ee, es 
134 FRINGILLID2, FINCHES, ETC.—GEN. 63. 
quently in company with nivalis, but not so common. NutT., i, 463; 
AD, Wis 00> plo llo2 bps 435: Fld: LAPPONICUS. 
Painted Lark Bunting. Adult g : cervical collar and entire under parts 
rich buffy brown or dark fawn; crown and sides of head black, bounded 
below by a white line, and interrupted by white superciliary and auricular 
line and white occipital spot; upper parts streaked with black and brownish 
yellow; lesser and middle wing coverts black, tipped with white forming 
conspicuous patches; one or two outer tail feathers mostly white; no white 
on the rest; legs pale. Size of lapponicus: seasonal and sexual changes of 
plumage correspondent. British America into United States in the ¢nterior ; 
not common with us. Nurt., ii, 589; Avp., iii, 52, pl. 153; vii, 337, 
pl. 487 (smithiz) ;.Bp., 484. nee eee ar OA PICTUS. 
Chestnut-collared Lark Bunting. Adult g: a chestnut cervical collar, 
as in lapponicus, and upper parts streaked much as in that species, but 
erayer; nearly all the under parts continuously black, the throat yellowish ; 
lower belly and crissum only whitish; in high plumage the black of the 
under parts is more or less mixed with intense ferrugineous, and sometimes 
this rich sienna color becomes continuous; crown and sides of head black, 
interrupted with white auricular and postocular stripes, and in high plumage 
with a white occipital spot; lesser wing coverts black or brownish-black ; 
outer tail feathers mostly or entirely white, and all the rest largely white 
from the base —a character that distinguishes the species in any plumage 
from the two preceding; legs not black; 9 with or without traces of the 
cervical collar; crown exactly like the back, generally no black on head or 
under parts ; below whitish, with slight dusky maxillary and pectoral streaks 
and sometimes the whole breast black, edged with grayish. Immature males 
have the lesser wing coverts like the back; but they show the black of the 
breast, veiled with gray tips of the feathers, long before any black appears 
on the head. Size less than in the foregoing. 54-6; wing 3-34; tail 2-24. 
Missouri Region, Kansas, and westward; 8. to the Table-lands of Mexico. 
Aup., iii, 53, pl. 154; Nurr., 2d ed. 1, 539; Bp., 485. P. melanomus 
Bp., 486, appears to be merely a high plumage, perhaps not always assumed 
by, northerly: tbinds ss ge. ss) yo een es) eel etl Uo siete es cm COTE AUTSTOD 
** * Bill large, turgid, unruffed ; hind claw as before, but shorter; sexes dissim- 
ilar ; no cervical collar; outer tail feathers white, the rest, except the middle pair, 
white on the inner webs to near the tip, the line of demarcation running straight 
across. (Rhynchophanes.) 
Maccown’s Bunting. Adult g: crown anda broad pectoral crescent 
black; superciliary line and under parts white; bend of wing chestnut; 
above, streaked with blackish and yellowish-brown. Size of the last, or : 
rather larger; 6-64; wing 33; tail 24-24; bill nearly $ inch long. The ¢? 
lacks the black and chestnut, but in any plumage the species may be known 
by the peculiar markings of the tail feathers, the white areas being cut 
squarely off, except in the outer pair, which are wholly white. Plains to the 
Rocky Mountains, U. S., rather northern; breeds abundantly about Chey- 
