PASSERES—FRINGILLIDAE— PEUCAEA CASSINI. 



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the species of winch was left undetermined. It proves, however, to be the 

 young in the first plumage of this variety. 



Feathers above with dark-brown centers, and edged conspicuously with 

 fulvous ; brightest on the rump, where each feather is broadly tipped with 

 the same ; beneath pale ochraceous-yellow, becoming strong fulvous on the 

 flanks and under tail-coverts ; upper parts of breast and throat strongly and 

 sides less distinctly marked with longitudinal streaks of black; wing-coverts 

 edged and tipped with strong fulvous ; inner secondaries bordered with 

 same, but darker ; tail-feathers black, margined with dull rufous ; bend of 

 wing edged with light yellow ; bill above dark brown, paler beneath. 



No. 



Sex. 



Locality. 



Date. 



Collector. 



Wing. 



Tail. 



2.58 



2-77 

 2.S8 



Bill. 



Tarsus. 



87S 

 55S 

 559 

 560 



563 

 577 

 57S 

 579 

 5S0 



5Si 

 5 S2 

 (?) 

 605 

 720 



c?jun. 

 S ad. 

 9 ad. 

 Jun. 

 $ ad. 



3 ad. 



4 ad. 

 3 ad. 

 <?jun- 

 <?jun. 

 <?jun. 



(?) 

 $ ad. 

 3 ad. 



Camp Crittenden, Ariz. SeDt. 1. 187.1 



H. W, Henshaw 

 do 



2.50 



2-55 

 2.5S 



0.47 

 0.49 

 0. 50 



0.80 

 0.82 

 0.82 



do 



do 



.. do . 



do 



do 



do 



do 



do 





do 



2.34 



2-54 

 2.63 



2-55 

 2.45 

 2.54 

 2.36 

 2.29 



2-37 

 2. 50 



2-55 

 2. S5 

 2. 72 

 2.79 

 2.45 

 2. 70 



2-57 

 2. 62 



2-54 

 2.6S 



0. 50 

 0.4S 



°-54 

 0. 50 

 0.48 

 0. 50 

 0.4S 

 0.50 

 0.47 

 0. 50 



0.S2 

 0. So 

 0.84 

 0.83 

 0.79 

 0. S2 

 0.77 

 0. S3 

 0.79 

 0. 82 



Sent. 2. iS7i 



do 





do 



do 



do 



.. do . 



do 



do 



do 



do 



do 



do 



do 



do 



do 



do 



do 



do 



do 



do 



do 





Sept. 13, 1S74 



do 







PEUCAEA CASSINI (Woodh.). 

 €assin's Sparrow. 



Zonotrichia cassinii, Woorin., Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., vi, April, 1852, CO (San 

 Antonio, Tex.). 



Passerculus cassinii, Woodh., Sitgreave's Exp. Znni & Col. Riv., 1S54, 85, pi. 4. 



Peuccea cassini, B-D., Birds N. A., 1S5S, 485 (in part.) — Heerm., P. R. It. Rep., Parke's 

 Route, x, 1859, 12, pi. iv, f. 2.— Bd., U. S. & Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. ii, 

 1S59, Birds, 16.— Cooper, Birds Cal., i, 1870, 219.— Snow, Birds Kan., 1872, 

 11.— Bd., Brew., & Ridg., N. A. Birds, ii, 1874, 42, pi. 2S, f. 5.— Coues, 

 Birds Northwest, 1S74, 140. — Id., Check-List, app., No. 170 Ms. 



Peuccea aestivalis var. cassini, Allen, Bull. Mus. Couip. Zool.. 1872, 137 (Middle Kansas). 



There can, I think, be no cpiestion of the propriety of ranking this 

 sparrow as a valid species, not only from the difference of coloration, but 

 also the pattern of the markings, and the entire distinctness of its song and 



