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Peucaea Cassinii, Woodhouse. 



CASSIN'S FINCH. 



Zonolrkhia Cassinii, Woodiiouse, Pr. A. N. Sc. VI. April, 1852, GO. — Passcrcuhis Cassinii, 

 WooDiiousE, Sitgreaves's Report, 85. — Peuca:a Cassinii, Bxird, Birds N. Amer. 1858, 

 485. 



Sr. Char. Above light cbc-stnut, all the feathers margined and tipped with blnish- 

 gray. Intersca|)ular and crown feathers with a narrow streak of brown. Beneath white, 

 liuged with ash across the breast, and with brown towards the tail. An obsolete hght 



snpcrciliary stripe, and a naiTOw dnsky maxillary one. Tail featliers obsolelely blotched 

 with blnisli-white at the end. Bend of wing yellow ; lesser coverts tinged with greenish- 

 yellow. Length, 6.00; wing, 2.65; tail, 2.75. 



Ilab. Southern Texas, and west to the' tJulf of California. 



This specie.?, a close relation to the Eastern P. a-stiralis, though of 

 paler colors, and longer wings and tail, is but little known, only a few speci- 

 mens having been obtained, and nothing recorded of its habits. 



Sub-Family PASSERELLIN/E. 



C'liAR. Toes and claws very stout ; the lateral claws reaching beyond 

 the middle of the middle one ; all very slightly curved. Bill conical, the 

 outlines straight ; both mandibles equal ; wings long, longer than the even 

 tail, reaching nearly to the middle of its exposed portion. Hind claw longer 

 than its digit, which is nearly as long as the middle toe ; tarsus longer than 

 the middle toe. Brown abo\"e, either uniformly so, or faintly streidved ; 

 triangular spots below. 



Professor Baird has formed this sub-family to embrace the single genus 



