niRD.S — FRINGILLIDAU:— COTURNICULUS HENSLOWI. 



451 



Li^l of specimens. 



OlUl. 

 No. 



731 

 1191 



Hiea 



8188 

 8IM 

 8979 

 8971 

 8974 



Sex And 



■fC. 



Localliy. 



<? 



9 



o 



c? 



S 

 <? 

 <? 

 9 



CaiUilF, Pa. 



.do. 

 .do., 



Shnnrnee Mission, K. T. 



6333 



do 



do 



Loup Fork 



do 



do 



do 



do 



do 



do 



do 



do 



do 



do 



Bill Williams- Fork, NM 

 Los Nogales, Mexico. . . 



When col- 

 lected. 



Sfpl. 90, 1849 

 Oct. '.!3, 1844 

 July 15, IS43 

 July 3, ieS7 



July 4, 1857 

 July — , 1857 



July 27 



July 21 



Aug. 3 



July 27 



July 24 



Aug. 3 



July 3 



July 27 



July 28 



July 3 



July 27 



June — , 185S 



Whence obtained. 



S. F. Bnird 



do 



do 



Win. M. Magraw. 



do 



Lieut. Warren . . 

 do 



do 



do 



.do. 

 • do. 

 .do. 



.do. 

 .do. 

 .do. 



do 



do 



Lieut. Whipple. 

 Major Emory.... 



Orlf 'I Collected by- 

 No. 



119 j Dr. Cooper ., 



133 

 130 



175 

 85 



do 



Dr. Hayden.. 



do 



do 



do 



do 



do 



do 



do 



do 



do 



do 



do 



Dr. Kennerly. 

 do 



IjengUi. 



Stretch 

 ofwinga. 



4.37 

 5.16 



5.35 



S.OO 

 5.35 

 5.25 

 5.13 

 4.67 

 4.75 

 5.50 

 5.19 

 4.87 

 4.75 

 4.75 

 5.13 

 4.87 



8.00 

 8.16 



8.25 



8.25 

 7.87 

 8.50 

 8.25 

 7.75 

 8.25 

 9.00 

 8.37 

 8.00 

 8.50 

 8.00 

 8.62 

 8.25 



Wing. 



3.62 

 3.43 



2.63 



3.63 

 i!.25 

 2.50 

 2.37 

 2.75 

 2.50 

 3.50 

 3.50 

 2.50 

 3.63 

 2.50 

 3.62 

 2.25 



Iria brown ; bill sintc and 



flesh ; feet brown 



do do 



, do do 



Jris light brown. 



Iris brown . 



Eyca black. , 



COTURNICULU.S HENSLOWI, Bo nap. 



Henslow's Banting. 



Emierua/itiu/oici, Add. Om. Biog. I, 1831,360; pi. 77.— Ib. Syn 1839, 104.— Ib. Birds Anier. Ill, 1841, 75; pi. 



163.— NuTTALi., Man. I, 1832. App. 

 Columiculus henshwi, Bon, List, 1838 — Ib. Conspectus, 1850, 481. 

 Fringilla henstowi, Nuttall, Man. I, (2d ed.) 1840, 571. 



Sp. Ch. — Upper parts yellowish brown. The hood, neck, and upper parts of back tinged with greenish yellow. Inter- 

 scapular feathers dark brown, suffused externally with bright brownish red ; each feather with grayish borders. Tertiaries, 

 rump, and tail feathers abruptly dark brown centrally, the color obscurely margined with dark red. Crown with a broad black 

 spotted stripe on each side ; these spots continued down to the back. Two narrow black maxillary stripes on each side the iiead , 

 and an obscure black crescent behind the auriculars. Under parts light brownish yellow, paler on the throat and abdomen. 

 The upper part of the breast, and tlie sides of the body, conspicuously streaked with black. Edge of wing yellow. A strong 

 tinge of pale chestnut on the wings and tail. Length, 5.25 ; wing, 2.15 ; tail, S.15. 



Hab. — Eastern United States as far north as Washington ; westward to the Loup Fork of Platte. 



There- are few birds whose colors are more difficult to describe than those of Coturniculus 

 henshwi und passer i7ius. Far from having exhausted all the varied patterns and tints of the 

 present species, I have, however, given enough to show the principal diiferonces from its allies. 



The bill is very thick and large ; the wings very short ; the tertiaries as long as the primaries ; 

 the first five primaries nearly equal. The tail feathers are stiff, very narrow, and acute ; pointed 

 on both webs ; the tail itself considerably graduated. 



A specimen from Kansas (5716) has the under part dirty white ; the spots smaller, fewer, and 

 more sharply defined. The distinct spots on the breast, and the yellowish head and neck above, 

 without ashy margin, will readily distinguish this species from O. passerinus; the reddish being 

 also confined to the interscapular region. The form of the two is, however, much tlie same. 



Western specimens are paler in tint, with the streaks on the under parts smaller and narrower. 



