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Point Isabel, Texas, Mar.). — Roberts and Benner, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, 

 V, 1880, 15 (Grant and Traverse counties, w. Minnesota, breeding) . — ]May- 

 NARD, Birds E. N. Am., 1881, 519 (e. Massachusetts, accidental). — Brew- 

 ster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 200 (Tombstone, Arizona, Apr. 13).— 

 Beldixg, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., v, 1883, 343 (Guaymas, Sonora, Dec.).— 

 HoLTERHOFF, Auk, i, 1884, 293 (near San Diego, s. California, Apr.). — Drew, 

 Auk, ii, 1885, 16 (Colorado, up to 8,000 ft.) .—Cooke, Auk, ii, 1885, 32 (Lanes- 

 boro, s. e. Minnesota, May 11, June 19); Bird Migr. Miss. Val., 1888, 232 

 (localities, dates, etc.). — Agersborg, Auk, ii, 1885, 281 (s. e. South Dakota, 

 breeding; habits). — Balvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1886, 

 417 (Espia and Guaymas, Sonora; Guanajuato). — Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus., xii, 1888, 593. 



[^Calamospiza] bicolor Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 475. — Gray, Hand-list, ii, 

 1870, 111, no. 7669.— Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 148.— Sclater and 

 Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 34 (Mexico). 



C.{_ala)nospiza^ hicolor Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 387. 



Corydalina bicolor Audubon, Synopsis, 1839, 130; Birds Am., oct. ed., iii, 1841, 

 195, pi. 202.— Maximilian, Journ. fiir Orn., 1858, 347 (Upper Missouri R.). 



Dolichonyx bicolor Nuttall, Man. Orn. V. S. and Can., 2d ed., i, 1840, 203. 



Calamospiza melanocorys Stejneger, Auk, ii, Jan., 1885, 49. — American Orni- 

 thologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 605.— Seton, Auk, iii, 1886, 324 (Souris 

 plain, etc., w. Manitoba).— Cooke, Bird Migr. Miss. Val., 1888, 222 (locali- 

 ties, dates, etc. ; breeding in s. e. Dakota, w. Minnesota, Red. R. Valley, etc. ) ; 

 Birds Colorado, 1897, 109 (summer resid., chiefly e. of mts. ). — Beckham, 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, 1888, 681 (Corpus Christi, Texas, Jan. 21 to Feb. 

 12).— Evans, Auk, vi, 1889, 192, (Montauk Point, Long Island, 1 spec. Sept. 

 4). — TowNSEND, Proc. U. S.Nat. Mus., xiii, 1890, 136 (Ballaenas Bay, Lower 

 California, 1 spec. May). — Goss, Birds Kansas, 1891, 495 (w. and mid. Kan- 

 sas, summer resid.). — Merriam, North Am. Fauna, no. 5, 1891, 104 (w. of 

 Blackfoot and bet. Big Butte and Big Lost rivers, Idaho, July). — Allen, 

 Bull. Am. Mus., N. H., v, 1893, 40 (Oputo, n. e. Sonora, Oct. 27-30).— 

 Thorne, Auk, xii, 1896, 217 (Fort Keogh, Montana, breeding). — Wayne, 

 Auk, xii, 1895, 306 (Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, 1 spec. Apr. 19, 1895) .— 

 Nehrling, Our Native Birds, etc., ii, 1896, 232. — Grinnell, Pasadena Ac. 

 Sci., Pub. no. ii, 1898, 41 (Newhall, Los Angeles Co., California, 3 specs. 

 May 3, 1897). 



C. [alamospiza] melanocorys Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 453. 



Genus SPIZA Bonaparte. 



Spiza Bonaparte, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., iv, pt. i, Aug., 1824, 45. (Type, 

 by elimination, Emberiza americana Gmelin). (See Ridgway, Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., iii, 1880, 3, 4.) 



i'Mspiza Bonaparte, Saggio Distr. ]Met. An. Vertebr., 1832, 141. (Type, Ember- 

 iza americana Gmelin.) 



Euspina'^ Cabanis, Mus. Hein., i, April, 1851, 133. (Type, Emberiza americana 

 Gmelin. ) 



Medium-sized or rather small FringiUida?, with stout, conical, com- 

 pressed hill, long pointed wing (ninth primary longest or equal to 

 longest), rather long tarsus (longer than middle toe with claw); color 

 above grayish brown, the back and scapulars streaked with black. 



^"Von Ev und dniva, nom. prop." 



