in Various Species of North American Birds. 41 



with dark brown centres. Wing-bands pale fulvous. Secondaries edged 

 externally with reddisb-brown. Beneath pale brownish-yellow, thickly 

 but finely streaked upon the breast and sides with dark reddish-brown. 

 Superciliary lines and sides of neck bright greenish-olive. Auriculars 

 dusky. Chin stripes dark brown. From a specimen (sex not ascertained) 

 in my cabinet collected by C. A. Allen at Nicasio,. Cal., July 11, 1878. 

 Two others in first plumage collected at the same time and place are essen- 

 tially similar. 



106. Euspiza americana. 



Autumnal plumage: young. Crown, shoulder, and rump, with sides 



of head and neck, light olive-brown, the centres of the feathers slightly 



darker; a little concealed chestnut on the shoulders. Feathers of the 



interscapular region with dull black centres and brownish-fulvous edges. 



Wing-bands, with outer margins of wing-coverts and secondaries, dull 



brownish-fulvous. Superciliary line brownish-yellow, fading anteriorly 



to brownish-white. Throat, central area of the abdomen, and the crissum, 



pale brownish-Avhite. Sides of breast and body brownish-olive, with dark 



brown streaking on the flanks. Breast dull reddish-orange, streaked with 



dark brown, and washed with obscure ashy-white. From a specimen in 



the collection of Dr. J. M. Wheaton obtained at Circleville, O., August, 



1878. 



107. Goniaphea melanocephala. 



First plumage: male(?). Generally similar to the adult female, but 

 with the cinnamon of the under parts stronger ; the sides of the throat 

 and body, with the breast, profusely spotted with dull black. Crown black, 

 with median stripe of brownish-yellow. Rest of upper parts brownish- 

 cinnamon, each feather centrally blotched with dull black. Wing-bands 

 and tips of secondaries yellowish or brownish-wdiite. Superciliary line, 

 chin, ami sides of the throat ashy-white. Throat, jugulum, and breast, 

 with sides of body and crissum, buffy-cinnamon, palest on the latter, and 

 profusely sprinkled with dull black tear-shaped spots on the sides of 

 throat, breast, and abdomen. May be distinguished from G. ludoviciana 

 of same age (which it generally resembles) by the bright gamboge-yellow 

 axillars and under wing-coverts. From a specimen in my cabinet ob- 

 tained by Mr. Allen at Nicasio, Cal., June 2G, 1878. 



108. Pipilo fuscus crissalis. 



First plumage: male. Wings and tail dark clove-brown, the wing- 

 bands reddish-fulvous, and the secondaries edged with rusty. Rump 

 bright reddish-brown. Rest of upper parts uniform dull reddish-brown. 

 Beneath light rufous, deepest on crissum, scarcely paler across the breast. 

 Pectoral region and sides anteriorly, faintly spotted with dark reddish- 

 brown. From a specimen in my cabinet taken by Mr. C. A. Allen at 

 Nicasio, Cal., July 2, 1878. 



