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FKIKGlLLlDiE, FIKCIIES, ETC. GEN. 79, 80. 



the western plains, to tlie Eoekj' JMoiintains ; Cape St. Lueas. Aud., iii, 

 195, pi. 201 ; KuTT., 2d ed. 1, 303 ; Bu., 492 ; Coop., 225. . bicoloh. 



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79. Genus EUSPIZA Bonaparte. 



Blaclv-tliroafed BunUnrj. $ above grayish-brown, the middle of the back ^ 

 slieaked with black, the hind neck ashy, becoming ou the crown yellowish- 

 olive with black touches ; a yellow superciliary line, and maxillary touch of 

 the same ; eyelid white ; car coverts ashy like the cervix ; chin white ; throat 

 with a lai-ge jet-black patch ; under parts in general white, shaded on the 

 sides, extensively tinged wiih yellow on the breast and belly; edge of wing 

 yellow; lesser and middle coverts rich chestnut, other coverts and inner 

 secondaries edged with paler; bill dark horn blue, feet brown; 6i-7 ; 

 wing 3-1, shaip-pointed ; tail 22, cniarginale. 9 smaller ; above, like the $ , 

 but head and neck plainer; below, less tinged with yellow, the black throat 

 patch wanting and replaced by sparse sharp maxillary and pectoral streaks, 

 wing coverts not chestnut. An elegant species, of trim form, tasteful colors 

 and very smooth plumage, abundant in the fertile portions of the Eastern 

 U. S. ; N. to Connecticut Valley ; W. to Kansas and Nebraska. Wils., iii, 

 8G, pi. 3, f. 2 ; NuTT., i, 401 ; Aud., iii, 58, pi. 156 ; Bd., 494. Americana. 

 . ToicnsencVs Bunting. "Upper parts, head and neck all round, sides of 

 body and forepart of breast, slate-blue ; back and upper surface of wings 

 tinged with yellowish-l)rown ; interscapulars streaked wilh black; super- 

 ciliaiT and maxillary line, chin and throat and central line of under jiarts 

 from breast to crissum, white ; edge of wing, and gloss on breast and middle 

 of belly, yellow ; a black spotted line i'rom lower corner of lower mandible 

 down the side of the throat, connecting with a crescent of streaks in the 

 the upper edge of the slate portion of the breast." Bd., 495. Aud., iii, 

 62, pi. 157; NuTT., i, 2d. cd. 528. Penns^dvania ; one s[)ecinien known, 

 a standing puzzle to ornithologists, in the uncertainty whether it is a good 

 species or merely an abnormal plumage of the last. . . . townsendii. 



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80. Genus GONIAPHEA Bowditcli. 



*.-5* Embracing large species, of beautiful and striking colors, the sexes dissimilar. 

 Bill extremely heav_y, with the lower mandible as deep as the upi)er or deeper, the 



commissural angle strong, far in advance of the 

 feathered base of the bill, the rictus overhung with a 

 few long stiff bristles. Brilliant songsters. 



Rof<e-hreafited Grosbeak. Adult ^ with the 

 head and neck all round and most of the upper 

 parts black, the rump, upper tail cov^erts and 

 under parts white, the breast and under wing 

 coverts exquisite carmine or rose-red ; wings and 

 tail black, variegated with wdiito ; bill pale, feet 

 dark. 9 above, streaked with blackish and olive-brown or flaxen-brown, 

 with median white coronal and superciliary line; below, white, more or less 



Tig. 02. Rosc-treasted Girosl)e:ik. 



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