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Adult male.— Length (skins), 154.9^184.15 (163.32); wing, 85.09- 

 91.95 (87.88); tail, 65.53-71.12 (68.58); exposed culnien, 13.21-14.73 

 (13.97); depth of bill at base, 10.67-12.19 (11.43); tarsus, 22.86-25.91 

 (24.38); middle toe, 16.76-18.03 (17.27).' 



AduU female.— Length (skins), 144.78-165.10 (157.23); wing, 81.79- 

 85.09 (83.31); tail, 60.45-68.58 (66.04); exposed culmen, 12.70-13.21 

 (12.70); depth of bill at base, 10.16-11.94 (10.67); tarsus. 22.35-25.15 

 (23.88); middle toe, 16.51-17.78 (17.02).' 



Great Plains between Missouri River and Rock\' Mountains, breed- 

 ing from middle and western Kansas, eastern Colorado, western ]Min- 

 nesota, etc., to Manitoba and Assiniboia; migrating south and south- 

 west in winter, through Texas (to Gulf coast), New Mexico, and 

 Arizona to plateau of ]Mexico (States of Guanajuato, Chihuahua, 

 Sonora. etc.). Lower California, and coast of southern California (San 

 Diego and Los Angeles counties, etc.); occasional west of Rocky 

 Mountains (Utah, Nevada, Idaho, etc.), and accidental in Atlantic 

 States (^Massachusetts, New York, including Long Island), and South 

 Carolina during fall migration. 



FrmgiUa hicoJor (not of Linnams) Towxsexd, Journ. Ac. Xat. Sci. Phila., vii, 1837, 

 189 (plains of Platte R.; type in U. S. Nat. Miis.) ; Narrative, 1839, 346.— 

 AuDUBOX, Orn. Biog., v, 1839, 19, pi. 390. 



Calaviospiza bicolor Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 30. — Baird, Rep. 

 Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 492; Rep. JJ. S. and Max. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. 2, 

 1859, 16 (Espia, Sonora); Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 377; Proc. Ac. Nat. 

 Sci. Phila., 1859, 301, 304 (Cape St. Lucas) .—Heermaxx, Rep. Pacific R. R. 

 Surv., X, pt. iv, 1859, 15 (Arizona, New Mexico, etc.). — Sclater, Cat. Am. 

 Birds, 1862, 121 (Mexico).— Dresser, Ibis., 1865, 490 (San Antonio, Texas, 

 winter). — Butcher, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1868, 150 (Laredo, Texas, 

 Nov.).— CouES, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1868, 83 (s. Arizona); Check 

 List, 187.3, no. 190; 2d ed., 1882, no. 286; Birds N. W., 1874, 163; Bull. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., no. 7, 1877, 11 (Angel I., Pichilinque Bay, Lower California); 

 Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Surv. Terr., iv, 1878, 597 (Montana).— Duges, 

 La Naturaleza, i, 1868, 140 (Guanajuato, Mexico). — Cooper, Orn. Cal., 1870, 

 225 (Cape St. Lucas, Sonora, etc.). — Allex, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., iii, 1872, 

 137 (Fort Hays, w. Kansas, breeding; descr. habits, notes, etc.), 177 (South 

 Park, etc., Colorado; Cheyenne, "Wyoming) ; Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xvii, 

 1874, 28 (Dakota and Montana; descr. habits, nests and eggs, etc.); Bull. 

 Nutt. Orn. Club, iii, 1878, 48 (Lynn, Massachusetts, 1 spec. Dec. 5, 1877).— 

 RiDGWAY, Bull. Essex Inst., v, 1873, 172 (Parleys Park, Utah, 1 spec, young, 

 July 30); vii, 1875, 33 (do.); Orn. 40th Parallel, 1877, 487 (do.); Nom. N. 

 Am. Birds, 1881, no. 256. — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. 

 Birds, ii, 1874, 61, pi. 29, figs. 2, 3.— Hexshaw, Rep. and List Birds Wheeler's 

 Surv., 1873 (1874), 63 (Denver, Colorado), 119 (Zufli, New Mexico, July 25; 

 San Pedro R. and Gila R., Arizona, Oct.), 159 (s. e. Arizona, abt. in fall); 

 Zool. Exp. W. 100th Merid., 1875, 294.— Yarrow and Hexshaw, Rep. Orn. 

 Spec. Wheeler's Surv., 1873 (1874), 15 (Snake Valley, Nevada). — Merrill, 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1878, 128 (Fort Brown, Texas, winter).— Sexxett, 

 Bull. r. S. Geol. and Geog. Surv. Terr., v, 1879, 381 (Corpus Christi and 



^Six specimens. 



