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Peticara r((ssinii Baird, Rep. Pacilie R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 458, part (San Antonio 

 and Pecos R., Texas); Cat. X. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 371, part. — HEER^tAxx, 

 Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv.. x, ])t. iv, 1859, 12. pi. 4, tig. 2 (Comanche Spring, 

 Texas) . 



Peucxa cassinii Sclatek, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, ll."i (Mexico). — Cooper, Orn. 

 Cal., 1870, 219 (Texas to Gulf of California). 



Peucxa cassini Dresser. Ibis, 1865, 489 (prairies near Medina R., Texas). — 

 Butcher, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1868, 149 (Laredo, Texas, breeding). — 

 RiDGWAY, Am. Nat., vii, 1873, 617, in text (crit.) ; Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, 

 no. 228. — Snow, Birds Kansas, 1873, 7 (Fort Hays, \v. Kansas). — Coues, 

 Check List, 1873, App. no. 170 his (p. 127) ; 2d ed., 1882, no. 254; Birds 

 N. W., 1874, 140. — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 

 1874, 42, pi. 28, fig. 5.— Hen.shaw, Rep. Orn. Spec. Wheeler's Surv., 1873 

 (1874), 159 (Gila R., Tucson, etc., Arizona, winter); Zool. Exp. W. 100th 

 Merid., 1875, 287 (s. Arizona; habits; song); Auk, iii, 1886, 74 (upper Pecos 

 R., New Mexico). — McCauley, Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Surv. Terr., iii, 

 1877, 663 (Palo Duro R., n. Texas; habits; song). — Sexnett, Bull. U. S. 

 Geol. and Geog. Surv. Terr., iv, 1878, 18 (Brownsville, Texas, Apr.). — Mer- 

 rill, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1878, 128 (Fort Brown, Texas; song, etc.; 

 descr. nest and eggs). — Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 195 

 (Sulphur Spring Valley, Arizona, 1 spec. Apr. 4). — Nehrlixg, Bull. Nutt. 

 Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 13 (Harris Co., Texas, resid.); Our Native Birds, etc., 

 ii, 1896, 151. — Salvin and Godmax, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1886, 391 

 (Mexico?). — Lloyd, Auk, iv, 1887, 292 (Tom Green and Concho counties, 

 w. Texas, breeding; song, etc.). — Cooke, Bird Migr. Miss. Val., 1888, 207 

 (Texas localities; middle and w. Kansas). — Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 

 xii, 1888, 712 ("^Mexico," etc. ).— Goss, Birds Kansas, 1891, 469 (w. and 

 mid. Kansas, summer resid.). — Ragsdale, Auk, 1892, 73 (prairies of Cook 

 Co., Texas) .—Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., v, 1893, 39 (Cochise Co., 

 Arizona). — Fisher, North Am. Fauna, no. 7, 1893, 98 (Timpahute Valley, 

 Nevada, May ) . 



[Pci/ca'a] cassini Sclater and Salvix, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 32. 



P. [<'wca'«] cassi7ii Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 374. — Ridgway, Man. 

 N. Am. Birds, 1887, 428. 



Peucsea sestimlis . . . var. cassini Coues, Cheek List, 1873, no. 170a, part. 



Peucxa sestivaliK, var. cussinli Xlletsi, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., iii, 1872, 137, 177 

 (Fort Hays, middle Kansas, breeding). 



l^Ammodranmsl cassinii Gnw, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 96, no. 7428. 



Peucea [err. typ. ] lestiralis (not Frin(/illa aestiralis Lichtenstein) Allex, Am 

 Nat., vi, 1872, 271, in text (Fort Hays, w. Kansas). 



Peucxa xstivalis Sxow, Birds Kansas, 3d ed., 1875, 7 (Fort Hays). — (?) Singley, 

 Rep. Geol. Surv. Tex., 1894, 372 (Corpus Christi). 



AIMOPHILA XSTIVALIS XSTIVALIS (Lichtenstein). 

 PINE-WOODS SPARROW. 



Adults {se.ves ah'l'e). — Above gray, broadly streaked with chestnut- 

 brown, the feathers of the back with blackish central spots; tail dusky 

 with broad gray edgings, the middle pair of rectrices gra^' with a 

 median stripe of dusky; edge of wing light yellow; sides of head 



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