148 FRINGILLIDA, FINCHES, ETC.—GEN. 79, 80. 
the western plains, to the Rocky Mountains; Cape St. Lucas. Aup., iii, 
195, pl. 201; Nurv., 2d ed. 1, 803; Bpo., 492; Coor., 225. - BICOLOR. 
79. Genus EUSPIZA Bonaparte, 
Black-throated Bunting. @ above grayish-brown, the middle of the back 
streaked with black, the hind neck ashy, becoming on the crown yellowish- 
olive with black touches; a yellow superciliary line, and maxillary touch of 
the same; eyelid white; ear coverts ashy like the cervix ; chin white 3 throat 
with a large jet-black patch; under parts in general white, shaded on the 
sides, extensively tinged with yellow on the breast and belly ; edge of wing 
yellow; lesser and middle coverts rich chestnut, other coverts and inner 
secondaries edged with paler; bill dark horn blue, feet brown; 64-7; 
wing 84, sharp-pointed ; tail 24, emarginate. 9 smaller; above, like the g, 
but head and neck plainer ; below, less tinged with yellow, the black throat 
patch wanting and replaced by sparse sharp maxillary and pectoral streaks, 
wing coverts not chestnut. An elegant species, of trim form, tasteful colors 
and very smooth plumage, abundant in the fertile portions of the Eastern 
U.S.; N. to Connecticut Valley ; W. to Kansas and Nebraska. WILs., iii, 
86, pl. 3, f. 2; Nurv., i, 461; Aup., iii, 58, pl. 156; Bp., 494. AMERICANA. 
Townsend's Bunting. “Upper parts, head and neck all round, sides of 
| body and forepart of breast, slate-blue ; back and upper surface of wings 
rh tinged with yellowish-brown ; interscapulars streaked with black ; super- 
| ciliary and maxillary line, chin and throat and central line of under parts 
i from breast to crissum, white ; edge of wing, and gloss on breast and middle 
te of belly, yellow; a black spotted line from lower corner of lower mandible 
ly down the side of the throat, connecting with a crescent of streaks in the 
the upper edge of the slate portion of the breast.” Bp., 495. AUD., iii, 
62, pl. 157; Nurv., i, 2d. ed. 528: Pennsylvania; one specimen known, 
astanding puzzle to ornithologists, in the uncertainty whether it is a good 
species or merely an abnormal plumage of the last. . . . TOWNSENDU. 
80. Genus GONIAPHEA Bowditch. 
*,* Embracing large species, of beautiful and striking colors, the sexes dissimilar. 
t Bill extremely heavy, with the lower mandible as deep as the upper or deeper, the : 
r pay commissural angle strong, far in advance of the : 
i feathered base of the bill, the rietus overhung with a . 
j few long stiff bristles. Brilliant sonesters. ; 
Rose-breasted Grosbeak. Adult é with the 
head and neck all round and most of the upper 
parts black, the rump, upper tail coverts and 
under parts white, the breast and under wing 
coverts exquisite carmine or rose-red ; wings and 
tail black, variegated with white ; bill pale, feet 
dark. above, streaked with blackish and olive-brown or flaxen-brown, 
Mia, 92. Rose-breasted Grosbeak. 
ay me 
with median white coronal and superciliary line; below, white, more or less 
