PASSEEES— FEINGILLIDAE— MELOSPIZA LINCOLNI. 



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on the east to the Hixmboldt Mountains, and on the southeast to the Mojave 

 River, and into Western Arizona, as shown by a single specimen from that 

 region collected by Mr. Bischoff. 



MELOSPIZA LINCOLNI (Aud.). 

 liincoln's Finch. 



Fringilla lincolnii, Aud., Orn. Biog., ii, 1834, 539, pi. cxciii. 



Zonotrichia lincolnii, Woodh., Sitgrcave's Exp. Zuui & Col. Riv., 1854, 85. 



Melospiza lincolni, Bd., Birds N. A., 1858, 483.— Jd., U. S. & Mex. Bouiul. Surv., ii, 

 pt. ii, 1859, Birds, 16.— CouES, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 18(iC, 88 (Ari- 

 zouti, Kennerly). — Xantus, Pi-oc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pliila., 1859, 192 (Fort 

 Tejoi), Cal.).— Kennerly, P. B. R. Rep., Whipple's Route, 1859, 29.— 

 Hayd., Trans. xVni. Phil. Soc. xii, 1862, 167.— Cooper, Birds Cal., i, 1870, 

 216.— Stev., U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., 1870, 465.— Allen, Bull. Mus. Comp. 

 Zool., 1872, 177.— CouES, Key N. A. Birds, 1872, 138.— Snow, Birds Kan., 

 1872, 10.— Hold., Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., 1872, 200.— Bd., Brew., & 

 EiDG., N. A. Birds, ii, 1874, 31, pi. 27, f. 13. — Yarrow & Henshaw, Rep. 

 Orn. Specs., 1872, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 14. — Henshaw, An. Lye. Nat. 

 Hist. N. T., xi, 1871, 6.— Id., An. List Birds Utah, 1872, Wheeler's Exped., 

 1874, U.—ld., Rep. Orn. Specs., 1873, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 63, 81, 

 117.— C0UE8, Birds Northwest, 1874, 135. 



Peucwa lincolnii, Bd., Stans. Rep. Exp. Great Salt Lake, 1852, 317. — Heerm., P. R. 

 R. Rep., X, pt. ii, 1859, 49. 



Lincoln's Sparrow appears to extend in its migrations across the 

 continent fr'om east to west ; occurring even in Massachusetts regularly in 

 spring and fall, though it is quite rare. In the West, however, at these 

 seasons, its numbers are very great ; in many localities outnumbering all 

 the other sparrows. Near Denver, a few were present the first days of May; 

 and probably the species had been making its way north for some time, 

 individuals stopping now and then as they reached favorable localities, or 

 till the weather became milder in advance. By the 17th, they were arriving 

 daily in throngs, every clump of bushes and grove of trees containing num- 

 bers. Having sought out such sheltered favorable localities, they spent the 

 days in resting and satisfying their hunger, and as night came on pursued 



