APPENDIX. 



873 



COTJES KEY, 1884. 



208. iEgiothus linaria holboelli. 

 000. [Not admitted in the Key.] 



209. iEgiothus hornemanni. 



210. exilipes. 



211. Linota flavirostris brewsteri? 



212. Chrysomitris pinus. 



213. Astragalinus tristis. 



214. lawrencii. 



215. psaltria. 



216. psaltria avizonae. 



217. psaltria mexioanus. 



218. notatus. 



219. Plectrophanes nivalis. 



UNION LIST, 1886. 



52Sa. Acanthus linaria holboellii. 

 5286. linaria rostrata. 



527 hornemannii. 



527a. hornemannii exilipes. 



fl7. brewsterii. 



5-33. Spinus pinus. 

 529 tristis. 



531. lawrencei, 



530. psaltria. 



530o. psaltria arizon;B. 



5305. psaltria mexicanus. 



[532.] notatus. 



534. Plectropheaax nivalis. 



535. hyperboreus. 



219 6i's. Add: Plectrophanes hyperboreus. Polar Snowflake. McKay's Snow 

 Bunting. Adult ^ in spring: Pure white, excepting the tips of the wings, which are black 

 for about an inch and a half, and a small black spot on the end of the middle tail feather ; 

 bill dull brown, with blackish tip; feet black. In winter: washed with rusty brown on the 

 crown, ear-coverts, throat, and rump; the bill yellowish with dusky tip. Wing 4.65; tail 

 3.10; bill 0.45; tarsus 0.90. A beautiful "snowflake," apparently quite distinct from the 

 last, lately discovered in Alaska. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus., vii., 18S4, p. 68. 



229 iis. Add: Passerculus beldingi. Belding's Savanna Sparrow. " Similar to 

 the darker form of P. sandwichensis (i. e. bryanti), but much darker, with decidedly heavier 

 dark spotting on lower parts, the bill larger and more elongated." Salt marshes of the 

 Pacific coast, from Santa Barbara south to Todos Santos Island, Lower California. Accord- 

 ing to the A. O. U. Committee, what ornithologists have been calling " Passerculus anthinus" 

 includes two distinct forms, one of which is now called " Ammodramus sandivichensis bryanti," 

 and the other is this Passerculus beldingi. P. " bryanti " is described from San Francisco Bay, 

 as " differing from P. sandwichensis alaudinus in decidedly smaller size and much darker 

 coloration of the upper parts. There is little probability that such attempted discriminations 

 will survive the official etiquette of the present flutter in American Ornithology. 



230. Passerculus rostratus. 



231. guttatus. 



232. Pooecetes gramineus. 



233. gramineus confinis. 



234. Coturniculus passerinus. 



235. passerinus perpallidus. 



544. Ammodramus rostratus. 



544rt. rostratus guttatus. 



540. Poocfetes gramineus. 



540«. gramineus confinis. 



546. Ammodramus savannarum passerinus. 



546o. savannarum perpallidus. 



