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140 FRINGILLID®, FINCHES, ETC.—GEN. 70, 71. 
Var. instents Bp., Trans. Chicago Acad. 1869, 319, pl. 29, f. 1. Plumbeous 
brown, not rufous, the dorsal streaks fine; beneath, plumbeous white, with almost 
confluent ashy-brown streaks. Large; 7; wing and tail 34; bill slender and very 
long, .60. Kadiak, Alaska. 
70. Genus PEUCAIA Audubon. 
* Edge and bend of wing yellowish, as in Cotwrniculus, which the species much 
resembles in the color of the upper parts; but it has no obvious yellowish about 
the head ; the wings are not longer than the tail, and the tail feathers, though very 
narrow and lanceolate, are not acute at tip. 
Bachman’s Finch. Upper parts, including crown, continuously streaked 
with blackish, dull chestnut and ashy-gray ; wing coverts and inner second- 
aries marked like the back; below, dull brownish-ash, or brownish-gray, 
whitening on the belly, deepest on sides and across breast, . nowhere 
obviously streaked in adult plumage ; some obscure dusky maxillary streaks, 
some vague dusky markings on auriculars, a slight ashy superciliary line 
and very obscure median ashy line on crown; bill dark above, pale below ; 
legs very pale ; lateral claws falling far short of base of middle claw; hind 
claw much shorter than its digit ; tarsus not longer than middle toe and claw ; 
tail much rounded, with obscure grayish-white area on the lateral feathers. 
Young have the breast and sides evidently streaked. 53-6; wing 24; 
tail 24. Southern States. \ Nurr., i, 568; Avup., iii, 113, pl. 176. 
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Var. cassinn. Similar; paler and grayer; wings and tail rather longer. 
Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, and southward. Bp., 485; Coop., 219. 
* * Edge and bend of wing without yellow. 
Rufous-crowned Finch. Similar; rather smaller; crown uniform chest- 
nut, and maxillary streaks sharp, distinct. California. Cass., Ill. 185, 
pl. 20; Bp., 486; Coopr., 218. 3 te lke 4 al ey ee RURTOR RSS 
71. Genus POOSPIZA Cabanis. 
*,* Southwestern species, with rounded blackish tail not shorter than the wings, 
plumbeous-black bill and feet, and few decided streaks, or none. 
Black-throated Finch. Y¥ace, chin and throat sharply jet-black ; a strong 
pure white superciliary line, and another bounding the black of the throat ; 
under eyelid also pure white; auriculars dark slate ; 
no yellow anywhere. Below, pure white; the sides, 
flanks and crissum shaded with ashy or fulvous- 
brownish, but no streaks. Above, uniform grayish- 
brown; wings dusky, coverts and inner quills edged 
with the colors of the back; tail black, with narrow 
grayish edgings, the outer feather sharply edged and 
tipped with white and several others similarly tipped. 
Small, 5-53; wing about 24; tail 23. In the young the head-markings 
are obscure, there is little or no black on the throat, and a few pectoral 
Fic. 85. Black-throated Finch. 
