go BREWSTER, Descriptions of New Birds. [April 
(concealed) inner webs; middle pair of tail feathers with broad, black, 
shaft stripes extending from base to tip; superciliary stripe and sides of 
neck grayish olive, streaked (finely and sparsely on the superciliary stripe. 
more sharply on the neck) with blackish; lores dusky; sides of head 
below the eye rusty olive; a well defined malar stripe and a broad band 
across the chest tawny buff; sides, flanks, anal region, and under tail- 
coverts lighter and duller buff; remainder of under parts white; throat, 
breast, sides, flanks, and under tail-coverts streaked sharply with black; 
the malar stripe bordered above by a short, black line, below separated 
from the white of the throat by a broader as well as longer stripe of nearly 
confluent black spots; there is also a very distinct black line extending 
about half an inch back from the posterior corner of the eye; bill dark 
horn color, lighter at base of lower mandible; tarsi and feet light brown. 
Wing, 2.35; tail, 2.23 inches. 
Q (No. 14.392, collection of W. Brewster, Comox, British Columbia, 
Sept. 8, 1888; E. H. Forbush). Differing from the male above described 
only in having the chestnut edging on the feathers of the crown a trifle 
broader, the olivaceous of the upper parts, especially of the superciliary 
stripe, stronger, the white of the throat tinged with buffy. Wing, 2.30; 
tail, 2.23 inches. 
Lincoln’s Finch has been repeatedly cited as a good example 
of a ‘hard and fast’ species, which, although of wide distribution, 
is not subject to geographical variation. The specimens above 
described, with another male taken at the same place and season, 
show, however, that it has not been able to resist the potent 
modifying influences of the Northwest Coast Region. These 
influences have worked in quite the usual way, deepening the 
normal ground coloring and broadening and intensifying the 
normal markings. ‘The differences are well marked and easily 
recognized. Indeed in a series of nearly one hundred specimens 
of Zézcoln¢ from various parts of North America and Mexico I 
have found only three which approach the new form at all 
closely. Two of them may be referable to it, one coming from 
the Victoria Mts., Lower California (L. Belding, Feb. 20, 1883), 
the other from the Kowak River, Alaska (July 20, 1885). The 
third bird is labelled simply ‘‘Missouri River, 1843.” If not a 
straggler from the Northwest Coast — by no means an impossi- 
bility — it represents a depth of coloring and coarseness of mark- 
ings at once extreme and exceptional in /zzcolnz verus. 
Euphonia godmani,* new species.—GODMAN’s EUPHONIA. 
Sp. CHar.—Most nearly like #&. menuta, but larger, the bill much 
*To Frederick DuCane Godman. 
