CALAMOSPIZA BICOLOR. 487 



List of specimens. 



433, <?rtrf.; C;irsou City, Novadii, March 9, ISOS. 7§— 10]— .>/,;— li;,'. (Tpper 

 luandibk', olivaceous-sepia, darkest basally, toinium ashy-lilac: rictus and basal two- 

 thirds of lower mandible, bright maize-yellow, deepest beneath ; terminal portion, 

 brownish-lilaceous, the point dusky ; iris, precisely the color of pectoral spots ; tarsi 

 and toes, dilute-sepia. 



919, i ad.; head of Humboldt Valley (Camp 24), September 11, ISCS. Tg-lOgL 

 — (?) — 2i|. Upper mandible, sepia-plumbeous, darker along culmen, more lilaceous 

 along tomium; lower paler, point dusky, the basal half deep maize-yellow ; iris, burnt- 

 sienna; tarsi and toes, very deep sepia. 



1223, nest and eggs (4); Parley's Park, June 22, 1869. Nest in a bunch of willow 

 sprouts about two feet from the ground, bank of stream. 



1225, 1226, 1227, 1229, and 1230, nests and eggs; Parley's Park, June 23, 1809. 

 1289, nest and eggs; Parley's Park, June 25, 1869. Nests among bushes or willow- 

 stubs in thickets along streams, from one to six feet above the ground. 



1460, nest ; Parley's Park, July 26, 1869. Nest among willows. 



CaLAMOSPIZA BICOLOR. 

 Lark Bunting. 



Fringilla hicolor, TowNSBND, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., VII, 1837, 189. 

 Galamospiza bicolor, Bonap., Comp. & Geog. List, 1838, 30.— Baird, B. N. Am., 



1858, 492; Cat. N. Am. B., 1859, No. 377.— Coopek, Orn. Cal., I, 225.— 



CoUES, Key, 1872, 147 ; Check List, 1873, No. 190 ; B. N.W., 1874, 163.— B. 



B. & R., Hist. N. Am. B., II, 1874, 61, pi. xxix, figs. 2, 3.— Hensiiaw, 1875, 



294. 



But a single specimen of this species was observed by us, and this was 

 doubtless a straggler from the Great Plains on the eastern side of the Rocky 

 Mountains. The individual in question was on the ground when shot, its 

 appearance and manners being quite similar to those of Chondcstes gmmmaca. 

 On the plains just east of the town of Cheyenne, we noticed in August, 

 from the car-windows, numerous large flocks of this species, startled liy 

 the approach of the train, the flocks rising from the grass on eitlier side, 

 and wheeling about in their flight in the irregular manner of Horned Larks 

 {EremopMa). 



List of specimens. 



U17,Sjuv.; Parley's Park, July 30, 1869. 7^11i. Bill, ashy-white; upper 

 half of upper mandible, pale ash, gonys with pinkish glow ; iris, brown ; tarsi and 

 toes, purplish-brown. 



