BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 587 



maxilla blackish; mandible g-rayi.sh (pale bluish in life?); iris brown; 

 legs and feet dusky brown; length (skins), 127.00-142.24 (135.13); 

 wing, 69.09-73.91 (71.12); tail, 52.32-56.90 (54.61); exposed culmen, 

 10.16-11.18 (10,67); depth of bill at base, 7.37-8.13 (7.62); tarsus, 

 18.03-20.07 (19.05); middle toe, 12.19-14.22 (13.21).^ 



Adult female. — Above plain dull green (oil green to bice green); 

 beneath olive-yellowish, clearer yellow (straw yellow to light gamboge 

 or maize j-ellow) on abdomen and under tail-coverts; length (skins), 

 119.38-139.45 (128.52); wing, 63.75-71.12 (66.29); tail, 48.26-56.37 

 (51.82); exposed culmen, 10.16-10.67 (10.41); depth of bill at base, 

 7.11-8.13 (7.62); tarsus, 18.29-19.56 (19.05); middle toe, 12.45-13.72 

 (12.95).' 



Yowig. — Above didl g-rayish brown, more or less tinged, here and 

 there, with greenish; middle and greater wing-coverts narrowly tipped 

 with pale buff or buffy graj^ish; under parts dull grayish buffy. 



Humid division of Lower Sonoran Province; north to coast of North 

 Carolina, southern Illinois, southern Kansas (Baker and Comanche 

 counties); south, in winter, to Bahamas, Cuba, the whole of Mexico, 

 and through Central America to Veragua; west during migration to 

 Arizona. 



\_Emheriza'\ r(mLixN,Ers, Syst. Nat., ed. 10,i, 1758, 179 (based on Fringilla tricolor 

 Catesby, Nat. Hist. Carolina, i. p. 44, pi. 44, etc.) ; ed. 12, i, 1766, .313.— 

 Latham, Index Orn., i, 1790, 416. 



Emheriza siris Temminck, Cat. Syst., 1807, 103. 



EnibeHza ciris Wilson, Am. Orn., iii, 1811, 68, pi. 24, figs. 1, 2. 



Passerina ciris Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xxv, 1817, 17; Gal. Ois., i, 

 1825, 81, pi. 66.— D'Orbigny, in La Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois., 1839, 102.— 

 CouEs, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v, 1880, 96; Check List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 292; 

 Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 391.— Ridgway, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, 

 no. 251. —Hay, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 92 (Jackson, etc., Mississippi, 

 summer).— Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 100 (St. Marys, 

 Georgia; habits; song). — Jencks, Random Notes on Nat. Hist., i, 1884, 8 

 (Scituate, Rhode Island, 1 spec, summer of 1882). — Goss, Auk, ii, 1885, 276 

 (Comanche Co., Kansas, common summer resident). — Cory, List Birds W. I. 

 1885, 12; Auk, iii, 1886, 210; viii, 1891, 294 (Cuba), 295 (Berry Islands); 

 Birds W. L, 1889, 97; Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 112 (Great Bahama, Berry 

 Island, and New Providence, Bahamas; Cuba). — American Ornithologists' 

 Union, Check List, 1886, no. 601.— Ferrari-Perez, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus , 

 ix, 1886, 142 (Chietla, Puebla, Dec.).— Zeledon, Am. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, 

 i, 1887, 111 (Las Trojas, Costa Rica).— Cooke, Bird Migr. Miss. Val., 1888, 

 219 (Caddo, Indian Terr., breeding; localities and dates; breeding habits). — 

 Goss, Birds Kansas, 1891, 492 (Baker and Comanche counties, s. Kansas, 

 summer resid.). — Cherrie, Expl. Zool. Costa Rica, 1893, 29 (Lagarto and 

 Buenos Aires, s. Costa Rica). — Howe, Auk, xiii, 1896, 261 (Longwood, 

 Massachusetts, 1 spec. June 5, 1896). — Nehrling, Our Native Birds, etc.,ii, 

 1896, 220, pi. 28, fig. 3. 



[Passerina^ ciris Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 97, no. 7437. — Cory, List Birds W. I., 

 1885, 12. 



^ Fourteen specimens. ^ Nine specimens. 



