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dusW, the rectrices conspicuously edg-ed with pale gray or bufiy gray; 

 middle wing-coverts duskv. abruptly and rather broadly tipped with 

 white; greater coverts dusky centrally (mostly concealed), broadly 

 edged with cinnamon-rufous, and also tipped with white (forming a sec- 

 ond distinct band); tertials l)lackish centrally, margined terminally 

 (except in worn summer plumage) with whitish or pale rust}', their 

 outer webs mostly cinnamon-rufous or rusty; maxilla blackish, man- 

 dible jadlow tipped with dusky; iris brown; tarsi brown, toes darker. 

 (In winter the rufous-chestnut pileum, especialh' along the median line, 

 is more or less broken b}' dull bufl'y terminal margins to the feathers, 

 and the general coloration rather more buli'v, especially above). 



Young. — Pileum dull brown streaked with blackish; rump pale buti'y 

 grayish indistinctly streaked or mottled with duskj^; under parts whit- 

 ish, tinged with bufly on chest, the sides of throat, chest, breast, and 

 anterior portion of sides streaked with dusky; otherwise essentially 

 like adults. 



Adult vude.— Length (skins), 138.94-149.10 (11:3.76);^ wing, 74.17- 

 77.47 (75.95); tail, 64.01-69.60 (66.29); exposed culmen, 9.91-10.41 

 (10.16); depth of bill at base, 6.60-7.11 (6.86); tarsus, 20.32-21.59 

 (21. OS); middle toe, 13.97-14.99 (14.22).^ 



Adult /hnale.—ljength (skins), 134.37-147.32(140.97); wing, 69.85- 

 78.74 (72.64); tail, 64.26-68.83 (65.79); exposed culmen, 9.65-10.16 

 (9.91); depth of bill at base, 6.35-7.11 (6.86); tarsus, 19.81-21.08 

 (20.57); middle toe, 13.21-14.22 (13.46)." 



Eastern North America, breeding in Newfoundland, Labrador, and 

 region about Hudson Bay (limits of lireeding range ver}' imperfectly 

 known) ;^ south in winter to South Carolina, Tennessee. Indian Terri- 

 tory, etc. 



Fringilla montana (not of Linnaeus) Forster, Philos. Trans., Ixii, 1772, 405 (Hud- 

 son Bay; cites "Br. Zool. Echv., 269; Brisson, iii, p. 79; Faun. Am. Sept."). 



Spizella montana Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, Mar. 27, 1880, 3; Nom. 

 N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 210, part. 



[Fringilla'] monlicola Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. ii, 1788, 912 (based on Passer 

 canadensis Brisson, A v. , iii, 102) . 



PasserinamonticolaYiEihhOT, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xxv, 1817, 27. 



Z. [onotrichia^ monlicola Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1849, 374. 



[Zonotrichial monticola Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 94, no. 7398. 



S-lpinites'] monticolus Cabanis, Mus. Hein., i, Apr., 1851, 134. 



Spizella monticola Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 472, part (eastern 

 localtiesand references) ; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 357, part. — Coues, Proc. 

 Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1861, 224 (coast Labrador, breeding) ; Check List, 1873, 



' Length before skinning about 158.75-165.10. 



^ Eight specimens. 



•' Among southern breeding records are two whicli are doubtful or erroneous — cer- 

 tainly the latter in the case of one (Fort Sisseton, South Dakota, fide McChesney, 

 Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Surv. Terr., iv, 1879, 77; the other record being northern 

 Minnesota, ^cZe Hatch, Birds of Minnesota, 1892, 323). 



