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tion to which I had access, and as the bird was lost before reaching Washington city its precise 

 position is undetermined. I find, however, on examining the birds in the Smithsonian collec 

 tion, that it more nearly resembled the above-named species than any other. Its description, 

 as written in my note-book, is as follows: &quot;A faint buff-yellow median line from the base of 

 bill to occiput. Head, throat, neck, back, and fore part of breast, yellow buff; paler beneath, 

 and with a faint tinge of ferruginous above; coarsely streaked on the top of head, finely on neck, 

 throat, and breast, widely on the back, with central lines and spots of dusky. Two bars of 

 yellowish white on the wings, formed by the tips of the coverts. First primary edged with 

 whitish, secondaries edged with chestnut. Tail feathers pointed and dusky, their margins 

 faintly ferruginous. Breast posteriorly, belly, and lower tail coverts, white, tinged with yel 

 lowish.&quot; S. 



POOC^ETES GRAMINEUS, Baird. 



Grass Finch; Bay-winged Bunting. 



Fringilla graminea, GM., Syst. Nat. I, 1788, 922. AUD. Orn. Biog. I, 1831, 473: V, 502; pi. 90. 



Emberiza graminea, WILSON, Am. Orn. IV, 1811, 51; pi. xxxi, f. 5. AUD. Syn. 1839, 102. IB. Birds Amer. Ill, 



1841,65; pi. 159. 



Fringilla (Zonotrichia) graminea, SWAINSON, F. B. Am. II, 1831, 254. 

 Zonolnchia graminea, BON. List, 1838. IB. Conspectus, 1850, 478. 

 Pooccetes gramineus, BAIRD, Gen. Rep. Birds, p. 447. 



SP. CH. Tail feathers rather acute. Above light yellowish brown; the feathers everywhere streaked abruptly with dark 

 brown, even on the sides of the neck, which are paler. Beneath yellowish white ; on the breast and sides of neck and body 

 streaked with brown. A faint light superciliary and maxillary stripe; the latter margined above and below with dark brown; 

 the upper stripe continued around the ear coverts, which are darker than the brown color elsewhere. Wings, with the shoulder, 

 light chestnut brown, and with two dull whitish bands along the ends of the coverts ; the outer edge of the secondaries also is 

 white. Outer tail feather and edge and tip of the second white. Length about 6. 12 to 6. 75 ; extent, 9. 50 ; wing, 3. 10. Iris, 

 bill, and feet brown. 



Hab. United States from Atlantic to the Pacific ; or else one species to the high central plains, and another from this to 

 the Pacific. 



The bay-winged sparrow is common in summer on the prairies of the interior, arriving in 

 April at Puget Sound, together with other species. C. 



Rather abundant on the Nisqually plains, Puget Sound. S. 



CHONDESTES GRAMMACA, Bonap. 



Lark Finch. 



Fringilla grammaca, SAY, in Long s Exped. R. Mts. I, 1823, 139. BON. Am. Orn. I, 1825, 47 ; pi. v, f. 3 AUD. Orn. 



Biog. V, 1839, 17 ; pi. 390. 



Chondestes grammaca, BON. List, 1838. IB. Conspectus, 1850, 479. BAIRD, Gen. Rep. Birds, p. 456. 

 Emberiza grammaca, AUD. Synopsis, 1839, 101. IB. Birds Amer. Ill, 1841, 63; pi. 158. 

 Chondestes strigatm, SWAINSOX, Philos. Mag. I, 1827, 435. 



SP. CH. Hood chestnut, tinged with black towards the forehead, and with a median stripe and superciliary stripe of dirty 

 whitish. Rest of upper parts pale grayish brown, the interscapular region streaked with dark brown. Beneath white, a round 

 spot on the upper part of the breast. A maxillary stripe and a short line from the bill to the eye, continued faintly behind it, 

 black. A white crescent under the eye, bordered below by black and behind by chestnut. Tail feathers dark brown, tipped 

 broadly with white. Length, 6 to 7. 12 inches; extent, 9. 75 to 11. 25; wing, 2. 75 to 3. 75. 



Hab. From Wisconsin and the prairies of Illinois (also in Michigan ?) to the Pacific coast; south to Texas and Mexico. 



