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hinder parts by a broad band of black, washed with chestnut ; cheeks 

 ashy white, with a well-marked superior line of black below the eye ; 

 throat pure white, as also the breast and abdomen ; across the fore 

 neck a shade of ashy ; sides of upper breast washed with fulvous 

 and streaked with black ; sides of body, flanks, and under tail-coverts 

 sandy brown, streaked with black ; thighs uniform brown ; under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries ashy white, the former washed with 

 fulvous ; on the edge of the wing a faint shade of yellow ; quills 

 below dusky, ashy along the inner edge : " bill dark brown above, 

 paler and tinged with blue beneath ; feet yellowish brown ; iris 

 hazel " (Audubon). Total length 5-2 inches, culmen 0*5, wing 2-5, 

 tail 2-2, tarsus 0-85. 



Adult female. Similar to the male : " bill brown, the lower man- 

 dible lighter : feet yellow; iris brown" (Roosevelt, MSS.). Total 

 length 5 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 2'55, tail 2-3, tarsus 085. 



The adults in winter plumage only differ from the summer plumage 

 in their darker tints, and in having the chestnut of the crown ob- 

 scured by black streaks, with a distinct mesial line of ashy grey down 

 the crown. The flanks are more uniform sandy brown. On many 

 specimens there are dusky streaks on the fore neck, and these are 

 probably young birds after their first moult. 



Hab. Eastern North America to the Plains, accidentally to Utah, 

 north to the British Provinces, including Newfoundland and Labra- 

 dor. Breeds from the Northern States northward, and winters in 

 the Middle States and southward. (A. 0. U. Chech-list, p. 281.) 



a. Ad. sk. North America (Cassin). Sclater Coll. 



b. J ad. sk. Grand Crossing, Cook Co., Illi- R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



nois, May 23, 1884 (H. K. [P.]. 

 Coale). 



c. 2 ad. sk. Oyster Bay, Long Island, April U.S. Nat. Mus. [P.]. 



8, 1875 (Roosevelt; Sin. no. 

 86977). 



d. e. $ $ ad.sk. Washington, D.C. (C Dre.vler; Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Sm. nos. 28611, 28613). 



f. c? ad. sk. New Orleans, Louisiana, Dec. 1, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



1882 (Dr. Shufeldt; Sm. no. 

 90673). 



g. d ad. sk. New Orleans, Dec. 2, 1882 U.S. Nat. Mus. [P.]. 



(Dr. Shufeldt; Sm.no. 90672). 

 h. Ad. sk. Pennsylvania (Cassin). Sclater Coll. 



i. 2 ad. sk. Frankford, Pennsylvania, Feb. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



5, 1881 (W. L." Collins). [P.]. 



h. 3 ad. sk. Bainbridge, Pennsylvania (T. U.S. Nat. Mus. rp.]. 



H. Rean ; Sm. no. 68898). 

 I. 2 ad- sk. Across Eastern Branch, Mary- U.S. Nat. Mus. [P.]. 



land, May 1, 1860 (E. 



Coues; Sm. no. 85044). 



2. Melospiza lincolni. 



Fringilla lincolni, Audub. B. Amer. pi. 193 ; id. Orn. Riogr. ii. 



p. 539 (1834). 

 Linaria lincolni, Richards. List, 1837 (teste Coues). 



