

PASSERCULUS. COTURNICULUS. 



almost devoid of gloss. The ground-colour is greenish-white or 

 sometimes creamy-unite, densely mottled, speckled and blotched 

 with various shades of reddish-brown and palo underlying lavender- 

 givy. SjM'cimens measure from '74 to '85 in length, and from *55 

 to -61 in breadth. 



1. North America. Old Collection. 



I. North America. Sal vin-Godman Coll. 



.'!. North America {Henshaw Col 1.}. Sal vin-Godman Coll. 



4. North America (Smiths. Inst.). Salvin-Oodnian Coll. 



6. Rhode Island, U. S. America. 2nd W. Undclilfe Sauaders, Esq. 

 June. [P.]. 



Passerculus alaudinus (Bonap.}. 

 (Plate XII. fig. 8.) 



Passerculus savanna, var. alaudinus, Baird, Brewer 8f Ridgw. N. Amer 



Birds, i. p. 537 (1874). 

 Ammodramus sandwichensis alaudinus, Nelson, Rep. Nat. Hist. Alaska, 



p. 187 (1887). 

 Passerculus sandwichensis, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. p. 674 (1888) 



[part.]. 

 Passerculus sandwichensis alaudinus, Ridgw. Birds North 8f Middle 



Amer. i. p. 194 (1901). 

 Passerculus alaudinus, Sharpe, Hand-L v. p. 290 (1909). 



Eggs of the Western Savanna Sparrow resemble those of 

 P. savanna, but some clutches are more boldly marked with larger 

 blotches of reddish-brown, and others are spotted and scratched 

 with deep purplish-brown. They measure from '7 to '79 in length, 

 and from -53 to *6 in breadth. 



5. St. Michael's, Alaska, 16th June. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(E. W. Nelson: Henshaw Coll.}. 



5. St. Michael's (E. W. N. : Henshaw Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Coll.}. 



2. Yukon River, Alaska, 9th June Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(J. Lofkhart: Smith*. Inst.). 



5. Salt Lake City, Utah, loth June. W. Radclifle Saunders, Esq. 



[P.], 



Genus COTURNICITLUS, Bonap. 



Coturniculus passerinus (Wilson). 



(Plate XII. figs. 15, 19.) 



Coturniculus passerinus, Baird. Brewer fy Ridgw. N. Amer. Birds, \. 



p. f)53 (1874) [part.] ; Salv. $ Godm. Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, i. 



p. 384 (1886) [part.]; Sharpe, Hnnd-l v. p. 292 (1909). 

 Ammodmmus savaunarum, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. p. 687 (1888) 



[part.l; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml p. 116 (1899). 

 Coturniculus savannarum passerinus, Ridgw. Birds North fy Middle 



Amer. i. p. 207 (1901). 



