BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 393 



broadly margined with bufly or pale fuhous; maxilla dusky, the 

 tomia pale (yellowish in litei!); mandible yellowish; iris brown; legs 

 and feet brownish. Young still darker than young of P. 1. (innecteiis^ 

 especially the under parts, the ground color of which is dull ])utfy 

 (nowhere approaching whitish), this heavily spotted ^\'\X\\ dark rusty 

 hrowni; the sides and flanks plain rusty l)rown; the under tail-coverts 

 dull brownish ))uffy or fulvous. 



Adult )iiahu—hQngth. (skins), I54.it4:-1T!»,5S (169. 4:>); wing. 77.22- 

 S3.82 (80.52); tail, 67.06-73.91 (70.61); exposed culmen. 11.18-12.1:5 

 (1 1.94); depth of bill at base, 7.37-8.13 (7.87); tarsus, 24.38-26.67 (25.40); 

 middle toe, 16.00-18.03 (17.02); hind claw, 10.67-12.95 (11.68).' 



Adult femMe.—Le\-\gt\i (skins), 1.54.94-181.86 (167.13); wing, 74.93- 

 82.04 (77.47); tail, 66.29-77.22 (7o.lO); exposed culmen, 10.41-12.45 

 (11.18); depth of bill at base, 7.62-8.64 (7.87); tarsus, 23.37-25.15 

 (24.64); middle toe, 16.26-17.78 (17.02); hind claw, 6.3.5-12.19 (10.41).- 



Coast district of southern Alaska (islands and coast of mainland 

 from southern side of Cross Sound, Lynn Canal, etc., to north side of 

 Dixon Entrance); in winter, south to northern California (Bodega, 

 Humboldt Ba}-, etc.). 



Frim/il/a tovmsendl Audubox, Oni. Biog., v, 1839, 236, pi. 424, fig. 7 (Coltiml^ia 

 Kiver;^' type now in U. S. Nat. Mus.); Synopsis, 1839, 119; Birds Am., oct. 

 ed., iii, 1841, 43, ])1. 187.— Ncttall, Man. Orn. U. S. and Can.. 2d ed., i, 

 1840, 583. 



Z.\_onotn(:h'M'] toicnsendii Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1849, 374. 



[Passerelkcl tovri><endii Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 477. 



Passerella ioimKnuHi Baird, Rep. Pacifir R. R. Snrv., ix, 1858, 489, part (Ft. Van- 

 couver, Washington, Jan.; ColumVna R., Fel).*); Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, 

 no. 375, part. — Cooper and Suckley, Rep. Paoitic R. R. Surv., xii, pt. ii, 

 1860, 204, part (Ft. Vancouver, Washington, .Jan.). — Dall and Bannister, 

 Trans. Chicago Ac. Sci., i, 1869, 285, part (Sitka).— Cooper, Orn. Cal., 1870, 

 221, part. 



{^Passerella tovnisendi] var. toivnsendi Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. 

 Birds, ii, 1874, 49, part. 



Passerella townseiidi Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 

 53, part, pi. 28, fig. 8. 



IPasserella iliaca.l Var. townseiidi i Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 147, part. 



Passerella iliaca . . . var. townsendii Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 189a, part. 



[Passerella townsendii var. scliistacea'] a. townsendii Coues, Birds N. W., 1874, 162, 

 part (in synonymy). 



Passerella iliaca townsendi Ridgway, Auk, xvii, Jan., 1900, 30 (breeding range). 



Ember Iza (Zonotrichia) rujina (not Emberiza rvfina Brandt) Kittlitz, Denkw., 

 18.58, 200 (Sitka, Alaska). 



^ Ten specimens. 



^ Seven specimens. 



* Winter specimen. 



*0f the nine specimens mentioned by Professor Baird only tliree are now in the 

 U. S. National Museum collection, two of these, representing the above-mentioned 

 localities, being the present form. 



