BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 329 



(Colorado, 6,000-9,000 ft.) •— Salvix and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, 

 i, 1886, 379 (Ciudad Durango; Guaymas). — American Ornithologists' 

 Union, Check List, 1886, no. 562.— Morcom, Bull. Ridgw. Orn. Club, no. 2, 

 1887, 49 (San Bernardino and San Diego counties, California). — Merrill, 

 Auk, V, 1888,359 (Fort Klamath, e. Oregon, breeding; song). — Cooke, Bird 

 Migr. Miss. Yal., 1888, 201 (Tom Green and Pecos counties, w. Texas, winter; 

 Cook Co., Texas, 1 spec, spring). — Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 

 668 (Ciudad Durango, etc.). — Fannin, Check List Birds Brit. Columbia, 

 1891, 36 (e. side of Cascade Mts. and Rocky Mt. district).— Rhoads, Proc. 

 Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1893, 50, 63 (Ashcroft, int. British Columbia).— Jorv, 

 Proc. r. S. Nat. Mus., xvi, 1894, 779 (Falls of Juanacatlan, Jalisco, Jan. 31).— 

 Thorne, Auk, xii, 1895, 217 (Fort Keogh, Montana, breeding). — Dawson, 

 Auk, xiv, 1897, 178 (Okanogan Co., Washington). — Grinnell, Pub. ii, Pasa- 

 dena Acad. Sci., 1898, 37 (Los Angeles Co., California, 5,000-7,000 ft. in 

 summer, lowlands in winter). 



S.[pizeUa'\ breweri Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 381. — Ridgway, Man. 

 N. Am. Birds, 1887, 421. 



(?) Spizella hrerreri (?) Brew.ster, Am. Nat., viii, 1874, 366 (Mas.*achusetts) . 



\_Sinzell<i pallida.'] Var. breicevii Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 143. 



Spizella pallida . . . var. hreircri CorES, Check List, 1873, no. 180o. — Yarroav 

 and Henshaw, Rep. Orn. Spec. Wheeler's Surv., 1872 (1874), 14 (Provo, 

 Utah). — Henshaw, Rep. Orn. Spec. Wheeler's Surv., 1873 (1874), 62 (Denver, 

 Colorado, May 17), 80 (Fort Garland, Colorado, May, June), 116 (Apache 

 and Gila R., Arizona, Aug., Sept.); Zool. Exp. W. iooth Merid., 1875,279 

 (localities in Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona; song). 



Spizelln pallida var. hrerreri RiDCiWAY, Bull. Essex Inst., v, Nov., 1873, 172 (Salt 

 Lake City, Utah, breeding), 182 (Colorado). — Baird, Brewer, and Ridg- 

 way, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 13; iii, 1874, 514.— Allen, Proc. Bost. 

 Soc. N. H.,xvii, 1874, 58 (valleys of Yellowstone and Musselshell rivers, 

 Montana). 



{^Zonotrichia'] breweri Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 94, no. 7399. 



Spizella pallida hreveri Goode, Bull. U. S. Nat. ^lus., no. 20, 1883, 343. 



Genus ZONOTRICHIA Swainson. 



Zo)Wtnchia Swainson, Fauna Bor.-Am., ii, 1831, 493. (Type, by elimination, 



Emberiza leucojihry^t Forster. ) 

 Zonitrichia (emendation ?) Bonaparte, Saggio, etc., 1832, 141. 



Rather large semi-arboreal Fringillida?, with the tail nearly or quite 

 as long as the wing, ronnded or slightly double-rounded, the wing rather 

 long and pointed (eighth to sixth, or seventh to fifth, primaries longest), 

 the back conspicuously streaked with blackish, and (in adults) pileimi 

 either whoU}- black or with two broad black bands inclosing a white, 

 gray, or partly yellow median band. 



Bill small (exposed culmen al)out half as long as tarsus, more or less), 

 compressed-conical (basal depth about equal to length of gouj-s, 

 decidedly greater than basal width); culmen slightly convex terminally 

 and basally, straight or faintly depressed in middle; gonys straight, 

 faintl}' convex terminall}"; maxillary tomium faintl}" concave anteri- 

 orly (subterminal notch obsolete or wanting), then faintly convex, the 

 faintly deflected basal portion nearly concealed by rictal feathers; 



