extent S.OO-S.50: wing -2 ib-i-oQ : tail 5.00 or less, fhoner than wing, outstretched feet 

 reaehinff berond it : rt^nnded or rather double-roundt-d at end. the feathers narrow and lance- 

 olate. Bill Tery stout and full. lu autumn, fresh-nioulted birds are as usual richer iu color, 

 the markings more blended and diffuse, the fore pans below and the sides rich buffy brown, in 

 which Taeue lishter and darker markings usually appe;ir. Tonne: before the moult, are 

 whitish below, with decided dusky maxillary and piecttiral streaks, thus resembling C. hcn-floiri. 

 Eastern U. S. and Canada, but not far north; breeds throushout its r;inge : resident in the 

 Southern States, elsewhere a migrant and summer visitant. Abundant iu the rank herbage of 

 old lields. but less frequently i?bserved than it would be did it not hide so persistently in the 

 herbaire : h;is a peculiar chimng note, like a grasshopper's ; nests on the ground : eggs 4—5. 

 rryjt.il white, flecked with reddish-brown, (i.7'2 X U.64. 

 •i35. C. p. perpallidus. (Lat. perpallidus. verypiale.) Bleached Yellow-winged Spakeow. 

 Specimens from dry western regions are paler and grayer; less black and more slaty-gray 

 on the upper piarts. the ochrey crown strijje and edgings of the dorsal feathers, as well as the 

 under parts generally. p;iler. 



236. C. hen slOTvi. (Ti> Prof. J. S. Heuslow. of England.) Hf.xslow's Grasshcipper Sparrow. 

 S'juii: what resembbug a iiotoiy C. jjasserii'.ii.f. Under parts whitish, tinged strongly along the 

 whole sides, across the breast, and on the flanks and crissum with bull', all these but!" parts 

 sharply and distinctly streaked ivith blackish in fine piattern ; the p>ectoral streaks connecting 

 along the sides of neck with decided black maxillary srripies. The brownish-yellcjw shade is 

 very vmable in extent and intensity, but it usually leaves only the throat and belly decidedly 

 whirisli. iTrt.uud-cidor of head and hind neck a jx-culiar pale olive-gray, with a decided 

 greenish-yellow tinge : top of head with broad lateral blackish stripes, contiuued on the cervix 

 in much smaller piattem. divided by a greenish-browuish-yellow median strijie. The peculiar 

 color of the hind neck extending far around on sides of neck, and sides of head of much the 

 s;ime tint ; a blackish post-ocular stripe bounihng the auriculars above : below and anterior to 

 them a black maxillary strijie starting from the angle of the mouth ; below this usually other 

 maxillarv streaks : dark specks often behind auriculars. Dorsal and scapular feathers with 

 broad idack central field, then broadly chestnut, then mostly narrowly edged with whitish, 

 these markinss iu bold pattern, and contrasting with the pieculiar greenish-gray cenical region 

 with its fine black streaks. Edge of wing yellow. Greater wing-coverts and most of the 

 secondaries colored to ci.irTespond with the back, the closed wing showing chiefly chestuut with 

 the black field c-f the three innermost secondaries. Tail-feathers extremely narrow and acute, 

 brown, the inner at least with loug blackish shaft stripie. and reddish-bro\vn on inner webs. 

 Bill brownish, usually quite dusky above, pale below; feet piale. Length scarcely 5.00: 

 extent 7-50; wing and tail. each. -.0i>— i.lO; biU ft-oni extreme base of culmen O.io ; 0.30 deep 

 at base; tarsus or middle toe and claw 0.65. Eastern U. S.. strictly. X. to Xew Euclaud, 

 not vcrv c>.iuimouly ; W. to Xebraska. Xot abundant on the whole, nor easily observed. 

 Common about Washineton, where it breeds, in fields and meadows ; nest on the ground, in 

 tufts of arass. Eires i-5. greenish-white, profusely speckled with reddish, 0.75 X 0.57. 



237, C. lecon'tii. (To ^Maj. J. Le Coute. of Philadelphia.) Le Con'Te's Grasshopper Sparrow. 

 Le Conte's Bunting. <? 9 • adidt ; Bill smaller and slenderer than in either of the foregoing, 

 dark horn-blue above, paler bluish below ; iris black. Tail loug, decidetily exceeding the 

 winsrs when full grown, and remarkably graduated : lateral feathers i-i inch shorter than the 

 central pair : all extremely narrow, tapering, and acuminate, even more so than in the sharp- 

 tailed finch 'A)nmodramHS caudacuttls^ : outstretched feet not reaching to its end. Wings 

 short and much rounded : primaries in closed wing hardly J inch Lmger than secondaries. 

 Length i. 90-5. 10; extent (i. 90-7. 10; wing 1.90--2.00 ; tail 2.00-i.-J5 or a little more: bill 

 0.40 ; tarsus 0.(i7- Xo trace of yellow on bend of wing, nor any yellow loral spot. Xo black 

 m;!xillarv or pector.al streaks; markings of under parts confined to sparse, sharp, blackish 



