328 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Adult male.— l^ength (skins), 120.40-130.30 (124.97);' wing, 60.20- 

 65.79 (63.25); tail, 57.40-61.98 (60.96); exposed culmen, 8.64-8.89 

 (8.78); depth of bill at base, 5.08-5.59 (5.33): tarsus, 17.02-18.03 

 (17.53); middle toe, 11.68-12.95 (12.19).' 



Adultfemale.—luength {skins), 117.09-131.83(124.46); wing, 55.88- 

 65.79 (61.21); tail, 57.40-63.50 (60.20); exposed culmen,' 8.64-9.14 

 (8.89); depth of bill at base, 5.08-5.33 (5.11); tarsus, 16.26-18.03 

 (17.02); middle toe, 11.18-12.45 (11.94).=^ 



Western United States, from the Rocky Mountains to the valleys 

 of central and southern California, and northward into the interior of 

 British Columbia; breeding from New Mexico, Arizona, and southern 

 California northward; in winter southward over northwestern por- 

 tions of Mexican plateau through States of Chihuahua (Casas Grandes) 

 and Sonora (Magdalena, Batamotal, etc.) to Durango and Jalisco 

 (Juanacatlan,) and throughout peninsula of Lower California; acci- 

 dental in Massachusetts i'. 



Emheriza pallida (not of Swainpon) Ai-ditbon, Orn. Biog., v, 1839, 66, pi. 3'98; 

 Synopsis, 1839, 103; Birds Am., oct. ed., iii, 1841, 71, pi. 161.— Heermann, 

 Journ. Nat. Ac. Sei. Phila., ii, 1852, 265 (Sacramento, California). 



{Spizella'\ pallida (not Spizella pallida Bonaparte, 1838) Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 

 1850, 480 (n. Mexico; California). 



Spizella pallida Woodhouse, Rep. Sitgreaves' Expl. Zmli and Col. R., 1853, 83 

 (New Mexico). — Heermann, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., x, pt. iv, 1859, 48, part 

 (California). — Coues, Ibis, 1865, 164, in text (Fort Whipple, Arizona). — 

 Allen, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., iii, 1872, 145 (Cheyenne, Wyoming, part?), 

 168, 177 (Ogden, Utah), 289 (Salt Lake Valley, Utah). 



Spizella hreiveri Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., viii, Feb., 1856, 40 (Cali- 

 fornia; New Mexico; coll. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila.). — Newberry, Rep. Pacific 

 R. R. Surv., vi, pt. iv, 1857, 88 (Sacramento Valley, California). — Baird, 

 Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 475; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 361; 

 Rep. U. S. and Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. ii, 1859, 16 (Boca Grande, New 

 Mexico; El Paso, Texas). — Kennerlv, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., x, pt. vi, 

 1859, 29 (New Mexico; Arizona).— Coues, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1866, 

 87 (Fort W^hipple, Arizona, summer resid.; crit. ); Check List, 2d ed., 1882, 

 no. 273. — Cooper, Orn. Cal., 1870, 209 (Fort Mojave; Sacramento and Tejon 

 valleys, etc.). — RiixiWAV, Bull. Essex Inst., vi, 1874, 171 (Sacramento, Cal- 

 ifornia); Orn. 40th Parallel, 1877, 480 (Sacramento, California; localities in 

 Nevada and Utah; habits; song) ; Proc. U. S. Xat. :\Ius., iii, 1880, 3 (crit. ) ; Norn. 

 N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 213. — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. 

 Birds, ii, 1874, pi. 27, fig. 4.— Coues and Streets, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 

 7, 1877, 10 (Angel I., Gulf of California) .—Bendire, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., 

 xix, 1877, 119 (Camj) Harney, e. Oregon, summer; descr. nest and eggs). — 

 Belding, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1879, 417 (Stockton, etc., California) ; v, 

 1883, 540 (La Paz, Lower California, winter) ; vi, 1883, 343 (Guaymas, Sonora, 

 winter).— Brown, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 38 (Kendall Co., Texas, 

 Mar. 15).— Allen and Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, viii, 1883, 191 (Col- 

 orado Springs, Colorado, summer, after May 10). — Drew, Auk, ii, 1885, 16 



^Length before skinning about 133.35-137.16. 

 2 Nine specimens. ^ Ten specimens. 



