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2. Peucsea cassini. 



Zonotrichia cassini, Woodh. Proc. Pkilad. Acad, 1852, p. 60. 



Peucsea cassini, Baird, B. N. Amer. p. 458 (1850) ; Scl. Cat. Amer. 

 B. p. 115 (1862); Dresser, Ibis, 1865, p. 489 ; Baird, Ibis, 1867 , 

 p. 270; Sumickr. Mem. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. i. p. 551 (I860); 

 Cooper, B. Calif, p. 219 (1870); Baird, Brewer, Sf Ridr/w. Hist. 

 N Amer. B. ii. p. 42, pi. 28. fig. 5 (1874); Coues, B. N.-West, 

 p. 140 (1874) ; Hensk. Rep. Zool. Expl. IWth Mend. p. 287 

 (1875) ; Sennett, Bull. U.S. Geol, Sun: iv. p. 18 (1878) ; Merrill, 

 Proc. U.S. Nat. Mm. i. p. 128 (1878) ; Ridow. op. cit. iii. p. 186 

 (1881); Coues, Check-l. N. Amer. B. p. 55 (1882); id, Key 

 N. Amer. B. 2nd ed. p. 374 (1884) ; Stephens, Auk, iii. p. 226 

 (1885) ; Hensh. Auk, iii. p. 74 (1886) ; A. O. U. Check-list N. 

 Amer. B. p. 278 (1886). 



Ammodromus cassini, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 96, no. 7428 (1870). 



Peucsea aestivalis, var. cassini, Allen, Bull. Mus. C. Z. iii. p. 177 

 (1872). 



Adult male. Similar to P. cestivalis, but everywhere paler, 

 especially underneath ; a tolerably distinct malar streak ; flanks 

 broadly streaked with blackish ; outer tail-feathers with a distinct 

 paler ashy shade towards the ends, terminating in a white mark 

 at the end of the inner web. Total length 5-5 inches, culmen - 45, 

 wing 2-45, tail 2-5, tarsus 0-7. 



Adult female. Not different in colour from the male. Total 

 length 6-2 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 2-7, tail 2-65, tarsus 0-8. 



Hub. Plains of Kansas southward and eastward through Texas, 

 New Mexico, and Arizona, into Mexico. 



a-f. S i g-k. $ Texas, March 1886. 



ad. sk. 

 I. S ad. sk. Levedo, Texas, Dec. 5, 1885 



(Armstrong), 

 m. cJ ad. sk. Crittenden. Arizona, July 23, 



1884 (F. Stephens), 

 n, o. J ad. sk. Crittenden, July 1884 (F. 



Stephens). 

 p,(j.d2 ad - s k- Crittenden, July 22, 1884 

 (F. Stephens). 

 Tucson, Arizona, July 27, 



18^4 (F. Stephens). 

 Arizona (F. W. Nelson ; Sm. 



no. 99667). 

 Arizona (F. W. Nelson ; Sm. 



no. 99682). 

 Camp Lowell, Arizona, Sept. 

 11, 1874 (If. W.Henshaw; 

 Sm. no. 69606). 

 Mexico. 



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v. Ad. sk. 



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FO- 

 ILS. Nat. Mus. [P.]. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Sclater Coll. 



3. Peucsea ruficeps. 



Ammodromus ruficeps, Cass. Proc. Phi/ad, Acad. 1852, p. 184 ; 



id. III. Orn. Calif, p. 135, pi. 20 (1854); Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. 



p. 96, no. 7429 (1870). 

 Peucasa ruficeps, Baird, B. N. Amer. p. 486 (1858); id. Ibis, 1867, 



