FRIXGILLID.E — TUB FINCHES. 



f). S. atrigularis. Head ami neck all round, and ramp, uniform 

 dark asii, gi-adually fading into white on the abdomen ; wing- 

 bands indistinct; bill light brownish-red. Ad. Lores, chin, and 

 upper part of throat black. Juv. without black about the head. 

 (Eggs unknown.) Hab. Adjacent portions of Mexico and southern 

 Middle Province of United States (Fort Whipple, Arizona, Coues ; 

 Cape St. Lucas, Xantus). 



Spizella montieola, Bated. 



TEEE SPABROW. 



Fringilla montieola, G.m. Syst. Nat. \, 17S8, 1*12. Zonotrichia montieola, Gkay, Genera. 

 Spinilcs numticolus, Cabanis, Mus. Hein. 1851, 134. Spizella montieola, Baikd, Birds 

 N. Am. 1S58, 472. — Coues, P. A. N. S. 1861, 224 (Labrador). — Cooper & Suckley, 

 203 (Washington Ter.). —Dall & Bannister, Tr. Ch. Ac. I, 18(J9, 285. — Cooper, 

 Orn. Cal. I, 206. — Samuels, 317. Passer mnaden-^is, Brisson, Orn. Ill, 1760, 102. 

 Fringilla canadensis, Lath. Imle.x, \, 1790, 434. — AuD. Orn. Biog. II, 1834, 511 ; 

 V, 504, pi. cLxxxviii. — Max. Cab. Jour. VI, 1858, 280. Ember iza canadensis, Sw. 

 F. B. Am. II, 1831, 252. — AuD. Syn. 1839. — Ib. Birds Am. Ill, 1841, 83, pi. clxvi. 

 Spizella canadensis, BoN. List, 1838. — Ib. Conspectus, 1850, 480. Fringilla arborea, 

 WiLs. Am. Oru. II, 1810, 12, pi. xii, f. 3. Moineau dii, Canada, Buffon, PI. Enl. 

 223, f. 2. " Mountain Finch," Lath. Syn. II, i, 265. 



Sp. Char. Middle of back with the feathers dark brown centrally, then rufous, and 



edged with pale fnlvous (sometimes with whit- 

 ish). Hood and upper part of nape continuous 

 chestnut; a line of the same from behind the 

 eye, as well as a short maxillary stripe. Sides 

 of head and neck ashy. A broad light super- 

 ciliary band. Beneath whitish, tinged with ful- 

 vous ; the throat with ashy ; a small circular 

 blotch of brownish in the middle of the upper 

 part of the breast ; the sides chestnut. Edges of 

 tail-feathers, primary quills, and two bands across 

 the tips of the secondaries, white. Tertiaries 

 nearly black ; edged externally with rufous, turn- 

 ing to white near the tips. Lower jaw yellow ; 

 upper black. Young bird streaked on throat 

 and breast, as well as on crown. Length, G.2.5 

 inches ; wing, 3.00. 



Hab. Eastern North America to the Missouri, north to Arctic Ocean ; also on Pole 

 Creek and Little Colorado River, New Mexico ; Western Nevada. 



This species varies in the amount of wliitish edging to tlie quills and 

 tail. 



H.iBiTS. Essentially a northern bird, the Tree Sparrow breeds in liigh 

 Arctic regions, only appearing in winter within the United States. It is then 

 common as far soutli as Pennsylvania. A few winter in South Carolina. 



It arrives on the Saskatchewan in the latter part of April, where it only 



SpiztUa mnnlicoln. 



