174 BLTLLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



E-luspiza] americamt Nelsox, Bull. Essex Inst., viii, 1S76, 109, 152 (n. e. Illinois, 

 summer resid.) . 



\_FringiUaria'] amerkana Boxaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 469. 



E.\_uspina] americana Cabaxis, Mus. Hein., i, Apr., 1851, 133. 



iSpka americana Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, Mar. 27, 1880, 3 (crit. 

 nomencl. ); x, 1887, 576 (Swan I., Caribbean Sea, Mar., Apr.); Nom. N. Am. 

 Birds, 1881, no. 254.— Xlttixg, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., v, 1882, 391 (La Palma, 

 AV. Costa Rica, May 1).— Hay, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, Adi, 1882, 92 (opposite 

 Yicksburg, Mississippi, breeding). — Beckham, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 

 1882, 250 (Fernandina, Florida, Apr. 22). — Laxgdox, Journ. Cine. Soc. N. 

 H., V, 1882, 95 (descr. abnormal spec). — Towxsexd (C. W.), Auk, ii, 1885, 

 106 (Job's I., Penobscot Bay, Maine, Sept. 29).— Loomis, Auk, ii, 1885, 192 

 (Chester, South Carolina, breeding) ; viii, 1891, 168 (no longer found at 

 Chester!). — Americax Orxithologists' Uxiox, Check List, 1886, no. 604. — 

 Salvix and Godmax, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1886, 416. — Zeledox, An. 

 Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, i, 1887, 111 (Cartago; Alajuela; Jimenez). — Cory, Auk, 

 iv, 1887, 180 (island of Old Providence, Caribbean Sea). — Cooke, BirdMigr. 

 Miss. Val., 1888, 220 (localities, dates, etc) ; Birds Colorado, 1897, 109 (summer 

 resid. e. of Rocky Mts. ) ; Bull. Colo. Agric. Coll., 1898, 167 (Colorado Springs, 

 Aug.). — Miller, Auk, vii, 1890, 229 (Caj^eCod, ^lassachusetts, 1 spec. Sept. 

 30).— Cherrie, Auk, vii, 1890, 334 (San Jo.se, Costa Rica, Sept. 29) ; ix, 1892, 

 248 (San Jose, Sept. 27 to Apr. 20) ; Expl. Zool. Costa Rica, 1893, 29 (Legarto, 

 s. Costa Rica, Feb.). — Johnsox, Auk, viii, 1891, 116 (Blithewood, Long 

 Island, Aug. 25). — Chapmax, Auk, viii, 1891, 395 (Hoboken, New Jersey, 

 common summer resid. 40 years jireviously!) ; Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., vi, 

 1894, 33 (Trinidad).— Attwatee, Auk, ix, 1892, 339 (San Antonio, Texas, 

 breeding).— McIlwraith, Birds Ontario, 1892, 333 ( Point Pelee, w. Ontario, 

 1 spec. June). — Butcher, Auk, x, 1893, 276 (formerly breeding on Long 

 Island). — NoRTox, Auk, x, 1893, 302 (Westbrook, Cumberland Co., Maine, 

 Oct. 10) .— Nehrlixg, Our Native Birds, etc.,ii, 1896, 229, pi. 27.— Dwight, 

 Auk, XV, 1897, 95 (Kingston, Long Island, June 5). — Kxight, Bull. Univ. 

 Maine, no. 3, 1897, 103 (Westbrook, Maine, 1 spec. Oct. 10, 1888).— Baxgs, 

 Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xii, 1898, 140 (Santa Marta, Colombia, winter). 



S.lpiza} americana Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, ed. 2, 1884, 387. — Ridgway, Man. 

 N. Am. Birds, 1887, 452. 



{Fringilla'jflavicoUis Gmelix, Syst. Nat., i, pt. ii, 1788, 926 (based on Yellow-throated 

 Finch Pennant, Arctic Zool., ii, 374). — Latham, Index Orn., i, 1790, 465. 



' ' Passerina nigricoUis Vieill. [ot] , Enc. Meth. , 931. ' ' ( Coues. ) 



Emberiza nigricoUis Nordmaxx, in Erman Reis., 1835, 11, pi. 5. 



SPIZA TOWNSENDII (Audubon). 

 TOWNSEND'S BUNTING. 



Adult male. — Head, neck, and under parts dark slate-gray, relieved 

 bv a superciliary stripe, malar stripe, and elongated patch covering 

 chin and thi'oat, of white, the latter separated from the malar stripe 

 by a narrow submalar series of black streaks, which continue around 

 the posterior border of the white throat-patch, in the gray of the 

 chest; upper parts grayish brown, the back and scapulars narrowly 

 streaked with blackish; abdomen and under tail-coverts white, the 

 former tinged with pale yellow; length (skin), about 146.05; wing. 



