716 



FKINGILLID^:. 



dusky, inner edge of quills ashy, with a rufescent tinge. Total 

 length 5*3 inches, culmen 04, wing 2-55, tail 2"45, tarsus 07. 



Adult female. Similar to the male in colour. Total length 5"5 

 inches, culmen 045, wing 2*45, tail 2-5, tarsus 065. 



Hab. Arizona. 



a. S ad. sk. Sierras de Santa Catalina, Ari- 



zona, Jan. 1885 ( TV. E. D. Scott). 



b. 2 ad. sk. Catalina Mill, Oct. 26, 1884 



( W. E. D. Scott). 



c. Ad. sk. Tucson, Arizona, Jan. 10, 



1873 (Lieut. C. Bend ire ; 

 Sm. no. 87947). 



d. cJ juv. sk. Camp Lowell, Arizona, Sept. 



9, 1874 (H. W. Henshaiv; 

 Sm. no. 69617). 



Hon. G. B. Sennett 



[P.]. 

 Hon. G. B. Sennett 



[P.]. 

 U.S. Nat. Mus. [P.]. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



75. PASSERELLA. 



Passerella, Swains. Classif. B. ii. p. 285 (1837) . 



Type. 

 P iliaca. 



f 



Head of Passerella iliaca. 

 Range. North America. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Head and back mottled, ashy, spotted or 



streaked with chestnut ; a good deal of 



bright chestnut on the ear-coverts iliaca, p. 716. 



b. Head and back uniform. 



a'. Upper surface chocolate-brown, not grey . . unalaschensis, p. 718. 

 b'. Upper surface slaty grey. 



a". Smaller; thickly spotted below schistacea, p. 720. 



b". Much larger ; bill twice the size of fore- 

 going ; much whiter and less thickly 

 spotted below megarhyncha, p. 720. 



1. Passerella iliaca. 



Fringilla iliaca, Merr. Beitr. besond. Gesch. Vbg. ii. p. 40, pi. 10 



(1786-87) ; Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 923 (1788) ; Audub. B. Amer. 



pi. 108 ; id. Om. Bioyr. ii. p. 58 (1834), v. p. 512 (1839) ; id. B. 



Amer. iii. p. 139, pi. 185 (1841). 

 Fringilla rufa, Wils. Amer. Om. iii. p. 53, pi. 22. fig. 4 (1811). 

 Fringilla (Zonotrichia) iliaca, Swains. 8f Rich. Faicn. Bor.-Amer., 



Birds, p. 257 (1831). 

 Zonotrichia iliaca, Jard. ed. Wils. Amer. Om. p. 341, pi. 22. fig. 4 



