426 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



streaked with black; wing about 2.80, tail 3.20-3.40. Hob. 

 Southern Mexico (Vera Cruz, Puebla, etc.). 



A. mystacalis (HAKTL.). Hartlaub's Sparrow. 1 



d*. Eump slate-gray; lesser wing-coverts slate-gray. Adult: Sides 

 of chin and throat and spot on chest black, enclosing a white 

 stripe ; top of head, lores, cheeks, and ear-coverts dull brownish 

 slate ; sides and flanks slate-gray, middle of breast and belly 

 white ; under tail-coverts plumbeous, tipped with white ; wing 

 2.75, tail 2.70, culmen .48, tarsus .80, middle toe .58. Hab. 

 Mexico. 



A. quinquestriata (ScL. & SALV.) Five-striped Sparrow." 

 c 2 . Lesser wing-coverts cinnamon-rufous. 



Rump and sides brownish. Adult : Malar stripe, supraloral spot, 

 and broad patch on chin and throat, white ; sides of chin and 

 throat, and very broad collar across chest (widest laterally), 

 black; wing 2.50-2.70, tail 3.00-3.30, culmen .50, tarsus .85, 

 middle toe .60. Hab. Southern Mexico (Puebla). 



A. humeralis (CAB.). Ferrari-Perez's Sparrow. 3 



6*. Sides streaked with grayish or dusky ; wing without white bands. (Adult : 

 Supraloral spot, orbital ring, broad malar stripe, chin, throat, and lower 

 parts generally, white ; more or less distinct stripe, or series of streaks, 

 along each side of throat, and spot on middle of chest, dusky or gray- 

 ish ; sides and flanks pale brownish, or tinged with brownish, and 

 streaked with darker. Young: Upper parts light grayish brown, 

 streaked with dusky ; chest distinctly streaked with dark grayish ; 

 wing-coverts tipped with dull buify whitish, or pale buff, producing two 

 tolerably distinct bands ; otherwise, much like adult.) 

 c 1 . Above dark hair-brown (grayer on head and neck), the back usually 

 without distinct streaks ; sides of throat marked with a broad, con- 

 tinuous stripe of blackish ; sides and flanks light brown ; length 

 about 5.50-5.75. Male : Wing 2.51-2.80 (2.64), tail 2.60-2.95 (2.77). 

 Female: Wing 2.40-2.55 (2.50), tail 2.55-2.90 (2.77). Hab. Cali- 

 fornia, south to Capo St. Lucas. 



574. A. belli (CASS.). Bell's Sparrow. 



c*. Above light grayish brown, tinged with ash-gray, the back usually 

 very distinctly streaked with dusky ; sides of throat marked with 

 a series of narrow dusky grayish streaks, but no continuous stripe ; 

 sides and flanks very faintly tinged with light brown ; length 6.00- 

 7.00. Male : Wing 2.95-3.20 (3.09), tail 2.75-3.20 (2.96). Female : 

 Wing 2.90-3.10 (2.97), tail 2.75-3.07 (2.92). Nest on ground, beneath 



1 Zonotrichia myttacalit HARTL., Rev. Zool. Jan. 1852, 3. 



8 Zonotrichia quinquettriata Set. A SALV., P. Z. S. 1868, 323. Amphwpiza quinquettriata RIDGW., Ibis, 

 Oct. 1883, 400. 



* Hiemophila humeralit CAB., Mus. Hein. i. 1850, 132. Amphispiza ferrariperezi RIDGW., Auk, iii. July, 

 1386, 332. 



