670 



FRLNGILLID^I. 



of forehead, lores, feathers round eye, fore part of cheeks, and throat 

 black ; ear-coverts dark ashy grey, also the hinder part of the cheeks 

 and sides of neck ; remainder of under surface of body from the 

 fore neck downwards ashy grey, inclining to ashy whitish on the 

 lower breast and abdomen ; sides of body and flanks also ashy, 

 slightly tinged with brown ; thighs and under tail-coverts ashy grey, 

 with ashy-whitish margins ; under wing-coverts and axillaries ashy 

 grey, with whitish margins ; quills below dusky, whitish along the 

 inner edge : " bill coral-red ; feet dark brown " (E. Coues). Total 

 length 5-5 inches, culmen 0-4, wing 2-7, tail 2-8, tarsus 075. 



Mexican specimens appear to be larger than those from the 

 Southern United States, which have the wing 2 , 35-2-5 inches, as 

 against 2*7 inches in the former. 



The adult female does not seem to differ from the male in colour. 

 Young birds are browner than the adults, and have no black on the 

 face or throat, these parts being ashy grey, like the under surface 

 of the body. The grey feathers of the head and neck are tipped 

 with brown edgings. 



Hah. Southern border of the United States, from Texas to Cali- 

 fornia, south into Mexico (A. 0. U. Chech-list, I. c). 



a. S a.d. sk. 



b. c? ad. sk. 



c. $ ad. sk. 



d. e. Ad. sk. 



f. 5 inim.sk. 



g. $ ad. sk. 

 h. d imm. sk. 



Fort Whipple, Arizona, April 19, 



1865 (E. Coues ; Sm. no. 40820). 

 Santa Anna River, California, June 



16, 1886 (F. Stephens). 

 Cajon Pass, California, June 4 



1880 (F. Stephens). 

 Mexico. 



Mexico (De Saussure). 

 City of Mexico (Flwes). 

 Puebla, Mexico, Feb. 1866 (A. 



Boucard). 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



G. Frean Morcom, 



Fsq. [P.]. 

 G. Frean Morcom, 



Esq. [P.]. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Sclater Coll. 

 Sclater Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



70. P0(ECETES. 



Pooecetes, Baird, B. N. Amer. p. 447 (1885) 



Flange. The greater part of North America south to Mexico 



Type. 

 P. o-raraineus. 



1. Pooecetes gramineus. 



Grass Finch, Lath. Gen. Si/u. ii. pt. i. p. 273 (1783) ; Fenn. Arctic 



Zool. ii. p. 375 (1785). 

 Fringilla graminea, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 922 (1788); Audub.B. 



Amer. pi. 94 ; id. Om. Biogr. i. p. 473 (1831), v. p. 502 (1839). 

 Emberiza graminea, Wife. Amer. Om. iv. p. 51, pi. 31. fig. 5 



(1811) ; Audub. B. Amer. 8vo, iii. p. 65, pi. 159 (1841). 

 Fringilla (Zonotrichia) graminea, Swains, fy Rich. Faun. Bor.- 



Amer., Birds, p. 254 (1831). 

 Zonotrichia graminea, Jard. ed. Wilson's B. Amer. ii. p. 45, pi. 31. 



fig. 5 (1832) ; Bp. Comp. List B. Eur. # N. Amer. p. 31 (1838) 



Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 373 (1849); Bp. Consp. i. p. 478 (1850) 



Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 95, no. 7414 (1870). 



