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the ground. I have never heard but a single style of call note, and this 

 differs in toto from that of the Eastern Towliee, bearing no resemblance to 

 the familiar and oft repeated chewink of that bird, but is so exactly like 

 the di-awling mew of our common Catbird as to readily deceive one. The 

 song is quite varied, now bearing little resemblance to the notes of cnjthro- 

 plithaliDKS, and again being quite an exact imitation of the trilling love song 

 of this species. 



PIPILO FDSCCS, Swains., var. MESOLEUCUS, BcL 

 Canon Finch. 



I'ipilo mcKoleurus, Bd., Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pbila., vii, June, lSi54, 119 (Rocky Mount- 

 ain.s).— W., Birils N. A., 1858, 518, pi. xxix.— M. U. S. & :\h'x. Bound. Suiv., 

 ii, pt. ii, 1850, Bird.s, 18.— ElEEKM., P. R. R. Rcj)., Pjirke's Route, x, 185!), 

 15.— KnNNERLV, P. R. E. Rep., Wliipple'.s Route, x, 1850, 30, pi. xxix.— 

 Henry, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pliila., 1859, 107 (New Mexico). — Coues, 

 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1S6G, 90.— 7rf., ib., 1868, Si.— Id., Am. Nat., vii, 

 1873, 31.'4. 



PipUo /u.tcii8, CouES, Key N. A. Birds, 1872, 152. 



I'ipilo fiisnin var. mcsolcucm, Bd., Brew., & Ridg., N. A. Bird.s, ii, 1874, 125, pi. xxxi, 

 ('. 10.— Hensuaw, Rep. Orn. Specs., 1S73, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 120. 



I did not detect this species on the Gila, where Abert's Finch was very 

 numerous. When nearing Camp Grant, Ariz., my attention was attracted 

 l)y liciiring notes issuing from a thicket on the sides of a rocky canon, which 



