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FRINGILLID.E. 



dusky, edged with ashy brown ; quills dusky brown, the primaries 

 narrowly margined with whity brown, the secondaries externally 

 rufous : upper tail-coverts ashy grey ; tail-feathers dusky brown, 

 margined with whity brown ; crown of head deep chestnut, with a 

 lateral line of black extending to the nape, which is ashy grey like 

 the hind neck, the latter streaked with black ; forehead black, 

 divided in the centre by a line of ashy grey ; lores white, as well as 

 a narrow eyebrow ending in pale ashy grey ; eyelid whitish ; ear- 

 coverts dark ashy grey, blackish along the upper edge ; cheeks and 

 throat greyish white ; remainder of under surface of body pale ashy 

 grey, whiter on the abdomen ; sides of body and flanks, as well as 

 thighs, pale ashy grey ; under tail-coverts white, the long ones 

 centred with ashy ; under wing-coverts and axillaries pale ashy, 

 whitish on the margins ; quills below dusky, ashy whitish along the 

 inner edge. Total length 5-4 inches, culmeu 0-4, wing 2'65, tail 

 2-25, tarsus 0-65. 



In winter plumage the head is streaked with black, the grey 

 median line of the forehead and also the grey of the hind neck is 

 obscured by a wash of sandy buff. The sides of the face are browner, 

 and the under surface of the body is washed with brown. 



Bab. Guatemala, and Ruatan Island in the Bay of Honduras. 



a. cJad.sk. Pine-ridge of Poctum, Guate- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



mala, March 1862 (0. S.). (Type of species.) 



b. Ad. sk. Guatemala (Hague). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



c. Ad.sk. E,uatanIsland(G ! . F. Gaumer). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



4. Spizella pusilla. 



Little Sparrow, Catesby, Nat. Hist. Carol, i. p. 35 (1731). 



F Le Moineau de Virginie, Briss. Orn. iii. p. 110 (17G0). 



? Rush Warbler, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. ii. p. 420 (1783). 



? Motacilla juueorum, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 952 (1788). 



Fringilla pusilla, Wilson, Amer. Orn. ii. p. 121, pi. 16. fig. 2 (1810) ; 



Audub. B. Amer. pi. 139 ; id. Orn. Bvagr. ii. p. 299 (1834). 

 Ernberiza pusilla (nee Pall.), Jard. ed. IVils. Amer. Orn. ii. p. 265, 



pi. 16. fig. 2 (1832); Audub. Syn. p. 104 (1839); id. B. Amer. 



8vo, iii. p. 77, pi. 164 (1841). 

 Fringilla jimcorum, Nutt. Man. p. 499 (1832). 

 Zonotricbia pusilla, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 373 (1849) ; id. Hand-l. B. 



ii. p. 94, no. 7396 (1870). 

 Spizella pusilla, Bp. Camp. List B. Eur. fy N. Amer. p. 33 (1838) ; 



id. Consp. i. p. 480 (1850) ; Lieht, Nomenel. Av. Berol. p. 43 (1854) ; 



Baird, B. N. Amer. p. 473 (1858) ; Scl, Cat. Amer. B. p. 114 



(1862) ; Dresser, Ibis, 1865, p. 489 ; Baird, Ibis, 1867, p. 270 ; 



Coues, Keif N. Amer. B. p. 143 (1872) : Baird, Brewer, 8f Ridgw. 



Hist. N. Amer. B. ii. p. 5, pi. 27. fig. 2 (1874) ; Coues, B. N.-West, 



p. 148 (1874); Ridgw. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. iii. p. 179(1881); 



Bicknell, Auk, ii. p. 145 (1885) ; Agersb. t. c. p. 280; Breioster, Auk, 



iii. p. 108 (1886); Batchelder, t. c. p. 314; Fox, t. c. p. 318; 



Seton, t. c. p. 324 ; Duteher, t. e. p. 442 ; A. O. U. Check-list N, 



Amer. B. p. 273 (1886). 

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



