BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. '21 



Adult y;/a/t'. Length (skins), 140-152 (146.5); wing, TT-84 (bL.5); 

 tail, 53-59 (57); exposed eulmen, 11.5-13 (12.2); tarsus, 22-24 (22.1)); 

 middle toe, 16-1(1.5 (16.1); hind claw, 11. .5-14 (12.6)." 



Adult female. — Length (s^ins), 148-152 (150); wing, TT-SO (Ts,5); 

 tail, 52; exposed eulmen, 12.5-13 (12. T); tarsus, 22-23 (22.5): middle 

 toe, 17-18 (17.5); hind claw, 12-15.5 (13.7).'' 



Interior plains of >«'ortli America; breeding from eastern Montana 

 (Belt Mountains, Yellowstone River, etc.) and northern North Dakota 

 (Red River Valley, etc.) to Assiniboia and the Saskatch(>wan district 

 of Manito])a; in winter southward to Texas (Tom Green, Concho, 

 Kendall, and Harris counties, etc.) and southern Louisiana, and 

 through eastern Mexico to Vera Cruz and Puebla; occasional in 

 winter on coast of South Carolina (Mount Pleasant, near Charleston, 

 November). 



Alaufln spragueli Audubon, Birds, Am., oct. ed., vii, 1843, 335, pi. 486 (Fort 

 Union, Nortii Dakota; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus. ). 



[Otocoris'] sprangerl (typographical error) Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 246. 



Agrodroma sjyragnei Baird, in Stansbury's Rep. Gt. Salt Lake, 1852, 329. — Bona- 

 parte, Cofnpt. Rend, xxxviii, 1856, 65. 



Xf'ocoryx spraguei Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 234; Cat. N. Am. 

 Birds, 1859, no. 166. — Cooper, Orn. Cal., 1870, 80 (Upper Missouri and Sas- 

 katchewan). — CouES, Check List, 1873, no. 56; Birds N. W., 1874, 42. — 

 Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 175, pi. 10, 

 fig. 5.— Allen, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xvii, 1874, 50 (Heart R., Fort Rice, 

 Yellowstone R., etc.; habits; song; descr. nest and eggs). — Brewer, Ibis, 

 1878, 116 (Fort Brown, Texas).— Ridgway, Xom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, 

 no. 73.— Nehrling, Bull. Xutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 8 (Harris Co., s. e. 

 Texas, winter).— Brown (N. C), Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 35 

 (Boerne, Kendall Co., w. Texas, Mar. 16 to Apr. 4) — Williams. Bull. Xutt. 

 Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 62 (BeltMts., Montana, breeding). 



[A^(?ocon/.s] spraguei Coves, Key X. Am. Birds, 1872, 91. 



Neocorys spraguii Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1857, 5. — Blakiston, Ibis, 

 1862, 4 (Forks of the Saskatchewan, :\Iay); 1863, 61 (Fort Carleton, Sas- 

 katchewan, lat. 53°; abundant on prairies). — Coues, Check List, 2d ed., 

 1882, no. 90.— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., x, 1885, 620 (Papillion, 

 Nebraska, Sept.; Souris R., North Dakota). 



N[eocor!/-'<'] upragnn Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 286. 



Anthnx (Xeocori/s) spragun Coues, Birds Col. Val., 1878, 193, footnote. — Sennett, 

 Bull. U. S. Geog. and Geol. Surv. Terr., iv, no. 1, 1878, 10 (Galveston, 

 Texas, Mar.). 



Anthits aprnguei B.\ird, Review Am. Birds, Oct., 1864, 155. — Coues, Am. Nat., 

 vii, 1873, 697.— Seton, Auk, ii, 1885, 269 (w. Manitolia; habits; song).— 

 Williams, Auk, v, 1888, 15 (near Grand Falls, Montana; song). — Salvin and 

 GoDMAN, Ibis, 1889, 236 (Vera Cruz, Mexico; Puebla).— Tiio.mpson, Auk, x, 

 1893, 50 (Big Plain, Manitoba) . 



\^Anthui(] apraguei Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 250, no. 3634. 



AniJais .sjiragueii A.merican Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 188(5, no. 700. — 

 Ferrari-Perez, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., ix, 1886, 136 (Puebla, .Mexico, 

 Dec). — Seton, Auk, iii, 1886, 327 (Assiniboine distr., w. Manitoba, sum- 



« Four specimens. '> Two specimens. 



