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note, sounding like siveer, very unlike that of any otlier bird, except the 

 JEiiqndonax ohsciirus; and when a flock suddenly took flight, they all joined 

 in a more rattling note. 



Besides the nest described below, another was found, in an aspen bush, 

 but it was abandoned by the owners before any eggs were laid. 

 List of specimens. 



S9L', $jui\; East Humboldt Moimtaias, Nevada, September 5, 1SG8. 5J— 9. Bill, 

 asliy liorn-color; iris, burut-umber; tarsi aud toes, dark purplish-browu. 



1)13, S ad.; East Humboldt MouutaiiiS, Nevada, September 8, 18GS. 5—9. Bill, 

 purplish-plumbeous, paler basally ; iris, tjrayisli-sepia ; tarsi aud toes, sepia. 



1241, nest aud egg (1); Parley's Park, Wahsatcli Mountains, Utah, June 23, 

 1SC9, Nest uear extremity of horizontal arm of fir-tree, about litteen feet from ground. 



1519, ^ ;uy.; 4|— 9. 1520, 9 jiti'.; 4|— SJ. Parley's Park, August 10, 1868. Bill, 

 purplish-plumbeous, paler basally; iris, sepia; tarsi aud toes, plumbeous sepia-black. 



PLECTROPHiVNBS LAPPONICUS. 

 L.apIa3B<I LoDigspiar. 



FringiUa lapponica, Linn., Syst. Nat., I, 17GC, 317. 



Flectrophanes lapponicus, Sblby, Linn. Trans., XV, 120, pi. 1. — Baikd, B. N. 

 Am., 1858, 433 ; Cat. N. Am. B., 1859, No. 320.— CoorER, Orn. Cal., I, 178.— 

 COUES, Key, 1872, 133, fig. 81; Check List, 1873, No. 153; B. N.W., 1874, 

 120.— B. B. &E., Hist. N. Am. B., I, 1874, 515, pi. xxiv, fig. 7. 



During the more severe portion of winter, individuals of this species 

 were frequently detected among the large flocks of Horned Larks {Ere- 

 mopli'da alpestris) around Carson City. They were recognized by their 

 peculiar and uinnistakable notes. 



Passeeculus sandvichen^sis. 



Savaunali Sgtai-row. 



a. alaudinus. 



rasscrculus cdaudinus, Bonap., Comp. Rend., XXXVII, 1853, 918.— Baiud, B. N. 



Am., 1858, 410; Cat. N. Am. B., 1859, No. 335.— CoOPER, Orn. ('al., I, 



1870, 181. 

 Fiisscrculus savanna var. alaiidinits, B. B. & 11., Hist. N. Am. Birds, I, 1874, pi. 



5X1V, lig. 11.— Henshaw, 1875, 254. 

 Passercidus savanna, Coues, Key, 1872, 135 (part); Check List, 1873, No. 159 



(part). 

 Passerculus savanna, a. savanna, Coues, Birds N.W., 1874, 127 (i)art). 



