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Adult male.— I^eiygth (skins), 154.94-184.15 (163.32); wing, 85.09- 

 91.95 (87.88); tail, 65.53-71.12 (68.58); exposed culmen, 13.21-14.73 

 (13.97); depth of bill at base, 10.67-12.19 (11.43); tarsus, 22.86-25.91 

 (24.38); middle toe, 16.76-18.03 (17.27).' 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 144.78-165.10 (157.23); wing, 81.79- 

 85.09 (83.31); tail, 60.45-68.58 (66.04); exposed culmen, 12.70-13.21 

 (12.70); depth of bill at base, 10.16-11.94 (10.67); tarsus, 22.35-25.16 

 (23.88); middle toe, 16.61-17.78 (17.02).' 



Great Plains between Missouri River and Rock^^ Mountains, breed- 

 ing from middle and western Kansas, eastern Colorado, western Min- 

 nesota, etc., to Manitoba and Assiniboia; migrating south and south- 

 west in winter, through Texas (to Gulf coast), New Mexico, and 

 Arizona to plateau of Mexico (States of Guanajuato, Chihuahua, 

 Sonora, etc.), Lower California, and coast of southern California (San 

 Diego and Los Angeles counties, etc.); occasional west of Rockj^ 

 Mountains (Utah, Nevada, Idaho, etc.), and accidental in Atlantic 

 States (Massachusetts, New York, including Long Island), and South 

 Carolina during fall migration. 



FringiUa bicolor (not of Linnseus) Townsend, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., vii, 1837, 

 189 (plains of Platte E.; type in U. S. Nat. Mus.) ; Narrative, 1839, 346.— 

 Audubon, Orn. Biog., v, 1839, 19, pi. 390. 



Calamospiza hicolor Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 30. — Baied, Eep. 

 Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 492; Rep. U. S. and Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. 2, 

 1859, 16 (Espia, Sonora); Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 377; Proc. Ac. Nat. 

 Sci. Phila., 1859, 301, 304 (Cape St. Lucas) .—Hebemanx, Rep. Pacific R. R. 

 Surv., X, pt. iv, 1859, 15 (Arizona, New Mexico, etc.). — Sclatee, Cat. Am. 

 Birds, 1862, 121 (Mexico).— Deessek, Ibis., 1865, 490 (San Antonio, Texas, 

 ■winter). — Butchee, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1868, 150 (Laredo, Texas, 

 Nov.).— CouES, Proc- Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1868, 83 (s. Arizona); Check 

 List, 1873, no. 190; 2d ed., 1882, no. 286; Birds N. W., 1874, 163; Bull. U. S. 

 Nat.« Mus., no. 7, 1877, 11 (Angel I., Pichilinque Bay, Lower California); 

 Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Surv. Terr., iv, 1878, 597 (Montana).— Duges, 

 La Naturaleza, i, 1868, 140 (Guanajuato, Mexico). — Coopee, Orn. Cal.,1870, 

 225 (Cape St. Lucas, Sonora, etc.). — Allen, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., iii, 1872, 

 137 (Fort Hays, w. Kansas, breeding; descr. habits, notes, etc.) , 177 (South 

 Park, etc., Colorado; Cheyenne, Wyoming) ; Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xvii, 

 1874, 28 (Dakota and Montana; descr. habits, nests and eggs, etc. ) ; Bull. 

 Nutt. Orn. Club, iii, 1878, 48 (Lynn, Massachusetts, 1 spec. Dec. 5, 1877).— 

 Ridgway, Bull. Essex Inst., v, 1873, 172 (Parleys Park, Utah, 1 spec, young, 

 July 30); vii, 1875, 33 (do.); Orn. 40th Parallel, 1877, 487 (do.); Nom. N. 

 Am. Birds, 1881, no. 256. — Baird, Beewee, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. 

 Birds, ii, 1874, 61, pi. 29, figs. 2, 3.— Henshaw, Rep. and List Birds Wheeler's 

 Surv., 1873 (1874), 63 (Denver, Colorado), 119 (Zuni, New Mexico, July 25; 

 San Pedro R. and Gila R., Arizona, Oct.), 159 (s. e. Arizona, abt. in fall) ; 

 Zool. Exp. W. 100th Merid., 1875, 294.— Yaeeow and Hexshaw, Rep. Orn. 

 Spec. Wheeler's Surv., 1873 (1874), 15 (Snake Valley, Nevada) .—Meeeill, 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1878, 128 (Fort Brown, Texas, winter).— Sexnett, 

 Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Surv. Terr., v, 1879, 381 (Corpus Christi and 



^Six specimens. 



