69. SPIZELLA. 657 



Hab. Mountains of Guatemala. 



Pine Forests, Volcan de Fuego, Salvin-Godmau Coll- 



Nov. 1861 (O. S.). (Types of the species.) 



Totonicapan, Sept. 1862 (O. S.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Pine Forests, Volcan de Fuego, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Nov. 18, 1873 (0. S.). 



Pine Forests, Volcan de Fuego, Sclater Coll. 



Nov. 18, 1873 (0. S.). 



k. Ad. sk. Quezaltenango, Aug. 1862 Sclater Coll. 



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69. SPIZELLA. „ 



Type. 



Spizella, Bp. Sagyio distr. Met. p. 140 (1832) S. pusilla. 



Spinites, Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 133 (1850) S. socialis. 



Range. North America generally, extending as far as Guatemala 

 in Central America. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Crown of head uniform or rufous. 



a'. Bill black or black and yellow, not reddish. 



a". Larger: no black on the forehead ; a black j monticola, p. 657. 



spot in the centre of the chest j ochracea, p. 659. 



b". Smaller : base of forehead black ; no black 

 spot on the chest. 



a'". Crown of head light bay , socialis, p. 600. 



b'". Crown of head deep chestnut pinetorum, p. 663. 



b'. Bill reddish brown ; eyebrow ashy grey {' * ., ' ?' ,.~ Q 



' J j a j j wortnem, p. 066. 



b. Crown of head streaked or mottled with black like 



the back. 

 c'. Eyebrow rufescent ; centre of crown sandy 



rufous, lighter than the sides pusilla autumn., 



d'. Eyebrow white ; centre of crown ashy. [p. 665. 



c". A black band along either side of the 



crown 2)usio, p. 666. 



d''. No black bands on the crown, which is nar- 

 rowly streaked with black breweri, p. 668. 



c. Head uniform ashy ; throat black : . . atrigularis, p. 669. 



1. Spizella monticola. 



Le Moineau de Canada, Briss. Om. iii. p. 102 (1760) ; Daubent. PI, 



Enl. iv. pi. 223. fig. 2. 

 Fringilla montana, Forster, Phil. Trans, lxii. p. 405 (1702, nee L.). 

 La Soulciet, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. iii. p. 500 (1775). 

 Mountain Finch, Lath. Gen. Si/n. ii. pt. i. p. 265 (17S3). 

 Fringilla monticola, 6m. Si/st. Nat. i. p. 912 (1783). 

 Fringilla arborea, JVilscai, Amer. Om. ii. p. 123, pi. xvi. fig. 3 (1810), 

 Passerina monticola, Vieill. N. Diet. iTHist. Nat. xxv. p. 27 (1817). 

 Emberiza canadensis, Sioains. <§• Bich. Faun. Bor.-Amer., Birds, 

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