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ZOOLOGY— BIEDS. 



(Kansas; Colorado City).— CouES, Key N. A. Birds, 1872, 148.— Snow, Birds 

 Kan., 1871', 11.— Bd., Bkew., & Bidg., ST. A. Birds, ii, 1874, G5, pi. xxviii, 

 rigs. 11, 12. — ETENSHAW, Bep. Orn. Specs., 1873, Wheeler's Exped., 1871, 

 119.— Allen, Tree. Bost. Soc. Nat. Ilist., Juue, 1874, 17, 2D.— Coues, Birds 

 Northwest, 1874, 1<J4. 



The abundance of this bunting- in Texas has been attested by several 

 observers. It extends through New Mexico, where it was found by Dr. 

 Woodhouse, and reaches the extreme southeastern portion of Arizona, where 

 I have taken it the past two seasons. In 1873, I supposed it to be a mere 

 straggler in this section, as I saw but a single individual; but the past year 

 we found it occurring in small numbers, usually four or five together, asso- 

 ciated sometimes with other sparrows, in the canons and among the brush 

 of the rocky hill sides. 



No. 



8i n , 



458 



4. .11 



485 

 699 



Sex. 



9jun. 

 Qjim. 



<Jjun. 

 Jun. 



Locality. 



San Pedro, Ariz 



Sienega, Ariz 



Near Camp Crittenden 

 Ariz. 



do 



Camp Lowell, Ariz... 



Date 





Sept. 3, 



IS73 



Aug. 22, 



1874 



Aug. 23, 



1874 



Aug. 24, 



1874 



Sept. II, 



1874 



Collector. 



H. W. Henshaw. 



do 



J. M. Rutter 



H. W. Henshaw. 

 do 



Wing. 



3- iS 



2.95 

 3- 30 



3-°7 

 3. 00 



Tail. 



2.50 

 2.23 

 2.67 



2.4S 

 2-35 



Bill. 



0.55 

 o. 52 

 0.54 



0.54 

 0.54 



Tarsus. 



0.86 

 0.87 

 o. S5 



o. S4 

 o. 82 



HEDYMELES MELANOCEPHALUS (Swains.). 

 Black-headed Grosbeak. 



Guiraca melanocephala, Swains., Syn. Mex. Birds, Philos. Mag., i, 1827, 438. — Bd., Birds 

 N. A., 1858, 408.— Xantus, Proe. Acad. Nat, Sci. Phila., 1859, 102 (Fort 

 Tejon, Cal.).— Bd., Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1850, 304 (Cape Saint 

 Lucas).— Coop. & Suckl., P. R. R. Bep., xii, pt. ii, 1800, 21C— Hayd., 

 Trans. Am. Phil. Soc, xii, 1802, lb\S.— Coues, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 

 180*3, 88 (Fort Whipple, Ariz.). — Id., ib., 18G8, 84. — Cooper, Birds Cal., i, 

 1870, 228.— Snow, Birds Kan., 1872, 11. — Merriam, U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., 

 1S72, 683. 



Coccoborus melanoceplialus, IIeerm., P. R. R. Bep., x, pt. ii, 1S50, 51. 



Goniapkea mclanocephala, Henry, Proc, Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1850, 107 (New Mex- 

 ico). — Allen, Bull. Mus. Coiup. Zool., 1872, 178 (Middle Kansas; Colorado; 

 Ogdcu, Utah). — Coues, Key N. A. Birds, 1872, 149. — Allen, Proc. Post. 

 Soc Nat, Hist., June, 1S74, 15,17, 20.— Coues, Birds Northwest, 1874, 107. 



Iledymcles mclanocephalits, Bd., Brew., & Bidg., N. A. Birds, ii, 1.S74, 73, pi. 30, figs, 

 1. 2. — Yarrow, Pep. Orn. Specs., 1871, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, X>. — Yar- 



