590 FRINGILLID.E. 



In the winter plumage the black of the crown and breast is com- 

 pletely obscured by sandy-buff edgings to the feathers, which give a 

 browner aspect to the entire plumage. 



Adult female. Much browner than the male, the upper surface 

 being brown, all the feathers broadly centred with blackish brown ; 

 the head like the back and similarly streaked ; lesser wing-coverts 

 like the back ; median series rufous, hidden by fulvous edges, and 

 having black shaft-stripes ; remainder of wing as in the male, but 

 rather browner on the quills and not so ashy ; upper tail-coverts 

 brown like the back : tail as in the male, but the dark brown tips 

 to the feathers broader ; lores and a broad eyebrow sandy buff ; ear- 

 coverts brown, with a patch of sandy buff in the middle ; cheeks, 

 throat, and breast sandy buff, with concealed black bases to the 

 feathers of the fore neck and chest ; lower breast and abdomen 

 white, as also the under tail-coverts ; sides of body and flanks sandy 

 buff ; under wing-coverts and axillaries white ; quills ashy brown 

 below, white along the inner web. Total length 5 - 4 inches, culmen 

 0"5, wing 3-4, tail 2-0, tarsus 07. 



Young after first moult. Greatly resembles the old female, but 

 has less rufous on the median wing-coverts, which are sandy brown 

 at the ends like the greater coverts. Young males generally show 

 the black of the head and chest concealed under the brown winter 

 plumage. 



Hah. The same as that of the genus. 



a. $ ad. sk. 49th Parallel, June 16, 1874 N. A. Boundary Com- 



(G. Dawson). mission [P.]. 



b. c? ad. sk. Camp 14, near Hart River, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Dakota, July 7, 1873 (Dr. 

 E. Cones). 



c. c? ad. sd. Champaign, Illinois, Jan. 15, H. K. Coale, Esq. 



1877. [P.]. 



d. e. S ad. et juv. Lamed, Pawnee Co., Kansas, R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 

 sk. Feb. 26, 1885 (G. C. Water- [P.]. 



man). 



f. 2 imm. sk. Lamed, March 1, 1883 (G. C. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



W.) [P.]. 



g. Imm. sk. Laramie Plains, Wyoming, U. S. Nat. Mus. [P.]. 



Aug. 26, 1876 (E. Coues ; 



Sm. no. 73000). 

 h. Ad. sk. Apache, Arizona, Oct. 21 (H. U. S. Nat. Mus. [P.]. 



W.Henshaiv; Sm.no. 69485). 

 i. Ad. sk. Mexico (M. Verreaux). 



60. CHONDESTES. 



Type. 



Chondestes, Swains. Phil. Mag. i. p. 435 (1827) C. grammica. 



Range. The same as that of the species (vide infra). 



