BIRDS—FRINGILLIDAE—PIPILO OREGONUS. 
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The tail feathers are only moderately graduated on the sides ; the outer about .40 of an inch 
shorter than the middle. 
The outer tail feather has the terminal half white, the outline 
transverse ; the white of the second is about half as long as that of the first ; of the third half 
that of the second. The chestnut of the sides reaches forward to the black of the neck, and is 
visible when the wings are closed. 
A young bird has the prevailing color reddish olive above, spotted with lighter; beneath 
brownish white, spotted thickly with brown. 
In most western specimens the white of the base of primaries is connected with that on the 
middle so as to have the entire edge of these quills white. 
One specimen, 8193, from Fort 
Leavenworth, has a few white spots on the scapulars only, the wing coverts without them, 
exhibiting an approach to P. arcticus. 
List of specimens. 
This is probably a hybrid between the two. 
Catal. |Sex & 
No. 
6938 
820 
3374 
2135 
1652 
4835 
4833 
4832 
4828 
4836 
4829 
4832 | -ceee. 
4834 
A835 
5735 
8350 
Locality. When 
collected. 
Selkirk Settlem’t, H.B.T.]....scseeceeee 
Carlisle, Penn..... eovest Oct. 19, 1842 
aosees COWesescccsrascanp May ‘4.1647 
sereesleecees OO Seesi. ccveseescnfves ens AOrajesice 
cvcece dO....cc00cceseces] April 24, 1856 
eeeeGOne +| April 25, 1856 
Towa Point. ..+.+e++eeee+) April 23, 1856 
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nests TaaeAsiewerinedaiserss | MAU Guaccetale 
Wood’s Creek..... acccsfecess Oeeceveee 
Independence, Mo...... June 18, 1857 
| Whence obtained. 
April 23, 1845 
see} July 27, 1844 
St. Joseph’s, Mo....006. April 23, 1856 
Bald Island, Mo. river ..] April 25, 1856 
Orig’! 
No. 
Remarks. 
Dr. F.V. Hayden 
W. 3. Woodeees 
to: 
R: 
Iris brown: bill brownand 
yellow; feet flesh color. 
Iris red; bill bl’k; ft. brown. 
Tris red; bill bI’k; ft. brown. 
? Hybrid, with arcticus.... 
PIPILO OREGONUS, Bell. 
Oregon Ground Robin. 
Pipilo oregonus, Bett, Ann. N. Y. Lye. V, 1852, 6. Oregon.—Bonap. Comptes Rendus, XXXVI, Dec. 1853, 
922.—Is. Notes Orn. Delattre, 1854, 22, (same as prece) 
Fringilla arctica, Aup. Orn. Biog. V, 1839, 49; pl. 394. 
Pipilo arctica, Aup. Syn. 1839, 123.—Is. Birds Am. II, 1841, 164; pl. 194, (not of Swainson.) 
Se. Cu.—Upper surface generally, with the head and neck all round to the upper part of the breast, deep black ; the rest of 
lower parts pure white, except the sides of the body and under tail coverts, which are light chestnut brown ; the latter rather 
paler. 
The outer webs of scapulars (usually edged narrowly with black) and of the superincumbent feathers of the back, with 
a rounded white spot at the end of the outer webs of the greater and middle coverts ; the outer edges of the innermost tertials, 
white ; no white at the base of the primaries. 
Outer web of the first tail feather black, occasionally white on the extreme 
edge ; the outer three with a white tip to the inner web. Length, 8.25; wing, 4.40; tail, 4. Female with the black replaced by 
brownish. 
Hab.—Coast of Oregon arid Washington Territories. 
June 19, 1858. 
65 b 
