FRIXr, ILLID.E — THE FINCHES. 



515 



Tlie only authenticated nest ami eg<4S (10,4*53) in tlie Smithsonian collec- 

 tion were received lr(jni Mr. 11. MacFarlane, with the ])art'nt, taken on the 

 Arctic coast east ol" Foit Anderson, and having- on the lahel, '* Nest situated 

 in a cave in a sand-l»ank." Tlie nest is (k'eply saucer-shaped, and composed 

 of wiry •,'rass-stenis, with a few t'eatliers in the lininj^s external diameter 

 3.75 inches, internal altout :'..()() ; depth, 2.50 externally and 1.5U internally. 

 The egi^s, five in number, are of ;i dull wliite, witli perhaps a faint bluish 

 cast, sprinkled and spattered with dilute yellowisli-rufous, the markinus most 

 numerous toward the larger end ; tliey measure .U5 of an inch in length by .64 

 in breadtli. 



Flectrophanes lapponicus, Si lby. 



LAFIANI) LONGSFTTR. 



**Frin(jina hipponica, LiNX. Fauna Siici.;!, I7til, .<]>. -io.')." — In. Syst. Xat. I, 1766, 317. 

 FoKSTEU, Phil. Trans. LXII, 1772, lot. Emhrrizd {Plrrtri^phnirs) hijrjinnica, Sw. 

 F. B. Am. II, 1831, 248, pi. xlviii. Euibn-hn lopfmiior. Am. Oni. liiog. IV, 1838, 

 473, j)l. 365. Phcfr(>j)haneslHjij/n)iirif.<i, "SKi.nv,"' Bon. List, lcS38. — Aud. Syn. 1S39, 

 98. — Ib. Birds Am. Ill, 1S41, ,">(», \>l 1.'.2. - B.uitn, Birds N. Am. 18.^>8, 433.— 

 DAIL& Bannister, Tr. Ch. A. S. 1, !>•;!', 2n3 (Ala.sk:iK Coupki:, Oni. t'al. I, 178. 

 — Sami'kls, 300. ** Ce)ifrophi(iie< htpjiDiilctis, Kaii', Kiitw. «;,'.srlj. Kinojic Thierw. 

 1829." — Caijanis, Mils. Hein. 18.^1, 127. '' Frliiijilhi ohumtu. Pall. Itin. 710, 

 sp. 20," French od. Ill, 1793, 46-i, pi. i. Ontrnp/umes calairatics, Guay, List 

 Gen. 1841, App. 1842, 11. 



Sp. Chai; Mj7'\ Head all round, and neck black, extendin<j: on the jiiirnlum in a 

 crescentic patch ; ^ broad line fn^n above ami behind the eye, sides of neck, a patch 

 in the black of hind head, and whole under part.-*, white ; the .'jides of body streaked 

 broadly with black. A broad halt- collar of <lu'stinit on back of neck, .separated from 

 the hood narrowly, and from the aui-iculars and throat broadly, by the white stripe from 

 the eye. Above brownish-black, the feathers shari)ly edijed with brownish-yellow. Outer 

 tail-fi>athers white, except tLj ba.sal ]iortion of inner web, and a shaft streak at en<l ; 

 next feather with a white streak in end, rest !>la»'k. Le,u< black : bill yehow, tipi>ed with 

 black. In winter nhnnaae the black an<l ether markings overlaid by rusty and fulvous; 

 l>eneath by whitish. Femah witii the black feath- 

 eis of head eddjed with yeriowish-rusiy ; the throat 

 white, bordered on the sides and beliihd by blacki.«:h; 

 feathers edited with irrayish-whitf, the rufous of nape 

 olKseure, and .streaked with blackisli. Len.uth .jf male, 

 (5.2"); win ir, -'^.nO, tail, L>..^0. 



ITaij. Xortli«'rn portions o^ the Old and the New 

 Wftild ; breedim; in an.-tic and subarctic rcijions, and 

 in winter descendincj .soutliAvard, as far at least as New York, Southern Illinois, and Fort 

 Garland, New Mexico. 



Autuumal s]^ecimens, of both sexes, di^ier in having the pattern of colora- 

 tion obscured by ochraceous borders to the feathers, and a general rusty cast 

 to the plumage. 



There appears to be no dill'erence between North American and European 

 sj)ecimens of this bird. 



