85. spiza.. 771 



Fringilla flavicollis, Gin. Syst. Nat. i. p. 926 (1788). 



Fringilla (Spiza) americana, Bp. Obs. fFils. 1825 (teste Cones). 



Fringilla americana, Bp. Syn. p. 107 (1828, teste Coues). 



Ccelebs americana, Less. Traite, p. 441 (1831). 



Emberiza nigricollis, Nordm. in Erman Reis. p. 11, Taf. 5 (1835). 



Euspiza americana, Bp. Camp. List B. Eur. §■ N. Amer. p. 32 (1838) ; 



Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 376 (1844) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 469 ( 1850) ; Woodh. 



in Sitgr. Rep. Zuni 6f Color. R. p. 87 (1853) ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1856, 



p. 142, 1857, p. 205 ; Baird, B. N. Amer. p. 494 (1858) ; Scl. $ 



Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 18 ; Cassin, Proc. Philad. Acad. 1860, p. 140 ; 



Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. T. vii. p. 208 (1861) ; Scl. $ Salv. P. Z. S. 



1864, p. 353; Dresser, Ibis, 1865, p. 490; Later. Ann. Lye. N. Y. 



viii. p. 181 (1866) ; Salv. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 142 ; Lawr. Ann. Lye. 



N. Y. ix. p. 103 (1868); Frantz. J. f. O. 1869, p. 301 ; Sumichr. 



Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. i. p. 552 (1869); Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. 



p. 112, no. 7672 (1870); Scl. # Salv. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 836 ; Salv. 



P. Z. S. 1870, p. 190 ; Wyatt, Ibis, 1871, p. 328 ; Allen, Bull. Mus. 



C. Z. Cambr. iii. p. 177 (1872) ; Coues, Key N. Amer. B. p. 148 



(1872); Scl. <§■ Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 33 (1873); Baird, 



Brewer, § Ridyw. Hist. N. Amer. B. ii. p. 65, pi. 28. fig. 11 



(1874) ; Cooes, B. N.- West, p. 164 (1874) ; Lawr. Mem. Bost. Soc. 

 ii. p. 277 (1874); Hensh. Rep. Zool. JExpl. 100th Merid, p. 295 



(1875) ; Lawr. Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. iv. p. 21 (1876) ; Sennett, 

 Bull. U.S. Geol. Surv. iv. p. 19 (1878), v. p. 392 (1879) ; Merrill, 

 Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. i. p. 128 (1878) ; Scl. § Salv. P. Z. S. 1879, 

 p. 508. 



Euspina americana, Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 133 (1850). 



Spiza americana, Ridgway, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. iii. pp. 3, 182 (1881) ; 



Coues, Check-list N Amer. B. p. 58 (1882) ; Nutting fy Riclgw. 



Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. v. p. 391 (1882) ; Coues, Key N Amer. B. 



2nd ed. p. 387 (1884) ; Townsend, Auk, ii. p. 106 (1885); Loomis, 



t. c. p. 192 ; Agersb. t. c. p. 281 ; A. O. U. Check-list N Amer. B. 



p. 289 (1886) ; Salvin 8f Godman, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, i. 



p. 416 (1886). 



Adult male. General colour above brown, washed with ashy on 

 the mantle and upper back, which are centred with black stripes ; 

 lower back and rump uniform ashy brown ; scapulars ashy brown, 

 chestnut extern all y ; lesser and median coverts uniform chestnut ; 

 greater coverts blackish, externally pale reddish brown, narrowly 

 margined with ashy fulvous ; bastard-wing blackish brown ; pri- 

 mary-coverts and quills blackish brown, edged with ashy brown, 

 the inner secondaries more broadly margined with reddish brown ; 

 upper tail-coverts and tail-feathers brown, edged with ashy brown, 

 and fringed with whitish along the inner web, which has an indis- 

 tinct pale spot about one third distance from the tip; crown of 

 head and hind neck ashy grey, olive-yellow on the fore part of the 

 crown ; lores white, fringing the base of the forehead, and sur- 

 mounted by an eyebrow of clear yellow ; eyelid pale yellow, with a 

 white spot below and a dusky mark in front and behind ; ear-coverts 

 dark ashy grey, slightly washed with olive-yellow ; cheeks white, 

 with a yellow mark below the eye ; sides of throat also white, like 

 the chin and upper throat ; centre of fore neck black, forming a 

 mark which extends up the lower throat and borders the yellow 



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