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ZOOLOGY— BIHDS. 



24s 

 246 



247 

 260 

 276 

 544 

 545 

 546 

 748 

 750 

 75' 

 763 

 764 

 765 

 756 

 766 

 823 

 857 



Sex. 



9 ad. 

 S ad. 

 9 ad 

 ^jun. 

 i ad. 

 ^jun. 

 Jun. 

 <?jun. 

 i ad. 

 Ad. 

 9jun 

 9jun. 

 Jun. 

 i ad. 

 9 ad. 

 9jun. 

 9jun. 

 S ad. 



Locality. 



Mount Graham, Ariz . . Aug. 



do 



do ' 



do I 



Santa Rita Mts., Ariz.. Aug. 



do ! 



do ! 



do 



Mount Graham, Ariz.. 

 do 



Sept. 



Sept. 

 Sept. 



Sept 



I, 1874 



do 



do 



do 



30, 1874 



do 



do 



do 



19, 1874 



do 



do 



20, 1874 

 do 



21, 1874 



do 



do 



23. "874 

 do 



H. W. Henshaw 



do 



do 



do 



do 



do 



do 



do 



, do 



do 



do 



Dr. J. T. Rothrock... 



do 



H. W. Henshaw 



Dr. J. T. Rothrock... 



H. W. Henshaw 



Dr. J. T. Rothrock... 

 H. W. Henshaw 



POOSPIZA BILINEATA (Cass.). 

 flSlack-tliroated Sparrow. 



Emberiza &(7(«frtfrt, Cass., Proo. Acad. ISTat. Sci. Phila.,v,Oct., 1850,104, pl.iii (Te-xas"!. — 

 WooDii., Sitgit'avivs Exp. Zuui & Col. Kiv., 1851, 87. 



Poospiza biUneata, Bd., Ives' Col. Exped., 1857-58, pt. iv, G. — Id, Birds N. A., 1858, 

 410.— Id., U. S. & INIex. Bound. Snrv., ii, pt. ii, 18.59, Bird.s, 15.— Heekm., 

 P. K. K. Itt-p., Park's Itoiite, x, pt. iv, 1859, 14.— HENRY, Proc. Acad. Nat. 

 Sci. Pliila., 1859, 107 (New :^lexico).— COUES, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pliila., 

 1866, 86 (Fort Wlii[)ple, Ariz.).— W., ib., 1868, 83.— Coopek, Birds Cal., 

 1870, 203.— CouES, Key N. A. Birds, 1872, 140.— Snow, Birds Kan., 1872, 

 10.— CouES, Atu. Nat., vii, 1873, .323.— Bd., Brew., & Bidg., N. A. Birds, 

 1875, 590, pi. xxvi, f. 8. — Yarrow, Rep. Orn. Specs., 1871, Wheeler's Exped., 

 1874, 35.— Henshaw, An. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. \"., xi, 1874, 6.— /</., An. 

 List Birds Utah, 1872, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 44.— 7(?., Rep. Orn. Specs., 

 1873, Wheeler's Exjjcd., 1874, 115. 



Amphispiza biUneata, CotiES, U. S. Geol. Siirv. Terr., 1874, 234 (type of genus). 



This sparrow is an inhabitant of the dry mesas and plains, and apparently 

 extends its range over the whole of Arizona and perhaps also New Mexico ; 

 their numbers constantly increasing to the south till, in the region south of 

 the Gila, it is perhaps the most characteristic of the small sparrows. In 

 summer, the sage plains appear to be most frequented by them, though they 

 also are always found on tlie rocky hills among the low scanty shrubbery. 

 Their nests are usually placed in some low busli, as often one of the Arte- 

 misias as any other ; none of those found by our party being more than 

 four feet from the ground, oftener one or two. Tliey are of circular toim, 



