PASSERES— FEINGILLIDAE-P. TOWNSENDI VAR. SCHISTACEA. 293 



wing without sign of rufous ; beneath faint ochraceus white, heavily streaked 

 on breast and sides with black ; wings and tail dull brown ; maxillary stripe, 

 and one from commissure, just visible. 



PASSERELLA TOWNSENDI (Aud.), var. SCHISTACEA, Bd. 



Passerella schistacea, Bd., Birds N. A., 1858, 490, pi. Ixix, f. 3.— Xantus, Proc. Acad. 



Nat. Sci. Phila., 185!i, 192 (Fort Tejoii, Cal.).— Snow, Birds Kan., 1872, 11 



(one specimen). 

 Passerella townsendii var. schistacea, CouES, Kej' N. A. Birds, 1872, 352.— Bd., Brew., 



& RiDG., N. A. Birds, ii, 1874, 56, pi. 28, f. 9.— Yarrow & Henshaw, Rep. 



Oru. Specs., 1873, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 15.— Henshaw, An. Lye. Nat. 



Hist. N. Y., xi, 1874, G.—Id., An. List Birds Utah, 1872, Wheeler's Exped., 



1874, 45.— Jd., Rep. Orn. Specs., 1873, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 118.- Coues, 



Birds Northwest, 1874, 162. 

 Passerella ilmca var. schistacea, Allen, Bid. Mus. Comp. Zool., 1872, 177 (Ogden, 



Utah ; Wahsatch Mountains). 



East of the Wahsatch Mountains, Utah, where this species was found 

 abundant by Mr. Ridgway in summer, it appears in the light more of a 

 straggler than as a regular visitant in this region. It has been met with 

 once in Kansas, its luost eastern record. At Provo, Utah, Dr. Yarrow 



