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almost devoid of gloss. The ground-colour is greenish-white or 
sometimes creamy-white, densely mottled, speckled and blotched 
with various shades of reddish-brown and pale underlying lavender- 
grey. Specimens measure from -74 to 85 in length, and from *55 
to ‘61 in breadth. 
1. North America. Old Collection. 
1. North America. Salvin-Godman Coll. 
3. North America (Jenshaw Coll.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 
4. North America (Smiths. Inst.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 
5. Rhode Island, U.S. America, 2nd W. Radclitfe Saunders, Hsq. 
June. (ea: 
Passerculus alaudinus (Bonap.). 
(Plate XII. fig. 8.) 
Passerculus savanna, var. alaudinus, Baird, Brewer § Ridgw. N. Amer — 
Birds, i. p. 587 (1874). 
Ammodramus sandwichensis alaudinus, Nelson, Rep. Nat. Hist. Alaska, 
p. 187 (1887). 
Passerculus sandwichensis, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. p. 674 (1888) 
part. |. 
ae sandwichensis alaudinus, Ridgw. Birds North § Middle 
Amer. 1. 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 Salvin-Godman Coll. 
(E. W. Nelson: Henshaw Coll.). 
5. St. Michael’s (Z. W. N.: Henshaw Salvin-Godman Coll, 
Coll.). 
2. Yukon River, Alaska, 9th June Salvin-Godman Coll. 
(J. Lockhart: Smiths. Inst.). 
5. Salt Lake City, Utah, 15th June. W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 
[P.]. 
Genus COTURNICULUS, Bonap. 
Coturniculus passerinus ( Wilson). 
(Plate XII. figs. 15, 19.) 
Coturniculus passerinus, Baird. Brewer §& Ridgw. N. Amer. Burds, i. 
p- 553 (1874) [part.]; Salv. § Godm. Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, i. 
p. 884 (1886) [part.]; Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 292 (1909). 
Ammodromus savannarum, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. p. 687 (1888) 
[part.1; Nehrk. Kat. Eversammi. p. 116 (1899). 
Coturniculus savannarum passerinus, Ridgw. Birds North § Middle 
Amer. i. p. 207 (1901). 
