COTURNICULUS PERPALLIDUS— CHONDESTES GRAMMAOA. 4G7 



COTURNICULUS PASSERINUS. 

 Vellow-^vinKCd Sparrow. 



p. iKvpaUidus. 



Coturnicubts 2)asserinus \ht. perpaUiduH, Ridgway, Coues' Key, 1872, 137; Check 

 List, 1873, 162a.— B. B. & R., Hist. N. Am. Birds, I, 1874, 55G.— Henshaw, 

 1875, 257, pi. I, fig. 2 (adult). 



Goturniculus passerimis. h. perpaUidus, Coues, Birds N.W., 1874, 132. 



Coturniculus passerinus, Cooper, Oru. Cal., I, 1870, 189. 



Like the Savanna Sparrow, this Httle Bunting is essentially a bird of 

 the valley portions. It is also generally distributed, but instead of inhab- 

 iting the wet meadows, or the borders of marshes, it frequents only the 

 dryer grassy places. It was found to be abundant in the fields about Sacra- 

 mento City, as well as thi-oughout the Interior. 



List of specimens. 



853, 6 juv.; Ruby Valley, Nevada, July 22, 1868. 5— 7J— (?)— Ij-f . Bill, pale, 

 pinkish-lilaceous, the culnieu darker; iris, grayish-umber ; tarsi aud toes, pale rosa- 

 ceous-pink. 



1102, S ad.; Antelope Island, Great Salt Lake, Utah, June 4, 1869. 5J— 8:^. Bill, 

 lilaceous, upper half of upper mandible blackish ; iris, brown ; tarsi, pale yellowish 

 brownish-white ; toes, darker. 



Chondestes GRAMJIACA. 



L.ark Sparrow: Skylark Bunting:. 



FringiUa grammaca, Say, Long's Exped., I, 1823, 139. 



Ghondcstes grammaca, Bonap., Comp. & Geol. List, 1838, 32. — Baird, Birds N. 

 Am., 1858, 456 ; Cat. N. Am. B., 1859, No. 344.— CIOOPER, Orn. Cal., I, 193.— 

 CouES, Key, 1872, 146, fig. 90; Check List, 1873, No. 186; B. N.W., 1874, 

 159.— B. B. & R., Hist. N. Am. Birds, I, 1874, 562, pi. xxxi, fig. 1.— Hen- 

 shaw, 1875, 259. 



This handsomely-marked and interesting bu-d is an exceedingly abun- 

 dant species in favorable localities throughout the entire extent of the 

 Western Region. Though essentially a western species, it is not restricted 

 to that portion of the country which extends from the Rocky Mountains 

 westward, as is most often the case with the birds peculiar to the western 

 division of the continent, but it also inhabits nearly every portion of the 

 Mississi])pi Valley, where it is no less numerous than in the most favored 

 portions farther west. Indeed, this species seems to be gradually extending 

 its range to the eastward, probably in consequence of the general aud wide- 



