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distinct Mankisli Kliafl-stripo, tlii'owinf;; o(T narrow, ohsoloto liars toward 

 the edge of the f'eathors. Outer tail-leatliors distinctly tipped (l)roadly) 

 and edged with dull white, lilack marks on upper tail-eoverts very 

 largo, transverse. Beneath nearl}' uuil'orni dull white, scarcely darker 

 along sides and across breast ; flanks with broad streaks of blaekish- 

 hrown. Wing, '>.'>') ; tail, 2.S0 ; bill, .28 an<l .23 ; tarsus, .08 ; middle 

 toe, .")"), Ilab. Km Grande, region (San Antonio and Laredo), north 

 to Kansas (Allen). 



Feucsea sestivalis, Cabants. 



BACHMAirS SFABBOW. 



FringiUa (vativaUs, LicilT. Verz. Douhl. 1823, 25, No. 254. — Bonai'. Consppctiis, 1850, 

 481. Pi-iiara (cslivalis, Cabanis, JIus. Iloin. 1850, 132. — Baiim), Birds N. Am. 1858, 

 484. Frinijilla bachmuni, Aun. Orn. I5iog. II, 18;14, 36(5, pi. elxv. Ammoilrovnis 

 hachmani, BoN. List, 1838. Pcuccca bachmani, Aun. Syii. 1839. — In. Birds Am. Ill, 

 1841, 113, 1)1. clx.xvi. — Bon. Consp. 1850, 481 (type). Frimjilln wsliva, Nirrr. I, (2d 

 od.,) 1840, 568. " Hummer finch, 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 njiper tail-coverts with 

 the feathers becoming black in the centre. 

 An indistinct a.shy snpiM'ciliary stripe. Under 

 parts pale yellow-brownish, tinged with 

 ashy on the sides, and with darker brownish 

 acro.ss the upper part of the breast. A faint 

 maxillary dusky line. Indistinct streaks of 

 chestnut along the sides. Edge of wing 

 j'ellow; lesser coverts tinged with greenish. 

 Imiermost secondaries abruptly margined 

 with narrow whitish. Legs yellow. Bill 



, , ,, . . , , r^ •! Pmririi irslivalis. 



above dusky, j'ellowish 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 oehraceous. 

 Length, 0.2.5 ; wing, 2.,30 ; tail, 2.78. 



Had. Georgia; Florida; South Illinois, breeding (Ridgwav). (Perhaps whole of 

 Southern States from Florida to South Illinois.) 



Specimens from Soutliein Illinois (Wiibasli Co., July, 1871; coll. of R 

 Ridgway) are similar to Florida examples. 



Habits. iJachman'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 ^Ir. Audubon. Tliat observing naturalist first 

 met with it in the month of A[)ril, 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 



