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Texas, Dec-., Jan.). — Cooper, Orn. Cal., 1S70, 248. — Merri.vm, Rep. U. S. 

 Geol. Surv. Terr., 1872, 684 (Idaho).— Hexshaw, Auk, iii, 1886, 74 (upper 

 Pecos R., New Mexico, breeding). 



{Emberizoides'] chlorura Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 01, no. 7331. 



AUapetes chlorurus Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus-., xii, 1888, 738. 



Oreosopiza chlorura Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1896, 605. — American' 

 Ornithologists' Union Committee, Auk, xiv, 1897, 129; xvi, 1899, 121. — 

 (trinnell. Pub. ii, Pasadena Acad. 8ci., 1898, 40 (Los Angeles Co., s. Cali- 

 fornia, breeding on higher mountains, wintering below). 



Fringilla hkmdingiana Gambel, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., i, Apr., 1843, 360 

 ( Arizona ;=adult). 



Ewhernagra hlandhujkmu Baird, in Stansbury's Rep. Gt. Salt Lake, 1852, 330 

 (Rocky Mts.).— Cassin, Illustr. Birds Cal., Tex., etc., 1856, 70, pi. 12.— 

 DuGES, La Naturaleza, i, 1868, 140 (Guanajuato). 



Zonotrichia blundingkma Woodhouse, in Rep. Sitgreaves' Expl. Zuni and Col. 

 R., 1853, 85 (near San Antonio, Texas, and Zuni Mts., New Mexico). 



Fipilo rufipileus 'Lafres's AYE, Rev. Zool., new ser., i, 1848, 176 (Mexico). 



P.lipilol rufipileus Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 487 (Mexico). 



Kieneriarufipilea Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xl, 1855, 356. 



Genus PIPILO Vieillot. 



P(pi7o ViEiLLOT, Analyse, 1816, 32. (Type, Fringllld criithnqilUhahiia Linna?ug. ) 

 Pipillo Swainson, Classif. Birdtr, ii, 1837, 286. 



Chamxospiza Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1858, 304. (Ty])e, Fipilo iur- 

 quatns Du Bus.) 



Large terrestrial or semitorre.strial Fring-jllidte, with rather .short, 

 nnich rounded wing, long tail (u.sually longer than wing), stout feet, 

 and pliunage plain or pied (black, white, and rufous, olive-g'reen, white, 

 and rufous, or brown, white, and rufous), onl}" the young streaked 

 below. 



Bill moderate, its depth at base equal to or greater than length of 

 the gonys and decidedly greater than its width; exposed culmen about 

 one-half to two-thirds as long as the tarsus, gently convex at base and 

 tip, straight or sometimes faintly depressed between, or nearh' 

 straight throughout; gonys straight or faintly convex, nearly or quite 

 as long as distance from nostril to tip of maxilla; maxillary tomium 

 lirst faintly concave, then slightly convex, again a little concave at 

 beginning of the decided though not abrupt basal deflection; mandib- 

 ular tomium nearh' straight to the distinctly toothed subbasal angle, 

 sometimes more or less sinuate immediately in front of the latter. 

 Nostril horizontal, somewhat wedge-shaped, more or less pointed 

 anteriorly. Rictal bristles distinct. AVing moderate or rather short 

 (a little more than two and one-half to four times as long as tarsus), 

 much roitnded (ninth primarv shorter than second, the seventh, sixth, 

 •.uid fifth longest); primaries exceeding secondaries by not more (usu- 

 allv much less) than exposed culmen. Tail longer than wing, less than 

 half hidden by upper coverts, I'ounded, the rectrices rather broad, with 



