73. MELOSPIZA. 699 



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

 (1838) ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1858, p. 303, 1859, p. 365 ; Scl. fy Sato. Ibis, 

 1859, p. 18. 



Peucrea lincolni, Audub. Sijn. p. 113 (1839) ; id. B. Amer. iii. p. 116, 

 pi. 117 (1841); Bp. Consp. i. p. 481 (1850). 



Passerculus zonarius, Bp. teste Scl. P. Z. S. 1856, p. 305. 



Zonotricliia lincolni, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 374 (1849) ; id. Hand-l. B. 

 ii. p. 94, no. 7393 (1870) ; Finsck, Abhandl. nat. Per. Bremen, iii. 

 p. 76 (1872). 



Melospiza lincolni, Baird, B. N. Amer. p. 482 (1858) ; Scl. P. Z. S. 

 1859, p. 379 ; id. Cat. Amer. B. p. 114 (1862) ; Blahist. Ibis, 1862, 

 p. 7, 1863, p. 79 ; Dresser, Ibis, 1865, p. 489 ; Laior. Ann. Lye. N. 

 Y. viii. p. 286 (1866) ; Corns, Proc. Philad. Acad. 1866, p. 88 ; 

 Dull 8$ Bann. Trans. Cliicago Acad. i. p. 285 (1869) ; Sumichr. 

 Mem. Bost. Soc. i. p. 552 (1869); Cooper, Orn. Calif, p. 216 

 (1870) ; Allen, Bull. Mus. C. Z. iii. p. 177 (1872) ; Coues, Key N- 

 Amer. B. p. 138 (1872) ; Scl. $• Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 32 

 (1873) ; Baird, Brewer, $ Ridgw. Hist. N. Amer. B. ii. p. 31, 

 pi. 27. fig. 13 (1874); Coues, B. N.-West, p. 135 (1874); Law. 

 Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. ii. p. 277 (1874) ; Hensh. Rep. Zool. Expl. 

 100th Merid. p. 283 (1875) ; Ridgw. Rep. Surv. iOth Parallel, 

 p. 484 (1877) ; Coues, Bull. U.S. Geol. Surv. iv. p. 595 (1878) ; 

 Sennett, t. c. p. 18, v. p. 390 (1879) ; Ridgw. Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. 

 no. 21, p. 26 (1881) ; Coues, Clieck-l. N. Amer. B. p. 53 (1882) ; 

 Boucard, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 444 ; Belding, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 

 vi. pp. 348, 350 (1884) ; Coues, Key N. Amer. B. 2nd ed. p. 370 

 (1884); Butcher, Auk, i. p. 31 (1884): Drew, Auk, ii. p. 16 

 (1885) ; Beckh. t. c. p. 142 ; Ayersb. t. c. p! 280 ; Scot t, t. c. p. 354 ; 

 Turner, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. viii. p. 241 (1885) ; Hensh. Auk, 

 iii. p. 74; Seton, t. c. p. 324; Salving Godman, Biol. Centr.-Amer., 

 Aves, i. p. 386 (1886) ; A. O. U. Check-list N. Amer. B. p. 281 

 (1886). 



Helospiza lincolni, Allen, Proc. Essex Inst. 1864, p. 72. 



Adult male. General colour above brown, distinctly mottled with 

 black centres to the feathers of the mantle and upper back, which 

 are also slightly edged with ashy ; the lower back and rump more 

 ash j', and streaked with black down the centre of the feathers ; sca- 

 pulars like the back, but rufescent externally ; lesser wing-coverts 

 rufous-brown ; median and greater coverts rufous-brown, ashy ex- 

 ternally and toward the tips, where there is a broad central black 

 mark, giving a spotted appearance ; bastard-wing dusky, externally 

 ashy grey, whitish towards the end ; primary-coverts and quills 

 dusky, externally rufescent brown, more ashy on the primary-coverts 

 and primaries, the first of the latter being edged with whitish ; the 

 iuner secondaries blackish, edged with rufous-brown like the rest of 

 the wing, whitish on the extreme margin : upper tail-coverts rufes- 

 cent brown, edged with ashy and centred with black : centre tail- 

 feathers ashy brown, with dark centres, the remainder brown, ex- 

 ternally edged with reddish brown, with a paler fringe to the tips 

 of the feathers ; crown of head grey down the centre, with a broad 

 lateral band on each side, streaked with black, and one of rufous, 

 followed by ashy-grey bands above the eye, skirting the sides of the 

 head ; hind neck brown like the back, but much more narrowly 



