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on the east to the Humboldt Mountains, and on the southeast to the Mojave 

 River, and into Western Arizona, as shown by a single specimen from that 



region collected by Mr. Bischoff. 



No. 



Sex. 



Locality. 



Date. 



Collector. 



Wing. 



Tail. 



Bill. 



Tarsus. 





Ad. 





Sept. S, 1S71 



F. Bischoff 























MELOSPIZA LINCOLN! (Aud.). 

 Lincoln's Finch. 



Fringilla lincolnii, Aud., Orn. Biog., ii, 1834, 539, pi. cxciii. 



Zonotrichia lincolnii, Woodh., Sitgreave's Exp. Zufii & Col. Riv., 1854, 85. 



Melospysa lincolni, Bd., Birds N. A., 185S, 483. — Id., U. S. & Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, 

 pt, ii, 1850, Birds, 10.— Coues, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1SG0, 88 (Ari- 

 zona, Kennerly). — Xantus, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, 192 (Port 

 Tejon, Gal.).— Kennerly, P. R. R. Rep., Whipple's Route, 1859, 29.— 

 Hayd., Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. xii, 1862, 107.— Cooper, Birds Cal., i, 1S70, 

 210.— Stev., U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., 1870, 405.— Allen, Bull. Mus. Couip. 

 Zool., 1872, 177. — Coues, Key N. A. Birds, 1872, 138. — Snow, Birds Kau., 

 1872, 10.— Hold., Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., 1872, 200.— Bd., Brew., & 

 Ridg., N. A. Birds, ii, 1874, 31, pi. 27, f. 13. — Yarrow & Henshaw," Rep. 

 Orn. Specs., 1872, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 14. — Henshaw, An. Lye. Nat. 

 Hist. N. Y., xi, 1871, 0.— Id., An. List Birds Utah, 1872, Wheeler's Exped., 

 1874, 44.— Id., Rep. Orn. Specs., 1873, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 03, 81, 

 117. — Coues, Birds Northwest, 1S74, 135. 



Peuccea lincolnii, Bd., Stans. Rep. Exp. Great Salt Lake, 1S52, 317. — Heerjl, P. R. 

 R. Rep., x, pt. ii, 1859, 49. 



Lincoln's Sparrow appears to extend in its migrations across the 

 continent from east to west ; occurring even in Massachusetts regularly in 

 spring and fall, though it is epiite rare. In the West, however, at these 

 seasons, its numbers are very great ; in many localities outnumbering all 

 the other sparrows. Near Denver, a few were present the first days of May; 

 and probably the species had been making its way north for some time, 

 individuals stopping now and then as they reached favorable localities, or 

 till the weather became milder in advance. By the 17th, they were arriving 

 daily in throngs, every clump of bushes and grove of trees containing num- 

 bers. Having sought out such sheltered favorable localities, they spent the 

 days in resting and satisfying their hunger, and as night came on pursued 



