Black-headed Grosbeak 399 



always exceeding the fifth, sometimes the sixth ; difference between 

 the primaries and secondaries more than the length of the tarsas ; 

 tail comparatively short, between -7 and -8 in the wmg ; even or 

 slightly rounded. Plumage with the nnder wing-coverts yellow or 

 pink, and the wings and tail marked with white. 



Two species only of this genus are generally recognized ; it ranges 

 over temperate North America, southwards in winter to northern 

 South America. 



A. Under wing-coverts red. Z. ludoviciana, c? p. 399. 



B. Under wing-coverts yellow. 



a. Chest tinged with rosy. Z. ludoviciana, ? p. 399. 



b. Chest ciimamon. Z. melanocephala, (? & ? p. 399. 



Rose-breasted Grosbeak. Zamelodia ludoviciana. 



A.O.U. Checklist no 595 — Colorado Records — Cooke 97, p. 167 ; 

 Burnett 02, p. 94 ; Henderson 09, p. 238. 



Description. — Male — General colour above, including the sides of 

 the head and throat black ; rimip, a patch at the base of the primaries, 

 tips of some of the coverts and tertiaries, subterminal patches on the 

 inner webs of the three outer pairs of tail-feathers, all white ; chest, 

 axillaries and under wing-coverts rose -pink, rest of the lower-surface 

 white ; iris brown, bill light brown, dusky terminally, legs greyish- 

 horn. Length 6-75 ; wing 4-0 ; tail 2-90 ; culmen -70 ; tarsus -80. 



The male in winter has the head and back brown, streaked with 

 black, the under-parts pale brown, somewhat streaked with dusky. 

 The female has the axillaries and rnider wing-coverts yellow, instead 

 of rose-pink, and the wings and tail brown instead of black. 



Distribution. — Breeding in eastern North America from Manitoba 

 to Nova Scotia southwards to North Carolina in the mountains, south 

 in winter to Ecuador and Colombia through Cuba, Jamaica and Mexico. 



The status of this bird as a Colorado species rests on two occurrences. 

 In the summer of 1894 a pair nested near the house of Mrs. J. W. Bacon 

 at Longmont, in Boulder co. ; the young were hatched and one was 

 secured ; Burnett saw a pair on June 1st, 1902, near Loveland, and 

 secvired the male. Goss states that it is not a common bird except 

 on migration in eastern Kansas, and that he has not met with it west 

 of Junction City in the middle of the State. 



Black-headed Grosbeak. Zamelodia melanoce'pJiala. 



A.O.U. Checkhst no 596— Colorado Records— Allen 72, p. 149 ; 

 Trippe 74, p. 167 ; Henshaw 75, p. 296 ; Minot 80, p. 230 ; Stone 81, 

 p. 45 ; Allen & Brewster 83, p. 191 ; Beckham 83, p. 63 ; 85, p. 142 ; 

 Drew 85, p. 16 ; Lowe 94, p. 269 ; Cooko 97, pp. 19, 108, 216 ; Dille 



