V °.8 XVI 1 Ridgway, New Species of American Birds. £j 



A recent examination of extensive material, including specimens 

 from the type locality of Fringitta gambelii (Walla Walla, Wash- 

 ington) , has convinced me that Nuttall's bird was really the 

 interior form, although his description, mainly ambiguous, alone 

 would lead one, as it did me, to suppose that he had the darker of 

 the two forms in hand. His type was a fall bird, in the plumage 

 of the young in first winter, his reason for considering it a new 

 species being, apparently, that the corresponding plumage of Z. 

 leucophrys was unknown to him. It seems necessary, therefore, 

 to use the name Zonotrichia leucophrys gambelii, Gambel's Sparrow, 

 for the form which we have been calling Z. I. intermedia, Inter- 

 mediate Sparrow, and to give a new name to the coast form, 

 which may be called Z. 1. nuttalli, Nuttall's Sparrow, as above. 



Sicalis chapmani. Chapman's Golden Bunting. 



Sycalis minor (nee Cabanis) Chapman, Auk. VII, 1890, 268 (Santarem 

 etc.; crit). 



Somewhat like 6". arvensis but bill much larger, with more strongly 

 curved culmen, under parts much brighter yellow (bright lemon yellow) 

 and upper parts much more yellowish, even the back, in adult males, 

 being olive-yellow broadly streaked with blackish. Adult male : Wing 

 2.62-2.72; tail, 1. 80-1. 90 ; exposed culmen, 0.41 ; tarsus, 0.65-0.70. 



Type, No, 120835, U. S. Nat. Mus., $ ad., Diamantina, Lower Amazon, 

 June 25, 1S87; C. B. Riker. 



Range. — Lower Amazon Valley (Santarem, Diamantina, etc.). 



Spinus alleni. Allen's Goldfinch. 



Spinas yarrelli (nee Carduelis yarrclli Audubon) Allen, Bull. Am, 

 Mus. Nat. Hist. Ill, 1891, 375 (Chapada). 



Similar to 5 1 . capitalis (Cab.) but adult male with lower rump clear 

 yellow, under parts purer yellow, femoral region yellow (instead of white), 

 edges of tertials olive-yellow (instead of grayish), and size somewhat 

 less. Differing from 5. ictericus (Licht.) in much smaller size, narrower 

 wing-bands, and relatively less extent of yellowish on basal portion of tail, 

 the latter quite concealed by the coverts. Adult male: Wing, 2.58-2.65 

 (2.61); tail, 1.56-1.58 (1.57); exposed culmen, 0.40-0.41 ; depth of bill 

 at base, 0.30-0.31 ; tarsus, 0.51-0.53 (0.52) ; middle toe, 0.40-0.45 (0.42). 



Type, No. 3261S, $ ad., Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., Chapada, Matto Grosso, 

 Brazil, May 21, 18S3 ; H. II. Smith. 



Range. — Southwestern Brazil (Province of Matto Grosso). 



