish-gray. A superciliary streak from the bill 

 to the back of the head, eyelids, and edge of the elbow, yellow, paler behind. A yellow- 

 ish-white mandibular stripe curving behind the ear-coverts, and margined above and 

 below by brown. The lower margin is a series of thickly crowded spots on the sides of 

 the throat, which are also found on the sides of the neck, across the upper part of the 

 breast, and on the sides of body, a dusky line b.ack of the eye, making throe on the side 

 of head (including the two mandibular^. A few laint spots un tlie tliroaL and chin. Rest 



