1C2 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



riectropliancs smithii AuDrBox, Birds Am., oct. ed., vii, 1844, 336, pi. 487 (near 



Edwardsville, Madison Co., s. w. Illinois; tj'pe in U. S. Nat. iMus.). 

 Fl.\_ecirophmies'] .sjh (7/// Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 18.50, 463. 

 ClentrojjJianes'] sinithi Cabaxis, Mus. Heiu., i, Mar., 1851, 127, footnote. 



CALCARIUS ORNATUS (Townsend). 

 CHESTNUT-COLLARED LONGSPUR, 



Winff not more than SS,90; all the rectrices (except middle pair) 

 with basal portion of inner webs white (outer webs also, except two 

 middle pairs). 



Adult inale in ^uminer. — Pileum, stripe behind eye, spot on lower 

 part of ear-coverts, chest, breast, and abdomen l)lack, the lower parts 

 sometimes touched with rufous or chestiuit; hindneek deep chestnut- 

 rufous; broad superciliar}- stripe, chin, and throat white; cheeks pale 

 bull', this sometimes overspreading lores, ear-coverts, chin, and upper 

 throat; in full plumage, the lesser wing-coverts deep black, with pos- 

 terior row pure white. 



Adult male in winter. — Black of head and lower parts and chestnut 

 of hindneek more or less obscured or even concealed by light brownish 

 or dull buffy tips to the feathers; otherwise, essentially as in summer. 



Adult female.— AhoxQ light gravish buffy brown, streaked with 

 dusky; beneath pale grayish Iniffv brown, or dull grayish buff, the 

 breast and belly sometimes streaked with darker; under tail-coverts 

 dull buffy whitish. (Plumage softer and colors more blended in 

 winter.) 



Youn(j. — Above dusky, the feathers edged and margined with dull 

 whitish and pale brownish buff'; wing-coverts tipped with dull whitish; 

 an indistinct streaked whitish superciliary stripe; ear-coverts streaked 

 dusky and pale brownish; malar region, chin, and throat white flecked, 

 more or less, with grayish dusky; rest of lower parts dull grayish buff, 

 streaked, especially on breast, with dusky. 



AduUmale.—hQwgih. (skins), 117.60-149.01 (136.11); wing, 81. 2S- 

 90.17 (85.31); tail, 51.05-60.71 (55.88); exposed culmen, 9.65-11.18 

 (10.11); depth of bill at base (two specimens), 5.81-6.85 (6.10); tarsus, 

 18.80-20.57 (19.81); middle toe, 12.19-14.22 (13.21).^ 



.4(////^/6';>/«/e.— Length (skins), 118-87-143.26 (133.35); wing, 75.44- 

 84.58 (80.26); tail, 48.01-57.15 (52.32); exposed culmen, 9.91-10.92 

 (10.41); depth of bill at base, 5,59-6.10 (5.84); tarsus, 18.29-21.08 

 (19.56); middle toe, 12.45-13.72 (13.21).- 



Great Plains of North America, breeding from middle and western 

 Kansas and eastern Colorado north to the plains of the Saskatchewan; 

 in winter south to southern portion of Mexican plateau (in States of 

 Vera Cruz, Puebla, Mexico, etc.), and south westward to Arizona, C'hi- 



^ Fifteen specimens. ^ Ten specimens. 



