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(57.) Page 387, under C. vespertina: 
C. vespertinus, as described on page 387, comprises two forms, which can be 
distinguished with certainty only when females are compared. They differ as 
follows: 
c. Adult female with prevailing color ashy, or only slightly brownish, gray. 
Hab. Interior of British America, southward, in winter, to the upper 
Mississippi Valley and basin of the Great Lakes. 
514. C. vespertinus (Cooper). Evening Grosbeak. 
c’, Adult female with prevailing color buffy or yellowish brown. Hab. Western 
United States and highlands of Mexico, from British Columbia (coast 
district) to Vera Cruz. 
514a. C. vespertinus montanus (Ripvew.). Western Evening Grosbeak.’ 
(58.) Page 398, S. tristis: 
This includes two forms, the southwestern of which has been separated as 
529a. Spinus tristis pallidus Mzarns. Western Goldfinch.? 
Similar to S. tristis, but larger and paler; male in full plumage with black 
cap more extended, the yellow paler, and the white markings of wings and tail 
more extended; winter plumage with coloration much lighter thau the corre- 
sponding dress of S. tristis, with tints purer and white more extended. Hab. 
Arizona (perhaps whole of the arid region). 
(59.) Page 407, after P. gramineus confinis: 
540. Poocztes gramineus affinis MILLER. Oregon Vesper Sparrow: 
“Similar to Poocetes gramineus confinis Barry in respect to the slender bill 
and narrow dark dorsal streakings, but differing in being smaller and having 
the ground color above buffy brown rather than grayish brown. All the lighter 
areas of the plumage (including crissum, under wing-coverts and lining of 
wings) suffused with pinkish buff. 
“ Dimensions (average of eight adults): wing, 3.04; tail, 2.46; tarsus, 0.79; 
culmen, 0.46; bill from nostril, 0.31 inch. 
“ Hab. Western Oregon.” 
(60.) Page 412, after A. henslowii: 
547a. Ammodramus henslowii occidentalis Brewsr. 
Western Henslow’s Sparrow.’ 
“Similar to A. henslowii but the general coloring paler above and whiter 
beneath, the back and scapulars with broader black streaking and much less 
1 Heaperiphona vespertina, var. montana Ripeway, in Hist. N. Am. B. i. 1874, 449.—Coccothraustes ves- 
pertina montana Mearns, Auk, vii. July, 1890, 246, 
2 Spinus tristis pallidus Mearns, Auk, vii. July, 1890, 244. 
3 Poocxtes gramineus afinis MiuuER, Auk, v. Oct. 1888, 404, 
4 Ammodramus henslowti occidentalis Brewst., Descr. Seven Sup. New N. Am. B. Feb. 17, 1891, 145; 
Auk, viii. April, 1891, 145. 
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