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Adult mah.—\j^\\g\h (skins), 106.68-129.54 (117.3.5); wing-, 57.15- 

 66.29 (62.48); tail, 42.93-51.31 (46.48); exposed culinen, 10.16-11.68 

 (10.92); depth of bill at base, 5.59-6.86 (6.35); tarsus, 18.29-20.32 

 (19.56); middle toe, 13.46-15.49 (14.73).' 



Adult female.— \^^\\g\S\ (skins), 111.76-123.19 (118.36); wing, ()0.71- 

 63.75 (62.23); tail, 46.23-50.80 (47.75); exposed culmen, 10.16-11.18 

 (10.67); depth of bill at base, 5.84-6.86 (6.60); tarsus, 18.. 54-19. 81 

 (19.05); middle toe, 13.46-15.49 (14.99).- 



Western United States and Mexican plateau; east to western Min- 

 nesota and Iowa, eastern Kansas, Texas, etc. : south (in winter only !') 

 to highlands of Guatemala and Costa Rica. 



ArmiiudrutnuK bim<triihifus Swaixsson, Pliilo^. Mag., n. s., i, 1827, 4o5 (Tema.scal- 

 tepec, Mexico). 



Almmodrmnus'] bhnaculalus Gray, (ieii. Birds, ii, 1844, 874. 



[AmrnodramKs^ hi)iiacidati(s (_tr,\y. Hand-list, ii, 1870, 96, no. 7418. — Bonaparte, 

 Consp.Av., 1,1850,482. 



Coturnictdus henslowii (not Emheriza hendoiv'd Kvulnhon) Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond., 1856, 305 (Cordova, Vera Cruz; see Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 1857,82). 



Coturnlculus passerinus (not FringUla passerhia Wilson) Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. 

 Surv., ix, 1858, 450, part (Shawnee Mission, Kansas; Loup Fork of Platte R. ; 

 Bill Williams Mt., Arizona; Nogales, Sonora); Rep. U. S. and Mex. Bound. 

 Surv., ii, 1859, 15 (Los Nogales, Sonora); Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 

 338, part. — Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 379 (Oaxaca, s. Mexico, 

 Mar.); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 116, part (Guatemala). — Sclater and Salvin, 

 Ibis, 1859, 18 (Guatemala).— Kexnerly, Rep. Pac. R. R. Surv., x, pt. iv, 1859, 

 28 (Bill Williams R. and Colorado R., Arizona). — Heermaxn, Rep. Pacific 

 R. R. Surv., X, pt. vi, 1859, 49 (California, etc. ).— Cabaxis, Journ. fiir 

 Orn., 1860, 411 (San Isidro, Costa Rica).— Dresser, Ibis, 1865, 487 (San 

 Antonio, Texas, breeding). — Lawrence, Ann. Lye. X. Y., ix, 1868, 103 

 (Costa Rica) ; Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., ii, 1874, 277 (Mazatlan); Bull. U. S. 

 •Nat. Mus. , no. 4, 1876, 21 (Tehuantepec City, Oaxaca). — Sumichrast, Mem. 

 Bost. Soc. N. H., i, 1869, 552 (Vera Cruz, in winter). — Frantzius, Journ. fiir 

 Orn., 1869, 301 (San Isidro, Costa Rica).— Cooper, Orn. Cal., 1870, 189, excl. 

 syn. part. — Allen, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., iii, 1872, 136 (Kan.sas), 177 

 (Utah) .—Merrill, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1878, 126 (Fort Brown, Texas, 

 Jan.). — Sennett, Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Surv., v, 1879, 390 (Lomita, 

 Texas, April). — Roberts and Benner, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v, 1880, 14 

 (Grant and Traverse counties, Minnesota breeding). — Hatch, Ninth Ann. 

 Rep. Geol. and Nat. Hist. Surv. Minn., 1881, 395. — Ogilby, Sci. Proc. Roy. 

 Dubl. Soc, iii, 1882 (32) (Navarro Co., Texas, summer resid. ). — Zeledon, 

 Cat. Aves de Costa Rica, 1882, 9.— Agersborg, Auk, ii, 1885, 280 (s. e. South 

 Dakota, breeding) . — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1886, 

 384, part. 



[f 'oturnkuluii] 2M.'^serinus Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1S72. 137, i)art. — Sclater and 

 .Salvin, Nom. A v. Neotr., 1873, 32, part. 



Ammodramus 2Kisserinus Woodhouse, in Rep. Sitgreaves' Expl. Zuni and Col. R. 

 1853, 86 (Indian Territory; Texas; New Mexico). 



Ammodramus savan)iaru)i'i passerimts Goss, Birds Kans., 1891, 445 (summer resid., 

 Apr. to Oct.). — Hatch, Birds INIinn., 1892, 313 (Grant and Norman counties 

 and in Red R. valley). 



^Twelve specimens. ^ Eight specimens. 



