674 -FKINGILLIDA 



71. PASSERCULUS. Type 



Passerculus, Bp. Comp. List B. Eur. Sf N. Amer. p. 33 



(183S) P. savanna. 



Centronyx, Baird, B. N. Amer. p. 440 (1858) P. bairdi. 



Head of Passerculus sandwichensis. 



Range. The whole of North America, ranging into Mexico and 

 Guatemala, as well as the islands off the Yucatan coast; Bahamas. 



Key to the Species. 



a. With a tinge of yellow over the eye and on the 



edge of the wing. 

 a'. Smaller : wing not exceeding 3 inches ; 



streaked with black on the flanks ; eyebrow 



fulvescent or yellow sandwichensis, p. 674. 



b'. Larger : wing 3 inches ; more streaked with 



pale rufous on the flanks ; eyebrow white. . princeps, p. 679. 



b. No yellow over the eye or on the edge of the 



wing ; colour uniform above, not streaked .. . rostratus, p. 680. 



c. No yellow over the eye ; upper surface streaked ; 



centre of crown and hinder crown pale 



tawny ; lesser wing-coverts uniform rufous .. bairdi, p. 681. 



1. Passerculus sandwichensis. 



Aoonalashka Bunting, Perm. Arctic Zool. ii. p. 363 (1785). 

 Sandwich Bunting, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. i. p. 202 (1783). 

 Emberiza sandwichensis, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 875 (1788). 

 Emberiza arctica, Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 414 (1790). 

 Emberiza chrysops, Pall. Zooyr. Rosso-Asiat. ii. p. 45, pi. 48. fig. 1 



(1811). 

 Fringilla savanna, Wilson, Amer. Orn. iii. p. 55, pi. 22. fig. 3 (1811), 



iv. p. 72, pi. 34. fig. 4 (1811) ; Nutt. Man. p. 489 (1832) ; Audub. 



B. Amer. pi. 109; id. Orn. Bioyr. ii. p. 63 (1834), v. p. 516(1839). 

 Passerina savanna, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxv. p. 26 (1817). 

 Passerculus savanna, Bp. Comp. List B. Bur. fy N. Amer. p. 33 



(1838) ; id. Consp. i. p. 480 (1850) ; Cab. Mas. Hein. Th. i. p. 131 



(1850); Baird, B. N. Amer. p. 442 (1858); Cones, Proc. Philad.Acad. 



1861, p. 223 ; Scl. Cat. Amer. B. p. 112 (1862) ; Blakist. Ibis, 1863, 



p. 74; Cones, Ibis, 1866, p. 269 ; Doll $ Barm. Trans. Chicago Acad. 



i. p. 283 (1869) ; Allen, Bull. Mus. C. Z. ii. p. 272 (1871), iii. p. 177 



(1872) ; Coues, Key N. Amer. B. p. 136 (1872) ; Maynard, B. Bast. 



U.S. p. 100 ; Baird, Brewer, % Ridyw. Hist. N. Amer. B. i. p. 534, 



pi. 24. fig. 8 (1874) ; Coues, B. N.-West, p. 127 (1874) ; Hensh. Bep. 



Zool. Expl. 100th Merid. p. 256 (1875) ; Scnnett, Bull. U.S. Geol. 



Surv. iv. p. 17 (1878) ; Coues, t. c. p. 588 ; Sennctt, op. cit. v. 



