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(Fort ■\Vhipi)le, Arizona, Apr. to Oct. ; crit. ) ; Check List, 1873, no. 181 ; 2d ed. 

 1882, no. 274; Birds N. W., 1874, 151 (synonymy). — Duges, La Naturaleza, 

 i, 1868, 140 (Guanajuato).— Cooper, Orn. Cal., 1870, 210 (Fort Whipple, 

 Arizona; Cape St. Liu-as, Lower California, etc.). — Baird, Brewer, and 

 RiDGWAY, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, pL 26, figs. 11, 12; ii, 1874, 15.— 

 Henshaw, Rep. Orn. Spec. Wheeler's Surv., 1873 (1874), 159 (Fort Whip- 

 ple, Arizona). — Lawrence, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 4, 1876, 21 (Chapulco, 

 Puebla, Jan.).— RiDGWAY, Norn. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 215; Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., ix, 1886, 144 (Atlixco, Puebla; crit.).— Belding, Proc. U.S.Nat. 

 Mus., vi, 1883, 348 (Victoria Mts. and Pescadero, Lower California, winter). — 

 American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 565. — Salvin and 

 GoDMAN, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1886, 380.— Morcom, Bull. Ridgw. Orn. 

 Club, no. 2, 1887, 49 (San Bernardino and San Diego counties, California, 

 breeding). — Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 669 (Santa Ana R. and 

 Cajon Pass, s. California; City of Mexico; Puebla, etc.). — Anthony, Auk, 

 ix, 1892, 365 (Little Hachita and Sierra Hachita, s. w. New Mexico, Oct. to 

 Nov.); Zoe, iv, 1893, 241 (San Pedro Martir Mts., Lower California, up to 

 10,000 ft.).— Fisher, N. Am. Fauna, no. 7, 1893, 92 (Panamint, Argus, and 

 Coso Mts., Walkers Pass, etc., s. e. California; song). — Grinnell, Pub. ii, 

 Pasadena Acad. Sci., 1898, 38 (Los Angeles Co., California, up to 7,000 ft., 

 summer). 



[Spizella^ atrufularis Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 144. 



S.lpizella'\ atrigukms Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 381. — Ridgw ay, 

 Man. N.Am. Bird.s, 1887, 421. 



{Zonotrichia^ (Uru/ularis Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 95, no. 7401. 



iSfruthtis atrimentalis Couch, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., vii, Apr., 1854, 67 (Agua 

 Nueva, Coahuila, Mexico; U. S. Nat. Mus. ). 



Spizella eritra Coues, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., xviii, Mar., 1866, 87, in synonomy 

 (Fort Whipple, Arizona; U. S. Nat. Mus. :=young).^ 



S.[pizella'] cana "Baird MSS." Coues, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci., xviii. Mar., 1866, 88, 

 in text (Sierra San Gertrude, Lower California; V. S. Nat. Mus. =young male, 

 in first winter) . 



SPIZELLA PALLIDA (Swainson) . 

 ClAY-COLORED SPARROW. 



Adults in swnmer {sexes alll'e). — Pilemii light brown (pale umber, 

 wood brown or Isabella), more or les.s heavily streaked with black 

 (black sometimes prevailing), with a more or less distinct median stripe 

 of pale gray or butty gravish; a broad and very distinct superciliary 

 stripe of pale butty gra}-, gra3'ish butty, or dull butty whitish; hind- 

 neck and sides of neck grayish, the former more or less streaked (nar- 

 rowly) with dusky; back and scapulars pale butty broccoli ])rown, 

 broadly streaked with black; rump pale broccoli or hair brown, the 

 upper tail-coverts similar but with darker mesial streaks; tail dark hair 

 brown, the rectrices edged with pale grayish; lesser wing-coverts 

 brownish gray or hair brown with darker centers; middle coverts 

 dusky, tipped with pale butty; greater coverts dusky centrally, broadly 

 edged with pale butty brown, becoming still paler (pale dull butty or 



' Following the name is the following citation: "Ibis, Jan., 1865, p. 118. Ibid, 

 Apr., 1865, p. 164; " but on neither page, nor indeed anywhere in the volume cited, 

 does the name occur! 



