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tion to which I had access, and as the bird was lost before reaching Washington city, its precise 

 position is undetermined. I find, however, on examining the birds in the Smithsonian collec- 

 tion, that it more nearly resembled the above named species than any other. Its description, 

 as written in my note-book, is as follows : "A faint buff-yellow median line, from the base of 

 bill to occiput. Head, throat, neck, back, and fore part of breast, yellow buff; paler beneath, 

 and with a faint tinge of ferruginous above ; coarsely streaked on the toj) of head, finely on 

 neck, throat, and breast, widely on the back, Avith central lines and spots of dusky. Two bars 

 of yellowish white on the wings, formed by the tips of the coverts. First primary edged with 

 whitish, secondaries edged with chestnut. Tail feathers pointed and dusky, their margins 

 faintly ferruginous. Breast posteriorly, belly, and lower tail coverts, white, tinged with yel- 

 lowish."— S. 



POOC^TES GRAMINEUS, Baird. 



Grass Flucli ; Bay-'vvluged Buutlug^. 



FrinffiUa graminea, GT.i.,Sjst. Nat. I, 1788, 922.— AuD. Orn. Biog. I, 1831, 473: V. 502; pi. UO. 



Emleriza graminea, Wilson, Am. Gin. IV, 1811, 51 ; pi. xxxi, f. 5. — Al'd. Syn. 1839, 102. — Ib. Birds Amer. 



Ill, 1841, G5; pi. 159. 

 Fringilla I Zonotrichia) graminea, Swainson, F. B. Am. II, 1831, 254. 

 Zonotrichia graminea, Bon. List, 1838. — Ib. Conspectus, 1850, 478. 

 Poocates gramineus, Baird, Gen. Rep. Birds, p. 447. 



Sp. Ch. — Tail feathere rather acute. Above light yellowish brown ; the feathers everywhere streaked abruptly with 

 dark brown, even on the sides of the neck, which are paler. Beneath, yellowish white ; on the breast and sides of neck 

 and body streaked with brown. A faint light superciliary and maxillary stripe ; the latter margined above and below with 

 dark brown ; the upper stripe continued around the ear coverts, which are darker than the brown color elsewhere. Wings, 

 with the shoulder, light chestnut brown, and with two dull whitish bands along the ends of the coverts ; the outer edge of 

 the secondaries also is white. Outer tail feather and edge and tip of the second white. Length, about C. 12 to 6. 75 ; 

 extent, 9. 50 ; wing, 3. 10. Iris, bill, and feet brown. 



Hob. — United States from Atlantic to the Pacific ; or else one species to the high central plains, and another from this to 

 the Pacific. 



The bay-winged sparrow is common in summer on the prairies of the interior, ai-riving in 

 April at Puget Sound, together with other species. — C. 



Rather abundant on the Nisqually plains, Puget Sound. — S. 



CHONDESTES GRAMMACA, Bonap. 



Lark Fiiicli. 



Fringilla grammaca, Sat, in Long's Exped. K. Mts. I, 1823. 139. — Bon. Am. Orn. I, 1825, 47 ; pi. v, f. 3. — 



AuD. Orn. Biog. V, 1S39, 17 ; pi. 390. 

 ChonJesles grammaca, Box. List, 1838. — Ib. Conspectus, 1850, 479. — Baird, Gen. Eep. Birds, p. 456. 

 Emberiza grammaca, Ai'D. Synopsis, 1839, 101. — Ib. Birds Amer. Ill, 1841, G3 ; pi. 158. 

 Glumdeslcs slrigutus, SwAixsox, Philos. Mag. I, 1827. 435. 



Sp. Ch. — Hood chestnut, tinged with black towards the forehead, and with a median stripe and superciliary stripe of dirty 

 whitish. Kcst of upper parts pale grayish brown, the interscapular region streaked with dark brown. Beneath white, a 

 round spot on the upper part of the breast. A maxillary stripe and a short line from the bill to the eye, continued faintly 

 bi'hind it, black. A white crescent under the eye, bordered below by black and behind by chestnut. Tail feathers dark 

 brown, tipped broadly with white. Length, G to 7. 12 inches; extent, 9. 75 to 11. 25; wing. 2. 75 to 3. 75. 



//aft.— From Wisconsin and the prairies of Illinois (also in Michigan ?1 to the Pacific coast ; south to Texas and Mexico. 



