550 



ALAFDID.^. 



as intermediate between 0. strigata and 0. arenicoh, and many of 

 tliem seem to me to be intermediate between 0. strigata and 0. 

 giraudi. 



Adult male. Lciigtli about 6-7o-7'25 inches, wing 3-70-4'l 

 (3-94), tail 2-7-3-05 (2-88) {Ridgway). 



Adidt female. Length about 6-25-6-5 inches, wing 3'6-3"S5 

 (3-61), tail 2-5-2-8 (2-62) (liidgwag). 



Hah. Coast-district of Oregon, Washington Territorj-, and British 

 Columbia ; south, in winter, to portions of California and Western 

 Nevada (Eidgw, Man. p. 349). 



a. Ad. sk. California. 



6, c. c? 2 ad. sk. Gridley, Cal., Oct. 25 (i. 

 B elding) . 



d. (S ad. sk. San Luis Obispo, Cal., Oct. 



26 {S. W. H.). 



e. $ ad. sk. Marin Co., Cal., April [A. 



A. Allen). 



f. 5 ad. sk. Santa Barbara, Cal., Sept. 



14 {H. W. H.). 



g. h. (S 5 ad. sk. Albany, Oregon, Jan. 22 



{H.'W. H.). 

 i, k, I. cj' ; m, n. Umatilla Agency, Oregon, 



?; 0. Juv.sk. Aug. {H. W. H.). 

 T>~9' ■ 6\ h'-m'. Carson, Nevada, Nov. {H. 



$ ad. sk. W. H.). 



Sclater Coll. 

 Hensbaw Coll. 



[S.-G.]. 

 Salvin-Godmau Coll. 



Henshaw Coll. 



[S.-G.]. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godmau Coll. 



Salvin-Godmau Coll. 



Salvin-Godmau Coll. 



7. MELANOCORYPHA. 



Type. 



Melanocorypba, Boie, Isix, 1828, p. 322 M. calandra. 



Calandra, 'Less. Compl. Buff. ii. p. 120 (1837) M. calandra. 



Loudra, Sykes, P. Z. <S'. 1838, p. 114 M. calaudra. 



Corvdon, Gloejer, Handb. p. 264 (1842, nvc Lesnoji 



(1828) M. calandra. 



Calandrina, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Bang. xxiv. p. 265 



(1859) M. bimaculata. 



Nigrilauda, Bogdanoff, Trans. N. H. Soc. Kasan, viii. 



p. 76 (1879) M. yeltoniensis. 



Pallasia, E. von Homeyer, J.f. O. 1873, p. 190 M. niongolica. 



Wing of ISIelanocoriiplia calandra, to show first primary. 



Range. Southern Europe and the countries bordering tlie Medi- 

 terranean eastwards, Central Asia, and N.W. India. 



