406 DAVENPORT ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



Des Moines, June 2, 1884, from a nest on the ground in a clover 

 field. The bird was seen twice, but was not secured. Concerning 

 this Professor J . A. Allen states [Ibid) : "I have compared the eggs 

 with those of P. (Estiva, P. cassini, and P. carpalis, and with those 

 of other species laying white or whitish eggs. Taking into con- 

 sideration the situation of the nest — on the ground — and the geo- 

 graphical distribution of the other species of Peuccea and the few 

 other species of Finch which lay white eggs, I should say that 

 your conclusions that these eggs are those of P. cestivalis bach- 

 niariii is highly probable — in fact, almost beyond question." 



Robert Ridgway (Birds of North and Middle Amer., i, p. 256) 

 gives the distribution of the species \Aimophila cestivalis bach- 

 manii (Audubon)] as "north to southern Virginia, Maryland, 

 southern Indiana, southern Illinois (north, locally, at least to par- 

 allel of 40'^), and southeastern Iowa, citing Keyes and Williams' 

 Des Moines record {supra) as "Doubtful." 



