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FRINGILLIDH, FINCHES, ETC.—GEN. 64, 65. 135 
enne, Wyoming. (Allen.) Lawr., Ann. Lyc. Nat. Hist. N. Y., 1851, v, 
ire CAss lll. 228, pl. 39; Bp. 437. ~. . - « ~. . . MACCOWNI. 
64, Genus CENTRONYX Baird. 
Baird’s Bunting. Wind claw rather longer than its digit ; hind toe and 
claw not shorter than the middle one. Wings pointed, but inner secondaries 
not lengthened as in Passerculus. Tail emarginate. Thickly streaked 
everywhere above, on the sides, and across the breast ; above, grayish streaked 
with dusky, below white, with blackish maxillary, pectoral and lateral 
streaks; crown divided by a brownish-yellow line; a faint superciliary whit- 
ish line; no yellowish on bend of wing; outer tail feathers whitish. A curi- 
ous bird, apparently related to Plectrophanes in form, but with the general 
appearance of a savanna sparrow or bay-winged bunting. Only one speci- 
men known. Yellowstone, Aup., vii, 359, pl. 500; Bp., 441. “ Massa- 
chusetts,” Maynarp, Am. Nat., 1869, 554, and Guide, 112, frontispiece ; 
Auten, Am. Nat. 1869, 631; Brewster, Am. Nat. 1872, 307. I have 
seen the later supposed specimens, the fresh measurements of one of which 
(64; wing 34; tail 23; bill .4; tarsus nearly an inch) are much larger than 
those recorded by Audubon, and there are many other discrepancies. The 
bird should be diligently sought for, as a full investigation will reveal some- 
Poe MOU MOWAAUUCIPAveM. | 6 ba 6 «8 6 = ~ «© | «» \ BATRDID. 
65. Genus PASSERCULUS Bonaparte. 
Savanna Sparrow. (Puate mi, figs. 16,17, 18, 16a, 17a, 18a.) Thickly 
streaked everywhere above, on sides, and across breast; a superciliary line, 
and edge of the wing, yellowish; lesser wing coverts not chestnut; legs 
flesh-color; bill rather slender and acute; tail 
nearly even, its outer feathers not pure white; 
longest secondary nearly as long as the primaries 
in the closed wing. Above, brownish-gray, 
streaked with blackish, whitish-gray and pale bay, 
the streaks largest on interscapulars, smallest on 
cervix, the crown divided by an obscure whitish 
line; sometimes an obscure yellowish suffusion 7" (pin too slender) 
about head besides the streak over the eye. Below, white, pure or 
with faint buffy shade, thickly streaked, as just stated, with dusky — the 
individual spots edged with brown, mostly arrow-shaped, running in chains 
along the sides, and often aggregated in an obscure blotch on the breast. 
Wings dusky, the coverts and inner secondaries black-edged and tipped with 
bright bay ; tail feathers rather narrow and pointed, dusky, not noticeably 
marked. 54-52; wing 24-23; tail 2-24; middle toe and claw together 14; 
bill under $. North America; a terrestrial species, abundant everywhere 
in fields, on plains, by waysides, and along the seashore; migratory, grega- 
rious. With a close general resemblance to several other species, it may be 
readily distinguished by the foregoing marks. It varies but little with sex 
