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ZOOLOGY— BIRDS. 



obtained a single specimen in July, and, I think, it doubtless breeds there, 

 but is probably rare, since this was the only individual seen. One specimen 

 was taken in Arizona in September ; this, so far as I am aware, being its 

 only recorded occurrence there. 



No. 



Sex. 



Locality. 



Date. 



Collector. 



Wing. 



Tail. 



Bill. 



Tarsus. 



■36 



73S 



9 ad. 

 $jun. 





July 20, 1S72 

 Sept. 1, 1S73 













Forty miles south of 

 Camp Apache, Ariz. 



11. W. Henshaw 



3.00 



3-45 



0.48 



0.86 



CALAMOSPJZA BICOLOR (Towns.). 



Lark Bunting:. 



Fringilla bicolor, Towns., Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pliila., vii, 1.S37, ISO. 



Calamospisa bicolor, Bd., Birds N. A., 1S5S, 492.— LI., Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pliila., 

 1859, 304 (Cape Saint Lucas).— Heerm., P.E.R. Rep., Parke's Route, 1859, 

 15.— Bd., IT. S. & Mex. Bound. Snrv., ii, pt. ii, 1859, Birds, 10.— Henry, 

 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pliila., 1859, 107 (New Mexico).— Uayd., Trans. Am. 

 Phil. Soc, xii, 1802, 107.— Uoues, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pliila., 1800, 84.— 

 Id., ib., 1808, 83.— Cooper, Birds Cal., i, 1870, 225.— Stev., U. S. Geol. 

 Surv. Terr., 1870, 405.— Allen, Bull. Mas. Comp. Zool., 1872, 177 (Middle 

 Kansas, etc.). — Coues, Key N. A. Birds, 1872, 147. — Snow, Birds Kan., 187-', 

 11.— Hold., Proc, Bost. Soc. Nat, Hist,, 1872, 201.— Bd., Brew., & Bidcl, 

 N. A. Birds, ii, 1874, 01, pi. xxix, figs. 2, 3. — Yarrow & Henshaw, Pep. 

 Orn. Specs., 1872, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 15. — Henshaw, An. Lye, Nat. 

 Hist. N. Y., xi, 1874, 6. — Id., An. List Birds Utah, 1872, Wheeler's Exped., 

 1874, 45. — Id., Rep. Orn. Specs., 1873, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 110. — Allen, 

 Proc. Best, Soc. Nat. Hist,, .June, 1874, 17, 28. — Cotjes, Birds Northwest, 

 1874, 103. 



Seen in Snake Valley, Nevada, by Dr. Yarrow, where it has not been 

 noted before. Not seen in Utah. Occurring- in small flocks near Denver, 

 May 22. 



A few in the worn breeding plumage were seen in the neighborhood 

 of Zufii, N. Mex., in July. Leaving here, the species was not again met 

 with until October, when they were found in large flocks in the San Pedro 

 and Gila Valleys, Arizona, They feed almost entirely at this season upon 

 the seeds of various grasses, and, when engaged in searching for these, show 

 little of the shyness attributed to them at other periods of the year. By the 



