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FRINGILLID^. 



brown, washed externally with ashy ; primary-coverts and quills 

 dusky brown, externally ashy brown, the first primary margined 

 with whitish, the secondaries externally rufous, edged with white 

 near the end of the outer web and round the tip ; upper tail-coverts 

 reddish brown, with a mesial black streak ; tail-feathers brown, 

 externally more reddish brown ; crown of head slaty grey in the 

 centre, with a broad lateral streak of reddish brown, slightly mottled 

 with dusky bases ; hind neck rather pale ashy ; lores white, con- 

 tinued into a broad eyebrow of paler ashy grey ; eyelid white ; ear- 

 coverts pale ashy, streaked on the fore part with white shafWines ; 

 a broad streak of rufous along the upper edge, and another along 

 the upper border of the cheeks, which are white ; throat also white, 

 separated from the cheeks by a very broad malar line of blackish, 

 washed with rufous ; sides of neck ashy grey ; fore neck and breast 

 whitewashed with ashy, all the feathers broadly centred with reddish 

 brown; lower breast and abdomen pure white; sides of body and flanks 

 ashy brown, more or less streaked with dusky reddish brown ; thighs 

 uniform reddish brown : under tail-coverts pale brown, broadly 

 edged with white ; under wing-coverts and axillaries pale ashy 

 brown, with white edges, the lower coverts washed with fulvous; 

 quills below dusky, ashy whitish along the inner edge. Total length 

 7"3 inches, culmen 0*7, wing 3*5, tail 3*2, tarsus 1*1. 



Adult female. Not so strongly marked as the male, but otherwise 

 similar. The malar line is not so pronounced and the throat shows 

 small spots. 



Young. Differs from the adult in being reddish brown, with paler 

 edges to the feathers of the mantle and upper back, which are broadly 

 streaked with black ; the under surface is dull yellowish buff, 

 washed with brown and closely streaked with black. 



Hah. Aleutian and Prybilov Islands, and east to Fort Kenai, 

 Alaska. 



a, b. (5 J ad. sk. Unalashka Island, Alaska (L. Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 M. Turner; Sm.nos. 78917, 

 78920). 



c. d ad. sk. Unalashka Island, March 10, E. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



1879 (L. M. Turner; Sm. [P.]. 

 no. 78907). 



d. Ad. sk. Atkha Island (L. M. Turner; U.S. Nat, Mus. [P.]. 



Sm. no. 85596). 



e. Jut. sk. ; f. rf Kvska Harbour, Alaska, July Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 ad. sk. " 1873 ( W. H. Ball ; Sm. nos. 



65473-75). 

 y. Ad. sk. Kvska Harbour, Julv 21,1875 U.S. Nat. Mus. [P.]. 



(M. Baler ; Sm. no. 65477). 

 h. $ ad. sk. Uiuliuk, Unalashka, Oct. 13, Sclater Coll. 



1880 (T. N. Bean). 



74. PEUCiEA. 



Peucsea, Audubon, Synopsis, p. 112 (1839) 



Range. Southern United States and Mexico. 



Type. 

 P. bachmani. 



