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(57.) Page 3S7, under C. vespertina: 



C. vcspcrtinus, as described on page 387, comprises two forms, -which can bo 

 distinguished with certainly only when females are compared. They differ as 

 follows : 



c'. Adult female with prevailing color ashy, or only slightly brownish, graj'. 

 JIab. Interior of British America, tioulhward, in winter, to the ujjpcr 

 Mississippi Valley and basin of the Great Lakes. 



514. C. vespertinus (Coopeii). Evening Grosbeak. 



c'. Adult female with prevailing color bully or yellowish brown. JLih. Western. 



United States and highlands of Mexico, from British Columbia (coast 



district) to Vera Cruz. 



514(/. C. vespertinus montanus (RiDGW.). Western Evening Grosbeak.' 



(5S.) Page 398, S. tristis : 



This includes two forms, the southwestern of which has boon separated as 



529((. Spinus tristis pallidus Meaens. Western Goldfinch.' 

 Similar to S. tristis, but larger and paler; male in full plumage with black 

 cap more extended, the yellow paler, and the white markings of wings and tail 

 more extended ; winter plumage with coloration ranch lighter than the corre- 

 sponding dress of S. tristis, with tints purer and white more extended. Ilab. 

 Arizona (perhaps whole of the arid region). 



(59.) Page 407, after P. gramineus confinis : 



540i. Poocaetes gramineus affinis Miller. Oregon Vesper Sparrow.' 



"Similar to Poocaics gramineus conjinis B.\ird in respect to the slender bill 

 and narrow dark dorsal streakings, but difTering in being smaller and having 

 the ground color above buffy brown rather than graj'ish brown. All the lighter 

 areas of the plumage (including crissum, under wing-coverts and lining of 

 wings) sufFused with pinkish buff. 



"Dimensions (average of eight adults): wing, 3.04; tail, 2.46; tarsus, 0.79; 

 culmcn, 0.4G ; bill from nostril, 0.31 inch. 



"Hah. Western Oregon." 



(60.) Pago 412, after A. henslowii : 



547(/. Ammodramus henslowii occidentalis Brewst. 



Western Henslow's Sparrow.* 



"Similar to A. henslowii but the general coloring paler aliove aiid whiter 



beneath, the back and scapulars with broader black streaking and much less 



' Jlttperiphona rctprrtina, vnr. mnnlnnn RinowAT, in Hist. N. Am. B. i. 1S74, 419. — CoccolhraimUt rei- 

 perlina monlana Me.\rx!i, Auk, vii. July, 1890, 24f>. 



' Spinut triitit pnllidut JlEinxs, Auk, vii. July, 1890, 244. 



• Poocirltt gramincim affmin Mii.LER, Auk, v. Oct. 1SS8, 404. 



* AmmodramiiK hemloicii occidenlal>4 Brewst., Dcscr. Seven Sup. New N. Am. B. Feb. 17, 1S91, 145; 

 Auk, viii. April, 1891, 145. 



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