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quently in company with nivalis, but not so common. Nutt., i, 463; 

 AuD., ill, 50, pi. 152; Bo., 433 lapponicus. 



Painted Larh Bunting. Adult <J : cervical collar and entire under parts 

 rich buffy brown or dark fawn ; crown and sides of head black, bounded 

 below by a white line, and interrupted by white superciliary and auricular 

 line and white occipital spot ; upper parts streaked with black and brownish 

 yellow ; lesser and middle wing coverts black, tipped with white forming 

 conspicuous patches ; one or two outer tail feathers mostly white ; no white 

 on the rest; legs pale. Size of lajponicus : seasonal and sexual changes of 

 plumage correspondent. British America into United States in the interior; 

 not common with us. Nutt., ii, 589; Aud., iii, 52, pi. 153; vii, 337, 

 pi. 487 (smitkii) ; Bd., 484 pictus. 



Chestnut-collared Lark Bunting. Adult $ : a chestnut cervical collar, 

 as in lapjjonicus, and upper parts streaked much as in that species, but 

 ijrayer ; nearly all the under parts continuously black, the throat yellowish ; 

 lower belly and crissum only whitish ; in high plumage the black of the 

 under parts is more or less mixed with intense ferrugineous, and sometimes 

 this rich sienna color becomes continuous ; crown and sides of head black, 

 interrupted with white auricular and postocular stripes, and in high plumage 

 with a white occipital spot ; lesser wing coverts black or brownish-black ; 

 outer tail feathers mostly or entirolj^ white, and all the rest largely white 

 from the base — a character that distinguishes the species in any plumage 

 from the two preceding ; legs not black ; $ Avith or without traces of the 

 cervical collar ; croAvn exactly like the back, generally no black on head or 

 under parts ; below whitish, Avith slight dusky maxillary and pectoral streaks 

 and sometimes the whole breast black, edged with grayish. Immature males 

 have the lesser Aving coverts like the back ; but they show the black of the 

 breast, veiled Avith gray tips of the featliers, lo]ig before any black appears 

 on the head. Size less than in the foregoing. 5J-6 ; Aving 3-3;^ ; tail 2—2^. 

 IMissouri Region, Kansas, and AvcstAA^ard ; S. to the Table-lands of Mexico. 

 Aud., iii, 53, pi. 154; Nutt., 2d ed. 1, 539; Bd., 435. P. melanomus 

 Bd., 436, appears to be merely a high plumage, perhaps not always assumed 

 by northerly birds ORNatus. 



* * * Bill large, turgid, unrufFed ; hind claw as before, but shorter ; sexes dissim- 

 ilar ; no cervical collar ; outer tail feathers white, the rest, except the middle pair, 

 white on the inner webs to near the tip, the line of demarcation running straight 

 across. (lihyncJwphanes.) 



Maccoions Bunting. Adult $ : crown and a broad pectoral crescent 

 black ; superciliary line and under parts wliite ; bend of Aving chestnut ; 

 above, streaked with blackish and yelloAvish-brown. Size of the last, or 

 rather larger ; 6-6J ; wing 3i| ; tail 2^-2 J ; bill nearly J inch long. The? 

 lacks the black and chestnut, but in any plumage the species may be known 

 by the peculiar markings of the tail feathers, the white areas being cut 

 squarely off, except in the outer pair, which are wholly white. Plains to the 

 Rocky Mountains, U. S., rather northern; breeds abundantly about Chey- 



