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Adulf male.— Ijength (.skins), 139.70-162.56 (150.37); wing, 82.01r- 

 93.73 (87.12); tail, 61.52-78.23 (70.36); exposed culmen, 10.-11-12.19 

 (11.13); depth of bill at base, 7.62-8.13 (7.87); tarsus 19. 81-20. 3^ 

 (20.06); middle toe, 13.21-15.75 (11.73).^ 



Adidtfemale.—Ijengthi^ins), 117.32-156.21(151.61); wing, 81.28- 

 85.85 (83.57); tail, 61.52-68.58 (66.55); exposed culmen, 11.18-11.94 

 (11.13); depth of bill at base, 7.62; tarsus, 20.32; middle toe, 11.73-15.24 

 (11.99)." 



Mississippi Vallej^, east of the Great Plains; north to eastern Min- 

 nesota, Wisconsin, and southern ^Michigan, east (regularly) to Ohio, 

 Kentucky, Tennessee, etc. , casuall}^ or more rarely to Massachusetts, 

 Long Island, New Jersey, Pennsylyania, District of Columbia, Vir- 

 ginia, etc., and (during migration) Florida. 



FringUla grammaca Say, in Long's Exped. Rocky Mts., i, 1823, 139 (near St. Louis, 

 Missouri). — Bonaparte, Am. Orn., i, 1825, 47, pi. 5, fig. 3; Ann. Lye. Nat. 

 Hist. N. Y., ii, 1828, 108, part.— Nuttall, Man. Orn. TJ. S. and Canad., i, 

 1832, 480.— Audubon, Orn. Biog., v, 1839, 17, pi. 390. 



Chondestes grammaca Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 32. — Baird, Rep. 

 Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 456, part (localities in Illinois and Missouri); 

 Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 344, part.— Wheat on, Ohio, Agric. Rep., 1860, 339 

 (Columbus, Ohio). — Allen, Proc, Essex Inst., iv, 1864, 84 (Massachusetts); 

 Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., i, 1868, 495, 517 (n. Illinois; Iowa) .— Maynard, 

 Naturalists' Guide, 1870, 142 (Massachusetts); Birds Florida, pt. iv, 1878, 

 104 (near Sarasota Bay, Florida).— Coues, Proc. Essex Inst., v, 1868,281 

 (Massachusetts); Check List, 1873, no. 186, part; Birds N. W., 1874, 159, 

 part.— Baird, Brewer and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874,562, part. — 

 RiDGWAY, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iii, 1878, 43 (Washington, District of Colum- 

 bia, 2 spec. Aug. 27), 164 (Wabash Co., Illinois).— Langdon, Birds Cine, 

 1877, 9 (Hamilton Co., Ohio).— Purdie, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iii, 1878, 44 

 (Newtonville, Massachusetts, 1 spec. Nov. 25). — Covert, Annot. List Birds 

 and Mam. Washtenaw Co., Mich., 1881, 181 (rare). 



ClJiuiidestesI grammaca Ridgway', Ann. Lye. N. Y., x, 1874, 372 (Illinois). — 

 Nelson, Bull. Essex Inst., viii, 1876, 107 (n. e. Illinois). 



Chondestes grammica Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iii, July, 1878, 121 (descr. 

 young; Columbus, Ohio). — Gibbs, Bull. V. S. Geol. and Geog. Surv., v, 

 1879, 487 (Van Buren Co., Michigan, breeding). — Langdon, Revised List 

 Birds Cine., 1879, 9 (sum. resid.). — Ridgway, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 

 204; Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 20 (Knox Co., Indiana, breeding).— 

 Townsend (C. W.), Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v, 1880, 53 (Magnolia, Massa- 

 chusetts, 1 spec. Aug. 27). — Earle, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vi, 1881, 58 (Lay- 

 ville. Long Island, 1 spec. Aug. 20). — Beckham, Journ. Cine. Soc. N. H., vi, 

 1883, 141 (Nelson Co., Kentucky, com. summer resid.). — Sharpe, Cat. 

 Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 591, part (localities in Illinois). 



C.[hondestes'] grammica Ridgway, Bull. 111. State Lab. N. H., no. 4, 1881, 179 

 (Illinois) .—Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 384, part. 



[Cliondestes'] grammaca Boy apajite, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 497. — Coues, Key N. Am. 

 Birds, 1872, 146, part. 



' Eight specimens. *Two specimens. 



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