

60. CHONDESTES. 59] 



1. Chondestes grammica. 



Fringilla gi'amraaca, Say in Long's Exped. i. p. 139 (1823) ; Bp. 



Amer. Oni. i. p. 47, pi. v. fig. 3 (1825). 

 Chondestes strigata, Swains. Phil. Mag. n. ser. i. p. 435 (1827) ; id. 



Classif. B. ii. p. 289 (1837). 

 Chondestes grammica*, Bp. Comp. List B. Eur. §• N. Amer. p. 32 



(1838) ; id. Consp. i. p. 479 (1850) ; Baird, B. N. Amer. p. 456, 



(1858) ; id. Mex. Bound. Surv. ii. Birds, p. 15 (1858) ; Scl. P. Z. S. 



1859, p. 379 ; id. Cat. Amer. B. p. 121 (1862) ; id. P. Z. S. 1864, 



p. 174 ; Dresser, Ibis, 1865, p. 488 ; Cones, Proc. Philad. Acad. 



1866, p. 84 ; Duges, La Nat. i. p. 140 (1868) ; Sumichr. Mem. 



Bost. Soc. N. H. i. p. 552 (1869) ; Cooper, B. Calif, p. 193 (1870) ; 



Allen, Bull. Mus. C. Z. iii. p. 177 (1872) ; Coues, Key N Amer. 



B. p. 146 (1872) ; Scl. $ Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 134 (1873) ; 



Baird, Breioer, fy Ridgw. Hist. N. Amer. B. i. p. 562 (1874) ; 



Coues, B. N.-West, p. 159 (1874) ; Lawr. Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. 



ii. p. 278 (1874) ; id. Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 4, p. 22 (1875) ; 



Hensh. Rep. Zool. Biped. 100th Merid. p. 259 (1875) ; Sennett, 



BuU. U. S. Geol. Surv. iv. p. 19 (1878) ; Merrill, Proc. U. S. Nat. 



Mus. i. p. 127 (1878) ; Belding, t. c. p. 415 (1879) ; Sennett, Bull. 



U. S. Geol. Surv. v. p. 391 (1879) ; Cooper, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 



ii. p. 247 (1880) ; Maynard, B. Florida, p. 104 (1881) ; Ridgio. 



Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. no. 21, p. 23 (1881) ; Salvin, Cat. Strickl. 



Coll. p. 234 (1882) ; Coues, Check-list N. Amer. B. p. 57 (1882) ; 



Brown, Auk, i. p. 121 (1884) ; Chapman, Auk, iii. p. 136 ; Seton, 



t. c. p. 323 ; Hensh. t. c. p. 487 ; Coues, Key N. Amer. B. 2nd ed. 



p. 384 (1884) ; A. O. U. Check-list N. Amer. B. p. 270 (1886). 

 Emberiza grainniaca, Audub. Syn. p. 101 (1839) ; id. B. Amer. 8vo, 



iii. p. 63, pi. 158 (1841). 

 Zonotrichia granimaca, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 374 (1849). 

 Calamospiza grammaea, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. Ill, no. 7670 (1870). 

 Chondestes grammica strigata, Ridgxv. Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. no. 21, 



p. 24 (1881) ; Belding, Pi-oc. U. S. Nat. Mus. v. p. 540 (1883) ; 



id. op. cit. vi. p. 343 (1883) ; Brew, Auk, ii. p. 16 (1885) ; Beckh. 



t. c. p. 141 ; Brewster, Auk,in. p. 139 (1886) ; Eversm. t. c. p. 182 ; 



A. O. U. Check-list N. Amer. B. p. 270 (1886). 



Adult male. General colour above brown, the mantle, upper back, 

 and scapulars centred with black ; lower back, rump, and upper 

 tail-coverts uniform ashy brown, the latter with slightly indicated 

 dusky streaks ; lesser wing-coverts blackish, edged with ashy 

 brown ; median coverts blackish, broadly tipped with white, the 

 inner ones tinged with rufous ; greater coverts blackish, edged 

 with ashy brown and narrowly tipped with white ; bastard- 

 wing and primary-coverts dark brown, edged with ashy brown ; 

 quills blackish brown, edged with paler brown, rufescent on the 

 margins of the secondaries, the primaries edged with whitish, with 

 a pale sandy rufous mark at the base of the outer web ; centre tail- 

 feathers brown, edged with lighter brown ; the remainder black, 

 tipped with white, increasing in extent towards the outer feather, 

 which is white also along the outer web ; crown of head whitish in 

 the centre, ashy brown towards the nape, this mesial streak bordered 



* Very often written grammaea, but, as shown by Dr. Coues, the proper 

 orthography is grammica. 



