FRINGILLID.E — THE FIXCUKS. 



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(listinrt Llarkisli shafl-stripo, throwing' ofT narrow, obsolcto bars toward 

 the edge of the leathers. Outer tail-leathers (hstiiielly ti|>i)ed (l>roadly) 

 and edged with <hill white. Hlaek marks on upper tail-eoverts very 

 large, transverse. Beneath nearly unitorni dull white, searcely darker 

 along siiles and across breast; Hanks with broad streaks of blackish- 

 brown. Wing, 2.r,."j; tail, 2.S0; bill, .28 and .23; tarsus, .OS; niid-llc 

 toe, Ji-). Ilab. liio Grande, region (San Antonio and Laredo), north 

 to Kansas (Allkn). 



FeucsBa sestivalis, Cabants. 



BACHXAFB SPASBOW. 



FringWa (vstivaUs, Light. Verz. Doubl. 1823, 25, No. 254. — Bonap. Conspectus, 1850, 

 481. Pi'KCfca (cstivali^; Cabams, Mus. Hein. 1850. 132. — Raiiio, Birds N. Am. IS.'.S, 

 484. Frimjilla hachmuni, Aui). Orn. IJiog. II, 1834, 3t>>), pi. rlxv. AmhUHlromus 

 hackmani, Bon. List, 1838. Pcucucahachmani, Aui). Syn. 1839. — Ib. Birds Am. Ill, 

 1841, 113, pi. clxxvi. — Bon. Consp. 1850, 481 (type). FringUla astiva, Nrrr. I, (2d 

 ed.,) 1840, 568. '' Summer fnch, Latham, Synopsis, (2ded.,) VI, 136." Nuttall. 



Sp. Char. All the feathers of the upper parts rather dark brownish-red or chestnut, 

 margined with bluish-ash, which almost 

 forms a median stripe on the crown. Inter- 

 scapular region and uj»per tail-coverts with 

 the feathers becoming black in the centre. 

 An indistinct ashy suju'rciliary stripe. Lender 

 parts pale yellow-brownish, tinged with 

 ashy on the sides, and with darker brownish 

 across the upper part of the breast. A faint 

 maxillary dusky line. Indistinct streaks of 

 chestnut along the sides. Edge of wing 

 yellow ; lesser coverts tinged Avith greenish. 

 Innermost secondaries abruptly margined 

 with narrow whitish. Legs yellow. Bill 

 above dusky, j'cllowish beneath. Outer tail- 

 feathers obsoletely marked with a long blotch of paler at end. Female considerably 

 smaller. Young with rounded dusky specks on the jugulum, which is more ochraceous. 

 Length, 0.25 ; wing. 2..30 ; tail, 2.78. 



Hab. Georgia; Florida; South Illinois, breeding (Ridgway). (Perhaps whole of 

 Southern States from Florida to South Illinois.) 



Specimens from Southern Illinois (Wabash Co., July, 1871; coll. of R. 

 Ridgway) are similar to Florida examples. 



Habits. Bachman's Finch has only been known, until very recently, as 

 a species of a very restricted range, and confined within the limits of the 

 States of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. Our principal, and for some 

 time our only, knowledge of its habits was derived from the account fur- 

 nished by Rev. Dr. Bachman to Mr. Audubon. That observing naturalist first 

 met with it in the month of April, 1832, near Parker's Ferry, on the Edisto 

 River, in South Carolina. Dr. Henry Bryant afterwards met with this 

 species at Indian River, in Florida, where he obtained specimens of its nests 



Peurepa CFStivalis. 



