71. PASSEKCUXUS. ggj 



Adult male. General colour above uniform ashy brown, the 

 feathers of the mantle and back with concealed dusky centres" 

 lesser wing-coverts rather more reddish brown, obscured by ashv ' 

 median and greater coverts blackish, externally reddish brown, with 

 WTIT- 1 ^ ^ ar ^™S> Primary-coverts, and quills dusky 

 r„ W T Ded Wlth lsabelhne > ash y on the primaries and more 

 rufous on the inner secondaries ; upper tail-coverts like the back ; 

 ta I-foathers dark brown, edged with isabelline ; crown of head dull 

 ashy brown, streaked with blackish centres to the feathers; lores 

 feathers round eye eyelid, and a narrow eyebrow ashy whitish ; ear - 

 coverte pale ashy brown, dark brown along the upper and ower 

 margins forming a broad streak on the latter; cheeks and throat 

 outtj white, with a narrow malar line of blackish; remainder of 

 nnder surface of body dull whitish, the lower throat, fore neck and 

 breast thickly streaked with broad dark brown Centres to the 

 leathers ; abdomen uniform whitish ; sides of body and flanks isabcl- 



u IrTT' Stre f aked ™ th dark br ° WD; thi ^ hs ^belline brown; 

 X* t , all - C0verts .^ hlte > under Wing-coverta and axillaries pale 

 a hy i abe me ; quills below ashy, isabelline along the inner edge, 

 lotal length 5 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 2-15, tail 1-9, tarsus 0-85. 

 l.guttatus I have united to P. rostratus, as, according to Mr 

 Kidgway, it " only rests on its more slender bill." 



weSJ; iSr south> in winter ' to cape s - Lucas and N ° rth - 



a. c? ad. sk. Cape S. Lucas Sept. 8, 1859 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 (J. Aantus ; Sm. no. 29457). 



4. Passerculus bairdi. 



Emberiza bairdi Audub. B. Amer. 8vo, vii. p. 359, pi. 500 (1843) : 



Gray, Hand-l. B. li. p. 116, no. 7733 (1870) K * ), 



boturmculus bairdi, Bp. Consp. i. p. 481 (1850) 

 Centronys : bairdi ,Baird N. Amer. B. p. 441 (1858) ; Cones, Key N. 



Amer. Ip. 185 (If 2 ,; BcArd, Breicer, $ Bid yw. Hist. N.Jner. 



B i. p. 531, pi 25 fig 3 (1874) ; Coues, B. N- West, p. 125 (1874) ; 



Hensh Bep Expl 100th Bar. p. 253 (1875); Bidyw. Proc. VS. 



Nat. Musm. p. 178 (1881); Brewster, Auk, hi. p. 198; Seton, 



Passerculus bairdi, Coues, Amer. Nat. vi. p. G37 (1872); id. Bull. 



ffi naio^' X l- P ;, 585 ^ 1878 ) ' id - Check-list N. Amer. B. 



p. 51 (1882) ; id. Key N. Amer. B. 2nd ed. p. 361 (1884). 

 Lentronyx ochrocepbalus, Aitken, Amer. Nat. vii. p. 237 (1873) • 



Bidyw. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. iii. p. 235 (1881) 

 Ammodromus bairdi, A. O. U. Check-list N. Amer. B. p. 267 (1886) • 



Seton, Auk, iii. p. 323 (1886). V K ' ' 



Adult male in breeding -plumage. General colour above streaked 

 the leathers black in the centre, with a slight rufous tinge, and 

 edged with whity brown ; rump and upper tail-coverts rufous, with 

 bJack centres to the feathers, less pronounced than on the mantle • 

 lesser wing-coverts sandy rufous ; median and greater coverts 

 blackish, edged with rufous, whitish towards the ends, the greater 



