658 FKINGILLIDJE. 



p. 252 (1831) ; Jard. ed. Wilson's Anier. Orn. i. p. 267, pi. 16. fig. 3 



(1832) ; Audub. B. Amer. 8vo, iii. p. 83, pi. 166 (1841). 

 Fringilla canadensis, Andub. B. Amer. pi. 188 ; id. Orn. Biogr. ii. 



p. 511 (1836), v. p. 504 (1839). 

 Spizella canadensis, Bp. Comp. List B. Bur. Sf N. Amer. p. 33 (1838) ; 



id. Consp. i. p. 480 (1850) ; Licht. Nomencl. Av. Berol. p. 43 (1854). 

 Zonotrichia inonticola, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 374 (1 849) ; id. Hand-l. 



B. ii. p. 94, no. 7398 (1870). 

 Spinites monticolus, Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 134 (1850). 

 Spizella monticola, Baird, B. N. Amer. p. 472 (1858) ; Coues, Proo. 



Philad. Acad. 1861, p. 224; Scl, Cat. Amer. B. p. 114 (1862); 



Coues, Proc. Philad. Acad. 1866, p. 87 ; Allen, Bidl. Mus. C. Z. 



iii. p. 177 (1872) ; Coues, Key N. Amer. B. p. 142 (1872) ; Baird, 



Brewer, fy Ridgw. Hist. N. Amer. B. ii. p. 3, pi. 27. fig. 5 (1874) ; 



Coues, B. N- West, p. 146 (1874) ; Hensh. Rep. Zool, E.rpl. IQOth 



Merid. p. 277 (1875) ; Coues, Check-list N. Amer. B. p. 56 (1882) ; 



Salvin, Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 231 (1882) ; Stearns, Proc. U.S. Nat. 



Mus. vi. p. 117 (1883) ; Merriam, Auk, i. p. 295 (1884) ; Turner, 



Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. viii. p. 240 (1885) ; Bichiell, Auk, ii. p. 144 



(1885) ; Agersb. t. c. p. 280 ; A. O. U. Check-list N. Amer. B. 



p. 272 (1866) ; Seton, Auk, iii. p. 323 (1886). 

 Spizella rnontana (nee L.), Ridqiv. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. iii. pp. 3, 179 



(1880) ; Dutches, Auk, i. p. 177 (1884) ; Brew, Auk, ii. p. 16 (1885). 



Adult in ivinter plumage. General colour above rufous, the feathers 

 of the mantle and back centred -with black and edged with pale 

 sandy buff; lower back and rump uniform brown, some of the 

 feathers of the former with subterniinal marks of white ; lesser 

 wing-coverts ashy ; median coverts blackish, rather broadly tipped 

 with white, forming a wing-bar ; greater coverts blackish, externally 

 rufous and white at the ends, forming a second wing-bar ; bastard- 

 wing, primary-coverts, and quills blackish brown, edged with ashy 

 brown, hoary grey on the primaries, which are margined with white 

 towards the ends, the inner secondaries pale rufous near the ends of 

 the outer web ; upper tail-coverts brown, with dusky centres ; tail- 

 feathers brown, edged with hoary white, the outer ones with a more 

 distinct white margin ; crown of head uniform light chestnut or 

 bay, with slight remains of sandy-buff margins ; the hind neck ashy, 

 shaded over with brown ; lores white, followed by a broad eyebrow 

 of pale ashy grey ; feathers round eye or eyelid whitish ; ear-coverts 

 pale ashy grey, with a streak of pale rufous along the upper edge ; 

 cheeks whitish anteriorly, becoming light ashy on the hinder part ; 

 throat and fore neck light ashy, with a spot of dusky blackish on 

 the latter ; breast and abdomen dull white ; the sides of the upper 

 breast light rufous ; sides of body and flanks pale isabelline brown 

 washed with ashy ; thighs and under tail-coverts dull white, the 

 latter with dusky centres ; under wing-coverts and axillaries pale 

 isabelline, edged with ashy white: quills below dusky, ashy whitish 

 along the inner edge : " bill black above, yellow on the lower man- 

 dible ; legs brown, toes black" (E. Coues). Total length 5-7 inches, 

 culmen 0-4, wing 2-9, tail 2-55, tarsus 0-8. 



Adult in summer plumage. Differs from the winter plumage only 

 in being rather darker, owing to the abrasion of the pale tips to the 



