BIRDS — FRINGILLIDAE PASSERELLA TOWNSENDII. 



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liencath white, with the upper part of the breast and sides of throat and body with triangular spots of rufoua, and a few smaller 

 ones of blackish on tlie middle of the breast. Inner edges of quills and tail feathers tinged with rufous pink. No light lines 

 on the head, but a patch of rufous on tlie cheeks. First quill rather less than the fifth. Hind toe about equal to its claw. 

 Length, about 7.50 ; wing, 3.50. 



Ilab. — Eastern United States to the Mississippi. 



Sometimes tlie entire head above is reddish like the back. 



List of specimens. 



PASSERELLA TOWNSENDII, Nut tall. 



FHngilla townsendii, AuD. Orn. Riog. V, 1839, 236 ; pi. 424, f. 7.— Ib. Syn. 1839.— Is. Birds Amer. Ill, 1841, 43 ; 



pi. 187. 

 Fringllla {Passerella} townsendii, Nctt. Man. I, 2d ed. 1840, 533. 

 Passerella toifnsendii, Bon. Conspectus, 1850, 477. 

 Fringllla meruloides, Vig. Zool. Blossom, (Monterey,) 1839, 19. 

 Emberiza unalascliensis, Gm. I, 875, probably has some relation to the present species. It is based on the Unalascha Bunting of 

 Pennant Arctic Zool. II, 364. 



Sp. Ch. — Above very dark olive brown, with a tinge of rufous, the color continuous and uniform throughout, without any 

 trace of blotches or spots ; the upper tail coverts and outer edges of the wing and tail feathers rather lighter and brighter. The 

 under parts white, but thickly covered with approximating triangular blotches like the back, sparsest on the middle of the body 

 and on the throat ; the spots on the belly smaller. Side almost continuously like the back ; tibiae and under tail coverts similar, 

 the latter edged with paler. Claws all very large and long ; the hinder longer than its toe. First and sixtli quills about equal. 

 Length, about 7 inches ; wing, about 3.00. 



Hob. — Pacific coast of United States as far south as Sacramento. Fort Tejon ?? 



This species differs a good deal in form from P. iliaca. The claws are much larger and 

 stouter, the wing a good deal shorter and more rounded. The differences in color are very 

 appreciable, the tints being dark olivaceous brown instead of red, and perfectly uniform above, 

 not spotted ; the under parts much more thickly spotted. 



List of specimens. 



June IT, 1858. 



62 b 



