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ZOOLOGY— BIRDS. 



the "round. I have never heard but a single style of call note, and this 

 differs in toto from that of the Eastern Towhee, bearing no resemblance to 

 the familiar and oft repeated chewink of that bird, but is so exactly like 

 the drawling 1 mew of our common Catbird as to readily deceive one. The 

 song is quite varied, now bearing little resemblance to the notes of erythro- 

 pJithalmus, and again being quite an exact imitation of the trilling love song 

 of this species. 



No. 



Sex. 



Locality. 



Date. 



Collector. 



Wing. 



Tail. 



Bill. 



Tarsus. 



I 12 

 IIO 



"3 



nS 



1 39 

 140 

 1 1 1 



$ ad. 



9 ad. 



9 ad. 

 9jun. 

 3 ad. 



9jun. 

 9 ad. 

 1 ml 





July 29, 1S72 

 . . do 



II. \\. Henshaw and 



Dr. II. C. Yarrow. 

 do 











.. do 











do 



do 



do 











do 



July 30, 1872 

 do .. 



.. do 











1I1. 



do 











do 



do 



do 











do 



Aug. 1, 1S72 



Sept. 26, 1S72 



. do 



do 











North Creek. Utah 



do 



. . do 











300A $ ad. 

 329 $ ad. 



459 9 

 11 



do - 









Toquerville, Utah 



Provo, Utah 



Oct. 24, 1S72 

 Nov. 30, 1872 



■ , 1S72 



May 6, 1871 



do 











do 











do ' 









2 



28 



44s 



3 ad. 

 $ ad. 

 S ad. 

 $ ad. 





11. W. Henshaw 



3-53 | 4-15 j o-56 



1.05 

 1. 10 

 1. 10 



1.05 



do 





do 



Fort Wingate, N. Mex 



July 16, 1S73 ' do 



3-48 

 3-& 



4.42 

 4.02 



o-55 

 0.58 



PiriLO FUSCUS, Swains., var. MESOLEUCUS, 13d. 



Canon Finch. 



Pipilo mesoleucus, Bd., Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., vii, June, 1854, 119 (Pocky Mount- 

 ains).— Id., Birds N. A., 1858, 518, pi. xxix.— Id., U. S. & Mex. Bound. Surv., 

 ii, ]>t. ii, 1850, Birds, 18.— Heerm., P. R. P. Rep., Parke's Route, x, 185!), 

 15. — Kenneely, P. R. R. Rep., Whipple's Route, x, 1850, 30, pi. xxix. — 

 Henry, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, 107 (New Mexico).— Coues, 

 Proc. Acad. Nat, Sci. Phila., 1866, 90.— Id., ib., 1868, 84.— Id., Am. Nat., vii, 

 1873, 324. 



1'ipilo fuscus, Coues, Key N. A. Birds, 1872, 152. 



Pipilo fuscus var. mesoleucus, Be, Brew., & Ridg., N. A. Birds, ii, 1874, 125, pi. xxxi, 

 f. 10.— Henshaw, Rep. Orn. Specs., 1873, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 120. 



I did not detect this species on the Gila, where Abert's Finch was very 

 numerous. "When nearing Camp Grant, Ariz., my attention was attracted 

 bv hearing 1 notes issuing 1 from a thicket on the sides of a rocky canon, which 



