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webs of rectrices broadly white at tips; length (skins), 165.10-190.50 

 (176.28); wing, 105. -11-112.52 (108.46); tail, 62.74-70.61 (66.04); cul. 

 men, 15.75-20.32 (1S.54); depth of bill at base, 15.24-17.27 (15.75); 

 width of mandible at" base, 13.21-14.73 (13.97); tarsus, 20.32-22.86 

 (20.83); middle toe. 17.27-19.05 (17.78).' 



Young. — Similar to adult female, but colors much duller and more 

 brownish, with markings less sharply defined; duskj^ submalar streak 

 less distinct, sometimes obsolete; under parts paler and more buffy, 

 with little if anj' gray; bill dull horn color or brownish. 



Interior districts of North America east of Rocky Mountains; north 

 (in winter) to the Saskatchewan; south, in winter, more or less irreg- 

 ularly, to Kansas,' Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Ohio, etc.; eastward, 

 irregularly and in winter onlj% to Ontario, New York, and New Eng- 

 land. (Breeding range unknown.) 



Pringilla vespertina Cooper (W. ), Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., i, pt. ii, 1825,220 

 (Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan).— Bonaparte, Am. Orn., ii, 1828, 75, pi. 15, fig. 

 1; Ann. Nat. His. Lye. N. Y. ii, 1828, 113; Zool. Journ., iv, pt. ii, 1828, 2.— 

 NuTTALL, Man. Orn. U. S. and Canad., i, 1832, 526. — Audubon, Orn. Biog., iv, 

 1838, 515; v, 1839, 235, pLs. 373, 374. 



Coccothraustes vespertina Swainson and Richardson, Fauna Bor.-Am., ii, 1831, 

 269, pi. 68 (Saskatchewan and shores of Lake Superior in summer). — Jar- 

 dine, ed. Wilson's Am. Orn.,iii, 1832, 432, pi. 15, fig. 1. — Bonaparte, Geog. and 

 Comp. List, 1838, 30.— Audubon, Birds Am., oet. ed., iii, 1841, 217, pi. 207.— 

 Cottle, Canad. Journ., iii, 1855, 287 (historical and descriptive). — American 

 Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 514, part. — Thompson, Auk, iv, 

 1887,256 (Toronto, Ontario, Apr. 2); vii, 1890, 211 (Kingston, Toronto, and 

 Hamilton, Ontario, winter). — Pindar, Auk, iv, 1887, 257 (Hickman, Ken- 

 tucky, Mar.); vi, 1890, 314 (do.).— Cooke, Bird Migr. Miss. Val., 1888, 177 

 (Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin; localities and dates); Auk, vii, 1890, 210 

 (Burlington, Vermont, Feb. ). — Keyes, Auk, v, 1888, 114 (Iowa City, Charles 

 City, Griunell, and Burlington; Iowa, winter). — Coleman, Auk, v, 1888, 

 425 (Nemaha Co., Nebraska, Mar.).— Wintle, Auk, vii, 1890, 209 (Mon- 

 treal, Canada, Jan.). — Bergtold, Auk,, vii, 1890, 209 (Erie Co., New York, 

 Jan. 18, Apr. 15). — Clark, Auk, vii, 1890, 210 (Amherst, Massachusetts, 

 Jan.). — FoRBusH, Auk, vii, 1890, 210 (East Brimfield, Massachusetts, Feb. 

 1). — Averill, Auk, vii, 1890, 211 (Gay lords ville, Connecticut, Mar. 10). — 

 Poling, Auk, vii, 1890,238 (Champaign, Illinois, Nov. 12, Apr. 1). — Brent, 

 Auk, vii, 1890, 2S9 (Taunton, Jlassachusetts, Mar. 8).— Morris, Auk, vii, 

 1890, 289 (Springfield, Massachusetts, Mar. 21).— Warren, Birds Penn- 

 sylvania, 1890, 224 (numerous records). — Goss, Birds Kansas, 1891, 412 

 (rare winter visit.). — Marshall, Auk, ix, 1892, 203 (Steuben Co., New York, 

 Feb.).— Nehrling, Our Native Birds, etc., ii, 1896, 21, pi. 21, fig. 1. 



('.[occotliraustes] vespertinus Ridgway, Ann. Lye. N. Y., x, 1874, 371 (n. Illi- 

 nois in winter); Man. N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1896, 387, part, 601. 



Coccothraustes vespertinus Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1886, 

 426, part (in synonymy, etc.) . — Thompson, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xiii, 1891, 

 584 (Manitoba, winter A'isit; habits). — Butler, Auk, x, 1893, 155 (Indiana, 

 Wisconsin, Michigan, and Ontario records; habits); Birds Indiana, 1897, 911 



' Twenty-nine specimens 



