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webs of reotrices broadly white at tips; length (skins), 165.10-l!H),50 

 (176.28); wing, 105.11-112.. 52 (108.46); tail, 62.74-70.61 (66.04): cul- 

 men, 15.75-20.32 (1S.54); depth of bill at 1)ase, 15.24-17.27 (15.75); 

 width of mandible at base, 13.21-14.73 (13.07): tarsus, 20.32-22.86 

 (20.83); middle toe, 17.27-19.05 (17.78).' 



Yoking. — Similar to adult female, but colors nmch duller and more 

 brownish, with markings less sharply defined; dusky submalar streak 

 les8 distinct, sometimes obsolete; under parts paler and uiore bufiy, 

 with little if any o-ray; bill dull horn color or brownish. 



Interior districts of North America east of Rock}" ^Mountains; north 

 (in winter) to the Saskatchewan; south, in winter, more or less irreg'- 

 ularly, to Kansas, Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Ohio, etc.; eastward, 

 irregularly and in winter only, to Ontario, New York, and New Eng- 

 land. (Breeding range uidvnown.) 



FringiUa resperthia Cooper (W.), Ann. Lye. Xat. Hist. X. Y.,i, pt. ii, 1825,220 

 (Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan). — Bonaparte, Am.Orn., ii, 1S2S, 75, pi. 15, fig. 

 1; Ann. Nat. His. Lye. N. Y. ii, 1828, 113; Zool. Journ., iv, pt. ii, 1828, 2.— 

 NuTTALL, Man. Orn. U. S. and Canad., i, 1832, 526. — Audubon, Orn. Biog., iv, 



• 1838, 515; v, 1839, 235, pis. 373, 374. 



Coccotfn-auMes respertma Swainson and Eichardson, Fauna Bor.-Am., ii, 1831, 

 269, pL 68 (Saskatchewan and shores of Lake Superior in summer). — Jar- 

 dine, ed. "Wilson's Am. Orn.,iii, 1832, 432, pi. 15, fig. 1. — Bonaparte, Geog. and 

 Comp. List, 1838, 30.— Audubon, Birds Am., oct. ed., iii, 1841, 217, pi. 207.— 

 Cottle, Canad. Journ., iii, 1855, 287 (historical and descriptive). — American 

 Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 514, part. — Thompson, Auk, iv, 

 1887,256 (Toronto, Ontario, Apr. 2); vii, 1890, 211 (Kingston, Toronto, and 

 Hamilton, Ontario, winter). — Pindar, Auk, iv, 1887, 257 (Hickman, Ken- 

 tucky, Mar.); vi, 1890, 314 (do.).— Cooke, Bird Migr. Miss. Val., 1888, 177 

 (Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin; localities and dates); Auk, vii, 1890, 210 

 (Burlington, Vermont, Feb.). — Keyes, Auk, v, 1888,114 (Iowa City, Charles 

 City, Grinnell, and Burlington, Iowa, winter). — Coleman, Auk, v, 1888, 

 425 (Xemaha Co., Nebraska, Mar.).— Wintle, Auk, vii, 1890, 209 (Mon- 

 treal, Canada, Jan.).— Bergtold, Auk, vii, 1890, 209 (Erie Co., New York, 

 Jan. 18, Apr. 15).— Clark, Auk, vii, 1S90, 210 (Amherst, Massachusetts, 

 .Ian.).— FoRBusH, Auk, vii, 1890, 210 (East Brimfield, Massachusetts, Feb. 

 1).— Averill, Auk, vii, 1890, 211 (Gaylordsville, Connecticut, Mar. 10).— 

 Poling, Auk, vii, 1890,238 (Champaign, Illinois, Nov. 12, Apr. 1). — Brent, 

 Auk, vii, 1890, 289 (Taunton, Massachusetts, Mar. 8).— Morris, Auk, vii, 

 1890, 289 (Si)ringfield, :\Iassachusetts, ]\Iar. 21).— Warren, Birds Penn- 

 sylvania, 1890, 224 (numerous records). — Goss, Birds Kansas, 1891, 412 

 (rare winter visit. ). — Marshall, Auk, ix, 1892, 203 (Steuben Co., New Y'ork, 

 Feb.).— Nehrling, Our Native Birds, etc., ii, 1896, 21, pi. 21, fig. 1. 



('.[occothtrt tides'] vespertbws Ridgway, Ann. Lye. N. Y'., x, 1874, 371 (n. Illi- 

 nois in winter); Man. N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1896, 387, part, 601. 



Coccotkraustes respertinits Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1886, 

 426, part (in synonymy, etc.).— Thompson, Proc. V. S. Nat. Mus., xiii, 1891, 

 584 (Manitoba, winter visit. ; habits). — Butler, Auk, x, 1893, 155 (Indiana, 

 Wisconsin, IMichigan, and Ontario records; habits); Birds Indiana, 1897, 911 



^ Twenty-nine specimens. 



