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Hexdricksox, Auk, vi, 1S89, 190 (Long Island City, Long Island, 1 spec. 

 Feb. 16, 1889).— Thompson, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus.,xiii, 1891, 591 (Manitoba, 

 summer resid. ; habits, song, etc. ). — Goss, Birds Kansas, 1891, 436 (resident 

 in \v. and n. Kansas; whole State in winter). — Hatch, Birds Minn., 1892, 

 308 (breeding in n. and w. Minnesota). — Anthoxy, Auk, ix, 1892, 365 (s. 

 w. New Mexico, Oct. 1 to Apr. 10).— Allex, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., v, 1893, 38 

 (San Diego, n. w. Chihuahua, Feb.). — Nehrlixg, Our Native Birds, etc., ii, 

 1896, 80.— Knight, Bull. Univ. Maine, no. 3, 1897, 95 (Scarborough, Cund)er- 

 land Co., Maine, 1 spec. Aug. 13, 1886) . 



C.[alcarius'] ornatus Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 405. 



PlectrophanesnielanomusBAiRD, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv.,ix, 1858, 436 (Fort Thorn, 

 New Mexico; U. S.Nat. Mus.); ed. 1860 ("Birds North America"), pi. 74, 

 fig. 2; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 329.— Heermaxn, Rep. Pacific R. R. 

 Surv., x, 1859, 13 (w. Texas, etc., winter). — Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond., 1860, 251 (Orizaba, Vera Cruz); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 121 (Vera 

 Cruz). — Dresser, Ibis, 1865, 486 (San Antonio, Texas). — Coues, Proc. Ac. 

 Nat. Sci. Phila., 1866, 84 (Fort Whipple, Arizona, 1 spec. Oct. 17).— Sumi- 

 chrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., i, 1869, 551 (plateau of Vera Cruz and 

 down to Orizaba). — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 

 1874, pi. 24, fig. 6. 



\_PJedroplumes] mclanomus Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 34 

 (Mexico). 



\_Emheriza'] melanomus Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 116, no. 7731. 



Plectrophanes ornatus var. melanomus Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. 

 Am. Birds, i, 1874, 521. 



Plectrophanes ornatus melanomus Goode, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 20, 1883, 337. 



Genus RHYNCHOPH ANES Baird. 



Bhynchoplumes Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 432, in text. (Type, Plec- 

 trophanes mccoivnii Lawrence. ) 



Rather .small terrestrial Fringillidai related to Calcarius^ but differing 

 in much larger and relatively thicker bill (with maxilla equal in depth 

 to the mandible) and relatively shorter tail (decidedly shorter than dis- 

 tance from carpits to tips of longest secondaries, instead of longer). 



Bill stout, conical, much deeper than broad at base; culmen appre- 

 ciablj^ depressed in middle portion; maxilla about equal in depth to 

 mandible; angulation of maxillary tomiuni considerably posterior to 

 middle; gonj^s nearly straight, but apprecial)l3^ convex, longer than 

 hallux without claw% and exceeding basal depth of bill; the latter 

 nearly or quite equal to distance from nostril to tip of maxilla. Nasal 

 plumules well developed^, nearly concealing nostrils, the stiff' rictal 

 plumules quite covering the deflected basal portion of the maxillar}' 

 tomium. Wing long (nearly five times as long as tarsus), pointed 

 (three outermost primaries longest, the ninth nearly equal to eighth, 

 much longer than sixth); primaries exceeding secondaries by nearly 

 twice the length of the tarsus; tertials decidedly longer than second- 

 aries. Tail between one-half and two-thirds as long as wing, 

 (decidedly shorter than distance from carpus to tips of longest 



