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FEINGILLTDiE. 



series with ashy ; bastard-wing blackish, edged with white ; pri- 

 mary-coverts and quills blackish brown, edged with ashy, the outer 

 primary externally whitish, the secondaries margined with rufous, 

 the inner ones with white ; tail-feathers dusky brown, edged with 

 whity brown ; crown of head pale tawny rufous, blackish on the 

 forehead and along the sides of the crown ; lores and a tolerably 

 distinct eyebrow creamy white ; feathers round eye whitish ; ear- 

 coverts isabelline, with a blackish line along the upper aud lower 

 margins and a black patch behind ; cheeks isabelline, with a tolerably 

 distinct malar line of black : throat and under surface of body pale 

 sandy buff, white on the breast and abdomen ; fore neck spotted 

 with triangular marks of black ; sides of body and flanks streaked 

 with black ; thighs brown, white on the inner side ; under tail- 

 coverts white ; under wing-coverts and axillaries white, the lower 

 ones with an isabelline tinge : quills below ashy, more isabelline 

 along the inner edge. Total length 5 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 

 2-85, tail 1-95, tarsus 0*8. 



Adult female. Similar in colour to the male. Total length 4 - 8 

 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 2*6, tail 1*8, tarsus OS. 



Young. Lark-like. General aspect similar to that of the adults ; 

 all the feathers fringed with whitish ; no distinct band down the 

 crown, this part being broadly streaked with black ; under surface 

 of body more sandy buff, and rather more thickly streaked than in 

 the adults. 



Hob. Interior of North America, from the plains of the lied River 

 and Saskatchewan south to Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona {A. 

 0. U. Check-Usl, I. c). 



a. Ad. sk. 49th Parallel, June 12, 1874 (G. 



Dawson). 



b, c. J ad. sk. West of Pembina, Dakota, July 



1873 {Dr. E. Coues ; Sm. nos. 

 65729, 65732). 



d. Juv. sk. West of Pembina, July 15, 1873 



{E. Coues ; Sm. no. 65737). 



e. Ad. sk. West of Pembina, July 15, 1873 



(E. Coues ; Sm. no. 65691). 

 /. J ad. sk. East of Turtle Mountain, July 28, 



1873 (E. Coues; Sm. no. 



65704). 

 g. Ad. sk. Souris Paver, Aug. 13, 1873 {E. 



Coues ; Sm. no. 65721). 

 h. J ad. sk. Souris River, Aug. 13, 1873 (E. 



Coues ; Sm. no. 65708). 

 i. Juv. sk. Souris River, Au<r. 13, 1873 {E. 



Cones; Sm. no. 65709). 

 k. Ad. sk. Crittenden, Arizona, Sept, 2, 1874 



{H. W.Henshaiv). 

 I. dad. sk. Crittenden, Aug. 24, 1874 {H. W. 



Henshaw ; Sm. no. 72319). 



N. A. Boundary 



Comm. [P.]. 

 Sclater Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



U. S. Nat. Museum 



[P.]. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Sclater Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



U.S. Nat. Museum 



[P.]. 

 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



