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night more the young left the nest. I found nests with eggs as late as May 

 25th, and have no doubt that they raise two or more broods. The song of 

 the male, throughout April and May, is precisely like that of the P. fuscus, 

 and reminded me of the notes of P. Ortyonus, and of the Eastern black- 

 throated bunting {EusiJiza Americana). 



Pipito Abertii. 



According to Kennerly, they aljound along the Eastern branches of the 

 Colorado, but neither this nor any otlier species lias been seen between that 

 river and the coast slope, a linear distance of over one huudi'ed miles. 



PipilO fuscus, SWAIXSON. 

 THE BROWN FINCH. 



Pipilo fusca, SwAiNSON, Thilos. Mag. I. 1827, 4.34. In, Anim. in Mcnag. 18.38, 347. — Cas- 

 sis, Illiist. I. iv. IS.ia, 124 ; pi. xvii. — Newberky, Zool. Cal. and Or. Route, V. R. R. 

 Rcj). VI. iv. 18.'J7, 89. — Baird, P. R. Rep. IX. Birds, .517. — IIeermann, X. vi. 51. 

 — Kiencria fusca, Bonaparte, Comptes Reudiis, XL. 1855, 3.^6. 



FriiKjitta crissiilis, Vigors, Zool. Blossom, 18T39, 19. 



Oiitunis ]Vran(jcl), BoxArAUTE, Comptes Reiidus, XLIII. 1856, 413. 



Sp. Char. Abovt', dark olive-lirown, the crown with a \L'r_v sUglit tinge of scarcely 

 appreciahle dark rufous. Under parts with the color somewhat similar, but of a lighter 

 shade, and washed with grayish ; middle of the belly ashy-white ; the under tail coverts 



pale rufous, shading into lighter about the neck and sides of lower belly ; chin and upper 

 part of throat well-defined pale rufous, margined all round by brown spots, a few of them 



