66. A5TPHISPIZA. 629 



ashy brown ; quills below dusky, ashy along the inner edge. Total 

 length 4-8 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 2-5, tail 2-2, tarsus 0-7. 



Adult male in winter plumage. Only differs from the summer 

 plumage in having the head brown bke the back, and the sides of 

 the body also somewhat browner. 



Adult female. Like the male, but a little browner on the head 

 and not so ashy. Total length 4 - 8 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 2*4, 

 tail 24, tarsus 0*7. 



Young. Browner than the adults, and having dusky blackish spots 

 at the end of the dorsal feathers ; the under surface streaked 

 narrowly with blackish ; wiug-coverts and inner secondaries 

 broadly edged with rufescent brown, paler on the median and 

 greater coverts, where it forms a double wing-bar. 



Dr. Coues describes the young plumage as follows : — " The head- 

 markings obscure ; little or no black on throat ; a few pectoral 

 streaks ; owing to absence of black on the throat, the white maxil- 

 lary stripe is ill-defined, but the other stripe is conspicuous. Back 

 rather brown than ashy ; tail blackish, not pure black." 



Hab. ^Yestern United States, from Western Texas and the 

 Indian Territory west to California, north throughout the Great 

 Basin, and south into Mexico. 



a. c? ad. sk. Nevada, July 1871 (F. Bis- R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



chaff; Sin. no. 62946). [P.]. 



b. 2 juv. sk. Tucson, Arizona, July 27, R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



1884 (F. Stephens). [P.]. 



c. c? ad. sk. Tucson, July 29, 1884 (F. H. K. Coale, Esq. 



Stephens). [P-1- 



d. 5 ad. sk. Camp Lowell, Arizona, May H. K. Coale, Esq. 



16, 1884 (F. Stephens). _ [P.]. 



e. 2 ad. sk. La Paz, Lower California, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Dec. 10 {A. Forrer). 



f. Jjuv.sk. La Paz, April 12 (A. Forrer). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 (/. d ad. sk. Cohuilla Vallev. California, G. Frean Morcoin, 



Mav 4, 1886 (F. Stephens). Esq. [P.]. 

 h. 2 -id. sk. Texas(<?. B. Sennett; Sm. no. U.S. Nat. Mus. [P.]. 



73718). 

 i. S ad. sk. Texas, July 1853 (Lieut. U.S. Nat. Mus. [P.]. 



Parker ; Sm. no. 6321). 

 k. 2 ad. sk. Laredo, Texas, June 29, 1866 U.S. Nat. Mus. [P.]. 



(Br. H. B. Butcher ; Sm. 



no. 45256). 

 I, m. S ad. ; n. Mexico. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



2 juv. sk. 

 o. Ad. sk. Mexico. Sclater Coll. 



p. Ad. sk. Mexico. Purchased. 



2. Amphispiza beUi. 

 Emberiza belli, Cass. Proc. Philad. Acad. 1850, p. 104, pi. 4. 



t-. • 1 it c T i ... Ti rf Ct TG~'7 -, T . E>~,\.,7 T> -\T 



Hand-l.B. ii. p. 98, no. 7465 (1870) ; Allen, Bull. Mus. Comp. 



