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almost devoid of gloss. The ground-colour is greenish-white or 

 sometimes creamy-white, denselj- mottled, speckled and blotched 

 with various shades of reddish-brown and pale underlj-ing lavender- 

 grey. Specimens measure from -74 to -SS in length, and from -55 

 to '6 1 in breadth. 



1. North America. Old Collection. 



1. North America. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



'A. North America {Ilcnshaio Coll.). Salvin-Godmau Coll. 



4. North America (Smiths. Inst.). Salvin-Godmaa Coll. 



5. Rhode Island, U. S. America, 2ad W. lindclifle Saunders, Esq. 



June. [P.]. 



Passerculus alaudinus {Bonap.). 

 (Plate XII. tig. 8.) 



Passerculus savanna, var. alaudinus, Baird, Brewer Sj- Ridyw. N. Amer 



Birds, i. p. 537 (1874). 

 Ammodramus sandwichensis alaudinus, Nelso7i, Hep. Xat. Hi^t. Alaska, 



p. 187 (1887). 

 Passerculus sandwichensis, SharjK, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. p. 674 (1888) 



[part.]. 

 Passerculus sandwichensis alaudinus, Ridgic. Birds North §• Middle 



Amer. i. p. 194 (1901). 

 Passerculus alaudinus, Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 290 (1909). 



Eggs of the Western Savanna Sparrow resemble those of 

 P. savanna, but some clutches are more boldly marked with larger 

 blotches of reddish-brown, and others are spotted and scratched 

 with deep purplish-brown. They measure from "7 to '79 in length, 

 and from '53 to "6 in breadth. 



5. St. Michael's, Alaska, 16th June Salviu-Godiuan CjII. 



(E. JJ'. Ne/son: Henshaw Co/l.). 

 5. St. Michael's {K W. N. : Henshaiu Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Coll.). 

 2. Yukon River, Alaska, 9th June Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(J. Lockhnrt, : Smiths. Inst.). 

 0. Salt Lake Citv, Utah, loth June. W. RadclitTe Saunders, Esq. 



[P.]. 



Genus COTURNICULUS, Bonap. 



Coturnicxilus passerinus ( Wilson). 



(Plate XII. figs. 15, 19.) 



Cotumiculu=! passerinus, Baird. Brewer ^- Bidgiv. N. Am^r. Birds, i. 



p. 5.5.3 (1874) [part.]; Salv. ^- Godm. Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, i. 



p. 384 (1886) [part.]; Sharpe, Hmid-l. v. p. 292 (1909). 

 Ammndromus savaunarum, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. p. 687 (1888) 



[part.]; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersninml. p. 116 (1899). 

 Cotumiculus savannarum passerinus, Ridgic. Birds North ^- Middle 



Amer. i. p. 207 (1901). 



