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witli hair, etc. The eggs, about four, are jjale greenish, with reddisli-hrown 

 dots thicldy sprinlded over. At San Diego I found the young hutched ou 

 ]\Iay 18th, hut think they are often earlier. 



p. Eelh. 



It is a common bird in the chaparral of Santa Clara Valley, and, accord- 

 ing to Heermann, along Cosiimnes Eiver. 



We give above the details of external structure of P. Belli, to show the 

 difference from P. hilincata. 



Gencs SPIZELLA, Bonaparte. 



Sphdht, BoNAP.\ETE, Gi'og-. and Comp. List, 1838. (T3-pe, Friiu/illn Canadensis, Latiiaii.) 

 Spiniles, Cabanis, Mas. Huin. 1851, 133. (Type, Fnnr/ilhi socialix, Wilson.) 



Gen. Cii.ar. Bill conifal, the outlines slij;;htly eurvod ; the lower mamliblc not so deep 

 as the upper, the eommissure gently sinuateil ; the roof of the mouth not knobbed. Feet 



S. montirola. 



