628 FRINGILLID.*:. 



b. No black on the throat. 



a'. No yellow on the edge of the -wings ; fore 



neck and chest streaked with dusky bilineata $ , p. 629. 



b'. Edge of wing distinctly yellow. 



a". With a broad moustachial streak of black, 

 contrasting with the white cheeks ; back 



nearly uniform belli, p. 629. 



b" . With no distinct moustachial streak, the 

 cheeks and throat white ; back distinctly 

 streaked with black nevadensis, p. 630. 



c. Throat black, white down the centre ; sides of [p. 632. 



body dark ashy quinquestriata, 



1. Arnphispiza bilineata. 



Ernberiza bilineata, Cass. Proc. Philad. Acad. 1850, p. 104 ; id. 111. 



Orn. Calif, p. 150, pi. 23 (1856). 

 Poospiza bilineata, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1857, p. 7 ; Baird, B. N. Amer. 



p. 470 (1858) ; id. Mex. Botmd. Saw. ii. Birds, p. 15 (1858) ; 



Scl. Cat. Amer. B. p. 110 (1862); Dresser, Ibis, 1865, p. 488; 



Cones, t. c. p. 164; id. Proc. Philad. Acad. 1866, p. 86 ; Gray, 



Hand-l. B. ii. p. 68, uo. 7468 (1870) ; Cooper, B. Calif, p. 203 



(1870); Coues, Key N. Amer. B. p. 140 (1872); Scl. 8>- Salv. 



Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 30 (1873) ; Baird, Brewer, $• Pidqw. Hist. 



N. Amer. B. i. p. 590, pi. 26. fig. 8 (1874) ; Hensh, Rep. Zool. 



Expl. 100th Merid. p. 274 (1875). 

 Arnphispiza bilineata, Coaes, B. N.-West, p. 234 (1874): Sennett, 



Bull. U.S. Geol. Sun: iv. p. 18 (1878); Merrill, Proc. U.S. 



Nat. Mus. i. p. 127 (1878) ; Ridyio. op. cit. iii. p. 217 (1881) ; 



Breiost. Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii. p. 195 (1882) ; Coues, Check- 

 list N. Amer. B. p. 55 (1882) ; Belting, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 



v. pp. 529, 531, 540 (1883) ; Coues, Key N. Amer. B. 2nd ed. 



p. 376 (1884) ; Bekling, Proc. U.S. Nat'. Mas. vi. p. 343 (1883) ; 



Stephens, Auk, ii. pp. '226, 228 (1885); A. O. U. Check-list N. 



Amer. B. p. 276 (1886) ; Salmi ty Godman, Biol. Centr.-Amer., 



Aves, i. p. 367 (1886). 



Adult male. General colour above brown, including the lower 

 back and rump ; lesser wing-coverts a little more ashy than the 

 back ; median and greater coverts brown, rather more ashy on the 

 outer ones, which are paler towards the ends of the outer webs ; 

 bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills blackish brown, edged 

 with ashy, more hoary on the edge of the primaries, tbe secondaries 

 edged with brown ; upper tail-coverts more ashy than the back ; 

 tail-feathers blackish, edged with brown, the two outer ones edged 

 with white and having a white spot at the end of the inner web, 

 larger on the outermost feather ; crown of head and hind neck 

 decidedly more ashy grey than the back ; lores and feathers below 

 the eye black ; a narrow white eyebrow, surrounded by a narrow 

 line of black ; ear-coverts and sides of neck dark ashy grey ; cheeks 

 white, forming a distinct moustache ; throat and fore neck black, 

 extending in a point to the chest : sides of fore neck, breast and 

 abdomen white ; sides of upper breast ashy ; sides of body and 

 flanks ashy brown ; thighs brown ; under tail-coverts white ; under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries white, those near the edge of the wing 



