PASSERES— FEINGILLIDAB— PEUCAEA CASSINf. 



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the species of which was left undetermined. It proves, however, to be the 

 young in the first plumage of this variety. 



Feathers above with dark-brown centers, and edged conspicuously with 

 fulvous ; brightest on the rump, where each feather is broadly tipped with 

 the same ; beneath pale ochraceous-yellow, becoming strong fiilvous on the 

 flanks and under tail-coverts ; upper parts of breast and throat strongly and 

 sides less distinctly marked with longitudinal streaks of black; wing-coverts 

 edged and tipped with strong fulvous; inner secondaries bordered with 

 same,. but darker; tail-feathers black, margined with dull rufous; bend of 

 wing edged with light yellow ; bill above dark brown, paler beneath. 



PEUCAEA CASSINI (Woodb.). 

 Cassin's Sparroir. 



ZonotricMa cassinii, Woodh., Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., vi, April, 1852, GO (Sau 

 Antonio, Tex.). 



Passerculus cassinii, Woodh., Sit^reave's Exp. Zuui & Col. Kiv., 1854, 85, pi. 4. 



Peuccca cassiiii, Bd., Birds N. A., 1858, 485 (in part.) — Heerm., P, E. It. Eep., PaAe's 

 Eoute, X, 1850, 12, pi. iv, f. 2.— Bd., U. S. & Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. ii, 

 1859, Birds, 16.— Cooper, Birds Cal., i, 1870, 219.— Snow, Birds Kan,, 1872, 



11.— Bd., Brew., & Eidg., N. A. Birds, ii, 1874, 42, pi. 28, f. 5 CouES, 



Birds Northwest, 1874, 140.— Jd., Check-List, app., No. 170 bis. 



Peuccea mstivalis var. cassini, Allen, Bull. Mus. Comp. Z06I.. 1872, 137 (Middle Kansas). 



There can, I think, be no question of the propriety of ranking this 

 sparrow as a valid species, not only from the difference of coloration, but 

 also the pattern of the markings, and the entire distinctness of its song and 



