80. ATLAPETES. 739 



B. p. 117 (1862) ; id. §• Sato. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 33 (1873) ; 

 Lawr. Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. ii. p. 277 (1874) ; Salvin § Godman, 

 Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, i. p. 415 (1886). 



Zonotricliia blandingiana, Woodh. in Sitgr. Rep. Zuni § Color. R. 

 p. 85 (1853). 



Kieneria rufipilea, Bp. C. R. xl. p. 356 (1855). 



Embernaga blandingiana, Cass. B. Calif, p. 70, pi. 12 (1856) ; Duges, 

 La Nat. i. p. 140 (1868). 



Pipilo cbloruius, Baird, B. N. Amer. p. 519 (1858) ; id. Mex. Bound. 

 Surv. ii. Birds, p. 18, pi. 2 (1858): Cooper, B. Calif, p. 248 

 (1870) ; Allen, Bull. Alus. Comp. Zoo/, iii. p. 178 (1872) ; Cones, 

 Kei/ N. Amer. B. p. 153 (1872) ; Baird, Brewer, §• Ridym. Hist. 

 N. Amer. B. ii. p. 131, pi. 31. tig. 4 (1874) ; Coues, B. N.-West, 

 p. 176 (1874) ; Hensh, Rep. Zool. Expl. lOOt/i Merid. p. 307 (1875) ; 

 Sennett, Bull. U.S. Geol. Sun: v. p. 304 (1879) ; Belding, Proc. 

 U.S. Nat. Mm. i. p. 419 (1879) ; Ridgway, op. cit. iii. p. 181 

 (1881) ; Coues, Check-list N. Amer. B. p. 61 (1882) ; Beldiny, Proc. 

 U.S. Nat. Mus. v. p. 540 (1883), vi. p. 348 (1883); Coues, Key 

 N. Amer. B. 2nd ed. p. 398 (1884) ; Brew, Auk, ii. p. 16 (1885) ; 

 Beckh. t. c. p. 142 (1885) ; A. O. U. Check-list N. Amer. B. p. 284 

 (1886) ; Hensh, Auk, iii. p. 74 (1886 ; Ridgw. Man. N. Amer. B. 

 p. 439 (1887). 



Emberizoides chlorura, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 91, no. 7331 (1870). 



Adult male. General colour above dull olive-greenish, washed with 

 ashy, the upper tail-coverts fringed at the tips with ashy olive ; 

 wing-coverts brighter olive-green ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, 

 and quills dusky brown, externally olive-green, the first primary 

 narrowly fringed with whitish along the outer web ; tail-feathers 

 olive-green, dusky on the inner webs, the outer feather narrowly 

 fringed with whitish along the tip of the inner web ; crown of head 

 bright chestnut or bay, with a frontal patch of dusky blackish 

 tinged with olive ; an indistinct eyebrow of dull olive-green ; feathers 

 below the eye and lores dusky, minutely dotted with white; a 

 supraloral streak of dull whitish ; ear-coverts dull ashy, with 

 narrow whitish shaft-lines ; a white spot at the base of the cheeks ; 

 throat white, separated from the cheeks by a malar line of dusky 

 blackish ; remainder of cheeks, fore neck, and breast ashy grey, ex- 

 tending down the sides of the latter ; centre of breast and abdomen 

 dull white ; sides of body and flanks as well as thighs ashy brown, 

 inclining to isabelline on the sides of the abdomen ; under tail- 

 coverts isabelline buff; axillaries and under wing-coverts pale sul- 

 phur-yellow, the edge of the wing brighter ; quills dusky below, 

 pale ashy along the edge of the wing. Total length 6*7 inches, 

 culmen - 55, wing 3-1, tail 3 - 25, tarsus 0-9. 



Adult female. Coloured like the male, but much less bright ; 

 rather more olive-brown ou the upper surface of the body, the quills 

 conspicuously margined with brown. Total length 6*7 inches, 

 culmen 0*55, wing 3, tail 3'3, tarsus - 85. 



Hah. Interior Plateau region of the United States, from the 

 western border of the plains to the Sierra Nevada, from about lat. 

 40° south into Mexico. (A. 0. U. Check-list, I. c.) 



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