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almost devoid of gloss. The ground-colour is greenish-white or 

 sometimes creamy-white, densely mottled, speckled and blotched 

 with various shades of reddish-brown and pale underlying lavender- 

 grey. Specimens measure from -74 to '85 in length, and from '55 

 to -Gl in breadth. 



1. North America. Old Collection. 



1. North America. Salvin-Godman CoU. 

 li. North America {Heinshmo Coll.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



4. North America {Smiths. Inst.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



5. Rhode Island, U. S. America, 2iid W. Rfidclilfe Sauaders, Esq. 



June. ■ [P.]. 



Passerculus alaudinus (Bonap.). 

 (Plate XII. fig. 8.) 



Passerculus savanna, var. alaudinus, Baird, Brewer Sf Midgw. N. Amer 



Birds, i. p. 537 (1874). 

 Ammodramus sandwichensis alaudinus, Nelson, Sep. Nat. Hist. Alaska, 



p. 187 (1887). 

 Passerculus sandwichensis. Sharps, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. p. 674 (1888) 



[part.]. 

 Passerculus sandwichensis alaudinus, Ridgw. Birds North Sr Middle 



Amer. i. p. 194 (1901). 

 Passerculus alaudinus, Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 290 (1909). 



Eggs of the Western Savanna Sparrow resemble those of 

 P. savanna, but some clutches are more boldly marked with larger 

 blotches of reddish-brown, and others are spotted and scratched 

 with deep purplish-brown. They measure from -7 to -79 in length, 

 and from ''SS to "6 in breadth. 



5. St. Michael's, Alaska, 16th June Salvin-Godman Ooll. 



(E. W. Nelson: Henshaw Coll.). 

 5. St. Michael's {E. W. N. : Henshaw Salvin-Godman Coll. 



CollX 



2. Yukon River, Alaska, 9th June Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(/. Lockhart: Smiths. Inst.). 

 5 Salt Lake City, Utah, loth June. W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



[P.], ■ 



Genus COTURNICULUS, Bonap. 



CotxirnicTilus passerinus (Wilson). 



(Plate XII. figs. 15, 19.) 



Cotumiculus passerinus, Baird. Brewer ^ Ridgw. N. Amer. Birds, i. 



p. 553 (1874) [partj ; Salv. Sr Godm. Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, i. 



p. 384(1886) [part.]; Sharpe, Hnnd-l. v. p. 292 (1909). 

 Ammodromus savaunarum, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. p. 687 (1888) 



[part.l ; Nehrh. Eat. Eiersamml. p. 116 (1899). 

 Cotumiculus savannarum passerinus, Ridgw. Birds North ^ Middle 



Amer. i. p. 207 (1901). 



