450 U. S. p. K. E. EXP, AND SURVEYS — ZOOLOGY — GENEEAL EEPORT. 



COTUENICULUS PASSEKINUS, B o n a p . 



Yellow-winged Sparrow. 



Fringilla passerina, Wilson, Am. Orn. Ill, 1811, 76 ; pi. xxvi, f. S.^iAuDnB. Orn. Biog. II, 1834, 180 : V, 497 ; 



pi. 130. 



Fringilla (Spiza) passerina, Bon. Obs. Wils. 1825, No. 111. 



Coturniculus passerina, Bonap. List, 1838. — Ib. Conspectus, 1850, 481. 



Emieriza passerina, Ann. Syn. 1839. — Ib. Birds Amer. Ill, 1841, 73 ; pi. 162. 



Frivgilla satiamarMm, (Gm.) Nuttall, Man. I, 1832, 494.— Ib. 2d ed. 1840, 570.— (Ab Gmelin, Syst. Nat. I, 1788, 



921.) » 



? .' Fringilla caudacula, Lath. Ind. Orn. I, 1790, 459.— Ndtt. Man. I, 1832, 505. 



? Passerina pratensis, Vieillot. 



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 Sp. Ch — Feathers of the upper parts brownish rufous, margined narrowly and abruptly with ash color ; reddest on the lower 



part of the back and rump ; the feathers all abruptly black in the central portion ; this color visible on the interscapular region 



where the rufous is more restricted. Crown blackish, with a central and superciliary stripe of yellowish tinged with brown, 



brightest in front of the eye. Bend of the wing bright yellow ; lesser coverts tinged with greenish yellow. Quills and tail 



feathers edged with whitish ; tertiaries much variegated. Lower parts brownish yellow, nearly white on the middle of the 



belly. The feathers of the upper breast and sides of the body with obsoletely darker centres. Length, about 5 inches ; wing, 



2.40 ; tail, 2. 



Hah, — Eastern United Stales to the High Central plains, (Loup Fork.) Also, along the valley of Gila and Colorado. 



The young of this species has the upper part of the breast streaked with hlack, much more 

 distinct than in the adult, and exhibiting a close resemblance to C. henslowi. 



Specimens from the far west have the reddish of the back considerably paler ; the light stripe 

 on the head, with scarcely any yellow ; a decided spot in front of the eye quite yellow. 



This species is not dissimilar in general appearance to Peucaea hachmani ; it is, however, 

 smaller, tail much shorter, &c. ; the marking also differs considerably. It is distinguished from 

 henslowi by the absence of distinct spots on the breast. 0. manimhe, of (South America, lacks 

 the red of the rump, and the median stripe on the head ; the sides of the head are more ashy ; 

 the breast is tinged with brownish ash, but there are no indications whatever of even obsolete 

 streaks. 



The Savannah finch, of Latham, II, 270, from Jamaica, (upon which Grmelin's Fringilla 

 savannarum is based,) answers in a general way, and may, possibly, be the same species, but in 

 the great uncertainty on the subject I do not follow Nuttall in adopting the name. The Frin- 

 gilla caudacuta, of Latham, also has some relationship to this species, but is equally indefinite. 



