630 FRINGILLID-ffi. 



Zool, iii. p. 177 (1872) ; Coues, Key N. Amer. B. p. 141 (1872); 



Baird, Brewer, § Ridyw. Hist. N Amer. B. l. p. 593, pi. 26. 



fig. 9 (1874). 

 Zonotrichia belli, Elliot, New $ 'Unfit,. Birch of N. Amer. l. pi. 14 



(1869). 

 Amphispiza belli, Coues, B. N.-West, p. 234 (1874); Belding, Proc. 



U.S. Nat. Mus. i. p. 416 (1879); Ridgw. op. tit. iii. p. 180 



(1881) ; Coues, Check-list N. Amer. B. p. 55 (1882) ; Belding, 



Proc U.S. Nat. Mus. y. p. 532 (1883); Coues, Key N. Amer. B. 



2nd ed. p. 376 (1884); Drew, Auk, i. p. 16 (1884); A. O. U. 



Check-list N. Amer. B. p. 276 (1886) ; Everm. Auk, iii. p. 182 



(1886). 



Adult male. General colour above dark brown, slightly washed 

 with ashy on the mantle and upper back ; the middle of the back 

 indistinctly streaked with black ; lesser wing-coverts brown, washed 

 with olive- yellow ; median coverts dark brown, tipped with pale 

 fawn-colour ; greater coverts dark brown, edged with lighter brown 

 and tipped with pale fawn-colour; bastard-wing and primary- 

 coverts dusky brown, edged with ashy ; quills dark brown, edged 

 with ashy olive, the first primary with whity brown, the secondaries 

 externally fawn-brown ; upper tail-coverts dark brown ; tail- 

 feathers 'blackish brown, edged with fawn-brown, fringed with 

 white at the tips of the inner web of the outer feathers, the outer- 

 most of which has an irregidar whity-brown spot near the end of 

 the inner web, and is margined externally all the way with whity 

 brown ; crown of head uniform brown, but slightly washed with 

 ashy ; the base of the forehead blackish, with a small linear mark 

 of white at the base of the bill ; lores black, surmounted by a large 

 white spot ; feathers below the eye black, faintly mottled with 

 greyish white ; eyelid white ; ear-coverts dark ash-brown like the 

 sides of the neck ; cheeks and throat white, with a broad malar 

 stripe widening out on the sides of the lower throat ; fore-neck and 

 remainder of under surface of body dull white, with a patch of 

 black in the centre of the chest ; lower abdomen tinged with pale 

 fawn-colour ; sides of body and Hanks entirely fawn-colour, 

 narrowly streaked with black, a little more broadly on the sides of 

 the upper breast ; thighs buffy white ; under tail-coverts pale 

 fawn-buff, with pale dusky centres ; under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries olive-yellow, the edge of the wing brighter yellow ; quills 

 below dusky, the iuner edge ashy fulvous. Total length 6 inches, 

 culmen 0*45, wing 2-6, tail 2-7, tarsus 0-75. 

 Hub. California. 



a. Ad. sk. California. P. L. Sclater, Esq. [P.]. 



b. Ad. sk, California {Bell). Sclater Coll. 



c. Ad. sk. California (Heermann). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Subsp. a. Amphispiza nevadensis. 



Poospiza belli (nee Cass.), Kennerley, Pacif. R. Rep. Whipple's Route, 

 p. 29 (1859) ; Coues, Ibis, 1865, p. 164 ; id. Proc. Philad. Acad. 

 I860, p. 86; Allen, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. iii. p. 177 (1872). 



