184 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



POOECETES GRAMINEUS CONFINIS Baird. 

 WESTERN VESPER SPARROW. 



Similar to P. </. (jramineus. but averaging' larger, bill more slender, 

 and colors slightly paler and graver, with streaks on chest, etc., not 

 so dark. 



Adult male.— luQwgth. (skins), 139.70-158.75 (11:S.81): wing, 79.25- 

 86.61 (83.57); tail, 68.25-68.58 (65.79); exposed culmen. 10.92-11.68 

 (11.18); depth of bill at base, 7.37-8.38 (7.62): tarsus, 20.83-22.10 

 (21.59); middle toe, 13.72-14.99 (14.48). ^ 



Adult female.— IjQwgih (skins), 132.59-152.40(145.54); wing, 76.20- 

 83.82 (80.01); tail, 57.66-68.07 (61.98); exposed culmen, 10.41-12.45 

 (11.18); depth of bill at base, 7.11-8.13 (7.62): tarsus, 19.81-22.35 

 (21.34); middle toe, 13.46-14.99 (14.22).' 



Western North America (except Pacific coast district), east across 

 the Great Plains to middle North and South Dakota, western Kansas, 

 etc., north through eastern British Columbia, Alberta, Assiniboia, 

 Manitoba, etc. ; Saskatchewan Plains (north to Fort Anderson ?) ; breed- 

 ing from highlands of Arizona and New Mexico northward; in winter 

 south to southern Mexico (States of Vera Cruz, Puebla, Oaxaca, etc.), 

 southeastward over nearly all of Texas, southwestward to coast of 

 southern California (Los Angeles Co.). 



(?) Fr'mgilla {Zonotricliia) r/raniincd (not FringllUt jrw/z^/Hfa Wilson?) Swaixson, 

 Famia Bor.-Am., ii, 1831, 254. 



\_ZonotrkMa\ gramuiea Boxaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 478, part. 



Zonotricliia gTojn/r/fo Woodiiouse, in Eep. Sitgreaves' Expl. ZufiiandCol. R., 1853, 

 84. — Heeemann, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., x, pt. iv, 1859, 47, part (New Mex- 

 ico; Texas). 



Pooeceics gramineus Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, p.xxxix, part, 

 p. 927 (Fort Bridger, Wyoming); Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 337, patt; 

 Rep. U. S. and Mex. Bomid. Surv., ii, pt. ii, 1859, 15 (Tamaulipas; Boca 

 Grande, New Mexico; l^spia, Sonora). — Coues, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1866, 

 84 (Fort Whipple, Arizona; l>reeding); Birds N. W., 1874, 129, iv'irt.— Hoff- 

 man, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., 1882, 398 (Fort Berthold, North Dakota).— 

 (?) Rhoads, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1893, 48, 63 (British Columbia, bet. 

 Cascade and Rocky Mts. ; crit. ). 



Pooecetes gramineus Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 379 (Oaxaca); Cat. 

 Am. Birds, 1862, 112, part (Oaxaca).— Blakistox, Ibis, 1862, 6 (Forks of 

 Saskatchewan, breeding); 1863, 75 (Saskatchewan; RedR. ). — Dresser, Ibis, 

 1865, 487 (San Antonio, Texas, breeding). — Duges, La Naturaleza, i, 1868, 

 140 (Guanajuato).— Cooper, Orn. Cal.,1870, 186, part.— Allex, Proc. Bost. 

 Soc. N. H., xvii, 1874, 57 (valleys of Yellow.stone and Musselshell rivers). — 

 CouEs, Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Surv. Terr.,iv, 1878, 589 (Pembina, etc., 

 North Dakota; descr. nest and eggs). — Ogilby, Sci. Proc. Roy. Dubl. Soc, 

 iii, 1882 (32) (Navarro Co., Texas, Oct. to March ).—Setox, Auk, ii, 1885, 23 

 (Manitoba; song, etc.).— (?) Agersborg, Auk, ii, 1885, 280 (s. e. South 



^ Eleven specimens. '^ Fourteen specimens. 



