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SINGING BIRDS — OSCIXES. 



lias tlie general appearance of raniccps ; the liead and neck being slaty-gi-ay, 

 not black; the lores blacldsh iu contrast, etc. There is, liowever, a large 

 dorsal area colored as in Orajonus, -while the sides are strongly tinged with 

 pinkish-l'td\-ous, as in Orcgonas, instead of being plain cinereous-gray like 

 the throat, as in caniccps. Other siJeciniens exhibit still dilferent degrees of 

 combination of the characters of the two species. (Baird.) 



Genus POOSPIZA, C.^banis. 



Poospha, Cab.ynis, Wiegmann's Arcliiv, I. 18-47, 349. 

 Pipilo jiersonalo, Swainson.) 



(Type, Emiteriza mrjro-rufa, Okb., or 



Gex. Cii.U!. Bill sk'mlor, conical, both outlines gently cui-ved. Under jaw with the 

 eilges considerably inflected ; not so high as the upper. Tarsi elongated, slendiT ; con- 

 siderably longer than the middle toe. Toes short, weak ; the outer decidedly longer than 



the inner, liut not reaching to the base of the middle claw. Hind toe about equal to the 

 middle without its claw. All the claws compressed and moderately curved. Wings 

 rather long, reaching about over the basal fourth of the exposed portion of the rather long 



