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Point Isabel, Texas, Mar.) .— Eobeets and Bbnner, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, 

 y, 1880, 15 (Grant and Traverse counties, w. Minnesota, breeding) . — May- 

 NAED, Birds E. N. Am., 1881, 519 (e. Massachusetts, accidental).— Brew- 

 ster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 200 (Tombstone, Arizona, Apr. 13).— 

 Belding, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., v, 1883, 343 (Guaymas, Sonora, Dec.).— 

 HoLTERHOFF, Auk, i, 1884, 293 (near San Diego, s. California, Apr.). — Drew, 

 Auk, ii, 1885, 16 (Colorado, up to 8,000 ft.) .—Cooke, Auk, ii, 1885, 32 (Lanes- 

 boro, s. e. Minnesota, May 11, June 19); Bird Migr. Miss. Val., 1888, 232 

 (localities, dates, etc.). — Agersborg, Auk, ii, 1885, 281 (s. e. South Dakota, 

 breeding; habits). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1886, 

 417 (Espia and Guaymas, Sonora; Guanajuato). — Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus., xii, 1888, 593. 



[Calamospiza] fitcoZor Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 475. — Gray, Hand-list, ii, 

 1870, 111, no. 7669.— CoHES, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 148.— Sclater and 

 Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 34 (Mexico). , 



C-lalamospiza'] bicolor CouES, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 887. 



Corydalina bicolor Audubon, Synopsis, 1839, 130; Birds Am., oct. ed., iii, 1841, 

 195, pi. 202.— Maximilian, Journ. fur Orn., 1858, 347 (Upper Missouri R.). 



Dolidwnyx bicolor Nuttall, Man. Orn. U. S. and Can., 2d ed., i, .1840, 203. 



Calamospiza melanocorys Stetneger, Auk, ii, Jan., 1885, 49. — American Orni- 

 thologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 605. — Seion, Auk, iii, 1886, 324 (Souris 

 plain, etc., w. Manitoba).— Cooke, Bird Migr. Miss. Val., 1888, 222 (locali- 

 ties, dates, etc. ; breeding in s. e. Dakota, w. Minnesota, Eed. E. Valley, etc. ) ; 

 Birds Colorado, 1897, 109 (summer resid., chiefly e. of mts. ). — Beckham, 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, 1888, 681 (Corpus Christi, Texas, Jan. 21 to Feb. 

 12).— Evans, Auk, vi, 1889, 192, (Montauk Point, Long Island, 1 spec. Sept. 

 4) .— TowNSEND, Proc.'U. S. Nat. Mus., xiii, 1890, 136 (Ballaenas Bay, Lower 

 California, 1 spec. May). — Goss, Birds Kansas, 1891, 495 (w. and mid. Kan- 

 sas, summer resid.). — Merriam, North Am. Fauna, no. 5, 1891, 104 (w. of 

 Blackfoot and bet. Big Butte and Big Lost rivers, Idaho, July). — Allen, 

 Bull. Am. Mus., N. H., v, 1893, 40 (Oputo, n. e. Sonora, Oct. 27-30).— 

 Thorne, Auk, xii, 1896, 217 (Fort Keogh, Montana, breeding). — Wayne, 

 Auk, xii, 1895, 306 (Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, 1 spec. Apr. 19, 1895) .— 

 Neheling, Our Native Birds, etc., ii, 1896, 232.— Grinnell, Pasadena Ac. 

 Sci., Pub. no. ii, 1898, 41 (Newhall, Los Angeles Co., Calif oAiia, 3 specs. 

 May 3, 1897). 



C. [alamospiza] melanocorys Eidgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 453. 



Genus SPIZA Bonaparte. 



Spiza Bonaparte, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., iv, pt. i, Aug., 1824, 45. (Type, 

 by elimination, Emberiza amerieana Gmelin). (See Eidgway, Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., iii, 1880, 3, 4.) 



Euspiza Bonaparte, Saggio Distr. Met. An. Vertebr., 1832, 141. (Type, Ember- 

 iza amerieana Gmelin.) 



Eugpina'^ Cabanis, Mus. Hein., i, April, 1851, 133. (Type, Emberiza amerieana 

 Gmelin. ) 



Medium-sized or rather small Fringillidse, with stout, conical, com- 

 pressed bill, long pointed wing (ninth primary longest or equal to 

 longest), rather long tarsus (longer than middle toe with claw); color 

 above grayish brown, the back and scapulars streaked with black. 



'"Von £V und 6niva, nom. prop." 



