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Hendkickson, Auk, vi, 1889, 190 (Long Island City, Long Island, 1 spec. 

 Feb. 16, 1889).— Thompson-, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus.,xiii, 1891, 591 (Manitoba, 

 summer resid. ; habits, song, etc. ) . — Goss, Birds Kansas, 1891, 436 (resident 

 in w. and n. Kansas; whole State in winter). — Hatch, Birds Minn., 1892, 

 308 (breeding in ii. and w. Minnesota). — Anthony, Auk, ix, 1892, 365 (s. 

 w. New Mexico, Oct. 1 to Apr. 10).— Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., v, 1893, 38 

 (San Diego, n. w. Chihuahua, Feb.). — Nehkling, Our Native Birds, etc., ii, 

 1896, 80.— Knight, Bull. Univ. Maine, no. 3, 1897, 95 (Scarborough, Cumber- 

 land Co., Maine, 1 spec. Aug. 13, 1886) . 



C. [alcarius'] omatus Bidgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 405. 



Plectrophanesmelanomus Baird, Eep. Pacific E. K. Surv., ix, 1858, 436 (Fort Thorn, 

 New Mexico; U. S.Nat. Mus.); ed. 1860 ("Birds North America"), pi. 74, 

 fig. 2; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 329.— Hebkmann, ]Rep. Pacific R. E. 

 Surv., X, 1859, 13 (w. Texas, etc., winter). — Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond., 1860, 251 (Orizaba, Vera Cruz); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 121 (Vera 

 Cruz). — Dresser, Ibis, 1865, 486 (San Antonio, Texas). — Coues, Proc. Ac. 

 Nat. Sci. Phila., 1866, 84 (Fort Whipple, Arizona, 1 spec. Oct. 17).— Sujii- 

 CHHAST, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., i, 1869, 551 (plateau of Vera Cruz and 

 down to Orizaba). — B.\ied, Beewek, and Eidgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, 1, 

 1874, pi.' 24, fig. 6. 



[Plectrophanea'] melanomus Solater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 34 

 (Mexico). 



[Emberha'] melanomus Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 116, no. 7731. 



Plectrophanes omatus var. melanomus Baird, Brewer, and Eidgway, Hist. N. 

 Am. Birds, i, 1874, 521. 



Plectrophanes omatus melanomus Goode, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 20, 1883, 337. 



Genus RHYNCHOPHANES Baird. 



Rhynchopha-iies Baird, Eep. Pacific E. E. Surv., ix, 1858, 432, in text. (Type, Plec- 

 trophanes mccoumii Lawrence. ) 



Rather small terrestrial Fringillidee related to Calcarvus, but differing 

 in much larger and relatively thicker bill (with maxilla equal in depth 

 to the mandible) and relatively shorter tail (decidedly shorter than dis- 

 tance from carpus to tips of longest secondaries, instead of longer). 



Bill stout, conical, much deeper than broad at base; culmen appre- 

 ciablj' depressed in middle portion; maxilla about equal' in depth to 

 mandible; angulation of maxillary tomium considerably posterior to 

 middle; gonys nearly straight, but appreciably convex, longer than 

 hallux without claw, and exceeding basal depth of bill; the latter 

 nearly or quite equal to distance from nostril to tip of maxilla. Nasal 

 plumules well developed, nearly concealing nostrils, the stiff rictal 

 plumules quite covering the deflected basal portion of the maxillary 

 tomium. Wing long (nearly five times as long as tarsus), pointed 

 (three outermost primaries longest, the ninth nearly equal to eighth, 

 much longer than sixth); primaries exceeding secondaries by nearly 

 twice the length of the tarsus; tertials decidedly longer than second- 

 aries. Tail between one-half and two-thirds as long as wing, 

 (decidedly shorter than distance from carpus to tips of longest 



